I Was Given a Political Marriage

11 – The heart of the night sky (2)

It is perfectly normal and natural for lovers or family members to dig their ears.

Doing it with people you love means showing affection and trusting each other.

On the contrary, there were also cases where they wanted natural skinship with trust.

“Xian? Come on, lie down.”

gulp. The sight of Eileen holding earpicks made me feel frightened.

If you trust her enough to listen here…

“lie down.”

“yes.”

Xian rests his head on his soft thighs with fear imprinted on his cold words.

Unlike the pillow, it was soft, and I felt like I was addicted to the softness that kept pushing my head away.

He patted his cheek and looked outside as instructed to turn his head.

“Poop, Xian’s ears are small too? His face is very close together, but even his ears are small, so he’s so cute.”

“…just destroy it.”

“Then I’ll do it slowly, so tell me if it hurts.”

square. square. As soon as I started, I felt like my heart was calmed down by the slow sounds of nature.

The earpick that came in gently as if tickling the inside of the ear scraped and began to clean the ear cleanly, and it seemed that my eyes were closing in comfort.

“draft.”

In the meantime, a cool voice is heard quietly.

Eileen starts asking questions when she feels relieved. For some reason, I had the illusion that the ear picks were coming in sharper than before.

“I’m going to ask you a question. Do I have to give you a good answer?”

“Go, suddenly…? What is it?”

square square square square.

Then, the ear-pick came in even deeper. Gradually, the blood drained from his face and he began to turn pale.

“Uh, you know Scarlett from the other day. That b*tch… No, how did you meet her?”

“Scarlett…”

When I was afraid of Eileen’s question and couldn’t answer well, I slowly looked down and started blowing air into his ear.

Slowly, blowing the earlobes while letting the cold wind ride through his ears.

“Do not stimulate it during ear digging as it can be dangerous.”

“Okay, I’ll tell you. That, Scarlett.”

In the end, Xian, who admitted his defeat, quietly brought up the story about her.

The first time I met Scarlett was when I entered the academy not too long ago.

A boy who is a low-ranking noble but had no friends around him, and a girl who entered the academy dreaming of becoming a knight.

Xian, who spoke first as if to save a girl who had no friends and was discriminated against for some reason.

It was a story that they became friends with each other through that, and that it has continued to this day.

“Then you only see Xian as a friend?”

“Uh… yes, maybe.”

Even at that time, Xian never harbored feelings of love because he had his fiancé, Eileen.

Of course, being together was fun, and it was true that I looked forward to every day.

“I should have been together from then on.”

“Because we didn’t get along better then than now. I never imagined it would end like this in the first place.”

It wasn’t enough that the engagement that I believed would break was not promoted, and I never imagined that I would be bound like now.

I thought about what would have happened if my engagement to Eileen hadn’t continued.

‘Perhaps the engagement was set as if it was sold to another young lady, not Scarlett.’

Due to my mother’s greedy personality, she would never have left me alone.

“I’m glad though.”

“Huh? What?”

Eileen speaks as if surprised by Xian’s sudden words.

“If it weren’t for the Estes family, you might have married someone you didn’t know, right? I think Eileen is better than someone I don’t know.”

It wasn’t love, but looking back on it, I was feeling grateful to her.

Because it is originally like this, I understand it, wait for what I have to adapt to, and have love for me.

“End. Bring the other side too.”

“Are you suddenly pliable?”

Unlike before, he was kind with a relaxed face.

Sensing the innocence of her delight, he smiled and turned his head slowly, and in the meantime, it was Xian who happily received her ear digging service.

***

late night. It was night now, so it was so dark that you couldn’t even see the street in front of you.

Xian, who had been sleeping soundly on the bed, slowly began to open his eyes.

‘When did you fall asleep? And now this…’

When I woke up, Aileen, whom I had slept with every day, was gone and only a small light like a candle was visible.

“Eileen?”

“Ah, you woke me up. I’m sorry, Xian.”

Eileen, who was working all night, tried to blow out the candles, apologizing for disturbing his sleep.

“It’s okay if you don’t turn it off. Isn’t the paperwork important right now?”

“It’s not like that.”

“Then I’ll wait for you, so finish slowly. Or. Shall I help you from the side?”

When I asked while snooping around, she smiled dejectedly and handed me the documents.

