Nevertheless, his eyes were continually fixed on Mayana, as if examining something, or searching for something…
“Why is your cheek like that?”
Mayana quickly put her hand to her cheek. She thought the swelling had gone down quite a bit, but it seemed it hadn’t fully healed yet.
“I had some trouble.”
The Duke slightly raised an eyebrow.
“I don’t like that answer, but I’ll let it go. Where did you work?”
“At Lord Povek’s house, Your Grace.”
Lord Povek’s house? The Duke seemed to have a general idea of what had happened. The baron’s messy behavior and his wife’s hysterical jealousy were famous even among the nobles.
The Duke said,
“What will you do now?”
Mayana didn’t respond. The Duke quickly realized what she meant when she said, ‘I have nowhere to go’. Not only a job but also the situation obviously prevented her from returning home.
But he needed to confirm it. The Duke thought.
“Going back to your hometown? You wouldn’t have got a recommendation letter, and even if you had one, it wouldn’t be easy to find another livein maid position nearby.”
Mayana answered,
“I can’t go home. My parents are just poor farmers… And there are many younger siblings lined up under me. It would be hard enough for them to take care of the children.”
“So you intend to wander the streets?”
“That’s not an option. First… if the rain stops tomorrow morning, I plan to look around nearby. It may be difficult to get into a noble house as a livein maid, but the wealthy merchant class has different standards. Maybe there will be one or two who need help urgently. It would be even better if I could get a job in a place like a sewing shop.”
The Duke stroked his chin and blinked slowly. It was a strange expression that seemed to say ‘I see’ or seemed like he was thinking deeply about something.
“You said you had many siblings. Were you the eldest?”
“Yes, but…”
“Then you must have a lot of experience taking care of children.”
Mayana’s eyes blinked a couple of times this time. Shortly after, she answered,
“Yes, Your Grace.”
“Earlier, she spoke quite confidently about how nice it would be to get a job at the embroidery shop. Can she even sew?”
Mayana almost burst out laughing unknowingly. Sewing was her greatest skill. She could complete embroidery of a decent size in just a day or two.
“I’m sorry that I can’t show you. In fact, I became a maid for author Pobek because the embroidery shop where I worked disappeared. If it had still been there, I would never have worked as a maid.”
The Duke kept silent for a moment. As he closed his mouth, a sudden strange tension filled the air. Outside, the sound of rain continued to be heard. The moment thunder struck nearby, Chels, who had come out into the living room, burrowed under Mayana’s feet.
The Duke, who had been silently looking at the table for a moment, spoke.
“Okay, I will hire you.”
Mayana, who had been stroking Chels’s fur, quickly raised her head. She didn’t understand right away what she had just heard.
“Duke, what did you say……”
“We’ll talk about the details later.”
Mayana knew right away why the Duke was speaking like that. It was because Madame Celine had just come out into the living room with freshly brewed tea.
The Duke stood up and took the tray. Not only that, he also poured tea into Celine’s cup himself.
“Please drink, Madame.”
“Thank you, Duke.”
The way the two exchanged conversation was quite familiar. For Mayana, it was both hard to understand and an unrealistic sight. How had the kingdom’s most noble aristocrat formed such a humble relationship with a poor commoner? What was the reason for caring so meticulously, even to the point of repairing old, worn shoes?
Mayana’s endless questions were quickly answered by Madame Celine’s words.
“Duke, is our Liriya doing well there?”
Mayana feigned sipping tea as she looked back and forth between the Duke and Madame Celine. Liriya, it was a woman’s name. It must have been the name of the granddaughter that Madame Celine had briefly mentioned. Perhaps she was working for the Valterminster Duke family….
“Of course. She is doing well. She has gone on a trip with my younger brother.”
A puzzled look briefly crossed Mayana’s face. The Duke seemed to notice her expression but gave no further explanation.
Madame Celine said.
“That’s good……. That child, my dear Liriya is doing well. It eases my mind. The Duke’s territory is very far away, and since she’s married, it won’t be easy for her to come see me…….”
“I will have her visit as soon as she returns from her trip.”
The Duke gently patted Celine’s hand a few times as if to comfort her. Meanwhile, Mayana, with a bewildered look on her face, repeatedly thought about what the story meant. However, no matter how many times she reflected, there was only one conclusion.
‘The Duke’s younger brother…… So, the younger brother of Valterminster Duke? He married Madame Celine’s granddaughter? My goodness, could that really happen?’
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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