I Will No Longer Live As Your Villainess (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 15
Lorencia entered the drawing room and smiled brightly at Lorilors.
“Miss Loa.”
“Viscount Lorilors. Am I late?”
“Yes. It’s alright.”
Before entering the drawing room, Lorilors had been summoned by Madam Anne.
Lorilors recalled Lorencia’s warning as he spoke with Anne.
She had promised not to kill him if he merely claimed he wanted to court her purely and marry her—and that she’d let him go when the time was right.
Thus, he had no choice but to obey the monster’s words.
He didn’t know what secrets the House of Paul Heredian held, but Lorilors only wished to be used and discarded by the monster as quickly as possible. Yesterday’s power wasn’t that of a mage or an elemental summoner. She moved objects at will. Most unsettling of all, she knew of “Sophie.” Goosebumps covered his entire body.
“Madam Anne told me to break things off with Lady Lorencia.”
“So what did you say?”
“I told her she was my ideal type at first sight, and that I wanted to court her and marry her.”
“You did well.”
Just then, with a loud “bang,” the drawing room door flew open, and Luans walked in.
“Well, well. So Lorencia’s dance instructor is Viscount Lorilors.”
“Your Highness Prince Luans.”
The moment Luans saw Lorilors, he understood exactly who had fallen for Lorencia at first sight. Wasn’t this pervert Lorilors the one who liked nothing more than wearing skirts!
“How dare you tempt the prince’s lover?”
“Why am I your lover, Your Highness Prince Luans? Viscount Lorilors, don’t misunderstand. I like Viscount Lorilors!”
“Lorencia, be quiet! Unless you want to see me lose my mind completely!”
Luans removed the white glove from his right hand and strode straight toward Lorilors. He threw the glove directly into Lorilors’s face—a formal challenge to a duel.
“Your Highness Prince Luans, I had no idea Lady Lorencia was your lover.”
Lorilors didn’t hide his astonishment; it showed plainly on his face. A noble receiving a duel challenge from royalty should accept it as an honor. But not him. It had already been ten years since he’d let go of his sword. Above all, he had no desire to risk his life fighting for a monster like Lorencia.
“Madam Anne clearly said she wanted me to marry Lady Lorencia. Since Lady Lorencia is my ideal type, I confessed my feelings, and she accepted. Thus, we became lovers starting yesterday. Had I known you and Lady Lorencia were lovers, I wouldn’t have come anywhere near Count Paul Heredian’s estate.”
Lorilors argued that Anne was the true source of all this trouble and that he himself was blameless.
“I hope you’ll cancel the duel. Had I known nothing of this, Lady Lorencia and I might have become good lovers, but now that I know, I’ll withdraw yesterday’s confession and marriage proposal.”
Lorilors bowed deeply and respectfully to Luans. Lorencia’s monstrous strength terrified him, but dueling a royal was far worse. Especially since it would happen before many nobles. It had been over ten years since he’d held a sword—he’d even forgotten how to grip one. How could he possibly defeat Luans? He’d surely be humiliated and then killed.
“Please spare my life, Your Highness Prince Luans.”
“Viscount Lorilors, I am absolutely not Prince Luans’s lover. Please don’t misunderstand.”
“Lady Lorencia, I’m sorry.”
“Then were all the things you said and did to me yesterday just lies?”
Lorilors was flustered by Lorencia’s words. Her statement was more than enough to cause serious misunderstanding, even to a third party who hadn’t witnessed Luans’s presence.
“You said you fell for me at first sight… along with everything you did to me.”
“What did I do?”
“It was my first time yesterday.”
“No, Lady Lorencia, you really should stop talking. His Highness might misunderstand.”
“Ever since yesterday, I’ve only been thinking of Viscount Lorilors—my heart beats strangely, and you have no idea how eagerly I waited to see you today!”
Hearing Lorencia’s confession to Lorilors, Luans ground his teeth furiously. The monster he’d carefully locked away and raised was now trying to slip through his fingers—he felt like he was going mad.
That monster should look only at him. She should love him blindly and be willing to give her life for him without hesitation. Her tiny head should be filled with thoughts of him alone, all day long.
The monster was born for him—never to be taken by anyone else. She was his monster. His alone.
“Lorencia, what are you saying right in front of me? I thought I’d made my feelings clear, but apparently it wasn’t enough.”
“I truly don’t understand what you’re trying to say, Your Highness Prince Luans.”
“What am I to you, Lorencia?”
“You are my dearest and most precious friend, Your Highness Prince Luans.”
Lorencia smiled brightly, her sincerity evident.
“Don’t you love me, Lorencia?”
