To Help You Understand – Chapter 9
Violet, crouched in the closet, slowly opened her eyes.
She seemed to have lost consciousness while trying to knock down the door. She pushed the closet door once more and luckily it opened.
The sun was setting before she knew it.
She had no energy to go out, she could see the rose in the vase in her gaze, which had been leaning against the closet for a while. The flowers given by Winter had withered but a small new rose had sprouted. She wanted to remember that she had received a gift of flowers every day.
The flowers reminded her of him.
“I don’t hate you.”
At that time, she passed on Winter’s words, thinking they were just lies, but now she needed them.
Since her body had changed, Winter had become more aware of Violet’s weakness than herself. Now Violet wanted to tell him the hurt of her heart.
Determined to find him, she walked out with difficulty.
Fortunately, Winter was talking to some of the people who came to the party today, bringing them to the couple’s mansion to help with the business.
He sat with his legs crossed on the sofa. While smoking, he talked about business, got irritated, and cursed at things.
To be honest, resentment came first.
If he had found his wife as soon as he got home, it would have been great if he had gone to greet her. If he had, he would have found her in the closet, and it would have opened his eyes, she would not have felt so sad.
While thinking about it, Violet was going to pull his hand one more time.
I’m going to ask him to stay with me for today.
Violet managed to walk to them with a calm face. She greeted the guests first by gently nodding her head in spite of the heavy grief.
“You all look familiar. Please be at peace.”
Everyone rose from their seats to greet her. Violet, who finished her greetings, carefully strode towards Winter.
At that time, she passed on Winter’s words, but now she needed to talk to him.
“Winter, talk to me.”
Then Winter answered in a low volume.
“We’re talking about something important, Violet.”
“It’s important for me, too. It’s really… really important.”
“Go to the bedroom. I’ll be right there.”
Winter tried to speak softly because of the guests, but he slowly became nervous. However, Violet pulled his hand instead.
“Listen now please.”
“I’m coming soon.”
Winter spoke and slipped his hand out of Violet’s.
Violet looked at the palm of her hand for a while without putting it down.
The first day of the wedding was just like his hand, which took out all the courage in her and escaped. He was always the first he took courage and wretched Violet’s hand.
Violet slowly turned around, thinking she might never be able to hold his hand again.
She left the mansion without looking back.
He will have to attend the Duke’s birthday party, which will continue overnight today. She thought that he would never know why Ash or Catherine would come to the party and yell at her for not coming to the celebration. After hearing more criticism, she felt like she was really going to break.
Her steps went straight to the stable. At that time, a whisper came out of the servants’ mouths when he belatedly heard that she had been trapped in a closet.
“Young Miss! Where are you going?”
Then Violet, who was dragging a horse out of the stable, saw him. She stood looking as if she was about to disappear and gave a faint smile.
“I want to see the sea.”
“Sea?”
“Yeah. I heard there’s a beach house at the end of the territory. I haven’t been there in three years. I didn’t even think about it.”
“Come on, hold on! I’ll get you a warm tea, Young Miss!”
His words gave Violet’s withered eyes a faint sparkle.
“Thank you. You’re the first one here to worry about me.”
“Don’t say that…….”
“I’ll just come back from the sea. It’s late, so go home and rest.”
Her words forced the servant to back down.
Violet, who learned horseback riding from an early age, climbed on a horse in a very textbook-like manner. Contrary to the straightness of her movements, her white calves were revealed because she didn’t care about her dress at all. The servant was startled and turned his head quickly.
“You must have to look at the sea!”
“Of course. There’s nothing else I can do.”
Violet spoke bitterly and began to run.
The villa on the sea was far away. After riding the horse for an hour, she began to see the sea.
“Oh, my God…”
Violet came down from the horse and looked at the sea with admiration. The dark sunset and the calm sea were beautiful as night approached. An old woman, the villa keeper, was surprised to meet her.
“Young Ma’am? What’s are you doing here at this hour?”
“I came here to see the sea, so don’t worry about it and go back in.”
“My Young lady is here… I’ll get the carriage soon.”
“It’s really okay. I’ll take a break and leave.”
