After passing through strict security and several doors, they finally entered the audience chamber, where the first thing they saw was the throne shrouded in opaque black curtains.
A man presumed to be the emperor sat there, but his face could not be seen due to the curtains.
“You must have been very busy yesterday. Judging by how you suddenly canceled our scheduled meeting.”
Shallen threw out pointed words as he sat in the prepared seat.
Rose also followed him and awkwardly took her seat, but there was no chair prepared for Kasallin anywhere.
Right. Since she’s just a maid anyway, she has to stand behind them.
Kasallin stood appropriately in a position that wouldn’t interfere with the three people’s conversation, looking at the blurry shadow faintly visible beyond the curtain.
The emperor remained silent without giving any response to Shallen’s words, just sitting quietly. However, she had the illusion that he was staring intently at their side from behind the curtain.
“……Are you upset?”
The emperor asked after a long while.
Though it sounded unclear from the distance, she could vaguely tell it was a surprisingly deep voice.
Shallen shook his head with an expression that anyone could see was wounded in pride.
“Not at all. I’ve long known that Your Majesty is the leisurely type who doesn’t get worked up about entertaining guests.”
“Thank you for understanding.”
Emperor Parnes cleanly ignored and dismissed Shallen’s subtle sarcasm.
Seeing that he hasn’t said a word to me so far, the man I met in the flower garden definitely wasn’t one of the emperor’s close associates.
In other words, he just scared me for nothing.
‘Phew……’
While feeling relieved, she was seized by a strange impulse to meet that mysterious man again.
That upright face, which seemed to be painted thickly with paint of a color that didn’t exist in the world, strangely wouldn’t easily fade from her mind.
“Ah. Let me formally introduce her. This is the new queen of our Khan Kingdom, who was recently enthroned. Rose Robepon Riche.”
Shallen subtly signaled Rose in the next seat with his eyes.
Then Rose lightly bowed with a bright and sociable smile spread across her face, as if she had practiced beforehand.
“I’m Rose Riche. I’m very honored to be able to attend the sacred grand festival ceremony.”
Rose’s nightingale-like voice made the bleak atmosphere of the audience chamber refreshing.
That was her greatest advantage.
Objectively speaking, Rose had features that were difficult to call beautiful, but she was skilled at acting cute and charming, so wherever she went, she at least wasn’t treated as unlikable.
Moreover, her small and skinny build like an adolescent girl often stimulated men’s protective instincts.
Rose knew this about herself better than anyone and often took advantage of it.
Though she herself would grumble whenever she got the chance, saying “It would have been nice if I had a sensual figure like my sister.”
But seeing how she would stumble on her ankles or struggle while lifting things whenever there were men around – behaviors she didn’t do otherwise – well.
Anyway, seeing that no particular response came from the emperor, Rose’s bright smile seemed to have had its effect this time too.
After all, Emperor Parnes had been staring intently at Rose since a while ago.
But the first words that came out of his mouth were directed at a completely different person.
“Are you the queen’s maid?”
There, Kasallin almost stupidly asked back “Pardon?”
Wasn’t he looking at Rose?
Kasallin was inwardly flustered but calmly nodded her head so as not to appear foolish.
“Yes. That’s correct.”
An awkward silence swept across the cold marble floor.
As the emperor showed interest in none other than a mere maid, both Shallen and Rose seemed quite surprised.
Why would he not ask even once about the well-being of the newly enthroned queen, yet speak to a maid standing like a shadow in the corner?
The guard knights standing in the audience chamber were all puzzled as well.
“I heard she was an impudent woman who climbs up fearlessly like a kitten. She looks different from the rumors. Or are you restraining yourself because you’re in my presence?”
The man I met in the flower garden must have reported everything that happened that day to the emperor in detail.
Perhaps the emperor allowed today’s audience to confirm her face and punish her.
Kasallin answered calmly.
“I don’t know what your subject told you, but you’re mistaken. I’ve never been disrespectful.”
“So those words about not being afraid at all to meet me were sincere. I can see there’s no wavering in your eyes.”
“There’s no reason to tremble when I’ve done nothing wrong.”
When Kasallin lifted her chin and spoke boldly, the emperor’s lips seemed to rise slightly.
No, maybe I saw it wrong after all.
“Why haven’t you done anything wrong? You trespassed into the garden without permission.”
“Trespassing…… you say?”
The emperor leaned back against the throne, just resting his chin in his hand.
As if telling her to think for herself about what was wrong.
When he didn’t speak, Duke Ludwig, an elderly aide who had been standing inconspicuously to one side, kindly explained instead.
“The garden with the giant flower tree is a sacred place that has traditionally been accessible only to His Imperial Majesty and Her Imperial Majesty the Empress, and outsiders who set foot there may face disadvantages.”
