(BL) Rejected by daughter's second male lead-Chapter 27

Meanwhile, Cecilia sat across from Gillen and scanned the headlines of the newspaper.

"This is a spectacle. In the first place, both dad and Yuan are alphas. And dominant alphas at that. How can they tarnish the honor of our Blake family in this way?"

Cecilia clenched her fists. She gave an order on behalf of her father, who was on the verge of fainting from anger and bewilderment.

"I will sue all of these newspaper companies. Contact Baron Yulin and tell him to prepare to file a lawsuit. Tell him to show them clearly what happens when they mess with Blake."

"Yes, my lady."

Baron Yulin was one of the vassals of the Blake family and a very competent lawyer. Navard, who was standing behind Gillen, immediately received the order and ran out. Gillen groaned and rubbed his temples.

"That bastard Hampton is no help to my life. I should have shaken him off from the very beginning. I really shouldn’t have gotten involved with him."

At Gillen’s lament, Cecilia slammed her fists on the armrests of the sofa.

"This might be Yuan’s trick to push for marriage with me by demeaning our family in this way."

She shot up to her feet. Her white face was flushed with anger.

"I will go and question Yuan myself. Dad, you rest!"

"What? No, Cecil, how can you question Yuan yourself? He is still in Capelli."

At Gillen’s words, Cecilia’s eyes widened.

"Oh my, dad, you must not have heard because of your rut. Yuan came up to the capital on the first day dad had his rut. Just that alone is suspicious! I will go to the Hampton mansion."

Cecilia strode out majestically, her hair flying. Gillen blinked his eyes and thought. Huh... that is really suspicious.

*

The identity of the ’pheromone shower’ that all the newspapers were talking about was, to put it intuitively, sexual violence based on a power hierarchy. And to think that the target was another alpha male, Marquis Yuan Hampton, a commoner-born who had just become a nobleman!

To take the easy route, one could speculate that the naturally blue-blooded Duke Blake, displeased with the rise in status of the lowly commoner-orphan wizard Marquis Hampton, had pulled an ’alpha move.’

The articles that had, just a month ago, been clamoring about how Gillen was in unrequited love with Yuan and was pestering him to accept his feelings, completely changed their tone and began to focus on Gillen’s hazing, jealousy, and arrogance.

If it were only articles from the yellow press, Gillen could have ignored them. Cecilia would not have been this angry either.

However, the problem was that major media outlets, including the one directly under the imperial family, were also covering Gillen’s pheromone shower in depth. And they even had evidence.

It was because of Yuan’s actions, having hastily come up from Capelli Island. He had used teleportation magic directly from the Capelli lord’s castle to come up to the capital, but unbefitting a genius wizard, he had arrived not at his own mansion but in the middle of a shopping district.

One article depicted the situation at the time like this:

[When Marquis Yuan Hampton (alpha male, 25) first appeared in the shopping district, his beautiful face was flushed and he was sweating a sensual cold sweat. The fact that surprised everyone was that he was dripping with another alpha’s pheromones. Why on earth would the dominant alpha Marquis Hampton appear sexually stimulated by another alpha’s pheromones?

Viscountess Maywood (omega female, 22), Count Montpelle Jr. (omega male, 19), opera singer Camilia (omega female, 24), and Count Armand (alpha male, 52), who had come out to the shopping district for shopping, fainted after being exposed to Marquis Hampton’s pheromones.

However, according to the people with secondary genders who fainted and then woke up, two pheromones were emanating from Marquis Hampton, and the stimulation was said to be indescribably intense. Count Armand went as far as to claim that one of them was very familiar, and that it was definitely the pheromone of Duke Gillen Blake (alpha male, 45)....]

In the end, Yuan had experienced a rut just like Gillen. That was why he, too, must have been flustered and tried to teleport to his mansion, and in the process, he had made a mistake.

Yes..., I can understand Yuan. Since I went through it too, I can imagine how surprised and confused he must have been. His physical condition must have been terrible too.

Gillen thought maturely from Yuan’s perspective. However, he felt a surge of anger towards the newspaper companies that had written all sorts of novels as articles after seeing only a fragmented scene. And even calling it sexual violence. That was the crime Gillen hated the most in the world.

But even major newspapers were covering this incident in a sensational way. As if it were the truth.

"Brian."

Gillen calmly called for his butler. Brian bowed and answered.

"Yes, Your Excellency."

"Do you know what kind of damage the Blake family has suffered due to this incident?"

"Yes."

