The Villainess Wants to Make Her Husband Slim Down

CHAPTER 23

2-7

In the end, Alois barely scolded Nicole at all, nor did he ask why she was in that room in the first place. Eventually, he just had Nicole leave the room with Camilla.

As they stood outside, Camilla told Nicole, whose face was as pale as a ghost, to go and get some rest. She waited in front of that room for a long while, but Alois never emerged.

From the next day on, Alois' old diet returned.

Rather, it was even worse than before.

He had completely lost himself to comfort eating.

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"Lord Alois! How can you be eating this much again!?"

It was a few days afterward, during morning tea. Camilla doesn't know just how many times she has said that at this point.

"Have you already given up on losing weight!? Just how much are you planning on eating!?"

As Camilla shouted, Alois' hands stopped shoving food into his face as if he was startled. Then, instead, he reached for the smaller snacks instead.

It was a basketful of baked goods, like small cupcakes and miniature doughnuts powdered in sugar. There were also rounded cuts of buttercake topped with almonds as well as colourful cookies with even more sugar on top.

Was the icing on top of those cookies a mischievous ploy of the cook? Camilla herself couldn't resist those cookies with cute red and blue flowers iced on top of them.

But, she regretted taking one as soon as she took a bite. Instead of being simply sweet, would it be more accurate to say it was like gnawing on pure sugar? She grew even more concerned about Alois' health when she thought about him eating these hand over fist.

As she was thinking about it, Alois began to eat even more of them. There was quite a strange disparity as she sat opposite him, not eating anything at all.

This hadn't just started today, either. Ever since Nicole broke that dish, Alois has been like this.

Not being able to bear watching, Camilla had tried to get him to stop many times, but her words fell on deaf ears, almost like when she had first come to the mansion. Although he might sometimes show signs of returning to normal, he would soon be lost in thought again and then go back to eating even more than before.

"I-I'm sorry, Camilla. It's just lately, I..."

Alois let go of the cookie he had in his hand and sat back in a slump. It was almost as if you could hear the air deflate out of his body as he hunched over.

"I was trying to be careful..."

"You said the same thing yesterday."

As she glared at Alois, his shoulders just slumped even further. After that, his hand unconsciously began to reach out towards the cookie he had put back in the basket.

"Lord Alois!"

"Yes!?"

At Camilla's shout, Alois' hand came to a stop. It's like she's trying to keep a child in check.

"Just whatever is the matter with you? Was that thing really so important?"

When it broke, Alois did say something about it being his 'father's dish' as he held some of the scattered fragments of it. Alois' father had already passed away. So, it made sense that the dish was probably some sort of keepsake.

– Dish. A dish, hmm?

Collecting dishes and pottery was a common hobby. Perhaps Alois' father had given him a high-quality piece of his collection as a gift? Or was it some kind of heirloom? If it wasn't important, it would have been in the kitchen with the rest of the kitchenware. Not something that he held so dearly.