“Your Eminence, thank you for assigning such a great teacher.”
Cardinal de Mare responded in a deep voice.
“So, are you studying well?”
“Ego habeo, per pax universale.”(())
Ariadne, who abruptly recited the phrase, smiled as if she was proud.
“It’s a Latin sentence that the teacher taught me. I memorized it. I did well, didn’t I?”
Cardinal de Mare’s expression darkened abruptly.
“Who taught you such poor Latin? Are you sure you memorized it correctly?”
“No, I really memorized it correctly. Ego, habeo……”
“Then the teacher must be the strange one.”
“No! Teacher Giovanni is a famous person. My mother spent 10 Ducats to bring Teacher Giovanni, she said.”
“What? A year?”
“He only teaches for a month. He said he will return to the south next month.”
“What? What’s the rascal’s name!”
“His name is Giovanni. He didn’t teach me his last name.”
Cardinal de Mare was a sharp man. The excessive tutoring fee assigned to his useless daughter by his usually frugal daughter Lucrezia, the lack of skills of this socalled teacher, and the origin of the teacher, who was a person from Lucrezia’s hometown.
Understanding the general situation, Cardinal de Mare’s face turned red and pale.
“Lucrezia!!!!”
[This is the time separator]Tattling like this would wear thin if done often, but once or twice seemed possible.
If I had regressed to a child of about five, I could have milked this for a year, Ariadne thought with a smirk.
The house was turned upside down. The aged Cardinal de Mare ran to Lucrezia and demanded the household books, and indeed in Lucrezia’s account book was written “Tuition Fee—10 Ducats”.
‘I guessed the amount and hit the mark.’
“Does it make sense to spend 10 Ducats (about ten million Won) on tuition fees for a daughter, not even Isabella, but Ariadne, per month!”
“Because I wanted to bring a good teacher……”
“Is a good teacher unable to attach Latin grammar correctly? Where did he study, who is he!”
Lucrezia could not answer, stuttering.
“He’s not even from San Carlo. Who the hell brings a Latin teacher from the countryside instead of the monastery! Who is that man! He’s a southern person, right?”
Giovanni’s hometown was the southern territory of Taranto, the same as Lucrezia, and his last name was Rosi, which was Lucrezia’s maiden name.
In other words, he was a relative of Lucrezia.
Lucrezia wanted to send money to her poor relatives, but with Cardinal de Mare keeping a sharp eye, she had hired an unqualified person as a tutor and set an abnormally high salary for him.
“Do you have your wits about you? No!”
“Your Eminence…… Your Eminence……. I made a mistake, I will make sure it never happens again.”
“I won’t let this go!”
‘Lucrezia’s family must have been poor fallen nobility, probably.’
Lucrezia, whose entire family had become the concubines of clergymen and were clinging to her, the only one who had improved her lot, was what I remembered.
‘There will be a lot of huge things if you look into that account book.’
Lucrezia’s situation wasn’t one where she could stop sending money to her parents just because she had fallen once. Her whole family was clinging to her like a bunch of grapes. Related accidents were bound to happen repeatedly.
Giovanni had his salary confiscated, was beaten, and was chased away. Lucrezia had to ask permission from Cardinal de Mare for every item in the household accounts for a month.
“I wish they’d leave me alone now that I’ve done this much.”
Ariadne wished she could have an openhearted negotiation with Lucrezia.
Unfortunately, the de Mare family and servants weren’t the type of people with whom such pleasant transactions were possible.
[This is the time separator]“I put the washed clothes in the closet. Change and go for dinner.”
The redhaired maid, Maleta, had been watching Ariadne for about three days after Arabella’s incident, but then she went back to her old self.
At first glance, Ariadne and Maleta didn’t recognize each other, but they were old acquaintances.
Isabella’s maid, the redhead Maleta, was a noble woman who had followed Isabella into the palace in her previous life, but then had an accident with the married palace manager and ended up as his wife.
“Are you busy?”
“Yes.”
The maid’s voice was curt.
Ariadne asked Maleta, pretending to be naive, thinking she would give her another chance.
“Do you not help me change?”
It was a matter of course for a lady’s maid. But Maleta missed the opportunity thrown at her and turned around irritably.
“Aren’t you a child, can’t you do that alone? You must have been doing it alone at the farm every day!”
‘Farm?’
Ariadne’s patience snapped.
‘She seems to take me very lightly.’
She was just like her original owner.
Once you seem weak, it becomes uncontrollable. It was a lesson that Ariadne had learned in her previous life.
Something flew into the back of Maleta’s head, grumbling loudly, “The useless one is already acting like a lady.”
Thud!
“Ah!”
Why She Is Still Unmoved (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He uses various methods to seek her affection, but she remains unmoved.
Synopsis:
Si Qingyu is a doctor who has saved countless lives and enjoys tranquility.
Luo Shaoxuan is ruthless, deeply scheming, and the top young master in the capital. He admires Si Qingyu.
Luo Shaoxuan: I want to be the only one in your eyes and heart.
Features a cold and calm female lead vs A noble and scheming male lead.
There will be both sweetness and torture towards the male after their marriage.
