The Villain Changed the Ending

067 Hell of Truth

***[Heroine Oscar]***

As I entered, my father looked up at my face, absent-mindedly.

Was this person this small?

I thought so.

It seems that my height and body have shrunk compared to before.

His face was slightly wrinkled and looked tired.

I would still have a year or two left before I turned 40.

But why are you so old?

It is probably the original Oscar feeling that remains a little bit in me.

Mother had a slightly complicated expression.

I wonder if there was any regret or sadness there, I am a little worried.

Benno noticed my gaze and smiled slightly with only his eyes.

Mother seems to be fine.

I took my mother’s hand and handed it to Benno.

“Benno, I have something to say to my father, so take my mother outside.”

“All right.”

Benno escorts her mother outside.

The mother looked back at the father once more before leaving the reception room.

She showed a very sad expression, but soon the mother straightened her back and turned around.

“Father, don’t stand. Sit down.”

I sat down in the middle chair and called my father.

My father blankly looked at the door where my mother had disappeared, then looked at me as if he had come to his senses.

Little by little, the color returned to his face, which seemed to have lost his sense of humor at first, and the anger that had disappeared seemed to slowly rise from the bottom.

My father glared at me with clenched fists.

“You dare… Divorce at will.”

“Sit down, Father.”

I cut my father’s words and looked behind him.

The butler who followed me politely set the papers down on the table.

The father’s gaze moved along the papers.

It seems that the anger that was about to boil has lost its place and faded away.

The father’s face softened slightly.

“All of my father’s expenses are being reported. But lately, the money going to Bianca has been increasing.”

“… This money has already been given to me. How I spend it is none of your business.”

If Bianca uses it, you can use it less. What’s wrong with that.

Even though my father said that, the momentum of his anger seems to have died.

He quietly came and sat in front of me.

“Yes. I thought so too, so I stayed still. But.”

I pulled out some papers and held them out in front of my father.

“It’s a different matter if she’s ruining the duke’s face. Bianca is raising money by selling back jewelry and dresses from her father.”

“what?”

My father didn’t seem to know at all.

Startled, I looked at the papers.

Although the city where my father lives is not very big, it has everything there is.

There were theaters and jewelers, as well as moneylenders.

However, unlike big cities, moneylenders and jewelers there have a close relationship with the lord.

That’s why, even if there were small secrets, there were no big secrets in the city.

Bianca secretly gave her goods to moneylenders and jewelers, who reported them to the lord.

The father’s face hardened for a moment, but then he forced a smile as if nothing had happened.

“Yes, it can be. Things like jewelry and dresses go out of fashion after they become fashionable, and in some cases it is more useful to exchange them for money.”

Although her father has fallen out with Bianca lately, it seems that they have been together for a long time and have a strong bond.

I looked at my father silently.

What I will say from now on will hurt my father quite a bit.

“Maybe. But it’s not nice to see a duke’s father’s dearest lover making money secretly selling jewels and dresses.”

“I won’t tell Bianca about that.”

I spoke quietly.

“I investigated.”

“…”

Father’s expression hardened.

He must have heard me say that he investigated, and he knew that something was wrong.

“The amount paid to my father is not small. He spends almost all of it on Bianca. It’s not normal if he sells things secretly without enough money. So I ordered an investigation into what was going on.”

“…”

“Bianca seems to be giving money to a man. He showed up in the city a while ago.”

“… what do you want to say?”

father swallows saliva

“The man looked a lot like Dennis.”

“What!”

Dad jumped up from his seat.

I would have thought I would hear something bad about the situation.

He may have suspected adultery at the mention of a man.

But it doesn’t seem like he was thinking the same words he just heard.

Maybe it’s something I never dreamed of.

‘Well… who would dare to mock the ducal family?’

To lie about the lineage of the duchy would be unthinkable.

Seeing my father who seemed shocked and unable to say anything, I spoke again.

“The investigation report is here. Read it. Just before my father left the estate, he was arrested. He was probably executed today.”

The charges are different.

Other crimes were covered so that the duke’s name would not be revealed.

“… No. It can’t be.”

