The Villain’S Daughter-In-Law Is Inherently Powerful [EN]: Chapter 69

“Wow, look at her.”

“She’s sparkling. Like a princess…….”

“She’s pretty. Do you know who she is?”

“No. But isn’t she an albino? My dad said albinos are cursed…….”

“She doesn’t look cursed at all, though?”

“That’s true.”

To the children dying of boredom, the dance of the boy and girl looked incredibly wonderful. The boy was handsome, and the girl was surprisingly pretty from the first time they saw her.

However, none of the children dared to approach the girl. They wanted to talk to her, but the boy next to her had such a chilling look in his eyes.

‘I’ll die if I mess with them.’

They were children who had never experienced a threat to their lives, but as beastmen, they had a survival instinct.

‘I shouldn’t talk to the girl. I don’t know what will happen if I do.’

Realizing this, the children just stared blankly.

The silver-haired girl in a fairy-tale princess dress was subtly attracting the attention of many.

‘I want to make her even smaller than she is now and keep her in my pocket.’

And Ian, the one who created this strange atmosphere, was having sinister thoughts with a satisfied face.

‘What are they looking at? Of course, if they have eyes, they’ll look at Florin, but why are they staring? I want her to look only at me.’

Ian knew he was being contradictory and unreasonable. It’s just that he was becoming more brazen because he had been too influenced by Kiraxus lately.

Still, Ian was in a great mood today.

Florin’s first dance.

This was something he couldn’t yield to anyone, and Dante had been nicely pushed aside.

‘Just because he went to a tea party with her, he’s all excited.’

Ian cleverly realized that if he maintained an adult and mature image, Florin would choose him in difficult situations.

After all, you can’t take a child who can’t even control his emotions to meet the Emperor.

Of course, the escort couldn’t go all the way to the Emperor, but… the Duchess created an opportunity.

Yes, it was an opportunity deliberately created for him.

‘I made an impression on the Emperor. And the Duchess is paying attention to me these days.’

The other heirs Florin had picked—Merem, Andre, and Shuri—were not capable enough to take the position of head of the family from him and Dante.

In the end, the only one he had to defeat was Dante.

It wouldn’t be easy, but if Dante had the support of the knights, he planned to gain the support of the retainers.

With a calm, friendly, and mature demeanor, just like now. He had to gradually make the family’s territory his own.

One day, when Dante came to his senses, he would already have control over all administrative affairs.

“Look over there, Florin. Isn’t the decoration pretty?”

“Oh, it is! It’s a flower that looks just like Ian’s hair!”

Ian put his arm around Florin’s shoulder, deliberately turning her gaze elsewhere.

A random girl who was about to bump into Florin staggered, but Ian didn’t care.

“Shall we go see the orchestra?”

“Do you want to see them up close? I’ll go if Ian wants to see them.”

“Yeah, I want to see them up close.”

After that, a mean-looking boy came with a glass of juice. A brat whose face he couldn’t even remember tried to step on Florin’s foot, and so on.

Ian fended off numerous threats. Without Florin knowing at all.

‘I’ll take care of things like this on my own.’

I hope you only have happy memories today.

‘With me.’ A happy night.

But about two hours later. At nine o’clock in the evening, when all the minors were returning to their bedrooms.

The atmosphere suddenly reversed.

* * *

“Get out of the way! If you’re not the culprit, shouldn’t you be able to show the room with dignity?!!!”

It was such a good day that I felt like I was walking on clouds. It probably could have ended that way.

If it hadn’t been for someone’s intervention.

‘What’s going on?’

I returned to the bedroom with Ian and was surprised to see people gathered in front of our room.

A maid I had never seen before was screaming and sobbing, and Linda, who was blocking the maid, was shouting back, saying she absolutely couldn’t let her in.

“How dare you!!! This is where the precious young masters of the Driblyane family stay! Absolutely! You can’t come in. Kill me and go in!”

“She was shot! Our young lady was shot! Is only the person you serve precious? The person I serve is from a Marquis family. I’m just asking to see the room, what’s so difficult about that!!!”

