PRACTICE READING

That thing that has been slowly tightening over the years between two people. It was definitely ennui.

The couple's life with William was so exhausting that Viviana was always suffocating.

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Under the glistening crystal lights, the couple continued their dinner sitting at both ends of the long rectangular table.

She hasn't had a meal with her husband in a long time. He always went to work early in the morning and left work when Viviana fell asleep.

William was also crazy about work, just like his father, who was a workaholic and considered running a publishing company his destiny. In fact, the Herbert family made much more money from other income than from selling books.

William has accumulated a lot of land, buildings, and even mines. Publishing was literally the Herbert family's noble hobby and pride in contributing to the kingdom's long history.

Viviana stirred her spoon and took a spoonful of button mushroom soup. Then she secretly glanced at her husband. No matter how boring the couple was, she wanted to check his faces at least occasionally.

'His face is a bit haggard. Is the work hard?'

Her husband was dressed nicely in a white dress shirt and cummerbund. Even the napkin spread on the wide chest felt elegant to prevent food from splashing on the clothes.

As he quietly continued his meal, he wiped his mouth with a napkin and raised his head toward Viviana.

"I'm going on a business trip from tomorrow, so I'll be away for a while, wife."

"...how long is it?"

"Maybe 15 days."

"I heard about it from Victor. It's because of the royal autobiography, right?"

There are three princes in the current kingdom, all of whom are over forty. Among them, Prince Robert, the eldest son, contacted William first, saying he wanted to publish his autobiography.

Meanwhile, when Viviana pretended to know first, a strange look appeared in William's eyes for a moment. A moment of curiosity about his wife flashed across his face, but unfortunately Viviana did not notice it.

"Yes. A ghostwriter as well."

"A ghostwriter? Then perhaps..."

"Say it."

She wanted to ask if the ghostwriter who was accompanying him was Lady Grace. Grace was her husband's college classmate, literary colleague, and old friend.

Up until Viviana's appearance, people used to admire William and Grace for being a beautiful couple. What if William had married Grace, not Viviana? If so, all the unpleasant rumors might not have even existed in the first place.

In any case, it was Viviana herself who eventually married William, but it was not appropriate for another woman and her husband to be entangled even after the marriage.

Her lips were itching to pour out everything to be

honest, but soon after she picked up a glass, she

swallowed what she wanted to tell her husband with water. There was nothing different about burying it anyway.

“No. Have a safe trip.”

“l hope you stay safe too.”

The conversation between the two couples in a few days ended so blandly.

..............

“Hahhg, hm! Mam! N-no!”

“Is it that good? It’s so wet.”

“Count, please don't do this, Heukk. I have a fiancé!”

“Oh my gosh, Daisy, you're cumming with a fiancé.

Such a lewd woman.”

“Hahhhgh, don't do this! Ahhh, ahhh! Ahh ah... I'm

going crazy. Hey, Victor. I mean, put more emotion into it. You don't feel it, do you?”

Victor, who had been practicing reading to the point where his face was red amd his throat was sore, was unable to overcome his feelings of self-destruction and put down the manuscript.

"Madam, I just can't do it."

Victor, the manor's butler, was a man from a long- established family who had served the Herbert family for generations. Both Victor's father and grandfather were very proud to work for the Herbert family.

Victor also came to Herbert Mansion with a great sense of mission, but for some reason he was given a strange and secret task.

It was that job to read the novel that the Countess wrote herself. Of course, Victor loved reading books.

When he was young, he was so unbiased that he was given the nickname "literary boy" that he could read every book in the library. He just read everything, whether it was a romantic book, a realist book, a poem or a novel, if the type was written on a piece of paper.

As a result, the fact that the Countess gave him such a significant task made him extremely happy. This was especially true because he was well aware of the high quality of the books published by the Herbert Group.

Viviana was the wife of the prestigious Herbert

family, so she had no doubt that her novels would also be of a very high quality.

However, Victor had no choice but to doubt his eyes on the day he first read the novel that Viviana wrote with great care.

Because the novel she wrote was... that was pornography. No, that was way too much to simply call it pornography. Of course, Viviana called her novel an ordinary love novel between a man and a woman.

‘What on earth is normal? It's not ordinary love at all!!!’

The first novel Viviana showed Victor was by no means a story about an "ordinary" love story between a man and a woman.

It was a novel dealing with infidelity. One day, a pair of siblings came to the mansion of a duke and his wife who were on good terms with each other, and both started an affair... It is a test of the author's thoughts that literally destroys all notions of chastity and morality.

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