Escaping the Archduke of the North’s Obsession

ed to death if Duke Kyar went insane.

Isabella could only wince as she listened to him spit out such brutal words calmly.

“I’m sorry, Your Highness, but I don’t like you.”

Taking courage, Isabella decided to convey her heart to him.

She had difficulty completing the antidote, but she couldn’t stay here.

“But if you ask me to take responsibility even after taking antidote—”

“So…”

He stopped talking and took a step toward her.

Surprised, Isabella instinctively stepped back, but a wall had blocked her.

She had no space to withdraw from him.

“I’m going to do it properly from now on.”

What is he trying to do?

“—so that you will like me.”

Duke Kyar’s unwavering gaze was directed at her.

He stared into her eyes willfully, and she lowered her head in exhaustion.

**

As soon as breakfast with Duke Kyar was over, Marc, the butler, came to her bedroom.

Isabella accepted Mark’s documents with a sigh.

“What’s this?”

“He said that you have the right to acquire something instead of just taking responsibility.”

The right to acquire instead of taking responsibility?

Isabella recalled her conversation with Duke Kyar while eating.

Taking responsibility for the Duke would mean staying at Rubella Castle for another year.

He promised to give her freedom if she didn’t change her mind until then.

She had no other option.

She just wanted to run away from here without warning regardless of responsibility.

Isabella simply gave up.

If she got caught, that one-year timeline might disappear.

Still, she found comfort that it wouldn’t be for the rest of her life.

Isabella opened the document.

At that moment, her blue eyes widened.

“What’s this?”

“It’s a building named after you, my Lady.
It is a research institute in Rubella Castle.
We promised to provide you as many herbs as you need.”

She could not imagine what she had just heard.

This time, Isabella scanned the documents slowly.

It stated that she would be provided with unlimited medicinal herbs for her research institute to develop treatments further.

Is it true that he’s really out of his mind?

Instead, it felt like the scale of her work got bigger than when he was out of his mind.

“He asked me to tell you that he hoped you would like it.”