“It seems His Majesty Shallen intends to make sister Kasallin his mistress.”
Rose, who needed somewhere to pour out her sorrows to anyone, began confiding her troubles to Aster.
Aster listened attentively to her words with a deliberately serious expression.
“I can’t believe it. How could His Majesty make such a decision? Now it doesn’t matter what happens to someone like me. I’ll be pushed out of His Majesty’s attention and end up relegated to handling paperwork in some cold, forgotten back room!”
“Surely not. His Majesty Shallen wouldn’t be making Kasallin his mistress because he likes her. There must be some other important reason.”
“I don’t know. I didn’t hear their entire conversation. But whatever the reason, what does it matter? Sister might soon steal my position away!”
“The position of queen isn’t something that can be easily stolen or lost. You’ll be fine.”
Rose shook her head while shedding the tears she had been holding back.
“If it’s sister Kasallin, she could do it and more. From childhood, sister greedily took everything that was mine. Father’s love, the neighbors’ attention—sister monopolized it all. I was left isolated and alone. In social circles, they wouldn’t even remember my name. I was simply ‘Kasallin’s younger sister.’ Do you understand how much I suffered growing up?”
Rose employed every expression she could to make her situation appear even more pitiful and desperate.
Aster, who had been quietly listening, went beyond simply comforting her and willingly shared in her anger.
“I see I wasn’t mistaken about Miss Kasallin. To grow up so upright despite suffering such injustices. I couldn’t have endured it.”
When Aster responded earnestly, Rose let out a relieved sigh as if the resentment she had harbored in her heart had somewhat lifted.
“Actually, I too have a painful past similar to Your Majesty’s.”
“You too?”
“Yes. I was greatly betrayed by someone I trusted and ended up penniless. Since then, I’ve somehow managed to become self-reliant and barely made it this far, but hearing Your Majesty’s story, I simply cannot remain still.”
Aster knelt at Rose’s feet.
“I wish to help Your Majesty.”
“Me?”
“Yes. Please keep me by your side and use my services. Of course, I’m not asking you to trust me from the start. I simply wish to protect Your Majesty from falling into the same trap I did.”
Seeing him confess even his shameful and humiliating past while swearing loyalty, Rose couldn’t hide her overwhelming emotions.
She found it strange that he would go this far upon their first meeting.
However, having seen Shallen propose that Kasallin become his mistress, Rose was mentally vulnerable and desperately needed support. Her desire to have someone on her side was stronger than ever.
So she took his hand.
“Very well. Do what you can for me.”
“Really? Is it truly alright?”
“Though temporarily, I’ll keep you as an attendant. Of course, I won’t trust you from the beginning. I’ll watch to see if your words about wanting to protect me are sincere.”
“It’s an honor. I’ll do my utmost.”
Aster bowed his head and kissed the back of Rose’s hand while wearing a meaningful smile.
[This is the timeline separator]“Become my mistress.”
Shallen’s hot breath that had flowed into her ear was still vivid, and the goosebumps that had risen all over her body showed no signs of disappearing.
Kasallin was not innocent enough to not know what being asked to become a mistress meant.
She also knew that the wealth he offered as compensation for becoming his mistress was essentially payment for services.
‘If he had any conscience as a human being, he couldn’t do this to me.’
Having wandered the garden without noticing the darkening surroundings until she found herself in some unknown place, Kasallin looked around her surroundings anew.
This place where peach-colored rose vines elegantly wrapped around corridor pillars and small fish jumped vigorously between water plants in the vast lake.
Though the Rnel Imperial Palace was a foreign land to Kasallin, somehow her heart felt more at peace here than when she was in her homeland.
The olive trees that warmly surrounded the garden seemed to tell her that this was truly her home.
Kasallin looked down at the lapis lazuli hair ornament that sparkled lonely in her palm.
[ Wear it to the ball. I have something important to tell you. ]Kasallin, who had forgotten and only now remembered his brief letter written on the note, impulsively stood up and ran breathlessly toward the ballroom.