After being comforted by Violet, the villa keeper was forced to go back to her room as she had no choice.
Violet entered the warehouse where the villa keeper had guns to protect the villa. Inside, Violet took out a small gun and entered the room with a view of the sea.
The gleaming sea breeze jolted her shiny hair. She felt like her mind was opening.
“Oh, good… I should’ve been here before.”
She thought she could be loved in the end.
So she had hung on foolishly, pretended not to hear anything she didn’t like, she smiled, and prepared a birthday party with a fuss without ever receiving a gift. She spent three years like that.
Violet looked at the sea from her villa quietly.
She thought maybe my body would change like last time, but honestly Violet wanted her life to end here.
Violet loaded the gun. Then she took it to her neck and pulled the trigger.
***
Winter got up from his seat shortly after Violet bothered him.
His wife hated these big events. He was also told by his mother that Violet only tried to escape every time, and several times Violet begged him to take her to the capital.
Most of all, the story of divorce was scary.
Winter’s pace had quickened when he inadvertently saw his handheld by Violet, hoping it wasn’t just a divorce story. There was blood on it.
“Crazy.” He said and thought, Was she hurt? Was that why she came to me because she didn’t know what to do?
Thinking that way belatedly, his heart felt like it was sinking.
He ran to Violet’s bedroom.
When he arrived at her room, the door was a little open. Winter raised his eyebrows and opened the door, and the room was empty.
“Where did she go? She said we’d talk about it over.”
Winter muttered and found a rose stuck in a vase. He looked at the rose in an untimely way and said,
“… I guess you really like flowers.”
Fortunately, it was a taste that he could relate to.
After looking at the flowers for a while, he turned around because he thought it was not the time to be like this. He hurried to ask the servant who was preparing for the guests’ bed.
“Where’s Violet?”
“What? Isn’t she in the bedroom?”
“I’m asking because she isn’t there!”
As soon as Winter got angry, the servant shook his head and ran away, saying, “I don’t know.”
Violet wasn’t just in the bedroom. She was not in the drawing-room nor in the garden. Winter started running looking for Violet, feeling a little bit more breathless each moment.
She was nowhere in the mansion.
He felt like his blood was drying up. Now he was crazy to know what she was going to say earlier.
Eventually, Winter went straight to the Blooming couple’s mansion.
He asked Hayel, who was waiting for his guest at Winter’s command.
“What’s the matter, sir?”
“Violet, isn’t she here?”
“What? She is not here?”
“Capital. Is there a carriage that went to the capital?”
“Not yet. Just… take it easy, sir.”
“How can I calm down when my wife is gone…?”
It was a time when he screamed. Winter suddenly felt very dizzy, cursed, and stopped moving.
Hayel asked with his eyes wide open.
“Are you all right?”
Winter, who soon became fine, replied in a strangely calm voice.
“It’s all right.”
“I’ll have all the servants come and find where the Young Lady is.”
“Ah… Come to think of it, she said she was going to the beach house. Now I remember.”
“Yes, yes? Oh, please, listen to me. I thought you were fainting.”
Hayel grumbled with relief.
Leaving him behind, Winter entered the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Blooming.
He had something to say.
His steps stopped in front of Ash Lawrence.
As there were many things to gain in many ways, Ash, who was quite friendly to Winter, greeted him first.
“Long time no see, Winter.”
“I heard you locked my wife in a closet. With my mother’s assistance.”
Ash’s expression hardened a little at his sudden remark. However, he replied with a nonchalant face that he had expected this.
“That’s a familiar and light punishment for the average aristocrat. It’s just because you don’t know about it.”
“That sounds like a punishment you’ve given with a familiar, light heart.”
When he said aristocrats say so, Ash stopped responding to Winter’s answer, which was annoying but he just let go. Everyone said that the couple resembled each other, but now Winter’s eyes and speech were like Violet’s.
A bit nervous, he poured out his words as if he were making excuses.
“Do you know that Violet wants to divorce you? She can’t do what she wants, and now she’s getting a divorce. Mrs. Catherine even shed tears.”
