Chapter 379
Chapter 379
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Translator: Ebonarch
Chapter: 379
Chapter Title: The Countess's Predicament
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1.
Three days had passed.
"Fuck."
Siu had a gut feeling that things had gone seriously, hopelessly wrong.
At first, after the countess left, he was just utterly dumbfounded.
Who had started the seduction, only for her to bolt midway?
He had breathed in her scent to his heart's content, but it all ended with a mere handjob. It left him so frustratingly unfulfilled.
Standing there blankly in the countess's private study, slipping his clothes back on, his lust finally ebbed, and cold, rational thought returned.
"Why the hell did I do that?"
It was true that Countess Yeosode had brought up repaying the favor first and seduced him.
Rubbing their naked bodies together? Fine.
Getting serviced with her mouth? Fine.
Sex? Well, by that point, a proper romp between man and woman was on the table. Fine.
But tying up the countess and making her scream something like "I'm gonna cum!" while savoring her pathetic, squirting mess?
Even after she made it clear multiple times that she hated it?
Everything from there on was a total no-go.
"Haa..."
He lit a cigarette.
In truth, this wasn't just the result of excessive excitement.
All the women he'd been with up to now had gone along with even somewhat forceful play once things heated up in the middle of sex.
No one interpreted a "Stop!" like the "Yamete!" from Japanese porn as a real stop sign.
From experience, he'd always taken cries of "No more! It's too much!" during sex as pleasant little exclamations.
And in the end, everyone had been happy with the results.
But Lucy Yeosode Countess was different. His expectations had been dead wrong.
She fled the scene as if she could no longer tolerate the shameful state she'd shown.
She hadn't directly unleashed her anger on Siu or scolded him since, but that didn't mean it was a positive sign.
The next day, when he visited the mansion for Diana's playtime lessons, he received a polite send-off.
On the surface, the message was, "Countess Yeosode has gone to the mortal world on business."
But with three days passed and still no word, it was safe to assume he'd been fired from his tutor position.
If he'd just meekly done as told, there wouldn't have been any problem.
But no—he got cocky, strutted around in front of the countess, and stabbed deep into her vulnerabilities. Now everything was fucked.
His interpretation of the Red Branch was only about 25% complete, and he still needed the countess's help.
With things falling apart in the worst possible way, he couldn't help lamenting his own pathetic state.
"I at least want to apologize..."
The countess didn't seem to be holding a grudge.
If she seriously wanted to call out his behavior, she would have taken some measure or formally summoned him to complain.
Even in the heat of the moment, it was Siu who had repeatedly pushed unwanted acts and ruined the mood.
He wanted to apologize properly, face to face.
2.
Countess Yeosode, nominally away on a business trip to the mortal world, was having dinner with Diana.
Her mind seemed elsewhere—she barely glanced at her plate—but her table manners were impeccably sharp. It was the ingrained etiquette of a lifetime as a noble.
Anyone else might have thought she was just eating, but she couldn't fool her daughter's eyes.
It was blatantly different from her usual self.
"Mom."
The countess's dazed eyes turned toward her beloved daughter.
"What's wrong, my dear?"
Diana hesitated for a moment before asking carefully.
"Mr. Shin Siu... Did you let him go?"
It was a question Diana had mulled over for days before voicing.
Shin Siu hadn't shown up for lessons for three days straight.
She had dressed up nicely and waited, but no knock came. That evening, she asked her mother about him.
Her mother's response at the time had been.
"Uh, well? He said he was busy today."
She had answered like that, visibly flustered.
Diana had brushed it off then.
But now, three days later with no sign of him at all, it felt a bit off.
"Well? I don't really know... Maybe his work got extended?"
"Yeah?"
"That's what it is. Is the food tasty?"
"Yes..."
On top of that, every little thing her mother did was so unlike her usual self.
The mom who handled everything decisively and sharply didn't know the whereabouts of the tutor?
Subtly changing the subject whenever Diana probed deeper.
And lately, spacing out lost in thought. Something was definitely wrong.
"Mom has a lot of work, so I'll head out first. Eat up and sleep well, my dear."
"Yes, Mom."
