I Became the Villain’s Wife - Chapter 58

Translator: Lioness

Editor: Lioness

In an instant, Eun-woo found herself alone amidst a bustling crowd.

Her jaw was caught up with her unsteady breathing. From every direction, there were voices searching for their companions, along with screams of pain which penetrated her ears.

She desperately tried to turn her body where Tashian disappeared from, but she seemed to not have a choice but to suffer from the pain that had begun earlier.

A large horse, which seemed to have lost its owner, ran through the crowds as if it had been swept away. An even greater commotion in the square was added.

People screamed and pounded back and forth to avoid running rampant.

On the verge of her frustration, Eun-woo held onto her white dress so as to not let it fall off her body. Her slender, thin body was being swept away from the force of the people who ran, passing her. Her light body which didn’t intake any medicine was feeling weak and fragile.

“Ta, Tashian..!”

Eun-woo twisted here and there, and she tried calling his name diligently, but she couldn’t figure out in which direction the person who had already separated from her, had disappeared. She realized that she was completely alone in the crowd.

All of a sudden, Eun-woo was driven to the street near the tavern lined with pieces of broken glass bottles. The sharp shards of glass pierced into her shoes she was wearing. She was bewildered and confused. Eun-woo limped so as not to get stabbed anymore in her foot by the pieces of glasses, and she looked around her surroundings eagerly, looking for a place where she wouldn’t be able to be hit by someone or something.

‘First, I should go to any store…’

But that didn’t seem possible. Most of the shops were filled with people. Fortunately, Eun-woo found one store that seemed to be a quiet street bar.

People standing on the street gathered around a table and cheered enthusiastically for something. Thanks to that, the other tables were relatively occupied with only a few people.

However, it was noisy, so Eun-woo assumed that there was a pretty big fight in the center of the bar. The sounds of clinking glasses, the drinking people, and men fighting loudly as if there were no other people than them, were so loud.

After wandering around for a while to find a quiet spot, Eun-woo was able to sit on an empty chair in the far corner for a moment.

‘Haa…… I should rest here for a bit and then go straight to find Tashian and the others.’

Eun-woo sighed as her breath stopped.

She felt all pain excruciating through her body. She didn’t know that the weak body would retaliate against her so badly.

She lifted up one arm of her scaly, scratched back and forth, and rubbed the bruised area hard.

Will she be able to find Tashian on her own? Slowly, all of her worries started to pester her. It was clear that he would be within her range no matter how crowded here is, but she couldn’t help but be concerned.

Her anxiety also surged. It was the first time she had been left alone on a journey without anyone’s escort or even her maid’s presence. The escort was centered on the Crown Prince, so it was difficult to expect those loyal guards to follow her.

She tightened the grasp to her neck to keep herself from bowing her head. Then suddenly, she felt a strange emptiness in her neck.

She caressed her empty neck. However, no matter how she touched her neck, all she could feel was her skinny skin.

‘The Duke’s necklace…!’

Eun-woo was astonished. She turned white from her head to her toes and her whole body trembled in fear. The necklace was nowhere to be seen! The necklace that was made from the deep blue-purple gemstone that Tashian had given her just before the banquet to commemorate his victory of returning wasn’t in her clutch.

Her pale, tired fingertips trembled. Eun-woo was engulfed in her despair and pulled her hair.

This morning, before the Duke left with her to see the festival, he asked her to return the borrowed necklace to him. She was eaten up with her agony. The reason why she delayed returning it was because she wanted to properly thank him.

She thought she could return his stuff to him in a good mood as she was at the banquet.

Eun-woo felt such a terrible sense of shame that she really wanted to slap herself on the cheek. He mentioned that the necklace wasn’t a family item, but his own possession. But she lost his personal item just like that. She thought that she had gone crazy.

The most likely culprit was pickpocketing. When she parted ways with Tashian after being swept away by a huge crowd, he was a man who protected and secured her with all his might.

She didn’t really think of it that much but thinking that she was a good target for having the necklace stolen, she became angry and upset.

Eun-woo stomped on the ground with her feet and resisted the desire to express her anger with her whole body. But her fists were firm.

She hit the table nervously and ruffled her sloppy hair, messing it. She even came to the point of thinking that the lost boy who made her lose her attention may also have been acquainted with gangsters.

After being gloomy for a while, Eun-woo came to her senses. She also slapped herself to avoid thinking negatively.

The first thing she must do is to collect her belongings. And all she had with her was a few coins of Hellasium that Anit brought to her this morning, a hand towel, and a bracelet of twisted silver wire. Now what should she do?

Eun-woo sat blankly, stunned like a man blocked by a huge wall. Even when she turned her head, she couldn’t think of any countermeasures.

As soon as she returned to the duke’s mansion, she’d ask him to set up a search party. Can Tashian do that secretly? Is it possible to find items stolen by pickpockets in this large capital city?

No, in the first place, will Tashian be found again in this situation? Duke, I wonder if you can go back to me again.

Obsessed with such a notion, Eun-woo did not feel any of the eyes that she would normally have noticed.

And obstacles came easily.

“Who is this, how did you come to such a shabby corner?”

A few steps away from her, while she was lost in her thoughts, someone spoke to her with a shrill voice. A man with a distorted forehead was standing up from the table next to her. Eun-woo was awakened at the sudden approach of a stranger. Suddenly, a group of drunk men surrounded her table, which was located in a corner of the street pub.

She tried her best not to frown when she looked at the messy man who spoke to her while drunk.

“Look at her eyes, avoiding us. What a rare beauty in this neighborhood.”

The man’s beaky eyes licked her bare white nape and legs with his gaze, without hiding his impure intentions to do to her.

Feeling the seriousness of the situation, Eun-woo stepped back from her seat, covering the front of her arms. But no matter how hard she glared, the men showed interest in her and didn’t stop approaching her.

A fat man, which was three of her size, flirted while sitting on the seat in front of her.

“I’m bored right now, but it’s okay. Let us also receive the grace of Saint Flora!”