“I can’t love Your Highness Prince Luans.”
“Why on earth not?”
“Because I’m a bastard. I can never become your princess consort.”
“No. I will make you my princess consort.”
As soon as Luans said it to Lorencia, he immediately regretted it. Her constant slippery evasions had provoked an impulsive declaration. What if she actually believed his promise to make her his consort?
“I know my place, Your Highness Prince Luans. That’s why Viscount Lorilors is the perfect match for me as a husband.”
For a moment, lightning struck Luans’s mind. Had he eroded her self-worth too deeply? Or stripped away her willpower too completely?
“Lorencia, I love you.”
“You love me?”
His words to her before he tried to kill her echoed spontaneously in her mind.
“I love you, Lorencia. I mean it.”
Love could never justify death. Claiming you’d do anything for love was merely self-deception.
“I cannot accept Your Highness Prince Luans’s feelings. Please don’t ever again call me your lover, not even as a lie.”
“Alright, I’m sorry for saying ‘lover’ when I was being impatient. But my feelings are genuine.”
“I am currently Viscount Lorilors’s lover. And I beg you—please take back the white glove you threw at my lover and cancel this duel.”
Luans clenched his jaw. The fact that Lorencia was bowing her head for someone else, pleading on their behalf, tangled his thoughts like a knotted thread. This shouldn’t be happening—it couldn’t be allowed.
“Lady Lorencia, please, for heaven’s sake, shut your mouth!”
Lorilors, his face deathly pale, began begging Lorencia. If only he could turn back time—to the moment the House of Paul Heredian made their offer—so he could refuse it.
“Please! Be quiet! Lady Lorencia! I’m begging you, just stop talking!”
Lorilors’s plea turned into a desperate plea, but Lorencia merely smiled.
Luans grew impatient. Lorencia’s gaze toward Lorilors was deeply unsettling. Watching her violet eyes slowly fill with love twisted his insides. An unfamiliar discomfort—whether murderous intent or something else—surged up like uncontrollable nausea. In his impulse, he felt he could kill both Lorilors and Lorencia right here and now.
“Lorencia, do you really want to court a man like that? Are you serious?”
“Yes. We’ve already become intimate.”
“No, Your Highness! Nothing happened between Lady Lorencia and me—please, don’t misunderstand!”
Lorilors dropped to his knees. At this rate, he feared he might die.
Luans felt like he was going mad too. He had to say things to Lorencia that he didn’t truly feel.
He’d poured so much time and care into making Lorencia dependent on him—but for this to be the result, that she’d become intimate with that perverted brat, left him utterly hollow.
“No matter what anyone says, you’re mine, Lorencia.”
“Your Highness Prince Luans, the one I’ve come to love is Viscount Lorilors.”
“Please, be quiet! Miss Lorencia, Your Highness Prince Luans—just let me break things off with Miss Lorencia, and cancel this duel, please? I don’t love her.”
“Viscount Lorilors! What do you mean, break things off? Were your confession to me yesterday all lies?”
“I can’t fight royalty, Lady Lorencia. Please, let’s part ways. I’ll quietly forget everything that happened yesterday.”
“Forget everything that happened yesterday? But you said you’d marry me!”
Lorencia’s voice began to tremble with tears.
“Madam Anne said that since Lady Lorencia, at nineteen, hadn’t even started her first moon cycle, there was nowhere to marry her off—so I only jokingly said I’d take Lady Lorencia for myself.”
“If it was a joke, then why did you confess to me? Why did you hold me and caress me in that room?”
“T-that’s—!”
The more Lorencia spoke, the paler Lorilors became, and Luans’s lips twitched. Now he understood exactly why Anne had summoned Lorilors.
One thing was certain: Anne had caused this entire situation. He was so annoyed his head ached. Meanwhile, Lorencia covered her face with both hands and began to cry. Luans sighed deeply.
“Lorencia, don’t cry.”
Luans approached her and wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
“What did that man do to you yesterday, Lorencia?”
“I can’t say.”
“I won’t ask what happened. But I’ll eliminate the one responsible for putting you through it. Is that alright?”
“What?”
“I mean I’ll protect your honor, no matter what happened yesterday.”
“Does a bastard even have honor worth protecting?”
Luans let out a long sigh.
“My beloved Lorencia, as your friend, let me protect your honor.”
Lorencia nodded. Tears rolled down her cheeks. Luans looked down coldly at Lorilors, who knelt on the floor begging.
“Luans von Ishter formally challenges Viscount Lorilors of House Stopuga to a duel to defend the honor of Lady Lorencia Paul Heredian.”
“No! I refuse the duel! Lady Lorencia!”
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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