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Chapter 54 “Ian, look at this.” Inside the bucket Ian pulled up from the well was a small wooden box. It was old, but it had been kept in good condition. Looking closer, I saw that the joints had been tightly sealed with candle wax. We carried the box to the village hall. I took out the office knife that had been carelessly shoved into the pencil holder on the desk and carefully scraped off the wax seal. Then the lid opened. Inside the box were a train ticket, a letter, and a ring…-
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~Chapter 55~ No one had liked it, but Bella often invited Harriet to her gatherings. That day, at one of Bella’s tea parties, Harriet took a bite of the food on her plate—then immediately gagged and spit it out. “What the hell are you doing?” Caroline snapped. Harriet, panicking, tried to wipe her mouth with a napkin, unable to even respond properly. Of course, everyone frowned at the scene. “The… the taste was weird,” Harriet mumbled. “What are you saying? We’re all… -
~Chapter 54~ “Really? She thinks of the other person first? That’s surprising. Did she really come out of the monastery a changed person?” “I’m not sure exactly, but she definitely seems extremely careful about getting involved with men.” “She was hurt by love and even got cast out by her family… Oh! That was a slip of the tongue! Haha!” Bella was horrified that people were starting to feel sorry for Harriet. She had worked so hard to make Harriet seem like a pitiful, ugly…
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~Chapter 53~ The phrase on the poster, “If I wash away your sins, you will be saved,” which quoted a scripture, was strangely fitting. People stopped by the store and looked at the poster, laughing a little but also impressed. “A soap that washes away sins? Haha!” “I guess dirty skin is a sin for women.” “Really? Should I buy one for my wife too?” Even middle-aged men who normally didn’t care about beauty products bought several bars, saying they’d give them to their…
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~Chapter 52~ “Uh, is there any way to get some more soap? I have a party in a few days, and I need my skin to improve even a little by then.” “Why?” “…Someone’s coming.” Ah! Harriet found Viviana, who was so desperate to impress the man she liked, kind of cute. Not long ago, she had been so annoying. Harriet smiled softly and took out a small package she had prepared in advance. She had known from the start that Viviana’s visit was because of the soap. “Where is the…
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~Chapter 51~ Manual labor was almost like a line that separated commoners from nobles. Publicly admitting to doing such work was like confessing that you had fallen to the level of a commoner. But Harriet was not ashamed at all. “Of course it was hard. But while stirring the soap ingredients in the pot for days, I was able to reflect on God’s words. I realized my foolishness and sincerely repented.” Everyone admired her honest confession about something she might have wanted to…
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~Chapter 50~ Even though Benedict had told himself it would be fine, sitting face-to-face with Cedric in the drawing room of the Duke of Kailas’s estate brought a strange tension. He spent over 30 minutes on small talk before smoothly shifting to news of others, as if casually updating Cedric on his own life. “By the way, do you know Viscount Livingston?” “I think I’ve heard the name. He built some wealth through construction, didn’t he?” “Oh, so you do know him? His son runs a…
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~Chapter 49~ “You almost made me the bad guy again,” Julian said. “But I know you’re not that kind of woman anymore. I’m sorry for being thoughtless and bothering you.” That was… a surprising thing to say. ‘What do you even know about me to say that?’ Sure, it was true—but for all Julian knew, Harriet Listerwell was still supposed to be a scandalous troublemaker. “How did you figure that out?” “If you were still that way,” he said, “you would’ve clung to…
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~Chapter 48~ ‘Yeah, even if Harriet got prettier, she’s still just Harriet. Who would care about an ugly girl? People are only annoyed because a scandal maker like her had the nerve to come back.’ But she didn’t realize her friends’ true feelings. It wasn’t that they couldn’t keep up with Bella that bothered them—it was that someone they used to look down on, like Harriet, had changed so much. They were more curious about how she became pretty. No matter how much they copied…
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~Chapter 47~ “You don’t know anything about this. Just do as your aunt says.” The dresses her aunt picked for her were either puffy pink things covered in ribbons or ones so dull and tightly wrapped they looked suffocating. They were all over the place in style, but one thing was consistent: none of them suited Harriet at all. If her aunt just had bad taste, she could’ve forgiven it. But she clearly had an excellent eye when it came to picking out clothes and jewelry for Bella. ‘I…
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