Approaching Greta wasn’t a difficult task for Hiskliff. Of course, Hiskliff didn’t expect to encounter her so easily, just by uttering a single word about wanting to see Greta.
Before the morning sun had fully risen, Greta appeared in Hiskliff’s bedroom.
“Have you found this mother, Prince?”
Unlike Hiskliff, with his rough face and scruffy beard that diminished his attractiveness, Greta, who still retained her unique beauty, smiled faintly as she removed her hood. As her words were too mundane, Hiskliff felt disappointed.
‘If this was going to happen, why did she make the empire search extensively and let me suffer disgrace in the palace?’
Resentment surged to the tip of his throat. However, no matter how much he resented, the response from her would remain consistent—a claim that everything was done for him. Knowing that, instead of uttering useless words, Hiskliff got straight to the point.
“It’s been a while, Mother.”
“Yes, it has been a while. Have you been well during that time?”
He wanted to refute if the question about being well came even after seeing this face. Well, in fact, she probably knew very well how Hiskliff had been in his own way.
‘And she probably knows what happened between Yurisien and me today.’
She must know about the rat king approaching Hiskliff, Hiskliff condoning it, and everything else. So, perhaps, she left the palace without saying a word to Hiskliff to make him keenly feel her absence. Maybe to make Hiskliff, without her, a useless and incompetent person. Hiskliff was disgusted by Greta’s acts, calling them the behaviors of ‘love.’
After choosing his words carefully and swallowing the bitterness that burned his throat, Hiskliff looked at Greta directly.
“There’s something I want to say to you, Mother.”
“To me? Well, what could it be?”
In the darkness with no fire lit, Greta smiled slyly. In fact, she had some expectations about what would come out of Hiskliff’s mouth.
‘He’ll probably apologize.’
And he would say that he loves Greta. That he missed her, that he’s useless without her, and please come back because he needs her. That’s what she expected Hiskliff to say.
‘Don’t keep trying to escape from me.’
Greta’s smile deepened as she anticipated Hiskliff completely shattering his desire for independence and determination when they met the Romani Jipsy in Heven. Finally, when Hiskliff’s determination and desire for independence seemed to be completely broken, Greta, who had been smiling, received an unexpected statement from Hiskliff’s eyes, similar to hers.
“I will give up the throne.”
“…Give up the throne?”
Greta asked as if she couldn’t believe what she heard. Her eyes, which had always seemed to see through everything without a hint of wavering, finally showed surprise. Hiskliff, watching the now-disturbed Greta, felt a faint satisfaction mixed with misery. The one who had never pretended to hear anything was Greta.
“What are you talking about, Prince.”
“Don’t you understand what I’m saying? I will give up the throne and step down from the position of the Prince.”
“…”
“Having given up the throne, Hiskliff.”
“What does that mean…”
“I mean, I will relinquish Offenheid Castle.”
Although giving up the throne doesn’t mean he won’t be a prince, Hiskliff, by saying he would let go of the highest value of being a prince, was saying he would let go of being an aristocrat. Greta couldn’t understand.
Giving up becoming the emperor and ceasing to be the prince, how could one speak of such things so easily? What in the world did Hiskliff, who had been clinging to the position of a prince all this time, mean? If he didn’t have that one thing, wouldn’t he have known that he was nothing, and yet he clung to it as if he were crazy?
Looking at Hiskliff with shaking eyes for a long time, Greta suddenly smiled, as if she had realized something. It was the first time her upturned lips sent shivers down the spine. Although Hiskliff tried to drive a wedge, thinking that Greta had misunderstood, Greta was faster than that.
“So… were you lonely?”
“What are you…?”
“Is the prince resorting to such a mischievous threat because he was lonely?”
“Ha…”
“Yes. Come to think of it, perhaps Mother was a bit excessive. But, Prince, I haven’t been just idling around either. Do you think Mother really didn’t know the suffering the prince was going through? But I endured it. Why do you think that is?”
“All for the prince.”
“All for the prince.”
After a brief pause, Greta, who was speaking, heard Hiskliff say the same.
“Mother?”
Surprised, Greta smiled smugly.
“Indeed, my proud son, the prince. You understand your mother’s heart so well.”
Greta sweetly smiled at Hiskliff as if she were incredibly adorable. Hiskliff felt suffocated by that smile. Suddenly, he realized that the actions she was taking toward him were exactly the same as what he used to do to Yurisien. Oh, why was that? Why did he mimic those actions, which he had shivered at when Greta did them?
‘Because there’s nothing else I’ve learned from watching and imitating…’
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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