“Your Grace, I heard from the Vice-Captain that you intend to use this woman. I know she accompanied you to the Imperial Palace and has proven her usefulness in some way, though I don’t know the details. But… it’s unprecedented. There are squire knights in the North who have trained for years to become knights. They become knight-trainees through strict evaluation and then are appointed as knights after real-life experience. Bypassing the procedure can cause unnecessary disputes later. That worries me greatly.”
His words were completely valid.
The Duke responded.
“Your words are all true, Knight Emilus. However, my knights, I wanted something from my visit to the capital. The only one among us who knows Rahert best and their shameful secrets is Esdel. As my servant, I cannot use her officially.”
“I understand, Your Grace. But to fully trust her yet…”
Emilus trailed off.
“Anyone who has made a great contribution or sacrificed greatly for the North can be appointed as a knight, bypassing the procedure, and no one would oppose it. But Esdel is…”
That’s when it happened.
“I didn’t want to say it.”
Arcadia, who had been silent, suddenly took over Emilus’s words.
“She has made such a great contribution, this woman.”
The knights began to look at each other and whisper.
“What? What great contribution did she make?”
Duke Bellfast and Arcadia simultaneously looked at me. Surprised, I looked back at them.
What? What great deed did I accomplish? What are they going to say?
‘Could it be…’
Duke Bellfast sighed softly and spoke.
“My knights.”
As the Duke spoke, everyone held their breath.
“Do you remember the day when the Southern assassin devastated the Blue Pavilion Castle?”
The crowd started murmuring again.
“How could we forget!”
“That assassin! He put us all to sleep with sleeping gas!”
“It’s a shameful memory! To put both the Vice-Captain and the Duke in danger…”
The Duke gently raised a hand, and everyone fell silent.
“On that day, someone helped Arcadia defeat the assassin. You all know, don’t you?”
“Yes, we’ve heard……”
The knights, halting their response, stared at me in disbelief.
I also looked at the Duke.
Could it be…
I looked at Arcadia.
It was true.
Arcadia, with a heated gaze, looked at me. He then brushed back his hair and blurted out.
“It was her, she saved me.”
“!”
“Esdel defeated the Black Beetle with a sword. Though I was the one who killed him by pushing him off the balcony, if it weren’t for Esdel, I would have been the one falling to my death. Isn’t that a great contribution? If not, I’d be quite hurt. You must have thought that Arcadia Nugent is an insignificant figure, even if he died.”
Nugent glared at the knights with his delicate eyes.
The knights fell silent, baffled.
After a while, Knight Emilus broke the silence.
“Is it true, Esdel, that you saved the Vice-Captain?”
I looked at the Duke.
‘You knew.’
The Duke’s blue eyes seemed to speak to me. To answer.
I slowly nodded.
“Yes. I knew the Black Beetle was the Southern Duke’s assassin. After reporting to the Duke about the poison, I knew he was on the fifth floor. Seeing the assassin almost reaching that floor…”
I took a deep breath.
“I snuck into the castle because I thought the knights wouldn’t trust me and let me in. I saw everyone affected by the sleeping gas, but I held my breath and stayed awake.”
Silence followed.
Then,
“Woah!”
“Thank you!”
Cheers erupted like a wave.
“Esdel! Thank you!”
“You saved Knight Nugent!”
Everyone started shouting.
I was bewildered.
Why such an intense reaction?
Emilus, rushing towards me, grabbed my hand.
“If the Vice-Captain had died, the North would have been in chaos! Thank you! Really, thank you!”
From a distance, Mobius and blacksmith Ergo clapped overhead. Steward Hans looked at me with eyes full of affection.
The Duke spoke.
“You all decide if this is a great contribution.”
“It is a great contribution! She saved the Vice-Captain!”
“A savior of a brother is a brother to us too!”
The knights chorused. Amidst them was Bran.
“I acknowledge it! Your Grace!”
Bran added his voice.
Arcadia spoke.
“Not brother, but sister. Esdel is a woman.”
He then shyly turned his head away.
So, I did help the North.
I looked at the Duke. He was staring at me with fervent eyes.
“Then let’s begin the ceremony to appoint her as a knight-trainee.”
‘Your Grace, are you really accepting me as a knight of the North. Really, me.’
I couldn’t take my eyes off the Duke. He did not avoid my gaze either.
Kneeling on one knee, the Duke’s sword gently touched my shoulder. It was as if he was placing it lightly, so I wouldn’t feel the weight.
“I pledge my loyalty, Your Grace.”
I said, looking at the Duke. His eyes met mine.
“I have great expectations for you, Esdel.”
Everyone erupted in cheers of celebration.
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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