So they walked together for tens of minutes, sharing many stories.
Of course, it was mostly Helena talking to thin air, but that too was believed to be a kind of favor.
There would be no patient emperor who would listen to all the babbling of a commoner.
“It’s here, Your Majesty!”
If only she could walk more, but pretending to be lost had reached its limit.
Finally, Helena, who arrived at the door, stopped.
She took a moment to catch her breath, then smiled brightly at Kun. Unlike someone emotionless, Helena had to act lively to be sure to stand out.
“Your Majesty, I was grateful today! Thanks to you, my time alone was not boring.”
The two talked a lot on their way back from the garden to the room.
When Kun asked if she was from the Argen family, visiting the royal palace at the same time, she evaded, saying she was ‘sponsored by a duke.’
When the emperor showed interest in the word ‘sponsorship,’ she listed her sad story without being asked.
Pity would be a new emotion to the emperor who had always seen wealthy nobles.
“I’ll always be in that garden. Please come find me when you get bored, Your Majesty! I’m more fun and comfortable than that princess!”
“Well.”
“What?”
“If your sponsor permits it.”
At the unexpected words, Helena turned her head in disappointment. Callis was returning to his room.
If it were known that Callis and Helena were staying in one room, that she was the duke’s concubine would be revealed.
Although it would be revealed someday, depending on when, their relationship would completely change.
If found out now, before they became close, the emperor would believe all of Helena’s chatter to be biased stories.
Furthermore, he would despise her as a vile concubine who had cursed the queen.
She had intended to score points and become a friend to the emperor, but now she appeared spiteful.
“Oh, come to think of it, the next room…….”
“That’s too bad; it seems you have a bad memory. This is the right room. Because the other rooms were not given out for the convenience of the duke.”
“That, that’s the thing. Actually…!”
As she hurried to make another excuse, Callis approached the two inconsiderately and asked.
“Helena, what are you doing there…. Your Majesty? Why are you in my room…?”
Then Helena’s face turned pale. Callis, too, sensing the strange atmosphere, remained stifffaced.
“Is this woman the duke’s new woman?”
“Yes? Oh, yes. That’s right but…….”
“She seems to know too little about the world. It would be good to educate her quickly.”
“Yes?”
“She endlessly cursed my invited guest. I was tired of listening to the unwanted stories.”
“……Yes?”
“If the princess had not given me a good impression, the rare meeting I had would have been tarnished. You should be grateful to that scentless flower. Helena.”
Finally, Kun’s gaze became clear.
The look he had been giving Helena was decidedly not friendly.
His red eyes were cold, and horribly cruel.
Mockingly repeating Helena’s words, Kun left without a moment’s hesitation.
She stared blankly at his retreating figure before running off.
“Your, Your Majesty! Your Majesty, you must be misunderstanding something!”
It should not have ended like this.
The fact that the emperor, who could aid in her brilliant revival, had come to dislike her. Nothing could be more desperate than that.
“Your, Your Majesty. It’s a misunderstanding! I just want to be close to you…….”
“Be close?”
Her words were cut in half by the cold voice. The words that couldn’t escape into the world wandered in her tongue.
Instead, hiccups started to come from Helena’s mouth.
“You should know your place. Helena.”
It was the longest sentence Kun had uttered while he was with Helena today. Sadly, it lingered the longest in Helena’s ears.
The fact that the words didn’t come out because of the hiccups was truly a heavensent luck.
Helena, looking at the emperor from a distance, slumped to the ground as Kun’s shadow disappeared.
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!!!
