Maximilian eyed me suspiciously at my answer. Yes, honestly, I couldn’t even trust myself in this situation.
But what can I do, it’s the truth.
I was angry and felt wronged, but I had no choice.
“It’s really nothing. We just talk occasionally and make jokes, that’s all.”
Maximilian looked surprised at my response.
“Jenny, do you not know who Prince Nathaniel is? Having a normal conversation and making jokes with him is a tremendous feat.”
“……”
Maximilian had a point.
In the original work, Nathaniel was a bit crazy.
He seemed sane only when he was with Teresa.
“His Highness must have taken quite a liking to you.”
“No, that’s not…”
I guess there’s nothing I could do even if I didn’t like it.
Because I had discovered his secret!
Certainly, in the original work, Nathaniel turned into a massive dragon and abandoned the dead empire by flying away after Teresa’s death.
But now, he is in the form of a small and adorable creature.
“It might have turned out well, actually, since you two seem to get along.”
“What do you mean?”
I asked at Maximilian’s incomprehensible mutterings.
He bit his lip as if he had made a mistake.
“What? Tell me before I get angry.”
“That… His Majesty actually wished for you and Prince Nathaniel to get married.”
What is this nonsense?
“Father went to the palace yesterday and heard it. He wanted either the Sorche mine or your marriage.”
“Are you insane? That’s our territory’s lifeline, and he asked for it?”
“That’s why you should choose marriage…”
My head was spinning.
The Emperor never really wanted the Sorche mine.
Even though Maximilian had committed a crime against the crown, that mine was not a simple private property.
Many territory’s livelihoods were dependent on it.
It was just a strong expression of the Emperor’s desire for my marriage with Nathaniel.
“It’s impossible.”
“But you and His Highness being like that, my guilt feels somewhat alleviated.”
“No, no! I told you it’s not like that!”
Maximilian looked at me with sentimental eyes.
“That’s right.”
“No, really, it’s not!”
Maximilian patted my shoulder and left the room.
Only my vain cry of denial echoed in the room.
[This is the time separator]
In just one night, the situation had turned around.
The Emperor was bowing his head, sweating coldly, while the Duke was sitting with his legs crossed.
“I trusted Your Majesty.”
“No, I didn’t know we were in that kind of relationship…”
The Emperor closed his mouth at the Duke’s glaring gaze.
“In the bed of a virtuous virgin…!”
The Duke, trying to speak, recalled the absurd scene this morning.
I thought my eyes were deceiving me.
An enormous accident from my daughter, who had never had a minor accident.
And it was tied to the snakelike royal family.
“Are you saying it’s not what you told me?”
“No, why would I say that? If I had known they were meeting, I wouldn’t have pushed for Anais and Max’s marriage.”
The Emperor was right.
But the Duke felt very uncomfortable.
It felt like playing on a wellmade stage.
“Anyway, since they’re like that, you’ll agree to proceed with what we talked about yesterday?”
“But won’t Her Majesty the Empress be uncomfortable?”
She wasn’t even the real mother of the Crown Prince.
Moreover, Princess Anais suffered tremendous shame because of Maximilian.
It would have been rumored all over the empire.
Now Jaina is entering the royal palace where the two are glaring with red eyes.
Anyone could see this was a marriage to hell.
As a Duke, it was beneficial for her to marry, but as a father, he couldn’t approve of this marriage.
“Don’t worry. I will protect her. Isn’t that enough?”
“I’m more worried because it’s Your Majesty.”
He couldn’t trust that man.
But to trust Nathaniel…
The Duke looked at the Crown Prince, who was sitting silently.
His serene expression, as if it wasn’t his business, was suspicious.
Certainly, here’s the translated passage:
“Please give me more time to think. After all, since the two are meeting anyway, there’s no need to rush the marriage, is there?”
“Think about Princess Anais, too. She’s being torn apart everywhere, so if it’s going to happen anyway, shouldn’t we spread some big rumors to cover it up?”
As he thought of Princess Anais, the Duke felt a pang of conscience.
Though it was his son’s doing, it was not as if he bore no responsibility at all.
“Anais had a rather difficult time growing up. That’s why I wanted to marry her to Max, who she likes. You’re raising a daughter too, so I thought you’d understand my feelings…”
The Emperor dabbed at his eyes as though wiping away tears and muttered,
“What an absurd thing this is all of a sudden.”
As a fellow father, the Duke began to waver.
“Please, do it moderately. Isn’t this marriage something I’m doing? I really can’t understand why there’s such a fuss about it.”
Nathaniel found this attitude incomprehensible.
To actually leave out the two parties involved and only make a show among themselves!
“Are you saying you won’t take responsibility now, after coming into our daughter’s bed?”
But Nathaniel’s bluntness ignited the Duke’s anger.
“You, you!”
“Oh dear, Duke. You’ll collapse at this rate.”
“Isn’t that a statement that you won’t take responsibility for my daughter!”
The Emperor sharply stepped on Nathaniel’s foot that had thrown ashes onto the done deal and patted the Duke’s shoulder.
“After all, marriage is the union of families. If my Duke agrees, I’ll push it through.”
The Emperor spat out all kinds of sweet words to win the Duke’s favor.
“You must take responsibility for my daughter, Your Majesty.”
“Yes, yes. I will make sure to take responsibility, so don’t worry and go back.”
The Emperor sent off the Duke, who was screaming in frustration, with soothing words.
In recent days, the stress built up over the marriage issue exploded, and the Duke spat out curses as he went outside.
‘Jaina’s talent for cursing must be from her father,’
Nathaniel thought as he sat in his place.
The Emperor, who escorted the Duke and returned to his office, was now smiling broadly.
“You have an eye for women. Well done, very well done.”
Not knowing what he had done well, Nathaniel remained silent.
So the day passed with everyone’s thoughts differently.
A few days later, the Crown Prince’s gifts and flowers, along with the formal proposal, arrived for Jaina.
“Why is it turning out like this!”
Jaina screamed.
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
