The Happy Life of a Duchess

"It's great that you're fine." Buried in his arms, she felt that he really breathed a sigh of relief.

"I really can't imagine..." He hugged her tightly, and couldn't finish the following words.

Adele understood what he meant.

Until this time, in his arms, she suddenly felt a feeling that could be called "lucky".

She also let out a long sigh of relief.

It seemed that by his side, the shell on her body, all the armor that pretended to be okay, and must only look okay could finally be taken off, and she was able to relax a little bit.

The two embraced for a long time, as if in the blink of an eye, even the passage of time became blurred, and all perceptions became dull, except for each other.

The feelings that spread from the bottom of my heart are like roses climbing all over the wall, clustered and opened one by one, it is a gorgeous color, with a rich fragrance, permeating the heart.

Until the Duke's father couldn't take it anymore, he coughed twice, Mr. Duval seemed to want to let go, but Adele still held him tightly and did not let go, so the Duke's father coughed twice again——

Adele still didn't move.

Mr. Duval patted her on the back reassuringly, and coaxed her gently. The tenderness was conveyed to her heart with his movements.

When the Duke's father cleared his throat and was about to speak, Adele finally let go and came out of his arms.

She blinked mischievously at her husband, and the lingering fear had faded away, replaced by a mischievous, relaxed, gentle smile.

Seeing her expression like this, he finally showed a relieved smile.

Mr. Duval's beautiful blue eyes were finally filled with tenderness again, and those uneasiness, heart palpitations, and anxiety were also calmed down a lot. At least for now, he seems to be much calmer.

"Okay, okay, come and drink tea."

Mr. Duke greeted two people.

"You are really my own father."

Adele laughed and took his hand to go to the sofa.

Mr. Duke paused while pouring tea, raised his eyebrows, glanced at her, met her relaxed smile, snorted coldly, then looked at the teacup in front of him again, poured it down, and continued talking.

"Aren't you my good daughter too?"

Mr. Duke whimpered and seemed to relax a lot.

Adele took the initiative to put the poured tea at Mr. Duval's hand with a smile on her face.

"dad……"

She shouted coquettishly.

"Go! Go! Go."

The Duke's father sipped his tea with his eyes closed, as if he didn't want to see her anymore.

The atmosphere suddenly became much more relaxed.

The tense and uneasy atmosphere just now dissipated, and it became much "normal".

Adele looked at the atmosphere, picked a similar time, and re-described the previous scene. Although it sounded thrilling, the two of them were already mentally prepared, like the Duke's father had already understood it.

Mr. Duval made another understanding of the situation. He thought for a while, and after Mr. Duke said a bunch of possible guesses, he looked at her actively and said:

"I'm sorry about the matter of Barry's family. I want to give you a surprise. I also arrogantly think that I can handle this matter completely, but I didn't expect it. After they expected that it might be our side, they chose I want to start with you."

"How could this be your fault?" Adele frowned and looked at him disapprovingly.

"Thank you for your humility, but mistakes are obviously made by those who made mistakes. Whoever led this matter is the biggest offender. Judging from the current situation, there is no doubt that the Barry family is behind the scenes. Dad can even Guessing that the little leader who didn't look like a gangster who wanted to stop my carriage might be a servant of the Barry family. Although there were several candidates, the other party rashly exposed himself in order to stop me. The Barry family can't be separated from the relationship, and I can still describe the appearance of that person to you immediately."

"No matter how you look at it, you are not the person in charge of this matter. You don't need to take responsibility for mistakes that don't belong to you. I'm not such an unreasonable person." Adele said seriously.

"What's more, Miss Barry and I have conflicts, I can fully imagine how she wants to tear me apart, starting from her wanting to harm me, from her plotting to push me to Mr. Just like Mrs. Costa and the other princess back then, there is a winner or loser between me and her."

"But she took the initiative to make things more complicated. To be honest, I didn't expect that she would actually plan to fight me to the death. If they really planned to kidnap me, I couldn't imagine what I would end up in. , even if you are lucky enough to survive, there should be a lot of trouble."

"But now I know that my kindness to her will not bring a good result. Instead, it will make her even more jealous. I can't think of anyone other than Miss Barry who would come up with such a vicious method, and it is especially targeted at her." mine."

"I," she took Mr. Duval's hand and looked into his eyes, "we..."

"We and Miss Sophie Barry, Mr. Bonn Barry, and other members of the Barry family are destined not to coexist harmoniously. I have already checked the previous rumors, and there must be help from the Desi family. I guess it is Miss Ada Decie, Miss Bernard and others have also pushed it."