My father murmured in dismay.

But the man was definitely Dennis’s father.

After careful investigation and certainty, the man was arrested.

The only thing we didn’t know was why it happened, but it also vomited out of the man’s mouth.

Bianca had been his father’s lover for quite some time before giving birth to Dennis, but they were barren.

The engagement with my mother was decided, and the wedding day approached, but when she couldn’t conceive, she became nervous and said that she had spent the night with the man only to conceive a child.

Perhaps torture was applied to open the man’s mouth.

Benno’s aide went and took care of the matter, but I did not get a report on how he got him to open up.

All I could say was that I had to open my mouth.

“…No, that’s ridiculous. This is a lie. Did you hate me that much? Enough to invent a lie like this?”

My father sat down in his chair and looked at me.

Dennis did not have the silver hair and turquoise eyes that were characteristic of dukes.

However, looking back at the past, there are many such cases.

Not all blood relatives of dukes had silver hair and blue-green eyes.

Everyone, including Dennis, would have thought that was the case.

But if you think about it a little more, you can see that this is true.

My mother is the only child I have simply because I have never shared a bedroom with my father, but Bianca is different.

I heard that Bianca continued to want children after Dennis.

But there is no child after Dennis.

Years passed, but there was only one child.

‘Perhaps my father had a difficult constitution to have children.’

Bianca would have been normal.

However, I wonder if my mother wasn’t particularly easy to have children.

Sometimes it is said that such a woman exists.

I had heard of it from the woman at the window that Benno had invited.

According to her, there are very few women who receive the blessing of the goddess who protects children, and in Changgwan, women who are particularly prone to pregnancy are not accepted.

It is because of the concern that he might have received the blessing of the goddess.

Such a woman brings misfortune to Changgwan.

The goddess was known to get angry when the woman she blessed was unhappy.

It may be because of the goddess’ wrath that her father has aged so quickly for her age, and that Bianca has been tormented again by the man she had already paid for and cut off a long time ago.

‘Perhaps my memory of my previous life or my reincarnation is what the goddess did for my mother.’

Evidence of blessings from the goddess cannot be seen with the naked eye.

There was no glittering powder coming out, and there was no halo.

It is only speculation that the woman was loved by the goddess when she gave birth to many children and all of them lived happily and healthily, or when the child she gave birth to became great.

My father would have known of such a possibility.

There was deep despair in his father’s eyes as he read the report.

“This becomes a scandal for the duchy. I’ll cover it up so it doesn’t come out. Bianca’s boyfriend is already dead, and the only people who know the secret are me, my father, and a few people close to me.”

“Annette… What about Annette?”

“Your mother doesn’t know.”

I thought about confiding in my mother, but the fewer people I know, the better.

Besides, if the mother found out about this, she would be hurt rather than accuse her father of doing well.

Even if her love for her father had already worn off, her mother deeply loved the ducal family.

The insults received by the father, who is of ducal blood, are passed on to the mother as well.

My mother will never forget and hate Bianca until the day she dies.

‘I don’t want that.’

The best revenge a mother can take is to completely forget her father and Bianca and be happy.

It’s not that I hate you forever.

“Neither Bianca nor Dennis can speak.”

“…”

My father suddenly looked at me.

I guess I’m not quite sure what that means.

“If my father lives with Bianca and Denise, I will continue to treat her as his father’s lover.”

“What… are you going to leave her alone?”

Father’s eyes widened.

“Well, if the father abandons her, the two of them will be attacked by bandits, or in an accident, or die miserably.”

I interrupted once to make sure my father understood, then spoke calmly again.

“They just won’t die, those two. They mocked the duke. They will die miserably, suffering until the moment they die. It may take a month or a year before they die.”

“That, like that.”

“Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying I’m going to order that.”

Even if I don’t say anything in particular, the person below does it.

In particular, Benno will never forgive Bianca and Dennis.

Benno is the head of a family that has served the duchy for a long time.

I value the duke’s honor more than I do.

On top of that, it was easy to guess that he, who had seen his mother’s pain by his side for a long time, would not kill Bianca easily.

