“I won’t love, and I won’t crave love. I won’t even urge you to make an affair.”
Strangely, his expression seemed to change. His brow, which had been wrinkled like a medal all day, became stiff as if ironed out, and his violent red eyes became even redder.
‘He was handsome, indeed.’
But as they said, being handsome doesn’t feed you. Just makes life harder. Therefore, a sturdy husband is preferable.
“I understand.”
“You really don’t have to worry. It’s not my taste.”
He spoke with the utmost smile, meaning not to worry.
“I get it. No need to keep saying that.”
“Yes.”
That was the end of it.
There were no words like, ‘I will think about it and contact you,’ or ‘Your words have persuaded me, so I’ll think positively.’ The emperor just stared at me silently.
‘It’s perfect without a wife.’
It wasn’t that the emperor, who despised women, never had a wife. There were a few women who became empresses in novels.
Because the position of empress was vacant, the ministers sent many petitions to him. There cannot be an empty hostess position in the empire, they insisted. Despite the emperor’s disapproval, they forcibly sent their daughters to the palace.
In the end, he reluctantly granted the position of empress, but most couldn’t even hold the position for a year and ended up leaving the palace on their own.
At first, the women who seemed not to crave love all ended up craving love and wanting an affair. They were neither brought in by him nor did they enter voluntarily.
Though the emperor gave the palace and the position of empress, that was all. Eventually, they all voiced dissatisfaction with the emperor’s indifference, and their fathers constantly argued with the emperor.
Each time this happened, the emperor’s hatred for women deepened, and eventually, he expelled the ministers who insisted on bringing in an empress. Along with the declaration that there would be no more women in the palace.
Because of the constantly changing stepmothers, the crown prince’s personality became even more eccentric.
“Your name?”
“Ah! Isabella Bellochi.”
“Bellochi? A family I’ve heard of.”
With a strange expression, he nodded.
“I understand.”
That was the end of it. There were no words like, ‘I’ll think about it,’ or ‘I’ll contact you.’ The emperor, with a personality no different than what appears, simply said his piece and disappeared.
Only then did her legs tremble like aspen leaves.
‘Is it… over?’
What just happened seemed like a dream. Did I really propose marriage to the emperor? Did the emperor really listen to me?
It felt like a dream, but the handkerchief stained with red wine drops here and there proved that I had done something.
(This is a time separator.)
After the party was over, and I returned home, I didn’t even have the energy to move a finger.
I lay down without even taking off my clothes.
“Miss, are you alright?”
“Yeah. I’m fine, so go away.”
“But shouldn’t I at least help you with your clothes…….”
“No. I don’t have the strength to even groan.”
At those words, the maids nodded and looked around.
“Miss, I wonder.”
“Yes?”
“Is Miss Shasha still pretty to you?”
“Why bring that up all of a sudden?”
“You seemed to care about it a lot…….”
She narrowed her eyes at them, trailing off.
“What happened to Shasha?”
“Not yet!”
“Not yet? So something is happening.”
“We didn’t say anything!”
But the maids didn’t say a word and quickly went outside. Anyway, they are the countess’s people. So no matter how rudely they behave toward me, they won’t get fired.
Rather, the countess is watching me through them. The original Isabella seemed unaware of this.
But now that I’m in this body, I feel it clearly. They are watching me. If I feel this way, the maids attached to Shasha must feel more.
So anxiety creeps in.
‘What are they trying to do?’
It’s a house that I don’t like at all.
If the maids are going to talk, they should talk all the way, leaving people curious.
“Ah…… Let’s sleep for now.”
Due to the tension, I fell asleep like that, as if someone had knocked me out. I didn’t open my eyes again until the next day.
If I were to describe the feeling when I opened my eyes, I thought I had died again.
Because an enormous number of flowers filled the room, surrounding my body. I was lying in the middle of the flowers, as if I were placed in a coffin.
“Am I dead?!”
“Sister, are you dead?!”
When I screamed in surprise, Shasha’s voice followed.
“Huh……?”
“Sister, are you dead?”
Only then did I lift my head and shift my gaze to where the voice was coming from. A head popped out from among the flowers.
“Shasha?”
“Yes! Sister, are you alive?”
“Yes. Probably……? But what’s this?”
“Yes! Well……”
Shasha awkwardly scratched her head and then laughed sheepishly.
“When going to see a sick person, you should take flowers, but Shasha has never seen flowers before…… So I thought about it, and this happened. But I’m making a bouquet just like I saw in the books!”
Shasha cheerfully handed me the clumsily gathered bouquet.
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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