She almost answered ‘yes, no, yes’ again but decided to change the subject.

“After buying jewelry, we went to a café. It was a garden café, very pretty.”

“A garden café? I can’t quite imagine that.”

“Right? There were lots of rose bushes in the garden, and tables were placed between the flower bushes where we sat and had tea.”

“So many flowers?”

“Yes.”

Hannah’s genuine reaction, typical of a fellow Northerner from Belmonte, encouraged Clodel to continue.

“You should have come too, Hannah.”

“Oh, no. You should enjoy a romantic date with the Duke.”

“Date?”

Clodel’s eyes widened.

“A date?”

Hannah chuckled at her reaction.

“Getting gifts, a gentleman escorting a lady for a walk, having tea together, and chatting – if that’s not a date, what is?”

“Ah…?”

Was it really? Was it more than just going to buy jewelry?

Clodel knew what a date was, after all.
Hannah would sometimes bring thin books for the castle maids to read, entertaining stories about young ladies who had just completed their debutante balls falling in love with handsome noble gentlemen.

“Aren’t dates usually initiated by men asking women out?” Clodel thought, realizing Kyan hadn’t made such a request.

Swallowing her dessert, Hannah replied, “Well, you’re already married and living together, so there’s no need to formally set a date and time.”

“A date. It was my first one,” Clodel’s eyes slightly drooped. “I didn’t realize it was a date. I was too preoccupied.”

“Hmm. As long as you didn’t make any major mistakes, it’s okay. Maybe it’s better you didn’t realize it was your first date.”

“Is that so?”

“If you’re too conscious about it, you might just make more mistakes,” Hannah reassured Clodel.

“The Duke is completely smitten with you, you know. He’ll surely take you to nice places again soon.”

“Do you think so?”

“Absolutely.”

Clodel’s heart fluttered. ‘What if it wasn’t a date?’

Once her heart started to race, it couldn’t easily calm down.

Days at Lowen Castle were becoming steadily more stable.

As Clodel recovered, she quickly regained her former health.

But late at night, lying in bed, she found herself unable to sleep.

After her illness worsened, she lost consciousness and then recovered with the medicine Kyan brought. For a while, she ate and slept well.

But as her body revived enough to breathe freely again, insomnia began.

“It’s been three days,” she noted, having been unable to sleep for that long.

Previously, when she was unwell, she would lie in bed in her nightgown even during the day.

Especially before revealing her illness from the Herzol and being injured during the alligator hunt, she continually convalesced in bed. Even if she couldn’t sleep at night, Hannah would comfort her during the day and help her nap.

But lately, with daytime activities like meals with Kyan, meeting doctors, dance practice, and leg therapy, there was no time for naps.

Her body, which had been gaining weight nicely, now felt like it might start losing weight again due to the lack of sleep.

Clodel sighed deeply.

During sleepless nights, her mind was filled with sad and painful memories.

She remembered when she and Hannah, both young and innocent, watched their cozy village, which had been like a nest to them, burn like a massive bonfire.

“Mom! Mommy!”

How did she know that once the fire died, she would never see her mother again? Crying out, Clodel instinctively called for her mother, reaching out towards the fiery inferno.

“Clodel, let’s go.”

“No, Dad. I want to go with Mommy.”

Evan picked up the crying Clodel.

“Mom’s not here. She must have escaped.”

“Uncle, what about my mom, dad, and my sibling?”

“Of course.”

Evan, with Hannah in his other arm, caught Clodel’s eye.

She reached out and held Hannah’s hand.

Together, Evan carried the young children in his arms, running through the forest, escaping the wildfire.

Why did he lie?

She never had the chance to ask.

Even after ten years, that moment remained vivid in her memory.
Ten years had passed, yet that moment had not faded a bit from Clodel’s memory.

She spent nights reliving the fiery night hundreds, thousands of times.

As days went by, Clodel found it increasingly hard to endure.

Clang.

During a meal with Kyan, she dozed off, causing her fork to clatter noisily onto the plate.

“What’s wrong? Are you in pain?”

When she regained consciousness, she was in Kyan’s arms. He was frowning, gently tapping her cheek, seemingly annoyed.

But now she understood. That expression wasn’t one of anger.

Despite his rough manner, he was attentively caring for her needs.

“I have a request.”

“What is it?”

And so, the words just slipped out.

“I want to sleep together every night.”

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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