“I said no. Are you daring to accuse the Driblyane family of being the culprit? I’ll tell the Duchess about this later. I absolutely can’t let you in!”

What is all this……?

I quickly extracted information from the noisy shouts and quickly grasped the situation.

Ian seemed to have done the same, as he glanced at me briefly and immediately stepped forward.

“It’s noisy.”

A low voice carried weight. At the same time, the dominant pheromones that spread out like a thick fog pressed down on the people gathered.

“Get out of the way. Who are you blocking?”

“Ugh……!”

‘Ian is angry.’

Ian is always kind to me. But when I think about it, Ian was also an Alpha who had awakened his dominant pheromones.

Those who are used to suppressing others. People who take it for granted that they stand above countless ordinary people. People who can terrify countless people just by their existence-

“Is there something to see?”

“Ah, no.”

Ian’s words, flashing his eyes, were as bleak as the winter wind. Those who had gathered and threatened Linda were busy lowering their heads and averting their eyes.

I took the opportunity to quickly run to Linda and hugged her tightly.

“Were you scared alone, Linda?”

“You’re here, Little Madam……. I’m okay. This person, you see, is saying that the young lady she serves was shot. Then suddenly, she started making a fuss, saying she had to search the room…… so I was blocking her from entering.”

“When did they come?”

“Just now!”

Why exactly at nine o’clock?

‘How coincidental.’

I raised my eyebrows and glanced at the sobbing maid. There seemed to be no lies on her tear-stained face, but……

“Who was shot? You, tell me.”

The maid, who had been suppressed by Ian’s momentum, swallowed her sobs and opened her mouth when she was pointed out.

“It’s Vivian, the young lady of the Sandrea Marquis family. Ah, the young lady was too tired, so she left the banquet hall early…… suddenly, someone shot her!”

“So?”

“So…… so when I screamed, the soldiers were surprised and ran over, and they called a royal physician…….”

“And?”

“The royal physician said it was a gunshot wound! He said he doesn’t know if she’ll live or die!”

The maid screamed hysterically and tore at her hair.

It was pitiful to see her looking like she had lost her mind, but that didn’t mean she could dare to suspect the Driblyane family?

‘How absurd.’

I stared at the maid with cold eyes and looked at each of the human walls surrounding her. Among them were people who looked like knights.

“Who are you?”

“I, I am Volis Lifman, belonging to the East Swell Knights. I am Vivian’s cousin.”

“Oh, really? Then you were abusing the authority of a knight to pressure my maid?”

“……That’s too much to say. I was just saying I would check the bedroom for firearms. Is that such a big request?”

Volis’s face twisted as if he didn’t expect me to argue.

I gritted my teeth and hugged Linda even tighter.

‘The royal physician has been called, but the rumor hasn’t spread in the banquet hall yet. In other words, Vivian was shot between eight thirty and nine o’clock. The music at the banquet hall is loud, so the other guests wouldn’t have heard the gunshot. Maybe they used a silencer. So only the people nearby saw Vivian collapse.’

But what does that have to do with our family?

I crossed my arms and tilted my head.

This isn’t a problem for children to solve anyway. An adult has to come. But why, exactly at nine o’clock, were they here…….

‘An intention to screw me over? Or an intention to ruin my first banquet?’

Usually, when something like this happens, people get flustered. Whether they’re children or adults, they’ll be very surprised.

‘If I’m flustered, they’ll accuse me of being the culprit, and if I’m calm, they’ll accuse me of being the culprit. That’s how they want to harass me.’

It’s quite a bold move.

I felt like I could see the face behind this incident.

Vivian was the girl who tried to come over to my side at the tea party held in Roybaium.

‘She must not have liked that. The proud young lady of Roybaium.’

I recalled the face of the indecisive-looking girl with the light green hair and erased it. What’s important now isn’t feeling sorry for her.

‘Ian and I were in the banquet hall until just now anyway, and everyone knows that.’

Then who are they trying to frame as the culprit of this incident…….

‘Linda!’