The Male Lead Knelt Before Me
Chapter 147 (Side Story) - Vol. 19: By Your Side

Translator: Missme

Editor: Missme

“Great job!”

As soon as the curtain went down, Veloka hugged me.

I was drenched in sweat, but since she was in a similar situation, I stayed still in her arms.

“Lina! Rael! You guys should come here too! Everyone has worked so hard!”

“Oh, it’s okay if I don’t hug you.”

“I’m fine too……”

Unlike me, Rael and Lina took a step back.

“No! How can I get through this happy day without a hug! Come on, hurry!”

However, Veloka did not tolerate the opinions of the two with stern expressions on her face.

She hugg

The play performed at the imperial castle was indeed successful.

If it was singular… … .

“Nonsense! Are these really all applications ? ”

It was so successful that the troupe was filled with bouquets of flowers and actor applications were piled up like a mountain.

Terrified, I looked up at the table in the middle of the room.

I was busy preparing for my wedding in earnest, so after a few weeks, I barely found time to find a theater company, and they were the ones that welcomed me .

I wasn’t lying and I was opening my mouth looking at the papers stacked the size of my forearm when Velocca opened her mouth with a dying face.

“Why do you think there is only this?”

“Could there be more?”

“There are three more bundles of the same thickness as this one in the theater troupe’s office. Even if we only saw it for a few days, there were five of them.”

“Uh, so many?”

“Not all of them want to be actors, and there are applications for scriptwriters and music schools, but most of them are actors applications.”

“I think I’m going to die because there are too many, sister… …

I couldn’t help but admire Rael and Lina’s replies.

Of course, there were a lot of people we picked this time.

As the troupe, which had been in a dark period due to the emperor, was now in the stage of seeing the light, they began to desire things that they had not been greedy for in the meantime.

It was decided to select scriptwriters as well as minor actors who would decorate the stage in a variety of ways.

the last scriptwriter quit six years ago, and the Chloe Theater Company has been rewriting old scripts every two years.

And rather than playing recorded music at the castle stone, they decided to hire a professional music band as well.

It was expected that there would be a certain amount of applications since they decided to recruit so many people.

Before entering, I was able to roughly guess by looking at Bill, who seemed to be having a hard time, and the bunch of bouquets piled up in the box office.

‘Still, I didn’t expect there to be this many… …

It’s something I couldn’t bring myself to say to them, but looking at the documents, I felt fortunate that I couldn’t come to the theater for several weeks.

Of course, since I came here, I couldn’t pretend I didn’t know.

I quietly sat down in the empty seat and touched the papers on the table.

“I will help you.”

“It’s okay, I was going to stop coming and have lunch with you anyway. You later select the final candidates

Just look at it.”

“Can I really just do that?”

“You’re busy preparing for the wedding these days. I can’t put any more of these on there. And I don’t want to hear you resent me for making the new bride sick.”

“that’s right. My sister is busy preparing for her wedding and it is difficult. Does Rael think so too?”

“Uh, yes. yes.”

“ruler! Then let’s have lunch!”

At everyone’s persuasion, I put down the papers I picked up and had to be led outside by Veloka.

Lunch was served at a restaurant close to the troupe and quite expensive depending on my hometown.

‘Originally, I wanted to go where Veloka led me, but… …

I couldn’t do that after seeing the tired faces of the three.

You have to feed ‘good’ food.

“… … Hey, Ena-sister?”

” yes?”

“Can I really eat here?”

Lina cautiously asked after seeing the price written on the menu.

“huh. Just order whatever you want to eat.”

“I think the amount is almost ten times what we normally eat… …

” are you okay.”

“Because you are like this, marrying the duke really comes to mind.”

“If I hadn’t married Caleb, would I have been able to buy this much? I have some personal birds.”

“Ah, did you get it from that person called your guardian?”

I nodded my head in affirmation. Before Count Vander and the crown prince were punished, there was quite a bit of money they received.

Not too long ago, the mansion I was staying in before entering the duke’s house was also sold, so I’m in a state of wealth.

The three of them ordered the food with a much better face than the first time, although they were still uncomfortable, perhaps thanks to hearing my boast about my wealth.

“Are the wedding preparations going well?”

“sure. I didn’t know that having a wedding could be this difficult.”

“Well, there won’t be only one or two things to prepare.

Are you?”

“That too, but the scale is much bigger than expected.”

Originally, the wedding Caleb and I had in mind was similar in scale to the engagement ceremony.

They only invite people they have a close relationship with.

The season must be spring just in time, so I tried to enjoy it simply outdoors with pretty flowers falling… … .

‘I don’t think so.’

Isn’t that what Caleb said after visiting the royal castle one day!