“It’s our marriage. It’s already done this time, so I’ll let it go, but if this happens again, I won’t stay still.”
“Are you going to sit back and get divorced?”
“I told you. It’s our job. Let us take care of our problems ourselves.”
He turned around, speaking in a calm voice, not like the usual Winter. Then at night, he tapped at the glass wall where his body was clearly visible.
Ash was also tall, but compared to him, who was much taller than the average person and had wide shoulders, he looked rather small.
He looked back at Ash again and said.
“By the way, I feel very manly with you next to me.”
“… what?”
Ash thought for a moment what he was saying and his face crumbled. Winter was already leaving the banquet hall when Ash understood him.
Winter immediately left the estate in a private carriage that he had called for today’s guests.
***
While shouting to Hayel that his wife had disappeared, he suddenly felt dizzy, and his vision changed. Winter, who barely came to his senses, leaned his forehead on the table, struggling with a headache that came back again.
“Why the hell are you doing this again?”
It was a villa with the ocean’s view. Winter, who managed to overcome the pain, got up by saying abusive language.
“I can’t find her because she’s in a place like this.”
It was painful, but he was relieved that he found a place where his wife was.
Then, the villa keeper ran to her.
“Little Ma’am! Didn’t you hear the gunshot?”
“Gunshot?”
“Oh, my God! Why is it here!”
The villa keeper was frightened and picked up a pistol that had fallen on the floor.
It didn’t matter to Winter why it was there now. The only thing that mattered to him now was why Violet was here. And what was she going to say to him today?
Winter ran out of the villa to return to the mansion. But there was no carriage and only a horse was tied up.
Unable to ride a horse at all, he stood, vaguely cursing, and called the villa keeper.
“Grandmother! Call the carriage now!”
“Yes, yes! Little Ma’am!”
Surprised by the roar, the villa keeper ran to call the carriage by telegraph. In the meantime, Winter sat flopping on the sofa in the living room on the first floor.
Whether or not Violet knows he doesn’t know how to ride a horse or not, she took him far away.
My wife seems to have stolen my body, he thought.
To Help You Understand – Chapter 9
Violet, crouched in the closet, slowly opened her eyes.
She seemed to have lost consciousness while trying to knock down the door. She pushed the closet door once more and luckily it opened.
The sun was setting before she knew it.
She had no energy to go out, she could see the rose in the vase in her gaze, which had been leaning against the closet for a while. The flowers given by Winter had withered but a small new rose had sprouted. She wanted to remember that she had received a gift of flowers every day.
The flowers reminded her of him.
“I don’t hate you.”
At that time, she passed on Winter’s words, thinking they were just lies, but now she needed them.
Since her body had changed, Winter had become more aware of Violet’s weakness than herself. Now Violet wanted to tell him the hurt of her heart.
Determined to find him, she walked out with difficulty.
Fortunately, Winter was talking to some of the people who came to the party today, bringing them to the couple’s mansion to help with the business.
He sat with his legs crossed on the sofa. While smoking, he talked about business, got irritated, and cursed at things.
To be honest, resentment came first.
If he had found his wife as soon as he got home, it would have been great if he had gone to greet her. If he had, he would have found her in the closet, and it would have opened his eyes, she would not have felt so sad.
While thinking about it, Violet was going to pull his hand one more time.
I’m going to ask him to stay with me for today.
Violet managed to walk to them with a calm face. She greeted the guests first by gently nodding her head in spite of the heavy grief.
“You all look familiar. Please be at peace.”
Everyone rose from their seats to greet her. Violet, who finished her greetings, carefully strode towards Winter.
At that time, she passed on Winter’s words, but now she needed to talk to him.
“Winter, talk to me.”
Then Winter answered in a low volume.
“We’re talking about something important, Violet.”
“It’s important for me, too. It’s really… really important.”
“Go to the bedroom. I’ll be right there.”
Winter tried to speak softly because of the guests, but he slowly became nervous. However, Violet pulled his hand instead.
“Listen now please.”
“I’m coming soon.”
Winter spoke and slipped his hand out of Violet’s.
Violet looked at the palm of her hand for a while without putting it down.
