After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World-Chapter 1408: The Roach Family (Part 2)

Liaroa applied the so-called eyeshadows, the soft brush tickling her eyelid. Then she added the powder that lightened up her skin, making it smoother, without making it appear like she added dried flour on her face.

Then, she dabbed a bit of the blush, rendering her appear shy and demure, especially in front of her man.

However, when it was time to apply the so-called lipstick on her lips, the door suddenly burst open, causing her to mark at the wrong place.

Her heart broke at the waste and her heart heated up in anger. She whipped her head to the door, intending to make the person pay.

However, it ended up being her mother instead. "Daughter!" she screamed. Her eyes were red, telling Lia she had just been crying.

"Mother?" she asked, pushing down her annoyance because of the wasted product. Since it was her mother, maybe she could ask her to get her new sets instead.

Her mother, Leinala, was one of the Roach Patriarch’s concubines. She also became the favorite thanks to Lia’s loose connection with the Trions through their daughter.

If Estra didn’t attend her wedding, then her mother’s position would also be threatened and, by extension, both of their influence in the maternal family!

Her mother, who was extremely pale, looked at her. "Why are you here, Mother?"

"Where would I be?" Lia asked, regretfully wiping the mess on her lips and standing up.

"Your fiance is currently in the whorehouse!"

"What?!"

"That bitch just told me," Leinala said, gritting her teeth in anger. She was probably referring either to the main wife or another concubine vying for position. They had always been in each other’s heads like this, one upping each other, trying to push the others down one way or another.

"It’s so embarrassing!" the older woman continued to cry. "How could he play around a few days before your wedding?!"

"This cannot be, my child!" Leinala said, grabbing her daughter’s arm. "You must take him back! Who knows if he planted something in those women’s wombs!!"

This would inevitably lead to a woman’s worst nightmare: their husband’s illegitimate children!

Lia wanted to go, but making a scene was not good for the image she had established. Rather, she would seem foolish, uncultured, and uneducated instead. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com

After all, all men needed the taste of many women. It was what would keep them happy. The key was who they would favor more, and who they’d come home to in the end.

According to their beliefs, this was a wife’s responsibility. Therefore, it was they who were lacking if their husband found more joy elsewhere.

On the other hand, for those who were not yet married, they could only look away when they saw their beaus with someone else. Many wouldn’t mind too much as long as they protected themselves, because the man would be married to them at the end of the day.

This was what she, and most noble women, were taught. As long as he didn’t impregnate anyone else, and as long as they kept their positions and their luxuries, then it would be okay.

However, among nobility, the groom would usually abstain from philandering a week before and after the wedding to show respect.

Not to the woman, of course, but to the family that she represented. Even Octavia’s famously philandering fiance didn’t touch a new woman—at least not openly—when he visited.

The fact that Lia’s fiance was going around so close to their wedding meant that he didn’t care for the Roach family’s opinions!

If her father found out, she and her mother’s positions in the family could really be in danger, and this meant their resources and allowance would also suffer. This was why her mother was crying.

"Calm down, mother," Liaroa said after taking a deep breath. "His family agreed for us to be married so we can align with their family. He would settle down before the wedding. I’ll ask him to hold back for a few days."

Rather, she’d have to service him. It was unconventional, and even unlucky, for unmarried couples to do the deed before they wed, but what could she do?

That man’s libido was strong and she could not let other women do that for him, especially not around their ceremony!

Eveco was the second son of the second branch of the family. He was far from the heir position, only the fifth in line, but he was still in the position where his marriage still mattered. The Roach family was only a mid-tier family, but their resources were still not to be underestimated!

Besides, who was to say she wouldn’t be able to find a better man inside the family? Many nobles had dirty secrets within closed doors.

Anyway, the Sephon family wanted to ally with as many forces as they could to get closer to the Lord. At the very least, they wanted to be the family right next or equal to the Trion family.

Speaking of the Lord. Now that the Golds were not there, he had no noble family to trust. It was quite... ironic.

Despite their eccentricities, the Golds definitely held a moral ground that made them trustworthy. This reached its peak under Zaol’s leadership, and everyone wanted to genuinely be connected to them, and more than just based on their family’s wealth and power.

Their influence got too big, however, that the Lord decided their prestige was becoming too much, and ultimately decided to get rid of them. Especially with those new products and connections they were getting—it was not a surprise that the Lord felt threatened.

Anyway, the Golds were the indisputable first family, and their end created a gaping hole to be filled.

This caused a major restructuring that caused a lot of the families in both high and mid tiers to scuffle to secure allies.

Now that the Sephon family patriarch had gone missing (though they never said it, Eveco may have slipped during the height of a climax), they worked even harder to secure their position.

Liaroa worked hard and long to capture Eveco’s heart. The things she had to do to get his attention, and to entice her to marry him!

Finally, she also promised him the family’s alliance. She would go to him tonight, and she’d remind him that he needed her, too!!

Her eyes sharpened at the imagery. With the new Bleuelle, she would make sure she had a place at the top!

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