Lifting her head, Latifa saw the darkskinned man standing before her, Hades, and her mind went blank in shock.
‘…Thief!’
Under the jetblack hair that no one in the empire had, sharp black eyes were staring at her. Hades took a step towards Latifa, his hand gently stroked her head.
However, she could not let go of her tension and fear even at his gentle touch.
“An imperial?”
An exotic desert language echoed. Fortunately, she had learned the desert language. But just because she could communicate, her fear of the desert people did not diminish.
Without realizing it, Latifa envisioned a miserable future in her head.
‘I will be taken as a slave……. It’s all over now.’
Hades’s touch swept past her forehead, and traced the trembling corner of Latifa’s eyes. His hand carried the strong scent of sand.
“The most unusual color among the imperials I’ve seen so far.”
“Hmm.”
As his face came a little closer, Latifa, scared, retreated.
He slightly closed his eyes and sniffed. His eyelashes, drawn above his closed eyes, were long and dark enough for her to see.
“This is the right scent.”
‘What is he looking for…?’
Despite having brazenly entered the hideout, the man seemed to be in thought. However, his gaze remained on Latifa, who was sitting down.
Feeling his hot and persistent gaze, she couldn’t shake the feeling that she was like a prey caught in the trap of a black beast.
“Ahh!”
“……!”
Suddenly, the cry of a child burst forth, and Hades blinked his eyes and finally looked at the people in the corner.
He seemed to realize that he had failed to notice such a large group of people, and mumbled with a dumbfounded expression.
“Was it intended? If it was intended, it’s a strategy that I would like to praise. I was completely charmed a while ago.”
He chuckled and looked around carefully.
“How could this many people not be noticed? Surely there would have been hounds coming in.”
Listening to Hades’s mumbling to himself, Latifa swallowed her dry spit.
‘He’s definitely a thief. He might kill us all for mocking them!’
While trembling with fear, she quickly surveyed the people. Behind a woman who was shivering with a child who had cried out loud, there were people looking at her with eyes full of despair.
It seemed as if their eyes were saying, ‘Because you hesitated there, we were all found out.’ Latifa was crushed with a sense of guilt that she had caused trouble again.
As a sigh flowed between Latifa’s small lips due to the sharp glares, Hades, who had been looking around the situation, approached her again.
And then, behind the approaching man, she saw Brenda’s face.
“…?!”
Brenda was eagerly signaling, sending a wordless message to Latifa.
‘Is she telling me to distract the man……. so that everyone can escape?’
Looking at Brenda’s signal, Latifa understood the meaning of her gesture and glanced around.
Thanks to the man destroying all the surrounding walls when he entered the hideout, it seemed that if she could draw his attention well, they might be able to escape in all directions.
But that was almost the same as making Latifa a sacrificial lamb. However, Latifa hardened her heart at Brenda’s signal and bit her lip hard.
‘If everyone can live by sacrificing me……. I must do it. It’s more than enough for the trouble I’ve caused so far.’
It was the last sense of responsibility she had as a princess.
At the thought of being able to help the imperial people even once, Latifa clenched her fist tightly.
‘If I make this sacrifice, the sins of the royal family will be somewhat reduced.’
Thinking this, Latifa managed to rise, laboriously moving her powerless legs.
“Wait a moment…….”
When Latifa called Hades in the desert language, he was startled and approached her more closely.
Fear rushed back at her like a wave at the reek of the thick sand, but she had reasons not to retreat.
“Do you know the desert language?”
“Yes.”
Latifa, shivering and barely standing, stood face to face with Hades.
Desert people were larger than empire people, but the man in front of her seemed even larger than typical desert people.
“If an imperial knows the desert language, you must be one of the two.”
“…….”
“Either a leisurely noble with an abundance of time or a lowly smuggler selling contraband.”
At his sharp insight, Latifa’s heart sank. Revealing her royal status to a thief wouldn’t improve anything.
“If I were a noble, as you said…. I wouldn’t be suffering here; I would have already fled abroad by ship.”
“Certainly, that makes sense.”
Fortunately, Hades, seemingly intrigued by her trembling yet assertive words, paid no mind to the people behind him.
With a bit more confidence, Latifa asked him a question that would draw his attention.
“Aren’t you curious how we were not discovered?”
[Star icon][Star icon]Manute looked in the direction where Hades had disappeared on horseback. Leaving orders and suddenly disappearing was a frequent habit of Hades, but now was not the time for leisure.
“We should return to the Grand Bazaar soon.”
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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