"There are many people who want to stop us, more people who want to make me feel better, and countless people who want to take the opportunity to overthrow me and defeat me." Adele looked at her father.

"But I'm ready to face it with Mr. Duvall."

After a brief silence, Mr. Duval chuckled. He stared at her face, slightly hooked the corners of his lips, and said a word very softly:

"it is good."

Adele finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She can understand Mr. Duval's mood. Perhaps for him, although there is a part of selfishness in dealing with the Barry family, it can even be said that a large part of it is his selfishness, but this is just like his Duke's father said. To contact other enemies of the Barry family or people who are not enemies as their allies, there must be some other reasons and interests involved.

This is not a very bright content——

Adele fully understands her husband's desire to keep the best image in her heart, and also understands that some inside stories are not suitable for sharing with her who is only a fiancee.

Even if he was assured that he could guarantee her, he couldn't guarantee whether other people would accept all of this.

They may have their own ideas and different opinions, which have never made them willing to trust her.

Of course, there are some things that the fewer people know, the better, not to mention that if the king discovered some mine, wanted to sell it or occupy some place, it would be impossible to publicize it to everyone——

It is even said that this may be some internal information that only they know.

Told her, maybe it meant telling the Duke's father, telling the Juradi family.

Although the Duke's family has almost no political influence, they are rich. Everyone knows that Mr. Duke is rich and can give his only daughter an enviable dowry that is almost sky-high.

They have no power struggle, and no information channel to get the inside information, but if the inside information is disclosed like this, it means that there may be more people who want to get a piece of the pie.

Can Adele guarantee that she will not be tempted, and can she also guarantee that her cousin who will inherit her father's title in the future will not be tempted?Can you also ensure that your father will not be tempted or take action for this opportunity?

These things no one can guarantee.

They rely on certain interests and long-term cooperation to maintain mutual trust, barely guarantee temporary cooperation, and work together to deal with the common enemy, that is, Sophie Barry's family.

However, no one can say for sure.

As you all know, Sophie Barry's family has some rather disgusting operations.

The woman sent by their family, or Mrs. Barry, sent by them and Baron Bernard's family, is one of the mistresses that the king has favored for a long time.

This long-term lover relationship represents another kind of stability.

Now, there is another Miss Sophie Barry who is basically confirmed to be pregnant and many people speculate that she is the king's child, so the king's favoritism towards the Barry family will undoubtedly be even heavier.

The Duke's father didn't know how many people and families Mr. Duval had recruited to dig out the dirt behind Barry and his cooperative families little by little, and then use these clues to knock them all down.

But he just talked to her in the study, and he speculated that there should be other families who are also royalists among them.

The Barry family danced really well.

The heavier they are in the king's heart, the less protection and favor other families may receive.

Moreover, an illegitimate child may have a different meaning to His Majesty the king who does not have many heirs, and the number of illegitimate children is not very outstanding compared to other kings.

Who can be sure that after the king has favored the Barry family so much and favored the mistress sent by their family for so many years, after having another woman sent by their family and having a child, there will be no other Thoughts?

To be honest, the king was not very orthodox.

The real orthodoxy is not Orleans, but Bourbon, and the King of Orleans is just a side relative of the Bourbon dynasty with a few detours.

There are also those who support the rule of the king. They admire not the king of Napoleon, not the king of Orleans, but the Bourbon dynasty.

The rule of the Bourbon Dynasty was overthrown by the Great Revolution. Many people still have lingering fears, and they are determined that they will not let the Bourbon Dynasty have a chance to restore, but once, maybe there will be a second time?

It is precisely because everyone is uncertain that the current situation is full of too much uncertainty.

His Majesty has had one child after another, Miss Sophie Barry is so young, and the Queen is not young anymore, and her appearance is no longer perfect, so it must be difficult to win the favor of men.

If Miss Barry is righted one day, or a child who especially respects half of their family lineage makes them become princes or princesses and marry into various duchies, then everything will be different——

This is especially true for the Barry family.

In this case, wouldn't other families be greedy?

They might not have the opportunity to send another one up by themselves, or they may have already operated in it, but it is still necessary and valuable to pull the Barry family down.

After all, Miss Barry already has one in her stomach.

It's about whether you can be a prince or a princess, and if you are a prince, how should you take the risk...

Embryos still in the womb are definitely easier to "solve" than born ones.

Besides, if the Barry family is directly pulled down, their identities will plummet or most of the family will be ruined. Then even if they have a son, they will only be the illegitimate son of the king. It seems that other orthodox princes will not have life problems. If so, it is basically impossible for him to have a chance, and it is difficult for his son's son to have a chance.

