I Picked Up the Trash Others Threw Away - Chapter 25.1

Chapter 25.1

“If you sincerely don’t want to leave… I don’t know right now, but contact me when you need my help.”

“Sorry?”

“I want to get revenge on that man. But I don’t want the most deceived woman to be caught up in it.”

“What?”

What in the world had Trish done to Lady Roshua?

I gazed at him as if asking what he was going to do, and he mumbled as if he too was flustered.

“What do you want me to do?” he asked.

Why was he asking me that?

I couldn’t find the words to answer either, I just kept opening and closing my mouth.

In any case, Lady Roshua ignored that and disappeared with words to meet again.

She appeared like a lightning bolt, dropped a bomb between us, and left.

“… What the hell did you do to her?”

I turned my head and glared at Trish with sharp eyes. He shrank unequivocally and made excuses in a murmuring voice.

“I heard her talking about how after we parted ways, I couldn’t recognize her because I was drunk. I thought it would be okay if I apologized, but who knew she was such a fiery woman? So I pretended to know her at every party to provoke her, and she despised that.”

“What a piece of trash…”

I didn’t hide my contempt too, so Trish scratched his head and avoided my gaze.

He seemed to know that he had done something wrong.

I didn’t know if Lady Roshua was an enemy to me or not, but she was clearly a hurdle for Trish.

Who told him to go around doing nonsense? This was purely his karma, so he didn’t even think of shielding himself.

“Didn’t you marry me knowing all that?”

“It’s different from knowing roughly and knowing in detail. That doesn’t mean I will go back on our marriage, though.”

I didn’t expect anything anyway, so I wasn’t disappointed. It wasn’t even a relationship where we could have those feelings, was it?

Trish’s ego was strangely hurt, but he had no excuses, so he kept his mouth shut.

‘This won’t be the first and last trial I’ll have to face because of my current husband’s ex-girlfriends.’

Well, compared to being bullied by a professor or a superior, being held in check by noble ladies was nothing.

As I tidied up my clothes after dinner, Trish stared at me and asked.

“Have you thought about what to do with our first night?”

It was a good thing I wasn’t eating, or I would have dropped my fork.

I looked around to see if anyone could hear us, and the servants stepped away from us, pretending not to know anything.

“… Do you have to ask something like that here?”

“I’m giving you time to prepare yourself before we are in bed. It’s difficult the first time.”

“You’re very considerate. Your heart is as big as a lake.”

Whether I was sarcastic or not, Trish simply shrugged, asking sincerely.

I was going to just let the newlyweds’ first night pass without giving it much thought, but when Trish asked me about it directly, I was hesitant about how to answer.

Trish grinned as if it was the first time he saw me bewildered. I shot back in a fit of rage.

“What does it matter if we’re in a contract marriage? We just need to pretend we’re in love.”

“Won’t we raise suspicion if there are rumors that a married couple blinded by love was quiet in the bedroom?”

“That’s…”

“You’re underestimating others too much. How many people do you think came here to sincerely celebrate this wedding? Most of them came here to see what the Malekiah family was doing using the celebration as an excuse. Even if we act well, we’ll be caught up in no time.”

I had no choice but to shut up without refuting him when I saw Trish explaining the situation in an uncharacteristic serious voice.

He was right. I was judging the people here too lightly because this place was a novel, and I was just a character who didn’t even appear in the original.

Even though every party here was like a battlefield for those who fought behind the scenes in the social world.

I thought he only drank and met with women, but Trish had a surprisingly serious side to him.

“Then… how should we act in the future?” I asked carefully. Trish raised the corner of his mouth and grinned. It was the confident smile of a man who knew he was good-looking.

“We should just treat each other like passionate lovers who fell in love at first sight. Don’t you have a rough idea of what the daily life of a newlywed couple is like?”