Despite his typically insolent demeanor, Jade addressed Rodri with a peculiarly polite tone. Seeing him lower his posture a bit, I was certain he was up to something.
Rodri hesitated a bit, observing my reaction. ……Just follow Jade. Yet, he sought my assurance even in such trivial matters.
It seemed it would take some time for Rodri’s dependency to completely disappear.
“Just go along with him. Don’t worry too much.”
“……Yes, Duchess.”
Rodri, with his timid nod, soon started to follow Jade. He kept looking back at me as he walked. ……The more I saw him, the more he reminded me of a young kitten.
[This is the time separator]“April……. You’re really not going to tell us?”
Grayan and I had already failed over twenty times to persuade April.
April had been acting as if she had no secret to spill.
Sitting on the sofa, on a plush cushion, she kept scratching her ear with her back foot and pretending not to hear our voices.
It was both absurd and funny. And it made me even more curious. What secret was April hiding?
“Grr.”
“Huh?”
“Grrr, grumble.”
Suddenly standing on her hind legs, April curled up, hugging her belly with her front paws.
I instantly understood what that gesture meant, but pretended not to and said,
“Did you get a stomachache? That’s what happens when you eat too much meat. You should also eat vegetables.”
“Grr!”
April growled as if to say that wasn’t it. I tilted my head and continued.
“Oh my, you seem to be in a lot of pain. Looks like you’ll have to eat a soup with cabbage in it today!”
“Grrrarr―!”
April rolled around on the cushion, looking utterly frustrated. I giggled and lightly poked her round body with my finger.
Watching me, Grayan was making an astonished face.
……Why……. What……
Was I teasing April too much? Just as I was about to stop, April bit my finger with her rabbit teeth.
“Eek.”
I was startled, but it didn’t hurt. It was just a light bite. With my finger still in her mouth, April shivered and glared at me.
‘Um……. I should stop teasing her.’
Otherwise, we might face another ‘April and Rabbit’s Disappearance’ episode. This creature tends to hide somewhere when she’s upset or mad.
“I’m sorry, April. I’ll stop teasing you now.”
“…….”
“I promise, really.”
Finally, April let go of my finger. She still looked a bit grumpy, but it seemed like her anger had subsided a bit.
With an exaggeratedly sweet voice, I caressed the rabbit’s head and ears and said,
“You’re hungry, right? It’s almost dinner time, let’s eat steak together.”
“Kyaa.”
“……But how about eating in your human form……?”
“…….”
April glared at me discontentedly before abruptly turning her back to me.
……I really want to know the reason.
[This is the time separator]After dinner, Grayan was kicked out of Gloria’s room by April.
“…….”
After dropping his hands in despair at the door, Grayan stood still for a while before he began to walk away with a heavy step.
Why can’t I sleep with them……
He had never been particularly lonely before, but Grayan suddenly felt a sharp pang of loneliness.
‘But it was nice to be able to have a meal together.’
Thinking back to the dinner time with April and Gloria, a faint smile crept onto Grayan’s face.
This is what a ‘happy family’ feels like, Grayan Salisbury realized for the first time in his life.
Grayan’s father, the former Duke of Salisbury, was a strict man.
In order to dine with my father, I always had to sit at the end of a long table in a dining room perfectly formal.
And sitting there, my father felt too far away, and above all… I couldn’t feel ‘affectionate’.
But the time spent with Gloria and April….
“….”
Grayan, who had paused for a moment, raised his hand to his temple.
It was a feeling as if warmth was spreading from my heart to my whole body.
Grayan, who smiled softly, suddenly looked out the window.
The silver moon was high in the night sky studded with stars.
Staring at that moon, Grayan recalled the events of the day.
‘The soul’s wave… matches?’
‘Yes, since the body and soul’s wave match, it’s Princess Gloria herself.’
‘So… is she really in a state of memory loss?’
‘It seems like it. It’s too natural to be acting, isn’t it?’
Grayan was baffled. Just because you lose your memory… can you become a completely different person?
‘Actually, there are quite a few cases like that. Memory plays a big role in forming a person’s personality.’
‘….’
‘I don’t know exactly what state Princess Gloria is in… but I guess a lot of the memories that formed her previous personality have flown away.’
…Arwin’s guess was quite plausible. But Grayan had a hunch that there was another secret to Gloria. It was a wolf’s instinct.
‘What are you hiding, Gloria.’
When will you open your heart to me and pour everything out?
I didn’t intend to act rashly. I’m confident I can wait as long as it takes.
But… it’s true that it’s a bit frustrating.
‘I’ll have to seduce her more actively.’
The smile on Grayan’s mouth deepened.
[This is the time separator]“I’ll look around here by myself from now on. Thank you for guiding me so far.”
As I spoke sternly, the butler looked at me and bowed respectfully. His responding voice was very timid too.
“Yes, then… I will step back.”
As I nodded lightly, the butler fled away quickly. Looking at his fearful appearance, I clicked my tongue. I wonder when he’ll start to fear me less. It’s not like I’m going to eat him.
‘Well, that’s fine. My image will improve over time. I won’t still be ‘terrifying villainess Gloria’ in 10 years…’
…10 years later, it feels incredibly distant.
The fact that I will live in this world as ‘Gloria’ until then is unbelievable…
‘I suddenly became a villain in a fantasy novel while dreaming of being an ordinary office worker.’
I feel like I need to write a novel with that title. If I can return to my original world, that is.
‘So… is the male lead in that novel Grayan?’
“….”
Suddenly… I felt even weirder.
A romance like the one in a fantasy novel between Grayan and me…?
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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