Dennis may feel unfair, but being born in this world is itself inequality. Commoners, slaves, and nobles, there was no equality anywhere.

“Are you asking me… to decide the end for those two?”

“Yes. I follow my father’s choice.”

My father looked at me stunned.

“You… You… tell me to live by seeing those two people for the rest of my life… calling a child who doesn’t mix a drop of blood as my child… even though I hate it, I can’t reveal why… I can’t throw it away… and live like that. Are you talking?”

I just smiled a little.

“I’m not saying until the day I die. As long as today’s time has passed since my mother’s betrothal to my father, you may abandon Bianca and Denise. By that time the scandal will not be uncovered.”

“…”

“You can decide either way, Father. I don’t mind either way. But please make your decision today. Benno won’t be waiting much longer than I am.”

“…”

I left the place with my father who couldn’t say anything.

Even if Bianca cheated, her father is not innocent.

The father was responsible for damaging the duchy’s honor.

It is impossible to pass unpunished.

I don’t know if the mother still loves the father and continues the marital relationship.

If not, you’ll have to clean up your own sh*t.

*

Before heading to the office, I looked for my mother.

It seems that the mother was discussing the barony with Benno.

He looked at me and smiled and shrugged.

“Oscar, it seems very easy for you to rule the territory, but in reality it seems very difficult.”

In front of her mother was a report summarizing the status of the barony.

“Every time I propose something, I get rejected by Benno at the speed of light. That makes things weird on this side, and trouble on the other side… Really, it’s not easy.”

Mother looked at Benno and said as if she missed him.

“It’s just like when I first got married into the duke’s family. Even then, I learned from the butler.”

“The goddamn was a good student. He learned so quickly that it was a great stimulus for me as well.”

Benno said softly and looked at me.

I signaled him with a slight wink and looked at my mother’s report together.

“Was this your mother’s suggestion?”

“Yes. But Benno doesn’t work. The idea is good, but if you do things like this, you’ll run out of farmers.”

“… Besides, this will cost more money than it will return. It will take at least a hundred years to get the money back…”

“Oscar, even you.”

mum exclaimed happily.

Benno quietly left while my mother and I talked.

I went to ask my father for an answer.

‘Even if I don’t listen, I know.’

The heart of a father who would hate him to death is shocking.

He might want to kill Bianca with his own hands.

But when you hear that two people will die miserably, the human heart becomes hesitant.

Even if my father hates him or wants to kill him, in the end he will choose a way to save the two of them.

*

After a while, Benno came back.

“Bernt-sama is said to be returning to the territory.”

also.

It seems that he has decided to go back and live with Bianca.

‘It will be hell from now on.’

My father had never been the type of person who would ever say anything out loud to Bianca and Dennis, but that will be different in the future.

Bianca is embarrassed and angry at the change in her gentle father, and Dennis, who doesn’t know anything, will be the same.

As hatred and hatred increase, hell begins.

And no one can get out of there.

My father was for the sake of the two of them, and since the two of them were the lover and son of a noble, I couldn’t deny it.

Everyone becomes unhappy together.

I left the room after talking with my mother for a while.

“Madam, I think it will be fine if we trim this room a bit.”

As I closed the door, I heard Benno’s voice.

My mother’s laughter as she asks if it’s true is loud.

It was the most lively voice I had ever heard.

*

A month later, the reports of the wives my mother had sent for Catherine’s education arrived.

Catherine seems to be doing well.

The news was that if he continued to do so, he would be able to attend the ducal family’s hunting season in the fall.

However, Catherine’s letter that arrived almost at the same time was full of tears.

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Just looking at Katrin’s letters, it would take twenty years for her to come here as a duchess.

I smiled at the words written at the end of the letter.

[I miss you, Mr. Oscar.]

The phrase is repeated twenty times throughout the letter, and it ends with that too.

Her heart seems to jump out of the letter right now.

‘I miss you too, Catherine.’

After saying that to myself, I put the letter down.

The short break is over.

Now is the time to get to work.

Pretending not to know that my aides were looking at me single-singly, I cast my gaze at the papers on the desk.