How to Survive as the Wife of The Monster Duke

in instinctively knew who was hostile and who wanted something from her; she’d been able to distinguish this her entire life.
She was in a dangerous and strange land, and many would blindly follow those who were kind to them, but not her.
If the Blue North and the Red Delrose were enemies, the Duke would not marry someone close to the North.

“You have to wear a coat since the cold becomes severe from here,” Lizzie warned Ilyin, who saw that they had come to a corridor with wide glass windows and she could see the thick snow outside.
“Are you feeling cold?”

Ilyin looked at her clothes at the maid’s question, and while they were thinner and lighter than what Ilyin had thought, she was warm nonetheless and feeling as if she were blanketed with a hot water bottle.
Her hands were cold though, but it was manageable.
Ilyin shook her head, and her blue tassels swayed as she replied, “I’m all right actually.
Thank you.”

“Please let us know if you have any problems,” Lizzie said as she lowered her head.
Ilyin felt some discomfort in knowing what the Blue were aiming for.

Suddenly, a man appeared as Lizzie took a step to leave.
Ilyin let out a gasp as she recognized that he was the man she had seen outside the castle walls.
His blue eyes narrowed on seeing the two women, like a wolf who’d seen its prey; the corridor filled with tension.

“This is not a place where the Blue North should wander about.” The man spoke slowly, and Lizzie bowed while Ilyin thought about what to say.
She was a guest in this castle and she didn’t know who the man was so she wasn’t sure how to respond.
The man would not introduce himself, focusing his cold eyes on Ilyin.
She couldn’t open her mouth to respond as the man’s gaze looked over her blue cloth, clothes, and her face.
She felt hunted like she had to run from the red monsters again and now she knew that she couldn’t escape.
The man was that formidable.

“She is the lady from the sunny lands.” Lizzie introduced Ilyin to the man.

“She is?” The blue eyes stared at Ilyin again indifferently, but his tone sounded surprised.

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“I am Ilyin de Arlen from the Empire.” Ilyin looked at the man with a gaze that asked him to introduce himself.
She finally was able to move, and the man’s eyes glistened at the change in her body language.

“I am Den of the Red Delroses.”

He was now more polite, and Ilyin thought maybe that was because he now knew that she was not one from the Blue North.
“Thank you for saving my life!” she blurted.

The man stopped at Ilyin’s thanks, and his crystal blue eyes stared at her again.
“You shouldn’t stay out in the winter long.” His words were cold as he passed her by.

Lizzie let out a breath, and Ilyin tilted her head.
She liked his warning better than the Blue North’s kindness, as it was so clear the latter wanted to use her.
Ilyin thought she would remember his name as she followed in Lizzie’s footsteps.