The clock tower’s hands were just passing ten o’clock.
Parnes would be waiting.
With something he desperately wanted to tell her held in his heart.
‘What could he want to say to me? Could it be related to this lapis lazuli?’
Somehow she felt that if not now, she would never see him again.
Forcibly calming her strangely swelling heart, when she was just a few steps away from reaching Parnes who stood in front of the banquet hall as if waiting for someone.
“……!”
Suddenly a dark shadow attacked her from behind.
Before she could confirm who it was, her vision was blocked by black cloth, and when she tried to scream, her mouth was immediately gagged.
The mysterious assailant dragged the struggling Kasallin to a corner.
When her resistance didn’t stop, he struck the back of her neck hard, and Kasallin lost consciousness in an instant like a candle being extinguished.
[This is the timeline separator]The sound of hooves kicking against dry earth and leaping forward awakened Kasallin’s drowsy consciousness.
When she opened her eyes, she was lying crumpled in a swaying carriage.
The sky visible through the window was pitch black without a single star, indicating it was deep into the night.
Kasallin, who had not yet grasped the situation, stared blankly at the ceiling of the rattling carriage before urgently sitting up.
‘I’ve been kidnapped!’
Thinking this, she looked down at her body, but there were no particular injuries and her hands and feet weren’t bound.
Finding this strange, she raised her head.
Across from her sat Shallen with his legs crossed, leisurely reading a book.
“Are you awake?”
No matter how much she thought about it, she couldn’t understand and stared at him for a long time.
Sensing her gaze, Shallen turned a page and spoke.
“You look like you need an explanation.”
“What is this… exactly? Why am I here? Where are we going?”
“Don’t worry and sit down. We’re on the way back to our homeland, the Kan Kingdom.”
Only then could Kasallin fully understand the entire situation.
From the beginning, this had been his plan, and he intended to leave the palace to prevent her from meeting Parnes.
By now, Parnes would be misunderstanding that she had coldly broken their promise and left.
“You’ve crossed a line that shouldn’t be crossed.”
“What’s the problem with me taking my person back to our homeland? Of course, I used slightly rough methods, but if I hadn’t gone this far, you wouldn’t have obediently followed me.”
“Don’t delude yourself into thinking you can possess me by doing this. I have absolutely no intention of complying with your plan.”
Kasallin groped along the wall in the darkness and pushed hard on the carriage door handle.
But it seemed locked with some special device and wouldn’t budge from this side.
“I thought you might try that, so I took precautions. It’s useless, so sit quietly. You’ll fall if you keep this up.”
No. Even if it meant death, she had to escape from this carriage.
If she gave up here and followed him back to the Kan Kingdom, she would be trapped in the palace forever and never be able to come out into the world again.
This crazy man would certainly do that.
‘There must be a way. Some gap I can use to get out of here…’
What caught Kasallin’s eye as she carefully examined the inside of the carriage in the darkness was a relatively poorly made window.
It was quite large, and if she threw her entire body against it with all her might, it seemed she could break through and escape.
To do that, she first needed to make him let his guard down, even briefly.
“Seeing how quiet you are, it seems you’re finally feeling like giving up. Good thinking.”
Shallen leisurely turned a page and continued speaking.
“If you behave, I’ll arrange everything so you lack nothing in living a luxurious life. A comfortable palace, servants to attend you, gifts and allowances. Whatever you want.”
“Really anything?”
“Yes. What a comfortable life it would be. Let’s forget the past and make a fresh start. We can get along as good friends.”
Taking advantage of the moment when Shallen closed his eyes and fell into disgusting fantasies, Kasallin quickly got up.
And threw her body directly at the window.
“What are you doing!”
The impact made the carriage body sway violently.
The startled horses reared up on their hind legs, thrashing about.
Equally startled, Shallen threw down the book he was reading and desperately reached out to Kasallin.
“Kasal
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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