The first day of the wedding was just like his hand, which took out all the courage in her and escaped. He was always the first he took courage and wretched Violet’s hand.
Violet slowly turned around, thinking she might never be able to hold his hand again.
She left the mansion without looking back.
He will have to attend the Duke’s birthday party, which will continue overnight today. She thought that he would never know why Ash or Catherine would come to the party and yell at her for not coming to the celebration. After hearing more criticism, she felt like she was really going to break.
Her steps went straight to the stable. At that time, a whisper came out of the servants’ mouths when he belatedly heard that she had been trapped in a closet.
“Young Miss! Where are you going?”
Then Violet, who was dragging a horse out of the stable, saw him. She stood looking as if she was about to disappear and gave a faint smile.
“I want to see the sea.”
“Sea?”
“Yeah. I heard there’s a beach house at the end of the territory. I haven’t been there in three years. I didn’t even think about it.”
“Come on, hold on! I’ll get you a warm tea, Young Miss!”
His words gave Violet’s withered eyes a faint sparkle.
“Thank you. You’re the first one here to worry about me.”
“Don’t say that…….”
“I’ll just come back from the sea. It’s late, so go home and rest.”
Her words forced the servant to back down.
Violet, who learned horseback riding from an early age, climbed on a horse in a very textbook-like manner. Contrary to the straightness of her movements, her white calves were revealed because she didn’t care about her dress at all. The servant was startled and turned his head quickly.
“You must have to look at the sea!”
“Of course. There’s nothing else I can do.”
Violet spoke bitterly and began to run.
The villa on the sea was far away. After riding the horse for an hour, she began to see the sea.
“Oh, my God…”
Violet came down from the horse and looked at the sea with admiration. The dark sunset and the calm sea were beautiful as night approached. An old woman, the villa keeper, was surprised to meet her.
“Young Ma’am? What’s are you doing here at this hour?”
“I came here to see the sea, so don’t worry about it and go back in.”
“My Young lady is here… I’ll get the carriage soon.”
“It’s really okay. I’ll take a break and leave.”
After being comforted by Violet, the villa keeper was forced to go back to her room as she had no choice.
Violet entered the warehouse where the villa keeper had guns to protect the villa. Inside, Violet took out a small gun and entered the room with a view of the sea.
The gleaming sea breeze jolted her shiny hair. She felt like her mind was opening.
“Oh, good… I should’ve been here before.”
She thought she could be loved in the end.
So she had hung on foolishly, pretended not to hear anything she didn’t like, she smiled, and prepared a birthday party with a fuss without ever receiving a gift. She spent three years like that.
Violet looked at the sea from her villa quietly.
She thought maybe my body would change like last time, but honestly Violet wanted her life to end here.
Violet loaded the gun. Then she took it to her neck and pulled the trigger.
***
Winter got up from his seat shortly after Violet bothered him.
His wife hated these big events. He was also told by his mother that Violet only tried to escape every time, and several times Violet begged him to take her to the capital.
Most of all, the story of divorce was scary.
Winter’s pace had quickened when he inadvertently saw his handheld by Violet, hoping it wasn’t just a divorce story. There was blood on it.
“Crazy.” He said and thought, Was she hurt? Was that why she came to me because she didn’t know what to do?
Thinking that way belatedly, his heart felt like it was sinking.
He ran to Violet’s bedroom.
When he arrived at her room, the door was a little open. Winter raised his eyebrows and opened the door, and the room was empty.
“Where did she go? She said we’d talk about it over.”
Winter muttered and found a rose stuck in a vase. He looked at the rose in an untimely way and said,
“… I guess you really like flowers.”
Fortunately, it was a taste that he could relate to.
After looking at the flowers for a while, he turned around because he thought it was not the time to be like this. He hurried to ask the servant who was preparing for the guests’ bed.
“Where’s Violet?”
“What? Isn’t she in the bedroom?”
“I’m asking because she isn’t there!”
As soon as Winter got angry, the servant shook his head and ran away, saying, “I don’t know.”
