Love Doesn’t Matter

a state of irreversible drug addiction.’ After threatening her, he changed his mind as if joking around, then suddenly gave her a revolver and burst into anger.
He seemed to have no awareness of what he was saying or doing.

“Okay, let’s see.”

The last snip was complete.
Emilia lifted her head and looked in the mirror.
‘Is this me?’ Her stepmother said she looked much younger, but that must have been a lie to comfort Charlotte.
The woman in the mirror had turned strangely unfamiliar.
Perhaps she had become a real adult, Emilia thought sadly.

“Sister, would you like to try this?” Mitch handed her a hairpin that her stepmother had given her as a gift.
One she couldn’t bear to sell.

“…hair grows again.
Don’t be too upset.”

Mitch lifted his sister’s short hair slightly and carefully pinned it in.
She was very pretty when she had long hair, but short hair didn’t suit her.
Still, Emilia laughed.
It was the last laugh as a child who briefly immersed her feet in the nobility world.

* * *

“The factory where Kallia Bern was working was quite an honest and hardworking place.” Grozhang shuffled through the notebook with great enthusiasm, not because he was digging and plotting something gloomily, but because he was demonstrating his skills in his field after a long time.

“The problem is that the customer suddenly shut down.
As a result, there was a temporary default of bills, and the factory owner seems to have explained the situation to the employees quite well.
The arrears won’t last long, so please be patient.
He was a surprising gentleman compared to the vicious factory owner nearby.”

Hadius nodded as if to encourage him to continue.

“It seems that Kallia Bern also thought she could pay it back.
So she dared to knock on the door of Ramsco.
Mrs.
Bern is overly docile and obedient, but I don’t think she’s foolish enough to go into debt without any recourse.”

Hadius’ gaze left Grozhang and turned out the window.

“I met the factory owner and talked to him, and he gave me a guarantee for the bill.
As it was confirmed, the investment was also paid because it is a steady factory with good productivity.
As you requested, Meyer’s funds should not be spent in vain.
Overdue wages will be paid to employees immediately after two days.
By paying a small allowance as consolation money, Kallia Bern will be able to pay off all the interest, even the interest.
Of course, everything will be done through some trust company that has nothing to do with Meyer Steel.”

“Okay.”

“But, Young Master,” Grozhang continued to speak cautiously.
“The Bern family’s financial situation is not good.
Until now, the Young Master had instructed me not to interfere in their personal life as much as possible, so I didn’t pay any attention either but… As I learned this time, it was almost a miracle that my life was maintained.
Perhaps, if it had not been for Miss Bern’s side job, the laundry, which she and her mother do, they would have gone out on the street long ago.”

Grozhang barely swallowed the phrase “I wanted to help personally.”

“Is there a way to solve the financial problems that the Bern family is experiencing–”

“No.
Leave it alone.” Hadius cut him dry.

Grozhang’s neck twitched.
Initially, he had been sure, but now he had no idea what his Master’s intentions were.
When he was ordered to vacate Sitmer’s villa, he was convinced that his Master was trying to keep his fiancée.
So, the day he found out about Kallia Bern’s debt, he was sure his Master would do it.
Many noblemen take women that way.
In their world, it’s taken for granted.
But in the end, he paid off the debt and sent her back.
And then, even though he knows her financial difficulties, he won’t help her.
How do you explain the incongruent behavior of trying to get her out of trouble and then pushing her into another pit?

He frowned and barely swallowed a sigh that was about to burst out of a certain conclusion that was naturally drawn.
From the music box to the ring, everything that Young Master Meyer did to his fiancée was close to ‘sincere.’ Above all else, he had heard from Pip before.
He had given her that high-end revolver with his initials on it.
Giving a pistol to a girl who is fuming with her hair cut off? Anyone who sees the behavior can tell he’s out of his mind.

However, as Grozhang knew somewhat the meaning of it, for some reason, it was heartbreaking.
That revolver was the only, sincere gift that Duke Meyer gave to his legitimate heir.
He was very proud of his seven-year-old son’s prominence in marksmanship.
It was also the field where Theodor, the eldest son, an illegitimate child, showed below-average skills.
Young Master Meyer treasured the revolver like his own life for a while.
Now, he was turning a blind eye to his father so much that he doesn’t even visit him, but seeing that he has a lot of firearms in the shooting room but put this one right next to him, there is no doubt that he is very attached to it.
Of course, he would never admit it.
The problem is that Emilia Bern doesn’t like it at all.
She has no interest in her fiancé.
No, sometimes she seems to be disgusted by him.
Didn’t she even do that in Eliere Boutique? It was the first time he had ever seen a woman refuse a gift of clothing from a man.
She hated Young Master Meyer terribly, he even clicked his tongue, thinking that maybe she had another man.

On the other hand, Grozhang could understand such a woman.
From what he had seen so far, Emilia Bern was as proud as Hadius Meyer.
She would never be able to forgive the man and his family who treated her as an invisible person.
Thinking back to every dinner party, her cold attitude, as cold as the Young Master’s, it was clear that she hated the Meyer family extremely.
Besides, Nathan Malvin intervened.
He couldn’t know how she felt for Malvin Young Master, but given the circumstances, there was no reason for her to not like him.

In conclusion… The two were completely at odds.
It was too late for the relationship to recover.
And yet, it seemed that all his Master could think of was about making that woman his.
Blood can’t be deceived, and Hadius Meyer is Meyer, too, after all.
Once he has made up his mind, he’ll be much more evil and merciless.

“Why are you standing there blankly?”

“Ah…”

Grozhang hastily focused on his notebook.

“Finally, a message from Ricardi Palace.
Her Majesty the Queen will be waiting for you at the Etna Side Palace at 8 o’clock on the 17th.
As stated before, she commands you to visit alone without Miss Bern’s company.”

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[tl/n: I feel like I have to explain this.
A side palace (or lateral/detached palace) is -for this case specifically- a palace used by the Crown Prince to receive his consort, the queen consort, or a concubine with high status.
It’s a preliminary or temporary palace used to receive guests other than the main palace.]

I have to say this.
F*ck off Grozhang.
It’s not that Emilia is proud AF or that she hates his family or all the sht you said.
HE behaves like a dckhead all these years and now is acting like a freaking possessive spoiled kid who’s about to lose his toy.
Don’t give me this sht!