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Please Look at Jasmine Chapter 2

Please Look at Jasmine Chapter 2

Please see Jasmine Chapter 2

I clenched my fists and went to him blindly. At this time, of course, he should be in the Knight Commander’s office. It wasn’t just stalking, Jasmine knew all about Richard’s schedule.

Even when Jasmine appeared, the members of the Knights understood that Ah, and that she had come to give the captain chocolates, lunch boxes, and handkerchiefs. It was common for aristocratic ladies to visit their knights, fiancés, and families, and Jasmine was a regular. Even though Jasmine didn’t have a fiancé, and her brother, Lord Karass, was the leader of the Blue Knights across the street.

In any case, Jasmine took a deep breath as she entered the sponsorship of the Knights without any hindrance. Calm down, Jasmine Liovanni! You can do it! Until now, you’ve worked hard to become a person that suits him!

It was the moment when I was determined to make up my mind and rush forward.

“Richard, you said you kicked off Princess Liovanni’s marriage proposal?”

playful voice. It was also a woman. And I know Jasmine too. Princess Naisa, one of Richard’s childhood friends.

Famous for being the best female swordsman in the empire for her boisterous and cheerful personality, she was popular with both men and women, but strangely, she never had a scandal with her close friend Richard. She had been alone for a long time. So Jasmine also excluded her princess from her list of contenders (?).

As her story was clear, Jasmine naturally clung to the wall where the window of the director’s office was open. I overheard it unintentionally, but how can I pretend not to know in this situation?

Jasmine, whose heart was pounding, stiffened.

“Are you sure you still like Lily?”

Lily, Rani?

Jasmine got on her nerves and clung to the window. His heart fluttered instinctively at the unfamiliar woman’s name, but he couldn’t help but hear it. Especially since the cold-hearted man, Richard, was unable to answer easily.

Fortunately, he spat out the negative. Although he did not convince the two women that the denial would listen.

“Sounds useless.”

“Useless. With such a face overflowing with regret.”

Princess Naisa snorted. Jasmine was going crazy. Do you think regret flows? What! What kind of face is that?! She managed to hold back the urge to pout and sneak a peek at Richard’s expression.

Meanwhile, Naissa was nagging her friend with half-teasing.

“I know you meant it to Lily. But what can she do when she’s not meant to be? If she keeps holding on like that, she’ll never meet anyone. Don’t be stupid, meet a nice girl and change her mind. Are you saying that you are burdening Lily by continuing to do so?”

“Who knows? Shut up.”

When Richard, who had been patiently listening, became annoyed, Jasmine frowned, but was startled. Although Richard was kind-hearted and quite frank (that’s why Jasmine preferred it for being powerful), he had never been rude to the princess, even as a friend. However, Naisa just grinned as if she was used to it.

“Does it really hurt to say the right thing? But what can I do when I’m the only one who can nag you like this. Be patient.”

“You are not alone.”

Richard’s murmur was permeated with fatigue. Nissa asked in surprise.

“what? who? Did a person with no humanity like you have any other friends besides me?”

“… Prince Jillian asked about my engagement to the Grand Duchess.”

“oh. Well, as an older sister, it would be better if you, the Duke of Aion, had a strong relationship with the Grand Duke of Liovanni, so it’s worth caring about.”

As if convinced, Naisa agreed to her step-sister’s nonsense. Gillian, Richard’s lord and future ruler of the empire, was a gentle and dignified royal, but was often mischievous with his people and family.

And the people who didn’t do it were more, so if the usually calm person became playful, no one had the ability to win. The quiet empress as well as the solemn emperor often got into trouble.

He pretended to be indifferent to the marriage of his cousin, whom he usually likes to tease, and then became grumpy when political issues were mixed. Richard sighed in agony.

“I have no intention of getting married for a while.”

“Are you going to be single for the rest of your life?”

“Not now, but later.”

you should get married Jasmine’s heart sank at the dry muttering of her voice, like a reluctant assignment.

“I don’t have the confidence to be faithful to my family yet. Isn’t it rude to the other person to get engaged when they are not ready?”

“Huh, you don’t like that girl?”

One second felt like an hour. Jasmine swallowed.

Fortunately, Richard said this as if he was uncomfortable.

“no. What would I rate her of her? Since she is an excellent noblewoman who is beyond reproach, she must have a good husband besides me.”

Half relieved and half disappointed, Jasmine cried. This person really doesn’t care about me as much as my nails.

I knew it, but seeing it confirmed face to face didn’t make me feel good. Even in the midst of depression, she perked up her ears to the ensuing conversation. Because the story about that woman, Lily, was coming up again.

