Lucas grinned attractively. Finally, Serena seemed to be considering a married life seriously, and his heart raced.
“Do I look so weak that I can’t even protect my precious wife’s wishes?”
The Thern royal family was notorious for being stubborn, and Lucas was particularly obstinate among them.
So much so that he had ignored the emperor’s order to return, roaming until he was 20 and making a name for himself on the battlefield.
“I admit your stubbornness is stronger than I anticipated. But, it won’t work on me.”
After all, the man in front of her was the one who hadn’t forgotten their engagement 6 years ago and had changed the course of his life to reach this point.
Who could break his stubbornness? Not even Serena felt confident this time.
“Don’t you find Astel suffocating?”
When Lucas suddenly changed the topic, a puzzled look crossed Serena’s face.
“If you marry me, we can see a much broader world together, and you can achieve even more dreams in the capital. No one will block your path, I’ll make sure of it.”
For the first time, Serena thought this marriage might not be a bad idea. She had already been living quite freely for a duchess, but the freedom Lucas promised was on a much wider scale.
“As a crown princess, there will be no walls or people to obstruct you. I’ll make it so.”
A confident expression appeared on his handsome face.
“And I am not a despicable man who breaks promises.”
Huh, Lucas sighed briefly, as if relieved to have bared his soul.
“Let’s marry, us.”
There was still a faint smile on his lips as Lucas spoke, warmth radiating from his voice. Not the warmth of a 4-year-old betrothed but that of a full-grown man.
“You won’t regret it.”
At that moment, Serena’s heart pounded so wildly that she thought it was fortunate he was not right next to her.
“Please, marry me.”
Lucas offered his heart to Serena unembellished. He didn’t know how to present it in a more refined or packaged manner, but his somewhat awkward proposal made Serena’s heart tremble.
“It’s getting late. You should go now.”
Serena barely managed to say. Lucas didn’t seem disappointed at all by her lack of immediate response.
“I should get to bed now.”
“Is that so? Then, may you have sweet dreams.”
Serena slightly bent her knees and gave a courteous nod to Lucas, who was smiling warmly, then hurriedly closed the window and drew the curtains.
“Insane!”
Only then could she rush to her bed, bury her face in the pillow, and furiously kick her feet under the blanket.
“Why, climbing a tree in front of someone else’s room, what’s going on!”
As the moment when she heard Lucas’s voice flashed in her mind, her legs kicked the blanket even harder.
“Ah! Really insane, I’m telling you!”
Serena’s cheeks, as she buried her face in the pillow and stifled her voice, flushed as if they were well-ripened apples.
“So annoying… really annoying!”
When things got to this point, it almost seemed like Serena was resentful about what had happened on the hill. That’s why Lucas could brazenly say such audacious things.
“No. It’s not that I’m resentful or anything, ah… explaining would only make it weirder. Why on earth are you climbing trees?”
Everything was entirely Lucas’s fault, appearing so suddenly.
From the day her forgotten fiancé appeared, there hadn’t been a single day her heart wasn’t fluttering.
“Ah…”
She had to admit it now. Her everyday life before he showed up had shattered, never to return again.
“How am I supposed to see him again tomorrow? What kind of torture is this!”
Despite the day’s exhausting events, sleep eluded her. Serena, her face buried in the pillow, had to keep rolling her feet due to her embarrassment and some unknown emotions.
“I don’t know, ah. I really don’t know!”
Even when she first realized she had become Serena upon arriving in this world, her emotional turmoil had never been this severe.
Back then, she felt rather elated, as if she’d been compensated for a meaningless death, but now her emotions were like a runaway horse.
“I’m really going crazy.”
Serena’s two legs furiously kicked the blanket.
For the first time, spanning both her past and current lives, her heart was pounding fiercely because of a man.
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