When I asked what I was saying at the unexpected words, the answer that came back was.

‘His Majesty said that it must be splendid in the imperial castle… …

‘In the imperial castle?’

‘And he strongly said that after the wedding, there should be a parade around the ecliptic in a carriage and scattering gold coins.’

Then, Caleb said, ‘The future of the imperial family depends on you, so how can we simplify the wedding ceremony?’ said, he added.

I knew that I was considered special because the emperor had called and talked to me after the prince was executed.

I didn’t know that I would interfere like this, so I was just taken aback.

Fortunately, most of the preparation… … . So things like designing flowers and ribbons to decorate the streets. Her Majesty decided to help me with things that were difficult for me to care about or unknown to, such as the arrangement of knights to control the crowd.

Of course, I was preparing together, citing the reason, ‘I won’t be there by the time Young-ae’s child gets married, and at that time, Young-ae will have to do it alone, so shouldn’t I take care of it?’

However, there were things even Her Majesty the Empress couldn’t help.

For example, the order of a wedding, studying and rehearsing etiquette.

In addition, all outfits, including the wedding dress, were entrusted to the royal family’s exclusive designer, and she had to select everything from cutting the fabric to decorations.

Of course, I wondered if I had to prepare this much delicately to get married, but if it was a problem, I wonder if the imperial family would support me.

If it had been prepared by the duke’s family, they would have absolutely respected my opinion within the proper limits, but this guy’s imperial family didn’t know that it was ‘properly’.

Doesn’t it tell you to bring in all the white fabrics or fabrics belonging to that group and choose them?

After barely choosing among hundreds of fabrics, they say that another good fabric has been found, and they ask you to look at this one as well.

Thanks to that, I was fed up with seeing white cloth for a while. It’s only natural that I don’t wear those types of clothes.

“Oh my God, is that much?”

Lina and Velocca opened their mouths after hearing my story, and I sighed, saying, ‘That’s right’.

“Wow, picking out the fabric for the dress must have bothered me a lot about other things as well. You would have had to pick out the frills and embellishments to put on the dress.”

“that’s right.”

I replied with disgust at Lina’s words. Looking back, the past few weeks have felt like hell.

Of course, I wasn’t completely out of that hell. I mean, it was still in progress.

Ugh, the thought of fixing it again makes my spine run cold.

“How come the person who eats well and eats a lot today seems to be you, not us.”

“I know.”

Beloka nodded at Rael’s words and looked at the dish in front of me and asked.

“But why did you only order salad?”

“Because of the dress. I need to adjust my diet for the time being.”

“No, what do you have control over? I was so skinny.”

Veloka fidgeted with my right hand on the table.

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“It is a special day. I want to be really pretty on that day.”

“You still look really pretty.”

For a moment, I burst out laughing.

“Did I say something funny?”

“No, sorry. He said the same thing as Caleb, so I didn’t know.”

When I started not eating snacks at the mansion, I asked why, and when he answered, he said something similar to me.

“The Duke did the same, so why are you doing that?”

“Apart from that, it’s because I want to be pretty. I think it would be nice to wear the dress as the tailor suggested.”

“If that’s what my sister thinks, then it can’t be helped. Cheer up, sister.”

“that’s right. It looks like the duke couldn’t stop it either.

How are we going to stop it?”

Ahaha, I laughed awkwardly at Veloka’s words.

It’s been a long time since I went to a theater company, but we parted ways after that meal.

The troupe was busy, but I had another appointment after that.

‘I’m sure he’ll be around here?’

I purposely made the escort knight follow me a few steps back than usual, then looked around.

‘Ah, over there!’

After wandering the streets several times, I spotted a familiar figure from the back and raised my heel.

I , which would have been stealthily approaching and leaving only a small gap.

“Wow!”

I hugged Caleb’s waist.

would you be surprised?

“Are you here, Iena?”

I looked up in anticipation, but Cal Reb spoke in his usual tone and wrapped my hand around his waist.

What, did you think it was me?

“Aren’t you surprised?”

“yes.”

why! At best, the escort knights were separated from each other and then killed as much as possible.

Caleb said as if he understood my question.

“I felt all the signs. I tried to pretend to be surprised, but I didn’t think I would embarrass you… …

Oh dear.

Seeing Caleb’s perplexed face made me think of his job and the fact that he was much more perceptive than most people.

Maybe it was because I was so visibly disappointed.

“I will try to surprise you next time.”

“Why are you trying to do that? Don’t do that.”

I giggled and untied the arm that was wrapped around his waist.

Instead, I crossed my arms around him and hurried my steps.

Although what Caleb said was a bit off-putting, I didn’t hate the way he tried to please me.

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