“From my point of view, he has a good personality and is pretty. In addition, the family is a grand duke, and the sons of the family are also very good. Do you know how common these marriages are? I’d rather see you sometime People are forgotten as people, so if you sit idly by, you think you’ll be easily forgotten by your single-minded personality?”

“I know what you are talking about.”

“however?”

“It’s a problem because it doesn’t work.”

Jasmine finally sees Richard’s face that she longed to see. Glancing through the branches of her tree, he was wearing the same expression that she, who had been watching her for so long, had seen for the first time. A tired and bitter face. Eyes whose longing has turned into bitter sadness. Right away, she had the same face she had seen this morning without fail.

I was shocked. He never dreamed that he would see those eyes in him that were sore and tired from the passion of her love.

I was always used to the calm and shallow smile, the coolness of a knight, and the serious, immersed face. Since I’ve always been watching him, I must have believed that I knew a lot about him. He was a man who knew how to make such a face. maybe it’s obvious he’s a human too

It’s just that Jasmine wasn’t something he felt that way. Because she was neither his friend nor his lover.

Maybe I only saw his public appearance and fell into an illusion and only pursued the fantasy. his heart ached But despite that, Jasmine’s heart was still beating. No, he ran harder. Seeing the bare face under the cold mask made him want it even more.

Ah, maybe I’m really helpless and helpless.

But what can I do? If he looks at me with those sad eyes, I don’t think I’ll have any wishes.

Jasmine grunted, biting her nails, and then suddenly the medicine rose and her anger flared up. No, how could you be a good-looking woman to hurt such a handsome, sincere, cool, and talented man? What the heck! How pretty! prettier than me!? uh?

… What if you are prettier than me? Jasmine lost her confidence again. Coincidentally, the princess also said this.

“Well, Lily is unparalleled beauty.”

Whoa!

“Still, the grand duke’s daughter was also pretty.”

really?

“Well, I think Lily is slightly prettier.”

Aaaaaang! As Jasmine screamed in silence, Naisa started interfering again. This time he was serious without any playfulness.

“Still, isn’t the person who likes me better? Emotional eunuchs like you have to meet someone who loves them a lot and spreads them out. Look at your father or sister. Both of you have broken personalities, but you met well and made your life better. Our Emperor, if it weren’t for my mother, I would have grown old as a condescending and irritating old lady. It’s all because of my father that my sister’s inside is twisted. I know that the former empress divorced and left… Oh sorry.”

“no. Is it true?”

Richard calmly waved his hand. Richard’s aunt, the former empress, had frequent discord with her husband, the emperor, at the same time as the wedding, and in the end, as soon as she gave birth to the eldest daughter of the imperial family, Princess Gillian, she remarried after the divorce and left.

This terrifying family history took its toll on Richard, even though he was an infant at the time. It wasn’t that the dukedom of Hagisa Aion didn’t have twisted family history at all. In fact, it was rare for a family with wealth and power to not have one of these inside stories.

If there is, it would be about the Grand Duchess of Riovanni, famous for being harmonious. The Grand Duke’s family’s extraordinary love for children and familialism were famous even within the empire.

If you were the youngest daughter of such a family, you would have grown up with lots of love. She is lively and pretty. She was a remarkably lovely young lady, even in a social circle, she said.

Richard wasn’t stupid either, so he didn’t know about Jasmine. I vaguely remember her looking at me with longing eyes among the many girls. But, like everyone else, I would say this. I didn’t know that it would lead to a marriage like this.

In any case, she is not the kind of woman that suits her. Flowers should be in a beautiful garden. Even though she was objectively beautiful and decent, I didn’t pay much attention to her.

“By the way, did you know that Lily is getting engaged?”

At Naisa’s cautious question, Richard was silent for a moment before responding calmly.

“of course.”

don’t know

She flew into him like a dandelion spore on a spring breeze and permeated him without even trying to find or recognize her. Her laugh like a wild flower, her beautiful hair, and her quiet but firm tone. All. Sadly, such beauty was not the kind to be stopped.

Richard belatedly admitted that he was too greedy.

“It’s something to celebrate.”

“… I’m serious?”

Despite Naisa’s sighing question, Richard responded quietly.

“I’m serious.”

There was a time when I was under the illusion that I would be able to be with her, that maybe such luck would come. She dreamed of such a wish even more because she and she were alike and alike. She said that she would be really happy if I was of the same mind as her.

But their paths did not overlap.

then… What can I do? It was painful, but all he could do was watch the woman he loved hold the hand of another man and hold the wedding ceremony.

Richard rubbed his forehead and smiled.

Damn it, unrequited love is such a disgusting feeling.