As if he had been waiting, Brian took out a long piece of paper from his pocket and read it out.

"First, to explain the reason why the damage has grown, after the temple began to criticize Duke Blake, the imperial family also declared that they would temporarily suspend their support for the foundation. After that, 17 nobles who were watching the imperial family’s mood canceled their sponsorships, and a total of 273 complaints from nobles and commoners have been pouring into Blake Academy. A petition from the union of nobles demanding that Your Excellency the Duke be severely punished has been submitted to the imperial family, and above all, there has been a problem with the establishment of the Marian Orphanage, which Your Excellency has been putting his heart and soul into recently."

"What?"

Gillen’s expression darkened rapidly. The Marian Orphanage was a new charity project that Gillen was preparing as a successor to the Blake Foundation. And the name Marian was taken from Cecilia’s mother’s name.

"What on earth is the problem?"

When Gillen asked seriously, Brian answered with a grave expression.

"Well... a message has arrived that the bidding for the construction company to build the orphanage has been postponed, and they are also having difficulties with other facility contracts and recruiting childcare teachers."

"Hah..."

It was unfair, but if the articles were true, it was clear that no one would want to be associated with an orphanage run by a sex offender. Gillen could not blame them.

"I think I need to make an official explanation and resolve the situation."

A month ago, he could have just laughed it off and gone on vacation until the groundless rumors subsided, but the situation was different this time.

Gillen did not want to be tarnished with such a stigma. Because he knew how viciously real sex offenders ruin someone’s life, and also because he was now the master of the Blake family. Because his beloved daughter Cecilia was also a person of that Blake family.

"First, I too... must go to Marquis Hampton’s residence."

Even though he had thought just a few hours ago that he never wanted to see him again. Yuan, who was branded as the victim, was absolutely necessary to clear up this incident.

"I will prepare the carriage."

"No, I will go secretly. Who knows what people will say again when they see the Blake family’s carriage entering the Marquis Hampton’s residence."

Gillen sighed and stood up from his seat. Brian hurriedly went out, saying he would prepare a black cloak. Thus, Gillen’s secret journey began.

*

Meanwhile, Yuan, upon hearing that a guest had arrived, stood nervously in front of the mirror.

’A guest from the Blake family has arrived.’

One of the attendants, Ricardo, who had followed Yuan to the capital belatedly, delivered the news. As soon as he heard those words, Yuan went into the dressing room, changed into a splendid outfit, and tidied his hair. He also checked his face several times. Although he was slightly thinner than a few days ago, he was still dazzlingly beautiful in the mirror.

"Hah, how shameless of him to follow me all the way to the capital."

Yuan had also suffered a severe rut for three days. It was a rut so intense that it would have easily lasted a week without suppressants and magic to stabilize his pheromone glands.

’Was it because it was pheromones between alphas that my body couldn’t accept it more?’

He had not yet looked for related books or cases, but he knew that this was not a normal symptom.

He had teleported alone to his mansion as soon as he felt the signs of his rut, and he had just been released after suffering from a desperate desire for three days. He did not even remember that he had warped incorrectly. His robots had just arrived in the capital today, carrying luggage, so they did not even know what had happened to their master.

In other words, Yuan was still completely unaware of the scandal that had swept the capital. In that state, hearing that ’a guest from the Blake family has arrived,’ it was not unreasonable for him to guess that Gillen had come to visit regarding the rut-related issue.

"Um, Marquis-nim? The guest has asked for you once more. I think you should go down now."

Ricardo’s voice was heard from outside the dressing room.

"He’s very impatient. Yes, he must be curious and want to see me. It has been three days since he saw me. I’m coming down now."

Yuan muttered to himself and then raised his voice. He teleported directly from the dressing room to the drawing room.

"This time, without even a letter saying you’d come in advance... Cecil?"

But the guest from the Blake family standing in front of Yuan was not Gillen, but Cecilia. She was sitting with her arms crossed with a somewhat dissatisfied expression. Next to her were her lady-in-waiting Claire and the little kid Ivy whom Yuan had decided to sponsor.

"Wow! Yuan-nim suddenly appeared! A genius wizard!"

Ivy clapped his hands and shouted happily.

"Kid, why are you here?"

Yuan asked sullenly and sank into the sofa. He did not realize that a hint of disappointment had appeared on his face.

"Cecil, what brings you to my house? Did you perhaps change your mind about receiving the green grape diamond brooch?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Cecilia said angrily and threw a copy of a newspaper at Yuan.