Violet wasn’t just in the bedroom. She was not in the drawing-room nor in the garden. Winter started running looking for Violet, feeling a little bit more breathless each moment.
She was nowhere in the mansion.
He felt like his blood was drying up. Now he was crazy to know what she was going to say earlier.
Eventually, Winter went straight to the Blooming couple’s mansion.
He asked Hayel, who was waiting for his guest at Winter’s command.
“What’s the matter, sir?”
“Violet, isn’t she here?”
“What? She is not here?”
“Capital. Is there a carriage that went to the capital?”
“Not yet. Just… take it easy, sir.”
“How can I calm down when my wife is gone…?”
It was a time when he screamed. Winter suddenly felt very dizzy, cursed, and stopped moving.
Hayel asked with his eyes wide open.
“Are you all right?”
Winter, who soon became fine, replied in a strangely calm voice.
“It’s all right.”
“I’ll have all the servants come and find where the Young Lady is.”
“Ah… Come to think of it, she said she was going to the beach house. Now I remember.”
“Yes, yes? Oh, please, listen to me. I thought you were fainting.”
Hayel grumbled with relief.
Leaving him behind, Winter entered the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Blooming.
He had something to say.
His steps stopped in front of Ash Lawrence.
As there were many things to gain in many ways, Ash, who was quite friendly to Winter, greeted him first.
“Long time no see, Winter.”
“I heard you locked my wife in a closet. With my mother’s assistance.”
Ash’s expression hardened a little at his sudden remark. However, he replied with a nonchalant face that he had expected this.
“That’s a familiar and light punishment for the average aristocrat. It’s just because you don’t know about it.”
“That sounds like a punishment you’ve given with a familiar, light heart.”
When he said aristocrats say so, Ash stopped responding to Winter’s answer, which was annoying but he just let go. Everyone said that the couple resembled each other, but now Winter’s eyes and speech were like Violet’s.
A bit nervous, he poured out his words as if he were making excuses.
“Do you know that Violet wants to divorce you? She can’t do what she wants, and now she’s getting a divorce. Mrs. Catherine even shed tears.”
“It’s our marriage. It’s already done this time, so I’ll let it go, but if this happens again, I won’t stay still.”
“Are you going to sit back and get divorced?”
“I told you. It’s our job. Let us take care of our problems ourselves.”
He turned around, speaking in a calm voice, not like the usual Winter. Then at night, he tapped at the glass wall where his body was clearly visible.
Ash was also tall, but compared to him, who was much taller than the average person and had wide shoulders, he looked rather small.
He looked back at Ash again and said.
“By the way, I feel very manly with you next to me.”
“… what?”
Ash thought for a moment what he was saying and his face crumbled. Winter was already leaving the banquet hall when Ash understood him.
Winter immediately left the estate in a private carriage that he had called for today’s guests.
***
While shouting to Hayel that his wife had disappeared, he suddenly felt dizzy, and his vision changed. Winter, who barely came to his senses, leaned his forehead on the table, struggling with a headache that came back again.
“Why the hell are you doing this again?”
It was a villa with the ocean’s view. Winter, who managed to overcome the pain, got up by saying abusive language.
“I can’t find her because she’s in a place like this.”
It was painful, but he was relieved that he found a place where his wife was.
Then, the villa keeper ran to her.
“Little Ma’am! Didn’t you hear the gunshot?”
“Gunshot?”
“Oh, my God! Why is it here!”
The villa keeper was frightened and picked up a pistol that had fallen on the floor.
It didn’t matter to Winter why it was there now. The only thing that mattered to him now was why Violet was here. And what was she going to say to him today?
Winter ran out of the villa to return to the mansion. But there was no carriage and only a horse was tied up.
Unable to ride a horse at all, he stood, vaguely cursing, and called the villa keeper.
“Grandmother! Call the carriage now!”
“Yes, yes! Little Ma’am!”
Surprised by the roar, the villa keeper ran to call the carriage by telegraph. In the meantime, Winter sat flopping on the sofa in the living room on the first floor.
Whether or not Violet knows he doesn’t know how to ride a horse or not, she took him far away.
My wife seems to have stolen my body, he thought.
