“Why do you keep staring if you’re not interested?”

This time, Ian lifted his head. His eyes, thinned and of a light color, captured her gaze.

Startled, Helena dropped her fork.

Thud, clang.

The fork hit the table once and then fell to the floor, making a loud noise. It should have been drowned out by the surrounding noise, but to her, it sounded like hundreds of plates shattering all at once.

As if hundreds of plates were simultaneously breaking.

With each imaginary plate breaking, black spots began to appear in her field of vision, growing and quickly engulfing her surroundings.

“Acting as the Duchess so well, aren’t you?”

A spiteful voice pierced her ears like an arrow in the midst of darkness. It felt as if blood was oozing from the place it touched.

Her clenched fists trembled, and a chill ran down her spine. She couldn’t bring herself to look around, only rolling her eyes.

‘Gasp.’

She was breathless.

It seemed like everyone in the restaurant was staring at her.

They all grew into shadowy figures with unnaturally tall statures, their eyes burning red as they looked down at her hungrily.

The shadows began to rise and approach her.

“Stand up straight again, Helena!”

The same voice, the same mouth shape, the same timing, they all shouted.

“Straighten your back. Again.”

The dark voices assaulted her from all directions.

“Do it again, do it again.”

The sound of breaking plates grew louder.

“Again. Again.”

They shattered mercilessly, thunderously rumbling.

“Again!”

“Shut up!”

“……Len. Helen?”

Suddenly, a soft human voice reached her.

A living voice. A voice that didn’t constrict her breath.

Simultaneously, she felt something warm rubbing her knuckles. She gasped, releasing the breath she’d been holding.

The dark space extinguished like a candle in the wind.

Breathing heavily, Helena opened her tightly shut eyes. The rough texture of the wooden table slowly came into view.

Only then did she realize the warmth spreading over her knuckles was someone’s body heat.

“Are you okay? You shouldn’t push yourself too hard—”

“I’m fine.”

Helena quickly withdrew her hand from Ian’s grasp. Before he could say more, she hastily called the waiter.

“Uh…”

Her voice cracked a bit while requesting a new fork. She quickly glanced around the table.

Then Ian poured water into a cup and spoke on her behalf to the waiter. After she drank the water, he quietly called her name.

“Helena.”

His tone was a bit firmer than usual. There was a hint of urgency, as if urging her to look at him, but Helena stubbornly kept her eyes down.

If she looked now, she would be exposed.

Every moment, the imperfect monster she harbored within would be revealed.

Already adept at reading people, Helena didn’t want to reveal her weaknesses, having already shown her true colors. She couldn’t afford to give him any more leeway.

After taking a deep breath to hide her anxiety, she feigned anger by narrowing her eyebrows.

“It was because of the noise. You really know how to be annoying, don’t you? Just your voice alone is irritating.”

“……”

Strangely, he didn’t respond. He just kept staring at her intensely. It felt as if her skin where his gaze landed was tingling.

She expected him to crack a joke or retort, but there was no reaction. Was he actually angry with her this time?
Helena found this reflexive need to gauge someone’s reaction unsettling. As she bit the inside of her lip absentmindedly, the waiter brought a new fork.

Clatter. The sound of metal hitting the wooden surface prompted Ian to speak.

“I’m glad you noticed. I do have that side to me.”

His tone couldn’t have been more plain. To Helena, his words felt drier than the cheap, cold meat in front of her.

Despite her efforts, it seemed he had read her again. However, he didn’t show it. He just seemed intent on shifting this uncomfortable air to his liking.

Was he playing along, or did he have another motive?

She might not know, but if she had wanted to annoy him, she had succeeded.

Helena, still frowning, met his gaze. This time, it wasn’t an act. She was genuinely displeased.

“What’s so joyous about this?”

“That you’re getting angry like this. Especially because it’s because of me.”

“I might not want to understand, and I really don’t get you.”

He definitely had strange tastes. Otherwise, he couldn’t just smile while being constantly rebuked.

“No need to understand. Don’t bother trying to read my expressions. It’s tiring, right? Just react to what you see and get angry.”

“So, you’re going to be happy again? What a nasty hobby.”

“Yes.”

“Why, exactly?”

Her voice rose. People at nearby tables began to look at her.

This time it wasn’t a hallucination, it was real, but Helena didn’t care.

She was too annoyed, only focused on the man before her.

As her frown deepened, his smile grew.

“Because you seem alive. That makes me happy.”

At that moment, something inside Helena snapped. The taut atmosphere vanished in an instant.

Only then did she become aware of the surrounding gazes. Her focus, which had been solely on him, scattered.

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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