In her room, Viscount Diove gulped down some cold water prepared by the butler. The sound of water hitting his throat was brutally clear. Alice sat obediently by her bed, bracing herself for the impending lecture.

With a bang, Diove placed the glass down and pointed accusingly at his eldest daughter, Alice.

“What’s wrong with you? Why do you roam around at night dressed like that?”

“I felt suffocated. I just needed to go out.”

“Then go to a salon or tea room with other ladies! Why wander about looking like a stable boy?”

“It’s quite comfortable and nice. I wish other ladies knew this comfort.”

Unyielding, she responded firmly to each of her father’s points, which only exasperated Diove further. He pulled at his thinning hair and yelled.

“Why can’t you be more like your sister? She’s so obedient and hardworking, she even became the queen. What have you done all this time!”

Here, Alice had to control her rising irritation.

She had earned more than half of the money for Selina’s social debut. But arguing about it now seemed pointless; she was too exhausted.

She had done well at the boarding school in the suburbs. Finding a job as a governess in the capital wasn’t hard because of it.

However, the spending habits of Selina and Diove showed no signs of slowing down. To make matters worse, Diove had lost even their savings in a bad investment.
The financial burden eventually fell entirely on Alice. Not only did she work as a governess, but on her days off, she even had to do odd jobs around the neighborhood.

Naturally, the conversation between the sisters dwindled. Although Alice and Selina had been close, the lack of face-to-face time led to an increasing distance between them. Then, suddenly, Selina entered the ‘shadows’ of the royal palace.

Upon hearing this, Alice vehemently opposed it. Working as a governess in noble households, she had heard enough to know the treatment meted out to ‘shadows.’

“Now our hardships are over! Selina is receiving abundant favor from His Majesty the Emperor. She could even aim for the position of Empress from being a Consort!”

Eventually, Selina did ascend to the position of Consort. Was her sister really happy?

“Are you even listening to me?”

“Yes.”

Alice’s responses to her father, Viscount Diove, were perfunctory, to anyone’s ears. Frustrated, Diove stood up and called the servants.

“From now on, you’re forbidden from going out at night. Don’t even think about wandering around after sunset! Everyone, keep a close eye on her!”

As if forbidding me will stop me. Alice smirked quietly.

Since moving to this mansion in the capital, she had identified every door and hole in the house.

Moreover, the kind and friendly eldest daughter had the support of the household staff. Most of them knowingly turned a blind eye to Alice’s late-night escapades.

“Oh dear! You’re making me lose all my hair!”

“Buy the best anti-hair loss medicine for Selina. She’s the one who uplifted our family. Can’t she even afford that for you?”

Instead of cowering, her cheeky retorts left Diove speechless. He rubbed his sore neck and had to step out of the room.

Bang! The door slammed shut. Alice lay down on her bed without even changing her clothes.

Fortunately, her wig hadn’t been discovered yet. If it were known that she also disguised herself with short hair, house arrest would be the least of her worries.

She needed to regain her composure. Friends like Jake, whom she met at the tavern, were unaware of Alice’s situation.

For the time being, she had to act as obediently as possible, waiting for the right opportunity. Playing the role of the well-behaved eldest daughter was her forte, after all.

**

It was a rare sunny day. Perhaps there would be good news. Ilaiyd leaned back on the long chair in her office, taking a short break from the recent restless nights. Leticia’s prescribed sleeping pills were too scary to take; she feared falling into nightmares again.

The sound of someone running down the corridor approached. The door opened, and Linette entered, her hair disheveled, evidently having rushed after hearing some news.

“Your Majesty.”

“What’s the matter?”

“We’ve won.”

A telegram had just arrived at the palace. Confirming Ilaiyd’s rigid expression, Linette handed her the newspaper she was holding.

The first page featured Emperor Claudius standing majestically with a bold headline. Flipping to the next page, detailed articles described how the empire had secured Rosanne’s surrender.

The Duke of Rosanne was captured more easily than expected. Rosanne’s soldiers, hardly better than reservists, were all disarmed, and there were minimal casualties.

Other articles weighed the losses and gains that would arise from Rosanne’s absorption into the empire.

There was no mention of the mercenary corps anywhere.
At the Empress’s palace, an official telegram from the Emperor soon arrived. A member of the Imperial Guard, dressed in uniform and with a stiff salute, handed Ilaiyd an envelope bearing the Emperor’s seal on her desk.

Ignoring Claudius’s symbol, Ilaiyd looked at the Imperial Guard officer expressionlessly.

“What about the list of casualties and wounded?”

“Here it is.”

The Imperial Guard placed a list in front of Ilaiyd. There were casualties, including wounded and fallen soldiers. Ilaiyd slowly reviewed the names. Unfortunately, Claudius’s name was not among them.

“Understood. Inform them in advance that I will visit the ward of the injured. And…”

Why did it feel so difficult to broach this subject? Ilaiyd maintained her businesslike demeanor as she spoke.

“What about the mercenary corps?”

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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