If it weren’t for Sara, a close maid of the late Queen and Franz’s nanny, who took care of Annette, she might have become illiterate or even died long ago.
“I’m sorry, nanny. Because of me…”
Young Annette always felt guilty for making Sara suffer in the remote palace.
If only she could be with her brother Franz, she wouldn’t have suffered so much.
Fearful of being the cursed seed of a demon as the maids suggested, Annette, who had nightmares every night, only had Sara by her side.
Sara compassionately held her small hands, saddened by Annette’s reluctance to make eye contact.
“You will surely be happy, Princess. Even if it’s hard and painful, you must endure.”
She always spoke with certainty.
Annette wasn’t destined to die in this remote palace. She would surely find happiness.
However, not long after Annette turned seven, Sara died.
It wasn’t a severe illness; just a cold caught due to lack of firewood, which developed into pneumonia. She died without proper medical care.
Afterward, Annette, apart from occasional visits from her frail brother Franz, endured alone in the remote palace.
Then, seven years later, she approached the King to request joining the demon hunt.
Rather than living a meaningless life confined in the remote palace, she wanted to live a life worth living, even if it meant facing death.
Understandably, the King was furious at Annette’s unpermitted appearance.
A mere 14-year-old girl proposing to hunt demons seemed to the King as just a ploy for attention or a desperate act.
However, he soon changed his mind. He thought it would be better if Annette, a troublesome and hard-to-kill burden, died while hunting demons. Thus, he allowed her to join the royal knight’s order.
Seven years later, unbeknownst to him, she would gain the title of the greatest swordsman on the continent.
“But even that grand title became meaningless due to my injury.”
Annette, in her semi-conscious state, groaned in pain, feeling an intense sense of futility and a slight sadness.
She had endured as Sara had advised, but why wasn’t she happy?
Initially, when she set out to hunt demons, she was pleased, thinking she was doing something meaningful. But that feeling was fleeting.
As she kept killing, a terrible sense of ennui set in, making her wonder whether she was human or a demon.
“Nanny was a liar…”
Annette muttered to herself, surprised at her own thought. After Sara’s death, she had become more solitary, speaking less and showing fewer emotions.
This intensified after becoming a knight. Constant vigilance against any moment’s distraction, which could be fatal, made it seem as though her emotions had completely vanished.
But now, she felt wronged and upset.
“Like a child again…”
“My beloved daughter.”
It was then.
“My precious child, you will become a great person.”
Frozen by a voice she had never heard before, Annette’s body stiffened.
Kind words continued to flow to her ears.
“Mother knows. My daughter is stronger and more admirable than anyone.”
“M…Mom? Don’t go, don’t… ugh!”
Annette, who had been crying out, awoke with a groan.
Her entire body ached as if beaten.
But her deeply submerged consciousness did not easily clear, even with the pain.
‘The voice I heard just now…’
It must have been a dream, a figment of her imagination.
A newborn baby or a fetus in the womb couldn’t remember their mother’s words.
Tears she thought had dried up long ago trickled down her cheeks.
She felt foolish for having such a dream at twenty-four.
‘She must have hated me.’
Annette felt guilty for thinking of the gentle voice as her mother’s, even subconsciously.
The late Queen, who died giving birth to her, would surely resent her and feel wronged by the sordid rumors caused by her difficult birth.
Just like her biological father, the King of Heyworth.
“…”
Was it the memory of the King, who always frowned and showed displeasure upon seeing her, that stirred her consciousness?
Annette blinked, staring at the ornate ceiling, and quickly sat up, feeling the softness enveloping her.
She looked around the luxurious bedroom and realized she was in the Alcan Empire’s Imperial Palace.
“Ah, thank goodness… Hm?”
Relieved that she hadn’t died and had successfully entered the palace, Annette paused.
Her voice sounded strange.
Initially attributing it to fatigue, she found the warm, fluffy blanket unusually heavy…
Confused, Annette pulled off the blanket covering her up to her neck and was momentarily stunned.
“…What, what’s this?”
Why had her body shrunk?
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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