I Didn't Really Want to Do Farming! (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 53

Even after everything had concluded, Melissa couldn’t leave her seat for a while.

She hadn’t noticed before, when the princess was wearing that shabby hunting outfit, but dressed up, the princess was actually quite presentable. No—honestly speaking, she was a woman with a strangely alluring charm that kept drawing Melissa’s eyes.

‘It’s getting under my skin.’

Melissa had never once failed to obtain something she wanted in her entire life. From the moment of her birth, she’d been blessed with overflowing wealth, power, stunning beauty, exceptional intellect, and even swordsmanship.

Moreover, she possessed an innate tenacity—whatever she set her mind to, she achieved, no matter what.

She’d started learning swordsmanship as a child out of sheer rivalry with Kai. Back then, it hadn’t mattered to her that Kai was a prince—or even that he was male.

Her parents, who never bowed their heads before anyone else, couldn’t lift their eyes in front of Kai and his father.

That infuriated her, annoyed her, and made her inexplicably resent Kai. So, she studied like a madwoman and honed her swordsmanship, determined to flatten that brat’s nose.

But the more time she spent wielding a sword, the more it felt as though the blade had always been her destiny.

For a long while, nothing stirred Melissa’s competitive spirit. At some point, Kai had ceased to be someone she wanted to defeat—he’d become someone she wanted to possess, someone she longed to embrace.

She wanted to be the only woman in his arms. And she was certain that no one but herself deserved to stand beside him.

Even as beautiful princesses flooded into the empire like blossoms in spring, Kai never spared them a glance. But then—

“A violet-horned lizard, huh….”

She couldn’t forget the face of that woman, cheerfully smiling as she held up her purple horn.

Nothing special could possibly have happened between them, yet it mattered deeply that Kai had looked at her once more.

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