As Teishar exited the reception room, Ruans returned to his seat. Then, he examined Lorencia from head to toe as she slowly walked towards him. He marveled at Lorencia’s curvaceous and beautiful appearance that had grown in his absence. The women he had met so far were nothing compared to this monster who was his type.
Even if one doesn’t drink Digne and gets plenty of delicious food and sleep, can a person grow this much all at once? Perhaps it’s because she’s a monster that she could grow so quickly.
When Lorencia gave a faint smile, Ruans unknowingly gulped. Even though she was a monster, his heart raced at her beauty that he couldn’t take his eyes off. As his gaze met hers approaching, his throat felt parched as if he was thirsty.
Ruans looked at Lorencia sitting across from him with adoration. The thought of being alone together made him feel a strange excitement.
“Lorencia. You’ve become very pretty since I last saw you.”
“Yes. I ate well and slept well, so I struggled a bit when I hit a growth spurt all at once.”
“I see. Growing pains… I had a hard time living without you, Lorencia, but you ate well and slept well even when I wasn’t by your side?”
Lorencia, meeting the gaze of Ruans’ green eyes as he spoke wistfully, blinked. His way of speaking was the same as before, relentless.
“That’s right, Your Majesty. There were so many delicious foods I had never tasted before. I was full, so I got sleepy, and when I woke up after sleeping well, I ate food again. That’s the life I lived.”
Lorencia calmly replied to Ruans’ words.
“Even so, I saw you coming to me in my dreams, Your Majesty.”
“You had a premonitory dream.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Tell me about it in detail.”
Ruans leaned towards Lorencia. Lorencia slowly opened her mouth.
“I saw Your Majesty’s future.”
In your future.
“I see war.”
A pain worse than death will be waiting for you.
“From now on, Your Majesty will rise to the pinnacle of all empires in this world.”
“Really, Lorencia?”
“Yes.”
I will make sure it happens. May an agonizing death await you.
“As I thought, I need you by my side, Lorencia.”
Ruans’ green eyes deepened and darkened. He reached out and lightly brushed Lorencia’s cheek.
“You know I brought the royal decree to take you as a concubine, right?”
“Yes. I know.”
“It may be the position of a concubine now, but I intend to make you my only queen, Lorencia.”
Lorencia couldn’t help but laugh at his lies.
“So let’s go back. To the place where you and I belong.”
Lorencia stared at Ruans, who said to return together. She put effort into her lips that kept trying to curve up. She had endured harsh violence and verbal abuse for this moment. If she wanted, there were ways to disappear while turning a blind eye to everything. With the power to see the future, she could easily run away without getting caught. But there was only one reason she didn’t do that.
“Lorencia. I’ve prepared a room just for you.”
For this very moment she had truly been waiting for.
“Even if you return to the Isuter Empire, I’ll make sure you sleep well and eat delicious food. And there will be no one from the Pol Heredian family to bully you.”
Now that the long-awaited moment was right before her eyes, her body trembled with rising joy.
From now on, what I will say to you is the story I prepared from the beginning.
It took a long time to tell this story, but finally, that moment has come before my eyes, so I must return it as it is.
“Lorencia. Aren’t you happy too? Why do you have that expression? I’m taking such good care of you, so you should smile.”
“I cannot return with Your Majesty.”
“What are you talking about? Lorencia.”
Ruans was taken aback by Lorencia’s sudden remark.
“Your Majesty cherished me and loved me so much.”
“I don’t know why you’re speaking in the past tense, but my love for you hasn’t changed even now. This feeling will never change in the future. So let’s go back, Lorencia.”
Lorencia knew his desperate gaze clinging to her with a sweet voice was a lie, so she couldn’t believe the love he spoke of.
“Your Majesty. I have no intention of returning to the empire.”
“I came all this way personally, and you say you won’t go? Lorencia. You’re a child who listens well to me. Why are you doing this?”
“No matter what you say, I can no longer stay by Your Majesty’s side.”
You readily handed me a poisoned chalice. Foolish me, even knowing it was poisoned, drank it joyfully. I firmly believed that was love.
