A few days after going out, my father returned in a highly excited state.
“Max!”
“Big brother hasn’t returned from the Count of Menisil yet.”
No sooner had I finished speaking than Maximilian came in, one cheek swollen.
“Is that a hit on you?”
“……”
“What on earth are you doing!”
“It’s nothing. Just, just……”
Something Maximilian was about to say, but he closed his mouth.
Seeing him like that, the Duke shouted.
“You pathetic wretch! Stop it now. As if that child will change her mind by doing so!”
“Teresa misunderstands. If she hears my story……!”
Maximilian’s expression looked wronged, as if he were the one who had abandoned his love like a flirt, not Teresa.
“What misunderstanding! A misunderstanding that will freeze to death!”
As if he had been waiting, my father began to pour out the words he had been holding back.
“You think I don’t know that you’ve been avoiding Teresa every day! I thought you two would talk it out sometime, but in the end, this is what happened. Do you know what I heard today when I went out?”
“……”
“That Teresa dumped you because you were going around with this woman and that woman. You’re like your mother, never satisfied with one woman!”
Both Maximilian and I were taken aback by the unexpectedly severe criticism.
Mentioning my mother’s name had been taboo in our family for a long time.
“Do I have to hear this! What have you been doing regularly!”
“It’s not like that. I’m not like my mother……”
“Enough! I don’t want to hear any more. Tomorrow, I’ll go to the Menisil family and say we’ll divorce without compensation.”
“Father!”
The Duke pushed aside Maximilian’s attempts to stop him and stomped back into his room.
Left alone, he had the face of a man who had lost his country.
I turned away.
It was a fitting end for a fool.
I stared blankly out the window, checking my next plan.
I wasn’t particularly worried about Maximilian’s future. With the impressive background of the Duke’s family, what was there to worry about?
Rather, I worried about Teresa’s future.
A long engagement and quite a lot of rumors would not make marriage easy.
‘I did well to choose a husband in advance.’
I wondered how I could bring the two of them together.
[This is the time separator]Nathaniel had been in a bad mood since morning.
An imperial summons had come early in the morning, notifying him of a lunch appointment.
The requirement that the whole family attend had turned his stomach.
Nathaniel gnashed his teeth and was stuck in his office, rummaging through papers.
The appointment time was approaching, but he did not seem to want to move.
Finally, his adjutant Marcus quietly opened his mouth.
“Your Highness, you’ll be late if you don’t go now.”
Nathaniel’s red eyes glared at Marcus, who flinched and tightly gripped the documents he was holding.
“How much time is left?”
“About 30 minutes.”
After a moment’s closed eyes and deep breath, Nathaniel rose from his seat.
It was inevitable.
He left the east wing and slowly headed to the main building.
As he passed by, he felt the glances flicking at him starkly.
“Tsk.”
The looks, as if seeing a circus monster, were still unfamiliar to him.
‘If they knew I could actually transform into a dragon, they would be ready to stuff me.’
The imperial people’s belief in dragons was tremendous.
One of the reasons he was able to keep his position as crown prince, despite having a despised mother from a humble family, was the people’s faith.
However, Nathaniel was not pleased with this.
‘It’s just a hassle.’
To him, being born with the blood of a dragon meant living a life with many restrictions.
People’s expectations of him, who was born like a god, were enormous.
He remembered a person who treated him like nothing more than a baby animal.
‘She was a strange woman.’
Moreover, she had the audacity to propose a deal to him.
And for a ridiculous purpose.
Not for herself or her family, but for her big brother’s fiancée.
Nathaniel, remembering the bold face of Jaina, unwittingly smiled.
“Oh, brother!”
At the sound of his name, Nathaniel turned his head. His youngest brother, Prince Henry, ran up to him and clung to his leg.
“It’s been a while, Henry.”
“You’ve been well?”
“Soso.”
Nathaniel patted Henry’s head.
His curly blond hair, like his father’s, was all messed up.
“Crown Prince Nathaniel.”
“It’s been a while, Your Majesty the Empress.”
And then, Empress Milia and Princess Anais made their appearance.
The Empress, who forcefully detached Henry, who had been clinging to Nathaniel’s leg, did not hide her hostility.
“It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen your face. How busy you must be.”
“Seeing my face probably won’t please you.”
“Isn’t that something I’ll have to see for myself?”
The Empress disliked Nathaniel.
It was because her son could not sit in the Crown Prince’s seat because of Nathaniel.
But besides that, there was also an instinctive repulsion.
The Empress found his black hair and red eyes, which the imperial citizens considered sacred, creepy.
Why She Is Still Unmoved (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He uses various methods to seek her affection, but she remains unmoved.
Synopsis:
Si Qingyu is a doctor who has saved countless lives and enjoys tranquility.
Luo Shaoxuan is ruthless, deeply scheming, and the top young master in the capital. He admires Si Qingyu.
Luo Shaoxuan: I want to be the only one in your eyes and heart.
Features a cold and calm female lead vs A noble and scheming male lead.
There will be both sweetness and torture towards the male after their marriage.
