Swinging her legs and making a suspicious face, Arianthe burst into laughter. The servants cleaning the hallway walls glanced as if wondering what was going on, but Mayana, without even glancing at them, went into Arianthe’s room and closed the door.
“But Princess,”
Sitting on a high chair, Arianthe looked up at Mayana.
“Who taught you how to burn wood or to bring cicada shells… really, who taught you all this?”
Mayana had asked this a few times before, but Arianthe always brushed it off with ‘It’s a secret.’ However, today, she looked hesitant.
Her clear, flawless eyes like glass marbles moved slowly. After some contemplation, Arianthe swung her dangling legs and said,
“Marshal taught me.”
“Marshal? A servant?”
Arianthe nodded her head.
“Eleven or twelve years old… He was young. He said he came from the countryside. He was clumsy and always got scolded by Joslyn.”
He must have been an apprentice servant. Mayana thought.
Like her parents, the impoverished peasants easily sent their children who reached working age to other homes.
It was the easiest way to feed them, and if lucky, they could work in a decent family for a lifetime, receiving wages. It was not a bad choice.
Mayana brought some scrap fabric and a needle and sat across from Arianthe. Since there were no torn socks, stockings, or dresses to mend, her hands were idle.
“What are you making?”
“I made a shawl for your doll. Now I’m thinking of making a bonnet.”
Arianthe’s eyes sparkled with delight. Mayana sewed a piece of soft silk over the stiffer fabric as she spoke.
“Keep talking.”
“About what?”
“About Marshal. Did he ever play tricks on you, Princess?”
Was that what she wanted to know? Arianthe puckered her lips and seemed lost in thought for a moment.
Mayana saw the longing fluttering on Ariante’s small face. Even though she was an age where she couldn’t exactly know what it means to miss something. Before she arrived, she could fully understand how big a presence Marshal had been to Ariante.
“Marshal never did that. He was close to me. When there was no work, he played with me in the garden. He climbed the tree very well and picked green apples for me. He also taught me how to climb a tree……. I learned how to catch bugs from Marshal, too.”
Ariante, who was talking in a gentle voice, suddenly leaned over the table and said excitedly,
“Do you know how to catch a dragonfly?”
Mayana glanced at Ariante. Her expression was of pure joy. She deliberately protruded the tip of her lips, shrugged her shoulders as if she had no idea, and made an expression as if she couldn’t bear the curiosity.
“Dragonflies fly around, don’t they? They’re very fast. How do you catch them?”
As if she knew it would be the case, Ariante grinned with a triumphant face. Her small nose tip and lips simultaneously twitching were so cute it was unbearable.
“When a dragonfly is sitting on a flower or grass, if you twirl your finger in front of it, it gets dizzy and can’t fly away. Then if you slightly grab its wing, you can catch it.”
The secret to catching dragonflies is the same here, too. Mayana barely held back the laughter that was about to burst out.
She had played like that when she was young, or rather, in her past life, with her friends. Although she had seldom succeeded, children who were good at catching insects really caught and released dragonflies as if they were hypnotizing them.
“Is that really true?”
When Mayana asked as if in doubt, Ariante banged the table with her small hand.
“It’s true! Really, really! Marshal taught me, so I caught it that way!”
“Hmm……. Why does the dragonfly stay still when you twirl your finger?”
“Dragonflies have big eyes, right! So, they get dizzy and can’t fly away!”
She still doesn’t know what crosseyed is……. Mayana covered her nose and mouth with her fist for a moment to suppress her laughter, then stared at Ariante intently.
“I can’t believe it. Show me directly when the season comes for dragonflies to fly around.”
Ariante puffed up her cheeks and declared,
“Okay, just wait and see. I will catch a hundred dragonflies.”
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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