She distinctly felt the sensation she had felt the day she was hit and killed by a carriage.
‘Ah, I have not yet secured your portrait…….’
Feeling the terror of death, Ines instinctively had to go towards him further.
It was like a blind spell she had cast in order to survive this cruel world.
The voices of people shouting at her and the child gradually faded away into a misty fog.
Only that man running towards her in the silent white darkness was clear.
(This is a time separator.)
Carson, despite seeing the mad horse charging towards his sibling, could not rush to him due to the enemies that surrounded him, appearing as black shadows.
Seeing the horse charge at his sibling with clear intent to kill, he felt despair, anger, and powerlessness all at once.
Dodging an arrow flying towards his face, cutting down his surrounding enemies one by one, at that moment, Carson saw the blondehaired woman throwing herself towards his sibling.
And he saw her holding his sibling in her arms.
Even while fending off the enemies, Carson continued to check behind him and saw the thin and frail woman lift up his sibling in her arms.
Confirming that his sibling Louisianne was clinging to the woman’s neck and nodding, he kicked down the last remaining enemy and promptly thrust his sword into him.
But as Carson quickly turned to go to his sibling, he found himself frozen in place.
Thump, thump, an inexplicable heartbeat pounded loudly in his ears.
The woman holding Louis was certainly someone he had never seen before.
Yet, strangely, she did not seem unfamiliar, and he began to feel an inexplicable suffocation.
His sibling was safe.
He could tell just by the way Louis was firmly clinging to the woman’s body. So the suffocation tormenting him was not the fear of possibly losing his sibling.
He put strength into his foot again to go to Louis, but the moment he saw the woman slowly walking towards him, he was stuck in place, as if something choked him.
Stagger, stagger, stagger.
The limping gait of the approaching woman somehow seemed perfect to him in that moment. Throughout his travels around the world, seeing countless beautiful pieces of art, he had never dared to feel the appreciation of something being perfect.
But now, this moment, the appearance of a woman, her face smeared with blood and unable to walk properly, immobilized him as if entrapping him.
At that time, the slender woman staggered once. At the sight, Carson began to run.
The mere thirty steps felt as if a lifetime, caught in a strange feeling.
She eventually slumped to the ground, but did not lose consciousness.
No. He could not be sure that she had not lost consciousness. Only because there was not a single focus in her gaze towards him.
Approaching, Carson slowly extended his hand, and looking at the place where the guards were blocking people by the roadside, he said,
“Take my hand. If we walk about ten steps, we can go to a safe place.”
For a moment, a light shone in the woman’s eyes, and her wick was firmly in place.
And without hesitation, she entwined her hand with his.
With her frail and injured body, she suddenly picked up the child. Without any unnecessary movement, Carson felt an illusion as if time had stopped for a moment.
When he came to his senses and reached out to take Louis from her, neither her younger brother nor she wanted him. Glancing, the child who saw his older brother burst into tears, but did not let go of the hand around the stranger woman’s neck.
Then, the woman put a ring on the hand she was holding with her bloodstained hand. Suddenly, blood gushed once more from somewhere in her body and flowed straight to her face.
As the slender hand, gripped as if slipping, couldn’t penetrate his thick fingers and kept slipping out, Carson instinctively gripped the spaces between the woman’s fingers tighter.
Though the woman winced in pain and retreated her fingers, he pushed her tightly without a single gap and grasped her tightly.
The woman’s outstretched fingers eventually did not touch the back of his hand and whitened in the air. Carson put strength into the hand he held, helping the woman to move.
She sighed deeply and smiled faintly, moving her feet to match Carson’s pace. And then she began to murmur,
“……Give everything to me. But…… those who want too much will eventually go emptyhanded.”
Her words, like a prayer or spell, were completely lost in the murmuring noise.
And then she walked exactly ten steps and fell down on the spot, losing consciousness.
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!!!
