“……”
Why didn’t she answer? Was she upset? Well, it wasn’t exactly pleasant news. But it wasn’t something that couldn’t be said. After all, Carlein was a consort, and Latil herself was the Emperor’s special envoy.
How long had she been in that state? For a while, Aini blankly stared at Latil. At last, she opened her mouth.
“Have you ever loved someone to death?”
“What?”
What’s this? Was she suggesting that Carlein was her partner? No, when did she ever see him? Latil asked bluntly, incredulous.
“Do you mean to suggest that you love Lord Carlein to death?”
Even as she asked, Latil assumed Aini would deny it. However, Aini couldn’t respond immediately and instead fell into deep thought.
Just when Latil wondered if Aini had truly fallen for Carlein at first sight, she finally spoke heavily.
“I might have.”
“Are you talking about a previous life again?”
“I don’t have complete memories…… but probably.”
“Could your memory be wrong?”
“Could it be?”
“Huh?”
“Then…… whose memory is this?”
“!”
Latil couldn’t say anything more when she saw the darkness on Aini’s face. It would have been better if Aini had spat out something like ‘what does it matter to you’ and expressed her irritation.
Latil watched Aini’s retreating figure with a heavy heart.
And Carlein, too, watched the two with a furrowed brow from a distance. Suddenly he remembered something Domis had said once.
“Master…… I hope you didn’t do anything reckless.”
[This is the time separator]Meanwhile, Tasir was deeply engrossed in conversation with Ranamun and the chancellor, even having a meal with them.
“The reason a fake mimics the real is because there’s a benefit to be gained.”
“That’s too much of a merchant’s way of thinking. There are many people in the world who act purely out of faith, pride, or a sense of justice.”
“Yes, but as a merchant, I see those as benefits as well. The sense of achievement one gains from following their beliefs, that kind of psychological benefit.”
“Psychological benefit……”
The chancellor, instead of chiming in on the conversation between Ranamun and Tasir, quietly thought about when the Emperor had been replaced by a fake while eating his meal.
In fact, he had a good idea when it might have happened. When the fake emperor had appeared and then been driven out. It probably happened then.
“Anyway, what I’m saying is this. The reason a fake mimics the real is because there’s a benefit to be gained. So to make the fake stop mimicking the real, you just have to cut off that benefit.”
“Aren’t you going to go rescue the Emperor?”
“We must bring him back. But just bringing him back won’t solve everything. Prince Le’an is still harboring the fake.”
As the chancellor alternately looked at the two men, he carefully raised his large hand.
“How will you make the fake stop mimicking the real?”
At the chancellor’s question, Tasir responded with a wide, cheerful smile.
“That’s why I called for you, Chancellor.”
“Me?”
“I’d like to request the help of your White Flower technique.”
“Why would the holy knights…?”
“Before that, Lord Ranamun.”
“Go ahead.”
“Does Duke Atraxis know about this matter?”
[This is the time separator]One day while waiting for a call from Tasir, Latil remembered the monster she had seen here at midnight and decided to tell Hyacinth about it.
‘It might have been Prince Heum. But if it wasn’t, that’s a problem.’
After making up her mind, Latil left the guest palace to visit the main palace to tell Hyacinth about it. But as she was climbing the stairs.
“Lady Sadi.”
Someone called out to Latil in a friendly voice. When she turned around, it was the maid who had accused her of being the perpetrator when Aini had collapsed. Her name was Luis, if she remembered correctly.
‘What’s going on? Why is she doing this?’
Latil looked at her suspiciously, as she was not exactly a favorable associate. But she couldn’t ignore her and walk away either, so she stopped for now.
“I was really sorry about the other day.”
Seeing Latil standing still, Luis approached and apologized with what seemed like genuine sincerity.
But Latil could not trust Louis’s sincere expression at all. After all, Louis had sent her hard biscuits before, apologizing.
And now he’s approaching her gently again, saying he’s sorry…?
‘What’s he planning this time?’
“Ah, it’s okay.”
Of course, she understood. The secret envoy lied to resolve Aini’s misunderstanding, but the maidservants still could not resolve their misunderstanding, weren’t they still doubting ‘Sadi,’ Latil’s fake identity, linked with Hyacinth?
“Was the biscuit tasty?”
“I didn’t eat even one because I gave it to Her Majesty the Empress.”
“!”
“I think it was delicious because Her Majesty the Empress enjoyed it.”
It was a lie. It’s true that Latil returned the biscuit to Aini, but Aini didn’t eat even one of those hard biscuits and left.
But when Latil purposely bragged that Aini ate the biscuit, Louis briefly lost control of his kindlooking lips.
But it was only for a moment. Louis quickly composed his face and smiled again.
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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