I glanced at Yansi and continued speaking.
“No matter if it’s Angelos, if they have bought all the magic stone mines, it would have been quite a strain financially.”
Magic stone mines weren’t that numerous, but buying all of them within the Willeuntia Empire was not an easy task.
Even for Angelos, they must have pulled out funds to their limit.
The Ferdia family could endure Angelos’s monopoly for a few more years, but the small merchants wouldn’t last long.
There was a part that showed ambition to let Angelos take over the entire military supplies business.
No one disagreed with my words.
“So?”
I answered Duke Ferdia’s question without hesitation.
“Then Ferdia can monopolize it in the same way.”
“I told you earlier, Lili. Most of the magic stone mines have already been auctioned off by Angelos.”
Yansi gently rebutted as if scolding. But the ‘monopoly’ I was talking about did not mean that.
“We don’t need magic stone mines.”
“What?”
“The materials used to make military supplies are not just magic stones, are they?”
“……!”
“We just have to buy up all the other materials.”
Surprise was mixed in the eyes of those looking at me.
Even Prince Adenmir, who had been reacting sourly to my words, looked at me with surprised eyes.
With eyes looking at me changing this much, I felt a sudden doubt about my previous reputation.
Anyway, no matter how flying and long Angelos was said to be, their accumulated possessions couldn’t be compared to Ferdia.
Duke Ferdia dominated the underworld enough to be called the Emperor of the Dark World.
The royal family also had power to rival it.
“The Angelos family hasn’t been in the military supplies business for long, so they won’t have many suppliers for other materials. As time goes on, they will eventually reach out to Ferdia, and then sell the materials to Angelos at a high price.”
If that happened, the game was already over.
The Duke nodded slightly, agreeing with my opinion.
“Yes, to keep the business going, they will have to buy our family’s materials at whatever price we ask.”
“But in the end, they will only lose, and they will have to withdraw from the military supplies business.”
If Angelos’s head had brains, he would admit his defeat. There’s no way he could cling to the military supplies business after suffering enormous losses.
After all, Ferdia was still continuing the military supply business, so there was no big loss even if they increased their material sources.
“Yansi. Find out about Angelos’s financial situation.”
“Yes, Father.”
“Carlot. Help Yansi.”
“Yes. I will take charge of the other materials’ bidding.”
Duke Ferdia, who had given orders to his two sons, smiled slightly and said,
“Then the discussion is over.”
At the end of his gaze, there was me.
With eyes looking at me as if he knew it would happen, I turned my gaze away, feeling awkward.
I listened to the Duke and Prince Adenmir’s conversation about their future plans and suddenly looked at Yansi.
I couldn’t tell what he was thinking with that stillsmiling face.
“Why is that, Lili?”
“It’s nothing.”
I felt a little guilty for prematurely speaking a plan that Yansi might think of in the future as if it was mine.
“You’re amazing, Elodie.”
“Thank you…….,”
The Duchess praised me with a delicate smile, but I couldn’t smile.
I felt like I had made a mistake.
‘Did I talk too much……?’
Even though I said I knew my place, and that I wouldn’t threaten the two sons’ positions, I had provided a solution as if I had been waiting for it.
But if I hadn’t said anything, the small merchants might have been wiped out by Angelos’s tyranny.
I need to get out of here.
I got up from my seat, hoping I hadn’t offended the Duchess.
“I feel unwell, so I will go up now.”
I fled the dining room before permission was granted.
‘I have to behave myself next time……!’
I made such a resolution.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]As Elodie hurriedly left the dining room, the Duchess opened her mouth with concern.
“Oh my. He left in such a hurry, is his health that bad? Carlott, will you follow him?”
“Me, why should I!”
“Hmm?”
“He will manage on his own. I’m not going!”
When Carlott yelled angrily, the Duchess didn’t persuade him further.
“Though he’s my son, he’s truly disappointing.”
Tsk, she clicked her tongue lightly.
“I apologize for showing you such an unpleasant side of him, Your Highness.”
At the Lady’s words, Adenmir chuckled and shook his head.
“It’s not something to call an unpleasant side. Rather, I’m surprised. I never imagined my fiancée would solve the situation.”
“Lately, our Liri has become quite thoughtful. Soon, she’ll have her adulthood ceremony, so perhaps she’s trying to act mature in her own way.”
“Is that so?”
Adenmir quietly rolled the medicine bottle in his palm.
‘Has she become thoughtful?’
It was one of the medicine bottles that had been on Elodie’s bedroom desk.
Adenmir didn’t miss that Elodie subtly hid it with her body when he looked at the bottle.
‘What on earth is she hiding?’
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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