The Villainess Hides Her Wealth - Chapter 100.2

Chapter 100.2

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He suddenly got word to meet up. From Yuria.

The moment he saw the sender, Crown Prince Enoch didn’t even hesitate. He got up from his seat without even checking his schedule.

“… I’ll have to go back today.”

“Huh? Your Highness, did something serious happen?”

“It’s not like that. It’s just that something else happened.”

“I see. We’ll wrap it up here, so you can go, Your Highness.”

He gave a vague answer, but his entourage just took it how they wanted.

The attendants thought that he would not have reacted like this unless the letter he received was very important.

“Your Highness, really. You’re the same as always. You’re really working hard for our country, even until late at night. We just need to do this.”

“Viscount Conrad and Sir Howard have started a family, but isn’t Your Highness old enough to be in a relationship? This old man’s heart hurts.”

The entourage was looking at Crown Prince Enoch as someone who favored the country before his own happiness. A sense of affection and anguish flowed from their eyes.

‘I’m going to meet a lady,’ he replied indifferently to himself.

However, he did not make any corrections.

If they were mistaken, they would understand that he was suddenly leaving his post.

It was possible because he was the one who usually took on an overwhelming number of tasks.

It was definitely a rewarding action.

At night, the lake where he was going to meet Yuria was so beautiful.

The surface was calm and clear. However, the moonlight wandering over the dark water made him feel a strange vitality.

‘Well… she chose a place that suits her well.’

Yuria was walking in the distance. Her beautiful silver hair shone faintly even in the dark.

She was approaching with a calm but steady gait.

‘I see why she said she would show me this scenery.’

Yuria, who was acting out of character, made his heart flutter as usual. Everything looked good.

Of course, Yuria was beautiful, but that wasn’t the only thing he liked.

Most of the carefully dressed-up noblewomen were beautiful. However, they did not make him feel the way he felt when he saw Yuria.

He felt a strong desire when he looked at her.

The time they spent together felt special, and no matter how much time passed, it didn’t feel like a waste of time. He just… liked looking at her.

‘No, actually, I don’t just like looking at her.’

“They said they would focus on developing an antidote. So that no one will suffer from the poison of a toxic bird or other animals in the future.”

Yuria’s eyes lit up as she talked about the new medicine.

Of course, this was also one of his favorites, Yuria’s intelligent appearance.

“…”

But for some reason, he felt a little sullen today.

He came early because he was feeling nervous and circled around.

And because of the place where they didn’t usually meet and the excellent atmosphere, he was looking forward to it.

The atmosphere between them during the hunting competition also seemed to be good, so when he was suddenly called to meet her in such a situation, he might have expected something without realizing it.

But it was just an expectation.

When he was with Yuria, they always fell into the topic of work. It was good to be passionate… He was also a formidable workaholic, but Yuria was always focused on work.

‘I might have been a little jealous if she hadn’t talked about Vivian just now…’

Anyway, she said she was doing it for Vivian, who had collapsed.

It was a good thing that she was close to his sister.

… It would be a good thing.

‘Did she come to see Vivian’s brother instead of me as an individual?’

The more their conversation continued, the more nervous he became.

‘Does the lady consider me as nothing more than a business partner?’

He might not be as close to her as the escort knight she has known for a long time. At least that was what he thought.

“Ahh… I guess it’s because he’s from a different race. In addition, he was captured as a slave, so I don’t want to give him more reasons to feel hostility towards humans. I don’t want to use my status to oppress him.”

As he listened to Yuria’s consideration for other races, he felt jealous that Yuria cared a lot about the escort knight, whom he thought didn’t matter.

He was acting disgracefully. It made him feel like he was disqualified from being the crown prince.

He was acting like this while at the same time regarding the other races as citizens of the empire and strengthening the crackdown on the slave trade. Since this was happening close to him, he hoped that she would regard that person as just a tool to serve her.

It was obvious that he was crazy.

‘I received her handkerchief at the hunting competition, and even offered her my prey. There won’t be any progress at all like this.’

He clenched his fists. Instead of looking good, he gradually became aware of his ugly self.

He had always been called the perfect crown prince, and he had to do everything nicely… Why did he feel so small in front of Yuria?

‘Was I always such a terrible human being? Am I finding fault with the escort knight after all?’

“Brother, have you ever liked anyone?”

He recalled a conversation he had with Vivian a few years ago. It was a time when people were beginning to wonder if he should get engaged as the crown prince.

“It’s not that I haven‘t,“ he replied, recalling his first love at the time, Yuria.

“What? Really? Who was it?”