Yerim couldn’t believe the fact that a girl who would be forgotten by anyone even if she appeared as a background somewhere, looking like a mere supporting character that the protagonist brushes by, dared to defeat her.
‘Yeah. Once can happen. I did get a little complacent coming to high school.’
Yerim steadied herself and sat at her desk more and slept less, driving herself harder.
But the result was a complete defeat.
Until the end of the first year, she could not receive the number 1 even once.
Even during the final exams, she reduced her sleeping and eating time to study, lived with anemia and coughing, but the number 2 still appeared on her report card.
While Yerim was becoming emaciated with anxiety, that child looked so comfortable and bright.
She even secretly investigated the 1st place student, but both parents were just ordinary high school teachers who graduated from a modest teacher’s college.
They were incomparable to herself, with everyone in her family having graduated from prestigious universities and holding most master’s or doctoral degrees.
Her friends consoled her.
‘You’re much prettier anyway.’
‘Right. She collapsed while running long in the fitness field, didn’t she?’
‘Overall, you win, Yerim! A total win!’
But in Yerim’s ears, her friends’ consolation only sounded like mockery.
It was the same at home. The family didn’t say anything specific about Yerim’s report card, but in her head, she constantly heard their mocking voices.
‘We gave birth to you so smart, but you can’t even utilize it?’
‘We’ve provided you with expensive private tutors, and you’re perennially 2nd place?’
‘You can’t even beat a child from an ordinary home and you disgrace the family?’
Of course, these were just voices in Yerim’s delusions.
In fact, her family didn’t care about Yerim’s grades.
The comfort for her was that she already had two welloff brothers, so what her parents wanted from Yerim was only one thing: to grow up healthy and beautiful and marry into a good family.
So no one in the family cared or asked about her grades.
‘AAAAAAHH!!’
Yerim, relieving a year’s worth of stress by tearing an innocent doll, made up her mind.
Next year, she would regain the number 1, no matter what.
But cruelly, no matter what she did, Yerim was always 2nd place.
Around the end of the second year, Yerim finally realized.
That she was not the protagonist.
Her world, where she shone without much effort, where she never doubted that she was always the protagonist, crumbled down.
For the first time in her life, Velia felt the urge to bite the hand that wrapped around her waist until it bled.
She almost forgot her place for a moment and almost did just that.
But thankfully, Henri did not forcibly touch Velia, whom he disliked.
He only looked at her with suspicious eyes.
‘No! He won’t think I’m the one who’s possessed. Anyway, let’s drive out that stupid X as soon as possible and become the empress. Just think about that for now!’
How dare she interfere in a novel where she’s the protagonist and steal the glory. Velia felt a terrible hatred for Ermedillin rising within her.
But on the other hand, she thought that she might be able to use the stupid Ermedillin who admitted to being the possessor all at once.
‘Yes. Let’s cooperate for now. Pretend to cooperate, and when I become the empress, kill her then.’
She was distressed.
She hadn’t even fully adapted to this new environment yet, and now there was another possessor.
‘How on earth does God handle these things?’
Though they hadn’t gone into details, the being inside Velia was of an age that would have just graduated high school if it had been real.
The age had just become an adult, but it still showed signs of childish thinking.
The fortunate thing was that there seemed to be no intention to expose that they were possessors yet.
‘Well, if exposed, it would be more disadvantageous to them than to me.’
For good reason, Ermedillin and Henri had no human connection in the original novel; they were just men to each other.
But Velia was a childhood first love, a true lover who shared all memories.
If Henri found out that someone else was inside Ermedillin and Velia, Velia would be the one to take more damage.
‘I don’t want to be a bad person, but my survival is at stake here. Shall I act a bit more cautiously?’
Ermedillin went to a quiet place on the outskirts of the capital to look at the land where she would build the orphanage.
Next to her were Countess Ellion, who had suddenly changed her attitude, and Pellio.
“Certainly, this place seems good to avoid the epidemic being away from the bustling area, and the geographical conditions do not look bad.”
“But we may need to reinforce the roads for supplies.”
Pellio was looking into some budgetrelated documents, rolling his transparent silver eyes back and forth, calculating something.
“Include it in the budget. Supplying the children with food and necessities on time is also an important issue.”
“Oh my! Your Majesty, not only building the orphanage but also fixing the road! Truly generous of you!”
Ellion, the countess who had been listening to the conversation between Ermedillin and Pellio, chimed in with a tremble in her voice.
“I just want to do it properly since I’m doing it. Besides, the Emperor said he would help with the expenses of the orphanage, so shouldn’t I take care of the remaining part as much as possible?”
“Hoho. Indeed. The cost of security alone will be quite a lot, and to support that. You two indeed understand each other as a couple!!”
The snakelike Countess Ellion was purposely wrapping it nicely, but everyone present knew.
That Henri was supporting the security to monitor in case Ermedillin was conducting some strange experiment with the orphans.
“Isn’t it evidence that the Emperor was also concerned about the increasing number of orphans?”
But when everyone knows the fact, there is also a time when they have to pretend not to know with plausible answers.
“What about the donations, by the way?”
Ermedillin’s question made Countess Ellyon look as if she was in a bind, licking one side of her lips.
“Why? Has no one donated?”
“No, they have… mostly donated. Even the house of Duke Batistian has donated a quite substantial sum.”
“Really? I haven’t heard anything about that?”
Ermedillin, who was hearing this news for the first time, looked at Pellio with wideopen eyes.
“It was not me, but the Duke who donated.”
“I see. I must personally thank my Duke. What about the rest?”
“That is… I also donated a quite substantial sum.”
“Oh! I knew the Countess would understand my wishes well. What else?”
“Countess Grania and Princess Biella also donated, but… the amount…”
Countess Ellyon struggled to find the words.
According to her, most of the nobles had participated in the donation, but the amount was absurd.
“What?”
Was the amount they donated merely enough to buy perhaps a single brick?
To anyone looking, it seemed like an amount meant to mock the Empress.
“So that’s how they’ve donated?”
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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