The Villainess Will Leave Without Any Regrets

Cade opened the carriage door and stopped as if it didn’t matter.

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“Ah.”

Cade turned his head, frowning at her.

“I think I just smoked.
Oh, I made a mistake.”

“Yes?”

Abella blinked her eyes.
She couldn’t figure out why he was saying he had made a mistake.
Abella already knew that Cade was a smoker, and he only didn’t have to smoke in front of her.
She had seen Cade a few times when she was a kid, and he secretly smoked his cigars, so what was wrong with it?

“You hate it, the smell.”

Cade sniffed his own hand for the smell.

Then he turned his head towards Abella and pushed his body forward.

“Does the smell come from me?”

A refreshing mint scent mixed with the heavy cigar scent came from Cade.
It didn’t suit him.
Rather than being disgusted, she felt that it was naturally harmonized and made her mind comfortable.
Abella shook her head slowly.

“It’s not like that.”

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“Then, I’m glad.”

As Cade looked at her with a strange expression, he stepped back and brushed his body.

“I’ll be careful next time.”

Next time?

Abella couldn’t get her tongue around how to naturally confirm when the next time would be.
She got into the carriage through the door that Cade opened.
There was a cool scent inside the carriage as if it wasn’t from a heavy smoker.
Abella sat across from Cade.

“Thank you for being so gentle today.”

Cade lightly spoke to her and got into the carriage.

“Today?”

“You have never been so gentle to me… Oh.”

Cade shook his head.

“Nothing.”

Then he turned his head away.
Did this happen the other day?

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Abella frowned.
Cade spoke as if it had happened several times.
And that each time, Abella had refused.

She had never been in this situation since she returned to Timur, so it must have been before she left.

Abella originally had a bad relationship with Cade.

And never had Cade ever invited Abella to ride in his carriage like this.
Abella had Arsene, and he was supposed to be with her fiancé.

What the hell did it mean?

‘Am I overinterpreting it?’

Nevertheless, considering that Cade was a straightforward person, he would not have said anything that didn’t occur.

Abella let out a long sigh.
Nothing was going smoothly.

“…Your Majesty.
If you come out and enjoy a secret meeting like this, it would create a story…”

“Wait.
Enjoying secret meetings.
That’s really unpleasant.”

Cade’s red eyes became distorted and sank.
It was as if he was really offended and was going crazy.

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“Pfft.”

As Abella knew, there was still a bad relationship between Cade and Arsene.
Enough for him to become agitated over this.

At least she felt relieved by the familiar situation.

“Anyway.
I don’t know about the story you two shared, but if it’s something I need to know at any time, wouldn’t it be nice to do it in advance?”

She was going to look at this straightforward beast gently.
However, it didn’t work at all for Cade.

“I don’t want you to ever know about it.”

Again, he was honest.

“So, I’m trying to do my best to stop you from trying to find out.”

Cade roughly swept over his messy hair and arranged it.
They were approaching closer to Amerigo from the outside.

“…I hope you don’t go to the restaurant often.”

He obviously knew something.

And it was, in a different way, a warning to Abella not to dig into past events anymore.
Cade exhaled a long sigh and turned the conversation around.

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“Did you say you took a new contract? Are you doing something for the Abella business?”

“I plan to open a store.
I’m thinking of selling things produced by other merchants and companies.”

“…Not bad.
Timur is stagnant, so it would be nice to have a new breeze.”

“It’s stagnant… What do you think will be the best selling item in Timur?”

No one knew the capital as well as the emperor.

Little by little, Cade pointed with his thumb outside, where it started to foggy.

“Look, Abella.
There are no poor people in this splendid capital.
All prices are so expensive that they can’t even put their feet on it.”

Cade shrugged his shoulders.

“Thanks to that, diplomatic envoys who visited the capital know that the Anstis Empire lives well.
Just one step out of the capital will tell you that it’s just an illusion.”

“….illusion.”

“Sell expensive things.
That would be nice in the shortest run.
Nobles can’t afford to miss out on the precious and rare.”

“Ah.”