“Didn’t you hear that Adelia recently married Calix Creighton?”
“I obviously heard about Adelia getting married.”
“Oh, you did?”
Lucas answered casually, as if it was no big deal, to my surprise.
“Yes. Oh, the Creighton family’s estate is quite far from here, right? So that’s why she couldn’t attend the banquet?”
“Yes, that’s right. She won’t be able to come to the capital for a while. It would have been nice if you had been at the wedding.”
“I wish I could have. I had no choice. To attend today’s banquet, I couldn’t quit my knight training halfway through.”
“Oh, that’s why you couldn’t come.”
“Anyway, it would have been ridiculous for me to attend the wedding after what I did. It might have even been a nuisance to Adelia.”
Lucas said this with an awkward laugh.
“No, not at all. The more people there to celebrate, the better. Everyone would have welcomed you.”
“Really?”
“Yes. And, well… it’s all just a memory of the past now.”
“Helena! Please, let’s not bring up that incident.”
“Huh?”
Lucas stopped me with a horrified look when I mentioned his confession incident.
“Just thinking about that day still makes me want to hit my head.”
Saying so, Lucas covered his head as if in pain.
“You were young then. Don’t torment yourself over it.”
I comforted him with a slight smile.
“It’s most painful that you, of all people, know about it. Ah, I must have been crazy back then.”
“Huh?”
As Lucas spoke enigmatically, I just looked up at him, and he just chuckled without saying more.
“Hey, Helena.”
Instead, he suddenly called out to me in a lower voice.
“What?”
“How about we step outside for a bit to get some air?”
“Air?”
“Yes. I have something to tell you…”
“Really?”
I wasn’t sure what he wanted to talk about, but it seemed like a good opportunity.
I felt eyes on me as if binding me, and I wanted to get away from there.
“Okay. Let’s go.”
I walked towards the door with Lucas.
That feeling of being watched persistently ended only when we stepped outside the banquet hall.
‘Phew.’
As I took in the cool air, it felt like I could finally breathe freely after feeling suffocated.
I took a deep breath of the outside air, feeling relieved.
“Shall we go to the garden? I heard there’s a garden nearby full of rare flowers.”
“Rare flowers? Sure, let’s go there.”
I always liked flowers, so there was no reason to refuse.
I nodded at Lucas’ suggestion and started walking.
The garden wasn’t far from the banquet hall.
As we neared it, the subtle scent of flowers wafted on the breeze.
“The scent is nice.”
“Isn’t it?”
“I’m glad we came out.”
The increasingly strong fragrance of the flowers lifted my spirits.
“Good. Let’s go further inside.”
“Yes.”
We entered the garden, filled with the fragrance of flowers.
Just as Lucas had said, inside were flowers I had never seen before.
“Wow, what’s this flower? It looks so unique.”
I was so captivated by the beautiful flowers that I barely noticed anything else.
“I’ve never seen these flowers before.”
I prided myself on knowing quite a bit about flowers, but the ones I was seeing now were completely new to me.
“I wonder where these flowers bloom?”
A flower resembling a cluster of white snow particularly caught my eye.
“I heard you can see them in the northern parts of the continent.”
“The north? That must be much colder than the capital. To bloom so beautifully in the cold, they must be strong flowers.”
“That’s what I mean. They remind me of you, Helena.”
“What?”
“White and pure, yet with a strong vitality.”
Lucas emphasized as if repeating the same sentiment.
Embarrassed by Lucas’ flattering words, I couldn’t say anything and just stared at him.
“Helena. I have something to tell you.”
“Uh-huh.”
The relaxed atmosphere suddenly turned serious.
Lucas pursed his lips, seemingly deep in thought.
I waited quietly, feeling bewildered, until he was ready to speak again.
After a while, he finally spoke.
“I like you.”
Shocked by his unexpected confession, I couldn’t hide my surprise.
“……What?”
I asked Lucas, unable to hide my expression.
“I know it might seem strange to you. But… I’ve always wanted to tell you about my feelings.”
“Wait, Lucas.”
What was he saying all of a sudden, after all this time?
I was so taken aback that I wanted to ask if he had been drinking. However, I couldn’t bring myself to say something like, ‘Have you been drinking? I’m not Adelia,’ so I just called out his name urgently.
But despite my call, Lucas, perhaps too tense about the situation, started pouring out his confession like a bombardment.
“I tried to suppress my feelings. You are Adelia’s best friend, and… you have a fiancé.”
‘So he’s not drunkenly confused.’
Lucas bit his lip in apparent dissatisfaction when he mentioned the word ‘fiancé.’
I raised my hand in front of him as a gesture to stop, but he didn’t.
“Since that incident, when everyone was avoiding me, only you cared about me.”
I had only acted out of sympathy for his unrequited love.
But it led to this situation.
I couldn’t respond to Lucas’ feelings, not just because I had no feelings for him, but also because I hadn’t sorted out my feelings for Kaern.
“Then I realized. I had never felt my heart race for someone before, so I didn’t understand the difference between liking and loving.”
What is this…
He confessed his feelings to Adelia, but now he’s saying it was just a liking, not love?
‘Sigh.’
Another bewildering event in a day full of them, I shook my head in disbelief.
“Lucas, that’s…”
“Helena. Can you please listen to me till the end? I gathered a lot of courage for this and want to say everything I feel.”
It was absurd enough that he professed his love for me, but now he insisted I listen to it all, which was just too much.
“I trained hard to stand proudly before you. I’m not yet part of the royal guards, but I’m confident. So…”
“Wait. Just wait, Lucas.”
Knowing that the longer this dragged on, the harder it would be to respond to his confession, I firmly stopped him.
“There’s a lot I want to ask, but first, about your confession, I’m sorry, but I can’t reciprocate your feelings.”
“Helena, just listen a little more…”
“No, and as you yourself mentioned, I’m engaged. I’m not in a position to receive such confessions. Even if I weren’t, I’ve never felt more than friendship for you.”
“……Friendship?”
“Yes. So it’s really shocking to receive such one-sided emotions suddenly, Lucas.”
I firmly set the boundaries with Lucas as a friend, rejecting his confession.
Unrequited love…
Having experienced it myself, I knew how hard it was not to have your feelings reciprocated.
But if I couldn’t return his feelings, it was better to be clear and direct than to be ambiguous.
“I’m sorry, Helena. I think I was too hasty with my emotions because of the lack of time. I understand it must be quite shocking for you. But Helena, could you please reconsider my confession? The engagement is a political one, and there has been no progress in your relationship for years since neither of you have feelings for each other.”
Despite my firm rejection, Lucas was undeterred.
Moreover, he was trying to impose his feelings on me.
His behavior left me bewildered and slowly began to anger me.
Truthfully, I had always felt a bit sorry for Lucas because of the Adelia situation.
That’s why I tried to gently reject his confession.
But his trivialization of my relationship with Kaern and his insistence on discussing it brought a sharp pang of sadness and resistance in me.
However, I couldn’t retaliate to his words.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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