Ah, I’m screwed.
No wonder there was no one around when I was taking a walk.
The situation flowed exactly according to the scenario she least wanted to imagine.
Kasallin swallowed dry saliva as she looked beyond the curtain.
There was no room for excuses.
Just when she was anxiously waiting to see what terrible punishment the emperor, who was rumored to be a confirmed madman beyond the level of brutality, would impose on someone who had stepped foot in his garden.
“You, her superior, answer instead. Queen Rose Riche. What punishment would be good to give her?”
“Yes, yes? That’s……”
Rose, suddenly questioned, couldn’t hide her bewilderment and looked to Shallen as if asking for help.
He quickly stepped in to mediate.
“This is also Miss Kasallin’s first time coming to the Rnel Empire. She wouldn’t have known such regulations, so it must have been a mistake. Please understand with a generous heart.”
“King. You didn’t even twitch when that maid was in trouble, but your eyes lit up the moment the queen became a target.”
“……There’s no other meaning to it.”
No. There probably is another meaning to it.
Surprisingly, Emperor Parnes hit the nail on the head.
When the emperor questioned her, he thought she would handle it well and pretended not to know, but now that his beloved Rose was in trouble, he was trying to protect her.
Shallen feigned innocence and added.
“Queen Rose and Miss Kasallin are sisters. I respect Kasallin as much as I cherish Queen Rose. She is also my ‘sister-in-law.'”
Shallen’s words painfully gouged at Kasallin’s wounded heart that had not yet healed.
It was only a few months ago that he had earnestly courted her with that frivolous mouth, saying ‘I could give up even the throne for you.’
If he had even a little bit of remorse, he wouldn’t have been able to say such shameless words so carelessly.
Kasallin barely swallowed the painful discharge flowing from the wound that hadn’t even grown new flesh yet, the wound that Shallen kept tearing open whenever he got the chance.
In some sense, it was fortunate that there was a black curtain between the emperor and herself.
If even that one thin wall hadn’t existed, the emperor might have seen her pitiful face filled with deep sorrow by now.
If even the foreign emperor learned of her circumstances of being abandoned by Shallen overnight, there would be nothing more shameful than that.
[This is the timeline separator]Kasallin, who had returned to the guest room where she would stay during her time in the Rnel Empire, took a clean bath and neatly combed her hair.
She opened a liberal arts book to study in the evening as usual, but strangely, the text wouldn’t register in her eyes today.
Eventually, she closed the book and lay down on the bed.
“I too am not someone of such low status that you can fearlessly bark at me.”
Why won’t that mysterious man leave her mind?
From the circumstances, he seemed certainly to be a close associate specially favored by the emperor, but why was he alone and injured?
She was blinking her eyes with her face half-buried in the pillow when someone knocked on the door from outside.
Thinking it was a maid, she carelessly told them to come in.
But the person who opened the door and stepped inside was none other than Shallen.
Not expecting him to visit her room at such a late hour, Kasallin was startled and reflexively pulled her robe closed as she stood up.
“You told me to come in, so I came in. Don’t be so wary.”
“……What brings you to my room?”
“I have something to ask you. No matter how much I think about it with my common sense, I can’t figure it out.”
“What is it?”
He walked around the room for a while, choosing his words.
Walking leisurely to the desk, he picked up the book she had been studying and then closed.
Looking at the cover, he pulled up the corners of his mouth in a smile.
It seemed like he was sneering.
“World Political Science…… You really read such things. It’s useless now anyway.”
Kasallin bit her lips tightly.
He meant what was the point of reading such books when she wouldn’t become queen anyway.
That smile just now was indeed a sneer.
Kasallin consistently ignored his words and brought up the main point.
“You said you had something to ask.”
“Why does Emperor Parnes know about you?”
He asked, slamming the book shut.
“Did you really come all the way here just to ask that?”
“It’s not ‘just that.’ It’s the most important matter to me.”
“I think wherever I go and whoever I meet is not something Your Majesty should be concerned about.”
“I’m the one asking questions. Don’t dare question me. Kasallin.”
He glared arrogantly.
Kasallin looked straight at him without avoiding his gaze at all.
“You seem to be mistaken about something, but I’m commanding you right now.”
Shallen approached and roughly grabbed Kasallin’s chin.
She tried to shake him off because even his touch was unpleasant, but he closed the distance even more as if to show off.
His perfume scent and breath that came without warning were resentfully too familiar, and Kasallin trembled faintly with her tightly bitten lips regardless of her will.
A strange gleam circled in Shallen’s eyes as he looked down at Kasallin, who was letting out faint moans while her lower jaw was held.
“Tell me while I’m asking nicely. Why is Emperor Parnes interested in you?”
“What on earth are you imagining?”
“Did you perhaps have secret meetings when I wasn’t around?”
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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