The new Waist Cincher Annan had designed came off the Textile Factory's production line. Trusting his invention, the women working there had made hundreds of them. That was when the problem appeared: they reached the shelves, but sales were slow.
Idelia had Abby bring one back. When Annan arrived, she was holding it against herself.
"How did you come up with this?" Eldest Sister asked.
Annan didn't mention Beludona's lovely figure. "I noticed at the banquet that many noblewomen were still beautiful. But no matter how hard they tried to maintain their poise, they couldn't hide how their bodies had changed..."
"So you spent the whole banquet staring at their bodies?" Leila said deliberately from beside them.
Annan was silent for a moment. "Eldest Sister, why don't we let Leila try the Waist Cincher?"
"Huh?"
A few minutes later, Leila shuffled in through the doorway, her cheeks faintly flushed.
To show off the Waist Cincher's effect, Leila had been forced to bare her shoulders and Corset. Once her waist was drawn in, her figure became strikingly upright and graceful.
Flustered and annoyed, Leila pushed away the head in front of her. "Stupid Younger Brother... You're too close!"
"What do you think?" Idelia asked her.
"It looks good, but I feel like I can't breathe..." With every breath Leila took, the Waist Cincher gave a dying struggle.
"Could it be that you're too fat?" Annan wondered aloud.
Leila hurled the dress in her hands at Annan and stormed out.
"It looks like you two get along well." Idelia watched Annan pull the dress off his face.
"Leila's about the same as Lily to me." Annan handed the dress to Abby, whose cheeks were just as red. "Lily keeps bringing home mice, and Leila keeps bringing home fish fry."
Idelia smiled. "The