“Then shall we leave it to you for a bit?”

“Yeah, that’s about it.”

I got up from the bed, approached her slowly, and sat down next to her while taking her papers.

Xian, who was looking at the documents at the small desk.

Dipping the fountain pen into the ink, he began to write slowly from above.

“What, I thought you couldn’t do it, but you’re good at it?”

“Yeah. I did most of the work my mother was doing in the first place. And I’m smart, too.”

“You’re smart. You won chess too.”

I looked at Eileen at the sound of chess.

‘Well, the reason we got to know each other was chess.’

It was a small game, but it was something important for both of us.

If it wasn’t for it, it might not be interested in me and might have been sold to another house.

“It’s not that you’re smart, you’re just good at it. You’ve improved quickly, too.”

“I was angry though. It was the first time I lost… to a man.”

Eileen’s cheeks lit up by the red candlelight were burning red, and her hand was covering her mouth.

The beautiful blond hair glowed vermilion in the light, as if watching a scene from a famous painting.

“jealousy?”

“Jealousy… It was a more complex emotion than jealousy. Since then, I’ve been interested in you.”

‘As expected, chess attracted attention.’

It was a mistake to win over her, who hadn’t been interested since the first meeting.

I tried to lose on purpose because I wanted to match my fiancé, but I got tangled up in mistakes and won.

At the time, I was afraid that he would hate me sincerely, but now I feel rather fortunate.

“What is it~ Then you got engaged because of chess?”

“No. That’s not all.”

Eileen who definitively shatters my assumptions. He suddenly grabbed his hand and brought it to his chest, whispering.

“I didn’t connect with such miscellaneous emotions. It’s because I really like you.”

“Now, hold on… your hand.”

Rather than embarrassing words, I was more concerned about the hand on my chest now.

This soft, warm texture that easily sticks together when you hold it in your hand. The more I focused on this hand, the more I felt my face heat up.

“I like you besides playing chess. From the fact that you’re smart enough to understand other people’s feelings and care for them.”

Eileen suddenly gives a speech about the merits of Xian.

“You help others when they are having a hard time, and you see the situation wisely.

“Wait… I’m so dizzy.”

“I like your personality, and I also like your small and cute appearance, which stands out with your decadent beauty.”

“I understand, so stop. I can’t lift my face because I’m embarrassed.”

I felt shame dominate my body at the praise and praise I hadn’t heard in a long time.

Aileen also blushed as if she was embarrassed while she was talking.

‘You really like me…’

Xi’an felt his sincerity so much that it gave him a headache not to know how to deal with him.

“Let’s work quickly… There’s a lecture tomorrow, right?”

After that, I was able to take a little break by slowly concentrating and finishing the papers one by one.

After finishing the paperwork, Eileen stretched her back and showed her breasts.

Cyan, who had made warm cocoa from behind, handed her a cup and patted her on the shoulder.

“Good job. I helped too, but it ended sooner than expected?”

“Yeah, thanks to that, it ended quickly. If I had known it would be like this, I think I would have left it for a while.”

“Because I don’t want to do it anymore~ You shouldn’t pamper your fiancé like that.”

He came next to her wearing a blanket and lifted the cup and leaned it against her shoulder.

‘I’m scared once in a while, but I’m not a bad person.’

I don’t hate Eileen, maybe because my love is a bit extreme.

He buried his head into her shoulder again and slowly raised his gaze.

She looked down from the side endearingly and slowly began raising her hand.

“It’s really soft… Do you know how good it feels just to touch it?”

“I don’t know…”

Xian suddenly fell asleep when he thought his work was over.

Even though I nodded my head to force myself to open my eyes, I couldn’t stop them from closing.

“You’re sleeping… Good job.”

I stroked his hair a little more as he slept soundly, and touched his back.

He touched Xian’s soft, white cheek.

gulp. I swallowed my mouth at the sight of Xian sleeping defenselessly.

“Just a little…because.”

He pulled his sleeping clothes down to his collarbone and kissed him.

As if to re-engrave the traces of her who had vanished before I knew it, this time we kissed each other and left traces of ourselves.

It’s redder than ever, and it’s an imprint that tells people it’s theirs.

By the time the kiss mark had formed, she too had slowly fallen asleep.