A kingdom ruled by a young, almost boyish king became like a golden nugget fallen from the sky rather than an ally to be cooperated with.
Wars erupted from all directions even before the mourning was properly observed.
Kain, who lost his parents at the same time, went to war and returned alive, but the circumstances were different for other houses.
In families with brothers, the younger ones went to war in place of the heads.
In those without male heirs, the heads themselves went to war.
In cases where the heir was still unmarried, hasty marriages were arranged without considering the family’s status or customs. This was to ensure a successor before going to war.
After five years of war, the kingdom under Valkyter’s rule stabilized, but eligible noble bachelors were scarce.
Noblewomen’s worries about finding a marriage partner deepened.
Some quickly turned to foreign nobles.
However, as the situation of the kingdom’s marriage market during the war became known abroad, they began to scrutinize the family’s status and wealth more carefully in times of peace.
Daughters who had sought young and attractive foreign nobles were increasingly marrying older, wounded men.
Then, they started to accept wealthy and well-established commoners working in the palace or running businesses as sons-in-law, regardless of their noble status.
This led to a backlash from the wealthy commoners. They resented that their top marriage prospects were being taken by nobles due to their status.
On the male side, marrying into nobility guaranteed noble status for their children, so marriages were carefully calculated. When intended marriages between commoners were disrupted, scuffles often broke out on the streets.
“You didn’t want to marry abroad!”
Even looking abroad, Bianke was averse to older husbands.
Queen Sylvia left behind Valkyter and Bianke.
Her twin sister, Elise, married into the Duke of Temnes’ family and gave birth to Kain.
Their mother, identical twins, had strikingly similar beauty but different styles and atmospheres, so there was no confusion between the two.
However, both Valkyter and Kain, the sons born to the twins, were raised outside of the main family, resulting in both of them being exceptionally handsome. There were many opinions that the two resembled each other because their mothers were twins.
For Bianke, who had grown up closely observing only Valkyter and Kain as male peers, the idea of marrying gentlemen of a wider age range seemed repulsive to her.
Especially on the day of her debutante ball.
After returning from her debutante ball, Bianke spent the night scrubbing her hands with soap from the countless kisses of middle-aged gentlemen, resolving never to marry anyone but Kain.
Some might think it was an overreaction since the kisses were on her gloved hand, but to Bianke, the marriage market situation in the Kingdom of Oberon was that shocking.
“Your groom.”
Valkyter spoke.
“I plan to start looking now.”
“What?”
Tears welled up in Bianke’s eyes.
“You gave away the kingdom’s best groom to that worthless Belmont. Are you insane? Saying you’ll start looking now.”
Her mother’s only sister was the Duchess of Temnes.
To Bianke, who hated Belmont as much as Temnes, her aunt Elise was also a significant figure.
“Princess Bianke.”
Valkyter called her sternly.
“Do you think that behavior is fitting for a princess?”
His formal address meant that she should not expect any concession.
“I hope you don’t suspect that I’d send my only sister to be an old noble’s second wife. Now leave.”
“……I shall heed the king’s will.”
Bianke, clenching her teeth, reluctantly bowed and headed out of his chamber.
But her shattered dreams of romance fueled her anger, and she couldn’t help but shout.
“A royal decree can cancel a marriage! If it’s not Kain, I’d rather die!”
The servants opening the door in the corridor were startled by Bianke’s cry, turning statue-like, only glancing at the king.
“Lacking even the courage to die.”
Valkyter muttered cynically, then stared into space.
“It’s been about a month? Since he entered the tomb called marriage.”
Even now, having pushed his cousin of the same age into the abyss of marriage, Valkyter remained unmarried.
It was unprecedented for someone his age not to have a queen.
Crown princes were usually betrothed by five or six years old.
He remained unmarried for a reason.
He wanted a wife better than anyone Kain could have.
Kain might not have realized it, but Valkyter had always disliked him since childhood.
He hated being associated with the Duke’s heir and the twin princesses because of his mother, and he loathed being constantly compared about who was better or worse.
Yet, Kain was a useful chess piece.
The House of Temnes, naturally prolific, had many relatives in the collateral line.
Kain thought that if something happened to him, someone from the collateral line could continue the lineage.
Valkyter detested Kain’s arrogance, confident he could accomplish everything as he wished.
That’s why he ordered him to marry into the Belmont family.
He intended to give Kain the most terrible marriage possible.
Valkyter smiled beautifully, imagining a blood-red northern wind blowing over Temnes.
“Maybe next month there will be a good show. I hope it will be amusing.”
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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