Edna, wiping her nose on dozens of handkerchiefs engraved with the emblem of Count Geldaro’s family until they were damp, sniffled and misunderstood as she sniffed. Yeriel pushed Edna’s forehead, who was leaning towards her, away with a frown.
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
“Uh, yeah?”
When Edna, who seemed to have no idea of the situation, blinked only her reddened eyes, a maid entered. Since she was one of the murmuring group, the gaze looking at Edna was not at all pleasant.
Before pointing it out, Yeriel ordered Edna while scolding her.
“Clean this up.”
“What, what?”
Edna, who seemed to be in disbelief, almost jumped up as if to cause a scene, worrying that the maids would touch her. Yeriel, with a tired face, answered.
“Don’t you know? I’m done with you now.”
“What’s that, no. Why?!”
Edna, almost convulsing with the fear that the maids might touch her body, shouted as she almost had a fit. Yeriel, supporting her forehead with a tired expression, replied.
“Are you asking because you don’t know? How can I survive in Soljereon Empire by betraying Windsor like this?”
“What…?”
“The one with Windsor’s heart became the emperor. How can the family that expelled the emperor, Lady Hwangbi, and the second prince survive?”
That’s how Edna was driven away, without hearing the last goodbye from Yeriel. Even though she thought Yeriel, who she considered a ‘similar’ person, would not do this to her.
“You can’t do this to me, Yeriel! Count Geldaro!”
Even if she shouted like that, the firmly closed main gate never opened again. Edna, who had been sobbing for a while, felt pitiful for herself as she received an escort from the maid who looked down on her.
The bewildered clerk looked at the store manager, but the manager, who had hidden behind the employee break room, quickly revealed himself as if he disliked it too. In the end, it was the clerk’s responsibility to handle Edna. She spoke with a trembling voice.
“The value of the clothing you purchased so far has not been paid for even a single item…”
“Not paid? What nonsense is this? I’ve paid for everything!”
“That… You’re always the one who pays first, Lady Windsor, isn’t that right? But Lady Windsor requested a refund.”
As Edna was about to raise her hand to the clerk, a certain scene suddenly flashed through her mind.
[Although I like it… It’s more expensive than my allowance.]It was the time when Edna went to see Stebane’s formal match for the first time with Elysian. At that time, Edna was shopping with Elysian to borrow his aesthetic sense, but she couldn’t gather the courage to buy a dress that she really liked because it was too expensive.
[Should I lend it to you?]At that time, Elysian willingly said so. Thanks to that, Edna was able to make a very good impression on Lady Stebane. Lady Stebane also praised Edna, who always wore dresses from this salon, because she liked this salon’s dresses. In other words, it meant that Edna should wear dresses from this salon every time they met.
However, this dress salon, despite being a salon owned by Countess Calypso, was so expensive that it was difficult to have a dress made every time. Every time this happened, Edna would extend her hand to Elysian, and Elysian always graciously helped her.
Yeah, he ‘helped.’
‘Then you helped, and now… you’re taking it away?!’
It was extremely frustrating.
Edna glared at the clerk with a resentful face, did not respond, and walked out of the salon and onto the carriage.
She shouted to the coachman.
“To Windsor Mansion right now!”
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