Diana's gaze followed her mother's retreating back, filled with suspicion.
As far as Diana knew, Siu and her mother were in a secret affair.
Making him her tutor was just an excuse for him to come and go from the mansion.
Her mother's real goal was those private meetings alone at 10 p.m.
Diana hadn't liked that one bit.
Wasn't snapping at Siu in Border Town because she couldn't voice her complaints to her mother?
In any case, from what she'd observed so far, Shin Siu was an incredibly diligent person.
He naturally spoke and acted with consideration for others, and he was absolutely not the type to just abandon his tutor role without a word.
And her mother not knowing where he was?
"No way..."
There was no way that could be true.
It was far too unnatural.
Tossing and turning in bed, Diana came up with a possibility.
Her mother was lying outright to keep Siu away from Diana.
Why?
"No need to ask..."
To monopolize him.
But ever since the incident where Diana got close to Siu.
Just when she thought their relationship was improving, the lessons vanished in an instant...
There had to be some reason.
Didn't it appear in her mother's novels too?
Women trying to monopolize a man.
Diana didn't know love.
She had no awareness of what form it took, how hot its temperature was, what sweet taste it had, or its texture.
But being deprived of seeing him due to her mother's scheming planted a vague irritation and hostility in her.
It's impossible to analyze emotions stemming from something inexplicable.
So Diana substituted her current displeasure and animosity with an emotion she did know.
Possessiveness.
"He's my tutor... Why should Mom..."
Diana's lips twisted into a pout.
3.
"Haa..."
Returning to her private study, Lucy Yeosode let out a deep sigh.
Diana's sudden question during dinner had startled her into fleeing the table, and now the problem that had been plaguing her lately resurfaced.
The major incident three days ago—replacing the sofa in this very room after her scorching play with the tutor, Shin Siu.
"What am I supposed to do about this..."
The countess had seduced Siu and shared her body with him.
At first, it had been great.
He led the mood skillfully, just as expected, and she even got to see him flustered.
But once control shifted to him, the situation flipped.
The shy young man she'd pegged him for was a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Before his expert hands kneading her body, Lucy Yeosode was nothing but a fragile little rabbit.
When his fingers sharply churned her depths.
Yeosode chanted vulgar lines like "I'm gonna cum!" as if under a spell, squirting until the beloved sofa and his arm were drenched in her fluids.
When she finally reclaimed her senses, what she felt was terror.
Terror of pleasures she hadn't known, depravities she hadn't imagined.
Fear of the unknown.
Put simply, she'd chickened out.
In the end, she'd fled midway through, and hadn't met him since.
Making obvious excuses to both Diana and Siu, even now.
"How am I supposed to face him again..."
She'd shown a broken, crumpled disgrace like the heroines in her novels, and now meet the man who'd wrought that scene again?
Too humiliating—even death wouldn't erase it.
Especially after exuding such a femme fatale vibe like she could devour him anytime, only to wail like a kid pierced by two mere fingers.
It would haunt her as a blanket-kicking trigger until the day she died.
"But I can't just leave it like this..."
Lately, Diana had been growing a bit more diligent.
Doing self-study, trailing after Siu eagerly, spending time on hobbies.
Proof that he was fulfilling his duties properly.
Plus, Siu had saved Diana from danger once.
True, the incident was in Border Town, and it might have resolved smoothly even without him—but he'd handled it cleanly, and that was his merit.
So cutting him off without meeting, due to one personal shame, would render all his achievements meaningless.
Lucy Yeosode's management philosophy didn't tolerate unfair dismissal.
She had to see him again.
"......"
After writhing in agony, the countess pulled out a sheet of stationery and picked up her pen.
"Still, I have to meet him again."
Of course, she wasn't writing the letter with thoughts of spending another steamy night with him.
There are dangerous realms in the world one shouldn't touch lightly.
Like drugs, which promise easy happiness and pleasure but usually end badly...
And she firmly sensed that continuing to entwine bodies with him would cross that line.
Thus, this letter was purely a measure to observe basic courtesy between people.
Nothing more.
The countess sprayed perfume on the letter, folded it neatly, and pressed her seal into the melted wax.