“I will not leave this place.”
“Lorencia, why are you being so stubborn?”
“It’s not stubbornness.”
Silence flowed at the end of Lorencia’s answer. Realizing that silence wasn’t a good thing, anxiety began to show on his face. And the one who broke the silence first was Lorencia.
“I cannot return to the empire because I have found a future where I can survive.”
Not to receive a poisoned chalice from you, but for the one and only future where I can give a poisoned chalice to you!
“Your Majesty may not know, but for this moment, I have made sacrifices greater than my life.”
“What do you mean by that? Creating? What sacrifice did you make! Don’t tell me…”
What do you think is a sacrifice greater than my life?
“Lorencia. Don’t tell me your ability to see the future has disappeared?”
A stupid man who thinks the sacrifice greater than life is the precognition ability.
“What if my precognition ability disappeared? Is that why you think I’m not returning to the empire, because I can’t be of help to Your Majesty?”
“Don’t joke around.”
“Do you know what your expression looks like now, Your Majesty? You look like someone who has lost everything.”
“What are you talking about! Lorencia.”
She could clearly see what he was thinking from his expression as he slowly approached with a deep sigh.
“I gave up my ability to survive. I can no longer be of help to Your Majesty. So please return to the Isuter Empire like this.”
Ruans was confused by Lorencia’s words that she had given up her ability to survive.
“Even if your ability is gone, my love for you hasn’t changed.”
“Did you say love to me?”
“Yes. I love you, Lorencia. My Loa.”
Once, I believed in the sweet love he spoke of. And as much as I believed, I received double the pain in return.
“But the love I think of…”
Lorencia bit her lower lip tightly so that her trembling lips wouldn’t show. She couldn’t stop the corners of her mouth from rising at the story she was about to tell him from now on.
“I think it’s in the same context as a delusion, Your Majesty.”
Until my dying moment, I believed in his love. So I didn’t question my own death.
His final words were enough to shatter me who had overcome even the fear of death because I believed in love.
Love makes people cry someday, and sincerity drives people crazy.
With his single remark, my death was fully understood. And I realized. Dying for love doesn’t become a reason for death.
“Your Majesty’s words of love keep sounding like ‘Don’t be mistaken’ to me.”
“Lorencia. How…”
“I told you.”
Lorencia said with a smile of utmost satisfaction as she watched the mask of the man who had been clinging to love until just now slowly being peeled off.
“I chose the option where I could live.”
“Loa. What do you mean by choosing the option where you could live? What are you trying to tell me?”
“It’s the first time I’ve seen it.”
Lorencia tilted her head slightly and continued.
“Your Majesty looking flustered.”
“I was flustered? Me? The emperor, in front of you.”
Ruans’ voice gradually rose, and he finally stood up from his seat.
“Lorencia. You!”
“Your Majesty. If you raise your voice, Duke Teishar outside will burst into the reception room. I’d appreciate it if you sat down.”
As Ruans’ gaze met Lorencia’s violet eyes looking up at him, laughter flowed out.
“Are you really the Lorencia I know?”
Not once had Lorencia properly met his eyes. Even if they did meet, there was only anxiety in her detestable purple eyes.
“I’m asking if you’re really the Lorencia I know.”
“I am the Lorencia that Your Majesty said you loved.”
“You feel unfamiliar to me.”
Ruans plopped down on the sofa and bit his lower lip. When Lorencia spoke, it felt like his inner thoughts had been exposed, causing his heart to sink with a thud. His lips were parched and his hands were sweating. He even felt ashamed, as if his true feelings had been laid bare.
But when she said she had given up the ability to see the future, anger rose to the top of his head. Ruans slowly calmed his rising anger, taking steady breaths.
“No matter how stubborn you are, I will take you with me somehow.”
“I clearly said I will not return to the Isuter Empire.”
“I’m saying I love you and will take you because I sincerely love you, even if your precognition ability is gone. I said I would take you in as a concubine and then make you the empress. Why are you being like this?”
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
