The Villainess Is Changing Her Role to a BroCon

a boy with a baby face and a beard.

The beard was gone.

Or rather, his clothes looked like a dress.

An old-fashioned, loose-fitting one, similar to what the Forest People wear.
His hair was short, but he wore a flower ornament that complemented his pretty face, and he was being held by Lord Vassily, who was leaning over him as if to wrap him around his lordship’s tall figure…

Ummm…

With a flash of inspiration, Ekaterina looked at the back of the portrait.

There, in Lord Vassily’s handwriting, was the following inscription.

[Giovanna Di Santi, My companion.]

Giovanna was a woman! A woman!

And his companion!

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In a panic, Ekaterina traced the family tree in her mind.

The fifth Lord Vassily, like his grandfather Sergei, had been given an imperial daughter-in-law.
He would have married at the age of 18 or 19, the typical marriageable age for an imperial noble.
The portrait of the young Duchess Vassily can still be seen in the Duke’s residence and in the Yurinova Castle in the ducal domain.

However, she supposedly died prematurely within a few years of her death due to illness.
Fortunately, she had a legitimate son, so Prince Vassily did not remarry and remained a widower, according to official records.

But in fact, a few years after his wife’s death, he met a woman whom he called his consort.
Well, since a formal marriage involves many formalities, officially he was not really married to Giovanna-san, a lifelong inventor and a man, but only a partner in his heart.
I was certain that she was the only woman he had ever wanted to be with.

I was glad to hear that… Thank God, he was not having an affair or anything like that.

First, I apologize for doubting you, Lord Vassily.
But if the former prince’s wife had a personality like the Old Hag, I would have supported him all the way, regardless of whether he was cheating or having an affair.
I mean, his wife was a fragile beauty in the portrait, so she probably didn’t have that kind of personality.

And that was OK…to think that Giovanni Di Santi, a great man in history who was a renowned inventor, was a woman…hee hee hee.
What a shocking backstory!