Surely, when he came to the banquet hall, Walter, who had said he would be leaving his post, had seemed quite confident.
No, rather than confident, he looked like someone who had finally come across something he had long desired.
Walter’s eloquence was something Russell knew well, so he had not thought much about the possibility of failure.
Rejected?
“Di, did you hear the reason?”
“He said he doesn’t like me.”
At that consolation, the memory of the time he had reached out to Odette just before replayed.
[Dash]I will overlook the rudeness you showed me today, but never appear before me again. [Dash]You are really the worst.It was a truly polite yet firm farewell greeting.
Considering that Odette had run away without a chance to grab her shortly after, all the more so.
Thanks to that, Walter’s mood was twisted, just as Russell had perceived.
Finally being able to reach out, after enduring a long time, only to lose it at the last moment.
Walter’s lips, slowly brushing his hair aside, let out a horribly low voice.
“I didn’t think I’d have trouble from here on out…”
Even in the midst of this, the idiotic body was faithfully responding, which was funny.
From the moment he faced Odette, his heart raced uncontrollably, and he felt a constriction that ached his chest.
It was exactly as ‘he’ had said.
[Dash]It’s not difficult to fulfill your wish in exchange for your heart. But can you endure it? Your sincerity will be distorted, and you will be rejected frequently. [Dash]I don’t care.
If I could meet her again just once.
If I could stop the tragedy that would befall her, anything would be fine.
Walter chuckled and made a deal with ‘him’.
What he got in return was a heart that coldly tightened and a tongue that hardened so he could not speak the truth.
And the newly given time.
‘How did I come back, I can’t give up now.’
Since she rejected my proposal, I’ll have to make her come back to me.
Walter’s hand slowly clenched.
“Russell, I need to spread a rumor.”
[This is a time marker.]The next day.
“Princess Odette! Is that rumor true?! That you had a secret meeting with Duke Ertman!”
“…You heard it too, that rumor…”
With a loud rush of footsteps, Odette, who had been wetting the nib of her pen with ink, slowly raised her head.
Her face had become quite tired in just two days.
The reason was simple.
“Of course I heard! How could I not know when that was all anyone was talking about as soon as I entered the palace? Everyone was talking about His Majesty and the 3rd Princess!”
In just one night, the scandal between Odette and Balter had spread widely through the social circles.
The content was that the two of them had a secret meeting during Balter’s victory celebration.
In fact, there was no stopping it from spreading.
Because the place where Odette and Balter met had been the biggest banquet hall in the capital for nearly a month.
Moreover, the fact that the main character of the scandal was the current focus of the social world, and the rumor that Balter Ertman Duke was meeting with the 3rd Princess, made it even bigger.
“Did you hear? Duke Ertman and the 4th Princess Odette were having a secret meeting……”
“So what’s going to happen to the 3rd Princess?”
It was only natural that the palace was abuzz.
A love triangle between Duke Ertman, the biggest concern of the social world, and two princesses!
How stimulating a story this was.
The problem was, Odette couldn’t really deny it.
No matter what the inside story, it was true that Balter and Odette met that day.
‘I thought there was no one around…’
Where did this spread from?
Elly, who had run hurriedly to the visibly distressed Odette, fluttering her red hair, whispered in a lowered voice.
“Do you know how surprised I was? The person who was going to propose to Count Clovis had such a rumor with Duke Ertman! What happened with the Duke?”
What happened, she asks.
Odette unwittingly smirked at the familiar question.
‘How many times has this question been asked?’
Exaggerating a little, it felt like blood was going to come out of her ears soon.
The entire palace was noisy, but among them, Odette’s maids talked the most.
“If 4th Princess Odette really becomes the Duchess, what shall we do?”
“We’ve been ignoring her as the illegitimate princess all this time…… what if she takes revenge!”
“We better treat her well now. We have no choice!”
The palace maids were all children of decent noble families.
Noble ladies who wouldn’t even lift something heavier than a teacup at home.
So, among Odette’s maids, everyone except Elly was ashamed to be the maids of the illegitimate princess.
It was natural not to enjoy serving, and they even took to ignoring Odette.
Until the scandal between Balter and Odette spread, that is.
It was funny that the treatment actually got better after the scandal spread.
But this too was a fleeting disturbance.
‘This scandal will hit Duke Ertman the hardest.’
Soon, Balter will hurriedly explain, and then everything will quiet down again.
Odette laughed lightly and checked once again that no one was around before opening her mouth.
“What happened at the victory celebration was……”
[This is a time separator.]“So, Duke Ertman knew Your Highness’s plan and came to stop it? My goodness!”
Odette told Elly everything that had happened at the victory celebration.
Somehow Balter knew about Odette’s plan and came overtly to stop it. And it seemed that Queen Katarina and Lizeyna had pulled Balter into this scheme.
“He probably thought I would easily catch Duke Ertman. There weren’t many ways to do more in the situation where even the meeting with Count Clovis was hindered.”
Above all, Duke Ertman was a really attractive marriage proposal.
A mere illegitimate princess rejecting it is rather laughable to that extent.
“Participating in such a prank, I didn’t see it that way, Duke Ertman is really a bad person! Even if the empress or the third princess says so, there’s no reason for the Duke to like playing such a prank!”
“I’m actually curious about that too. If it’s someone who wants to look good to the Empress, I’d understand completely, but… if it’s Duke Ertman, there wouldn’t be a specific reason.”
Why did Walter propose to me?
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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