Something Beautiful

Chapter - 36

In the days that followed, Lisa carried out her duties with the determination and intelligence she had memorized the entire page of Debreet's Peerage, an indispensable guidebook for reciprocity, the marriages and heritages that have shaped the English aristocracy. Then read various books about manners, behavior, habits, and protocols given by the grandmother to him. Her perseverance quickly captured the grandmother's heart, as did everything Lisa did, with two notable exceptions, the grandmother had to call Yugyeom to her living room a week after the family arrived.

"Lisa is friends with Lee, the maid and Yoon the head steward" the woman said in a confused and concerned tone of voice.

"She's been chatting with them more often than I've done for the past forty years."

Yugyeom raised his eyebrows and presumptuously said, "He considers the servant as part of the family. The proof is that he asked us if the butler and his old wife could come here. That's not dangerous."

"You wouldn't think Boo and his wife were dangerous if you'd seen them" said the granny. "They arrived this morning."

"They are deaf and blind!" the stubborn grandmother exclaimed.

"Head of his servant could not hear anything that was not shouted in his ears, and his wife walked over to the door and hit Ramsey! Although keep Lisa's feelings, we must keep them away if any guests come. We can't let the guests see them colliding and yelling at the front hall and scolding the wall."

"Ah and about you always fighting fencing with him. Not at all appropriate for a young woman, unless forced, to wear, tights!"

When Yugyeom looked amused instead of anxious, the grandmother scowled at him. Yugyeom does not want to side with his grandmother for this one problem, nor does the matter of befriending a servant.

"For my sake and Lisa's sake I hope you don't forbid her from fencing with me. It was harmless and he loved it. He said it made him fit."

"And for your own good?" ask the granny. Yugyeom grinned.

"He's a tough opponent, and he keeps me in top form. Me and Mingyu were arguably the two best swordsmen in England, but I had to work hard to defeat Lisa, and she could still beat me half the sum of the entire match."

Not realizing that what she did made her grandmother feel uncomfortable, Lisa got used to the rigid routine of life in this mansion. While spring turns to summer, he continues to study and spends his free time strolling the beautiful courtyard or visiting the Kim family's large stables, there Yoon will tell a wonderful story about Mingyu's childhood and adolescence. Like Lee the servant, Yoon was also a loyal admirer of Master Mingyu, and within weeks, yoon had already taken a liking to the charming girl Master Mingyu had married.

For Lisa herself, her days were busy, but Mingyu never escaped her memory. A month after Mingyu's death, at Lisa's request, a small marble inscription bearing Mingyu's name, date of birth and date of death was placed, rather than in the family tomb as usual, in the family tomb, but at the end of the lake on the edge of the forest near the pavilion.

Lisa felt the background near the pavilion was beautiful, especially as it contrasted with the quiet cemetery on the hillside behind the mansion. However, when the inscription was installed, he was not so satisfied. He went to the gardener, who gave him some flower buds to plant in the forest. Once a few days, he came back to pick up more flowers. But when he was done, he realized that he was unconsciously imitating a small meadow where Mingyu said he looked like a Gainsborough painting.

He loved this place more than he imagined, and spent hundreds of fun hours sitting in the pavilion, gazing at the mini-grassland while reminiscing about every moment they spent together.

When he was alone in the pavilion he remembered the gentleness in every kindness Mingyu had shown him. Starting from buying him a puppy that the man actually dislikes, until marrying him to save him from destruction. But what she always remembered was Mingyu's sweet and passionate kiss, her beautiful but cold hand caress. And the more she imagined and remembered it, the more Lisa became convinced that Mingyu had begun to love her before she died.

Aided and encouraged by Yoon and Lee's exaggerated stories of Mingyu's childhood bravery and skill as a man, Lisa keeps Mingyu in the recesses of her heart, adore the kindness of his saintly heart, the courage of a knight, and the good looks of an angel. In those beautiful memories, every soft word the man spoke, every warm smile, every friendly kiss, he took care of it, and then he exaggerated.

It didn't occur to him at all that Lee and Yoon might be blind to Mingyu's infamy or they wanted, by mutual agreement, to, be careful not to tell all of Mingyu's behavior that could make the man seem less holy in the eyes of his official wife. They never once told about countless beautiful girlfriends or other mistresses, or the women who had slept in bed with Mingyu in this house.

Based on the beautiful story she got from Yoon and Lee, Lisa of course considers her husband famous for his bravery, courage and praise. He had no idea at all that the man was also famous for his afair, his conquest of women, and his scandal with women who had only one thing in common, namely beauty.

So, with the enthusiasm of an eighteen-year-old girl, Lisa practiced the piano every day, memorized various books on social protocol, practiced polite conversation with her tutor, and learned how to speak, and imitate the attitude of his grandmother-in-law who can be the best example to become a high-ranking noble who is arrogant. He did all that so that if he went to a meeting among the nobility, they could respect him and consider him worthy of Mingyu Kim's great name and reputation.

And while Lisa diligently tries to learn all the manners of the association, which would surely bore Mingyu if she were still alive, nature, seems amazed at the effort that Lisa does not need, generously showering the woman with gifts, something that is a major asset in social circles and will guarantee the upper class people consider Lisa worthy of the famous Mingyu Kim name, namely beauty.