Wipe my chair too when you clean. My chair was still in a state where dust had settled down whitely.
He calmly took a handkerchief from his pocket and placed it on the chair before sitting in front of him. The Emperor, who had been watching me quietly, looked at the empty table with a displeased expression.
“I’ll overlook the oversight of not serving me tea.”
“Even now……”
“Isn’t it not the time for us to have tea alone?”
“Ah. Yes, it is.”
What to do. Thanks to his kind words, I didn’t even want to bring the tea he wanted. But contrary to his words, the Emperor’s expression became a little strange in response to my answer.
Although he said it wasn’t time for tea alone, he had a disappointed expression. But I had nothing to regret, so I just nodded.
A very brief silence flowed.
For quite a while. The Emperor, who seemed to have something to say, moved his lips for quite a while before he spoke.
“Something unexpected happened.”
“Yes? Something unexpected?”
“You were right. I have a son.”
“Oh! That’s fortunate……”
Huh? Wait. As I was about to agree with him that I was right, I was surprised and asked in disbelief.
“You didn’t know you had a son?”
“I said I didn’t have a son, even that day.”
“You weren’t pretending……not to know……were you?”
“It was real.”
What? It was real? The real Emperor didn’t know? That day, saying he had no son, wasn’t that to keep it a secret?
Then I was…… insisting on having a son to someone who didn’t have a son…… I must have looked like a slightly insane woman.
‘How crazy must he have thought I was.’
My cheeks flushed.
“You really…… saw me as an insane woman?”
“Of course.”
“Ah.”
“I really thought you were crazy. You kept saying I had a son I didn’t have.”
Looking at him nodding confidently, shame overwhelmed me.
What’s this? Why didn’t I know? It was clearly stated in the novel that day. When that day’s events came to mind, the heat did not subside.
The Emperor seemed to find these aspects amusing as he crossed his legs and propped his chin, but I wanted to hide in a mouse hole.
‘Come to think of it……. The Emperor never explicitly stated he knew. He just accepted the child as his son on Rodelo’s 8th birthday……. He never stated he knew from the beginning.’
No, I assumed he knew, of course.
‘I was stupid. In the novel, Rodelo was left in an orphanage with lost memories and came to the palace, bringing traces of the Emperor’s youngest brother. I thought he sent it. I mistook that he sent his own son to an orphanage because he brought traces of that youngest brother……. I……was foolish.’
While thinking this, the Emperor looked at me with apparent interest.
“So I became curious.”
“Wh, what?”
I had barely cooled down the heat that had risen to my cheeks.
“How did you notice? The existence of that child?”
Ah. I was worried he’d ask something else, but it’s a huge relief.
‘No, is this also a problem?’
How did you notice? I thought for a moment and smiled broadly. I still felt dry in my mouth due to the heat left on my cheeks.
I had thought that someday the Emperor would be curious about anything.
Because the existence of a son unknown to anyone was discovered by the grace of a mere Count’s house. I had practiced several times what I would say when that time came.
“I’m a little special!”
“Special?”
“Yes!”
The Emperor nodded as if he had gained some realization.
“Come to think of it, your younger sister is Shanencia Velloche.”
“Ah.”
“Did that child find out something?”
My expression involuntarily hardened.
“Shasha, no, Shanencia has nothing to do with it. I just have a special power. So I can see the future very fragmentarily.”
It’s a hardly useful statement. ‘I can see the future.’
Everything I know will be meaningless here in this novel, since I approached the Emperor. But there was nothing else to say.
So I spoke more confidently, and the Emperor looked at me for quite a while.
The words that I can see the future.
That clichéd development, the words that I know the future, or let’s get married, or let’s make a deal, I was saying all of that now.
Honestly, I used to think, ‘You believe that? Those words claiming to know an unobservable event, without any doubt?’ when I saw the novel’s heroines say such things.
Even if it’s fictionally permissible, I would have doubted it first.
But whether it was because Shanencia had a special power, the Emperor did not doubt. I even felt a strange credibility in my words.
“Then tell me more.”
“Yes?”
“That future you say you can see.”
What did he leave to me? Why so confident? I’m not a fortune teller, nor do I know how to see the future. Even if I did, I didn’t want to tell him so bluntly.
“Why should I?”
“You want to be the mother of my son, don’t you?”
“Yes.”
“Then shouldn’t you enchant me more?”
“That’s why I can’t say more.”
I was suddenly filled with indignation, but there was nothing I could do at the moment. There was nothing I could do but ardently rebut his words.
“Oh?”
“Once everything is said, you might even think I’ve become unnecessary, shouldn’t I keep something?”
My hidden legs inside the dress were trembling. Is this okay for me? Is it okay to speak so confidently in front of the Emperor?
But I knew he would say that, so I set up a device called ‘fragmentary future.’ There was a strange force behind my words.
It was not just insistence without reason, it was a legitimate reason.
Sure enough, his reaction to my arrogant words was markedly different.
His eyes flared red. They were eyes that made me worry he might kill me on the spot. What now? Shall I throw anything at him even now?
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!!!
