Now, she understood why he sometimes touched her face.
Rescal paused for a moment to choose the right words, and his forehead wrinkled.
As Lacelia hesitated to release her hand, the creases on her forehead deepened. However, after he saw the hand letting go, the impression softened, like a lie.
“You seem like you should have been here from the beginning. Something went wrong, and you came late.”
Listening to him, the thought that she might not be the mate crossed her mind.
‘Will I ever feel like this person?’
After finding the reason she had to become his mate.
Then, could she feel that she came here to meet this person?
Would the new life, no longer being a prophet, feel like her life?
‘Maybe.’
It might not be so bad.
‘I died once.’
So, maybe it was right to live a new life.
As the Empress of the Empire.
“Well then… …But?”
“What’s wrong?”
Suddenly, a thought she had never had before came to mind.
“Did anything happen to the Empress?”
She was reborn into the Empress’s body. If that’s the case, what happened to the Empress?
The Empress wouldn’t have died like her. If she did, she wouldn’t have shown such a surprised reaction when Lacelia woke up.
“Nothing happened.”
If nothing happened to the Empress, what could have happened?
“If the Empress and you exchanged bodies, then the Empress must have died.”
“Ah…”
She couldn’t know the circumstances of the body swap, but that seemed to be the most plausible explanation.
At the moment of her death, their souls must have switched places, and instead of becoming the Empress, the Empress must have died as the Delarta’s Prophet.
It felt very strange.
To her, it was a new life, but to the Empress, it was a life taken away.
“The sorcerer who claimed that the Empress was bewitched might know something.”
Lacelia was surprised.
“Did you know about that too?”
“Decan is sharp.”
Although his tone was casual, he knew it wasn’t so.
Since it was an important secret, the Empress and Duke Pheleion would have done everything to avoid attracting others’ attention. Especially when dealing with the Emperor.
Suddenly, she realized that maintaining lies against him was futile.
“It’s a guess, but the body swap must be related to that sorcery. Come to think of it, this is what you wanted to know, right?”
“Maybe.”
“Then we just need to find that sorcerer.”
Rescal suddenly smiled.
The unexpected smile had an unforeseen effect. Without knowing the reason, her heart suddenly pounded.
‘Why is this happening… He just smiled.’
Rescal touched his forehead to Lacelia’s forehead.
Because of that, she worried that her heartbeat might be too loud.
“You don’t like Duke Pheleion, and you don’t want a divorce from me. So, all we need to do is find the sorcerer.”
“…….”
She felt like she knew the reason her heart was pounding at those words.
‘Is it because he likes me so much?’
She could tell he was very pleased. The only reason for his happiness was her.
That fact was shaking her bit by bit.
“I have to poke Decan.”
In those words, it already implied that Decan was looking for the sorcerer who bewitched the Empress.
Without any pause, Rescal pressed his lips against Lacelia’s cheek.
“Ah…”
Then he stopped, still with his lips pressed.
“Why are you doing this?”
“I was going to go back and call Decan…,”
“But?”
“I don’t want to go back.”
Rescal sighed slowly.
“I have to go back… But, can I come back later? I won’t stay long.”
His words sounded a bit strange.
“Weren’t you coming to ask for rest after work?”
“It’s not over yet. It’s not the time for that. …But did you think I came to ask for rest?”
Rescal suddenly lifted his head. Sensing that something might touch her, Lacelia leaned her hesitant body backward.
“Yes… like before, in the next room,”
Rescal hastily interrupted her.
“You sent me away.”
“Yes, that…,”
It was when she pretended to be angry, planning to create distance between her and the Emperor.
“Did you forget that?”
“No. It’s just that I thought Your Majesty had forgotten that I did that.”
“Anyone would think that if you forget, it becomes a non-event.”
“It’s not necessarily like that…,”
…No, maybe it was.
There was no reason to be angry now. There was no reason to avoid him.
And Rescal keenly noticed why Lacelia was blurring the end of her sentence.
“Then, forget that I found you unfamiliar.”
Before she could ask what that meant, Rescal wrapped Lacelia with one arm and gently held her chin with his other hand.
In the next moment, their lips met.
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!!!
