“Loren, standing around and staring blankly is pointless. Unless you plan to interrupt and create a mess.”
Loren picked up a nearby stone and haphazardly threw it into the river.
“How can I intervene there? I can’t.”
“Why?”
“What if Bercheria starts disliking me because I messed things up?”
“Huh…?”
Velophai was flabbergasted.
He began to suspect that Loren had seriously fallen for Bercheria.
“Loren.”
Velophai picked up a stone while clenching his jaw and fiddled with it.
“Why do you think the Absolute Deity ordered you to marry Bercheria?”
Loren raised his eyebrows as if he had heard something entirely unexpected.
Velophai shook his head from side to side.
Born a prince who enjoyed all privileges, Loren had never learned to question anyone’s command.
No one questioned him when he commanded, after all.
Sometimes humans think that all they see and hear is all there is in the world.
“The purpose of the Absolute Deity is not to bring Bercheria to Deriansis.”
“Then?”
“It’s to prevent Bercheria from staying in Feriat.”
“What do you mean? The Absolute Deity dislikes the guardian deity of Feriat staying in Feriat?”
“Yes.”
Velophai turned his head towards the river.
“More precisely, she dislikes Bercheria staying beside Lakrahan.”
Loren still had a perplexed look.
“It’s a long story, but to sum it up, think of it as Lakrahan having rubbed the Absolute Deity the wrong way a long time ago.”
Velophai frowned as he recalled the tumultuous event that had occurred in the past.
He had lived here as long as the Absolute Deity.
He was a primordial deity born when the ocean was created.
Therefore, unlike the deities of weather or earth, he did not need an Awakener.
It would be accurate to say that Velophai was the sea, and the sea was within him.
Over countless eons, he had lived through the same cycle, knowing so much.
It was perhaps no wonder he had become so apathetic.
If humans were to realize everything he knew, who could bear it?
“Loren, I will tell you a secret. The Absolute Deity, you see.”
Loren swallowed hard.
“She’s not as benevolent as everyone thinks. She possesses all the myriad emotions humans feel. She can dislike someone as well as love them. The only difference between her and you is…”
Velophai hesitated for a moment before slowly nodding.
“If you set your mind to it, there’s nothing you can’t do, I suppose.”
Recalling old memories after a long time, Velophai chuckled in a frivolous manner.
“But the thing is, Lakrahan was never someone who could receive favors easily from the start. He was quite a headache.”
Looking at Velophai, Loren had a confused expression as if not understanding what was being said.
“But if the Absolute God dislikes Lakrahan so much, shouldn’t he have done something to prevent this marriage from happening?”
Velophai, propping his arms wide behind him, looked up at the sky.
He decided not to tell Loren that the Absolute God cannot interfere with free will.
Blabbering too much might also attract the ire of the Absolute God, after all.
Meeting Loren’s intense gaze, he spoke seriously.
“Maybe he’s already planning on doing something. Don’t you think?”
At his question, Loren wore an expression that was neither a scowl nor a smile.
Your Grace Duke! It’s Wyatt! Are you here?
Upon hearing the loud voice from the entrance, Lakrahan lifted his head from the book he was buried in.
Stretching, he walked out of the library.
“Your Grace!”
Wyatt quickened his steps to approach him.
“People are looking for you, don’t you know it’s almost time for the wedding?”
Lakrahan took out his pocket watch to check the time.
“Where’s Bercheria?”
Wyatt opened his small eyes wide.
“Huh? Weren’t you with her? I came here because they made a fuss about finding you at the outpost.”
“Hmm.”
Lakrahan walked ahead of Wyatt.
Suddenly, the empty bed in his room came to mind.
He had assumed she would have returned by now.
Yet there’s still no news of her…
“Could she have gotten cold feet?”
“What?”
Lakrahan turned his head as if telling Wyatt to mind his own business.
Even if Bercheria were to change her mind about the marriage, that was also something Lakrahan had to handle.
What gave him some comfort was the certainty that, even if she refused the marriage, Bercheria couldn’t leave him.
The fact that Bercheria’s staff had been engraved into his body, which had weighed on him, now felt surprisingly comforting.
“Your Grace.”
“Yes.”
“I really came all this way to ask.”
“Yes.”
“Do you truly love the Goddess of Weather?”
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