However, as the same staunch "backup" serving the king, they would certainly not be willing to expose themselves.

The more people who expose their identities, the more likely the king will know about it. The risk of being betrayed is really unbearable. Naturally, they don't want too many people to know about them.

Several people discussed for a while, and finally decided to let the matter cool down temporarily.

Although Adele's handling method is somewhat "unique", after discussing it with Duke Juradi's father, Mr. Duval thinks it is feasible.

The usual burden of finding a lawyer fell on Mr. Duvall, which he voluntarily assumed.

He knows more suitable lawyers who are suitable for dealing with government departments. In addition, Adele arranged for Mr. Weihan to find other related lawyers, so it seems that he is almost suitable for dealing with newspapers and periodicals.

In this way, Adele barely held her temper, wrote to Leo and others to explain the situation, and posted posts to other salon members to re-explain part of the content.

Most of the members of the salon still recognize her, they also recognize this salon, and know that there is no other better alternative than Adele's salon at Egret Manor.

At present, the public opinion is mainly affected by magazines. If you want to talk about salons, there are too many people involved, and it is untenable. No one has ever cared about what women say in salons. Someone will continue to work on this matter.

Basically, with the addition of Adele's manpower in public opinion, the matter has been controlled at the newspaper office level.

Although all kinds of messy black water, such as reactionary remarks, such as women are going to rebel, such content has not stopped, but basically everyone with a brain knows that this is fake, which is just a joke.

It seems that there is a lot of limelight here, and the bluntness of some gossips of the Barry family suddenly became much smaller.

After deliberating for a long time, Adele confirmed again that they were the ones playing tricks, but since they made a public opinion, Adele was not polite——

In a short while, news of Miss Barley's various debaucheries spread throughout the upper-class circles.

Everyone began to doubt the ownership of the child in her womb, and everyone was curious about the identity of the child's father.

Adele even got a warning from Mr. Big Becker at an autumn ball.

Each other, Adele was talking with Leo and Morgana.

"Does your brother know?"

Leo's expression was full of sarcasm.

This gentleman, who has been promoted to become the chief of the palace guard, has hardly concealed his idea of ​​marrying Miss Barry, but everyone knows that among the gossips of the child's father, only the talk about his child is the least , even if he is willing to admit in public and express his love and admiration for Miss Barry.

Morgana also hated this kind of behavior, not only did he stand on Miss Barry's side to deal with her friends and future relatives, but she also became very disgusted with him himself.

Adele has reduced the frequency of attending the Autumn Ball, but Morgana has not. She has seen this big Becker, who was not very high-profile before, and seems to have been taken away by her own brother, Mr. Becker, many times. The gentleman is jumping around.

"Like a grasshopper."

She complained in private.

And get mad at yourself for not being very verbal.

"I should learn a few more sentences."

Previously, Morgana was a well-behaved lady who never spoke ill of others, but Adele and Leo agreed that this change was not so bad.

"I wish you a happy dance."

The officer showed a disgusting smile, as if he didn't hear Leo's words, he didn't look at her at all, and just spoke threateningly to Adele.

"Of course, you too." Adele smiled slightly, "I suggest you hug the child more, after all, the child is innocent, this is the crystallization of the important love between you and Miss Sophie Barry, he completely represents your greatness Father's love and the glory that belongs to your family."

His face suddenly turned livid.

Adele didn't mean to be polite.

"It's a pity that your younger brother, Mr. Becker, once brought a lot of praise to this surname. He is of course a very good and excellent gentleman, but unfortunately, he has a brother who is not very good. Of course, his Brother is now completely famous by being with the famous 'big beauty courtesan' in our circle..." Adele sneered.

"I think it's better for him to stay in the army and not face such a mess."

Adele and others felt it was a pity, if there was no such thing——

Although Mr. Becker is the younger brother in the family, he has always been a sought-after and excellent marriage partner.

Right now, everyone is a little insensitive to him or the family behind him.

However, things didn't seem to get better because of Adele's tough attitude.

When Adele and everyone in Bailu Manor discovered that guards surrounded their castle, they realized something was wrong.

"How could this be, what happened?!"

Adele watched as Mrs. Rudder yelled in a rage-like, raised voice, and then walked back and forth in the room.

"I'm going to be stunned by you!"

Adele spoke with a laugh, looking quite relaxed.

This situation started yesterday afternoon, closer to midnight.

Coincidentally, Adele didn't go out that day, but because of some physical discomfort, she didn't even get up and recuperated in her room for a day.

The Duke's father seemed to have something to do, he didn't come back, he had been busy outside, and when he realized it, the housekeeper had already said that the outside was surrounded by people.