Received the Obsession of a Chaste Dark Lord - Chapter 52
“Why are you doing that?”
When I asked, he shook his head as if it was nothing.
But it’s only natural to be curious as to why someone would laugh like that in front of another person.
I stared intently at him, who didn’t want to answer.
It was a silent pressure to speak quickly.
After staring at Leoprick for a while, he soon opened his mouth with a shrug.
“You’re too much like my chief of staff.”
“Me?”
“Yes. The way you’re holding documents and talking right now is too businesslike.”
He answered with a laugh.
Saying that if you put glasses on me, I would look exactly like a chief of staff.
Ah, so that’s what he meant.
I chuckled and put down the paper I was holding.
“So does this mean we’ll be sleeping together starting today?”
And when I spoke while looking straight at Leoprick, he seemed a bit surprised.
As if he didn’t expect me to bring it up first.
Isn’t that why he came dressed like this, saying we should sleep together from today?
When I tilted my head as if asking again, he looked a bit flustered but soon nodded slowly.
“You’re excessively naive in some ways.”
“…Me?”
Leoprick now made a somewhat resigned expression as he sank into the sofa.
It also seemed like he had given up a little?
“Just out of curiosity, do you usually speak so frankly about everything?”
“What?”
What does he mean by that now?
As I stared at him with a puzzled look, Leoprick sat up from the sofa and scooted closer to me.
“I thought I had instilled enough wariness in you, but you don’t seem to be very wary of me.”
A voice that had dropped very low and eyes that gazed steadily without wavering.
Leoprick seemed to be trying to remind me again of how he felt.
In his gaze that met mine, I read an inexplicable desperation.
A desperation to keep reminding me, yet also seeming to tell me to keep understanding him.
“…I’m not unaware.”
So I answered as plainly as possible.
Not wanting to show that I was overly conscious of him, but also not wanting to completely ignore his feelings.
“Your Highness is my husband, so I’m just speaking comfortably. If you weren’t my husband, there would be no need to have this conversation, right?”
That’s right. He’s my husband.
No matter what he demands of me, no matter what he wants, it’s not strange and we can talk about anything as a married couple.
And I owe him a debt.
“So don’t be too upset and just go to sleep for today.”
I got up from my seat and headed towards the bed.
“Instead, I hope you won’t mind if I scold the palace maids who kept silent today.”
“I understand what you mean, but please don’t scold them too harshly.”
After all, it’s because I was being stubborn.
Leoprick said with a slightly apologetic face as he got up from his seat to follow me.
He had a somewhat complicated expression, as if his emotions hadn’t been sorted out yet, but I pretended not to notice.
I sat on the edge of the bed and looked at him.
“I’ll talk to them within reason, but even if someone thinks it’s too much, I hope you’ll understand.”
“I know. What one intends or desires always varies depending on the person receiving it.”
Fortunately, Leoprick seemed to understand as he didn’t strongly object or add anything to my words.
He just quietly walked over to the bed and sat on the opposite edge from me.
I looked at him for a moment before adding one more thing.
“And next time, I’d appreciate it if you didn’t surprise me like this.”
“Were you surprised?”
“Of course. You suddenly visited and were alone without a single palace maid.”
If it hadn’t been him waiting, I would have turned the royal villa upside down right away.
But it was late and since we decided to share a room anyway, there was no need to send him away to his room.
I lifted the blanket and lay down.
“And I wasn’t even informed of that fact, so of course I was surprised.”
“I see. I simply didn’t want to disturb you…”
I heard a rustling sound beside me.
The sound of him following my lead, lifting the blanket and lying down.
Even though it was a familiar sound, why did it suddenly seem so loud?
I lay with my back to him, deliberately breathing slowly.
Why was I getting so nervous over this?
The bed was wide, and even if I didn’t try to be careful, there was no way he would touch me.
But why…
“I’ll be more careful next time. I don’t want to surprise you again.”
His voice sounded particularly mischievous.
It was a trivial thing that could be laughed off and passed over.
But why was it so difficult to respond to those words without reserve?
I attributed my strangely tense feelings to the unfamiliar environment.
Because in my life, no one other than myself had ever lain in my bed.
Maybe that’s why I’m getting tense now and shrinking away even more.
I tried not to let my voice sound tense as I replied softly.
“I’d appreciate that.”
“Thank you for understanding, Amelia.”
Leoprick’s voice rang out languidly.
It also sounded like he was half-asleep.
Was today hard for him?
It seemed a bit more awkward to stop talking here, but at the same time, I thought continuing to talk might make me tired tomorrow.
It was already quite late when I came in.
The “getting closer” he wanted could start tomorrow.
Listening to his breathing growing steadier, I dropped a quiet remark.
“Good night, Your Highness.”
“…Good night to you too, Amelia.”
Leoprick’s low, husky voice sounded so nice to hear, but briefly thinking that, I fell asleep listening to his deep breathing.
[This is the timeline separator]“Who has come to visit?”
I was just about to have lunch.
After waking up early, doing some light exercise, and having a late breakfast, lunch was naturally delayed as I was about to have it.
Leoprick frowned at the news brought by his chief assistant Arnold, who had gone to request lunch.
It was that Aunt Flora had visited.
“I don’t think I heard any news about Aunt coming to visit. What’s going on?”
Arnold also showed an awkward expression, saying that of course he tried to decline the sudden visit.
The head butler politely requested her to contact them in advance next time, but it seemed the only ones who could stop Flora Reinhart Alois in this imperial palace were other Reinharts.
The obstinate Flora Alois finally set foot in the royal villa and for some reason headed to the Crown Princess’s office.
“She’s starting again.”
Leoprick rubbed his temples to quell the oncoming headache.
Not only was it sudden, but the intention of her visit was plain to see.
In fact, no one in this imperial palace welcomed Flora Alois’s visits.
She was already married and had left the imperial palace, taking a surname other than the imperial family’s.
It went against propriety for someone like that to frequently enter the imperial palace, but it was also because she had been so obstinate since the previous emperor was alive.
Well, some still address her as “Princess” and treat her with respect, it seems.
Unfortunately, there was no one like that in this royal villa.
Leoprick put aside the thought of having lunch and stood up.
“You said Aunt went to Amelia’s office?”
“Yes. The head butler heard her clearly tell the maid that.”
“Let’s go there.”
Aunt is a vain person.
With great vanity, a desire for recognition, and a desire for attention, she probably wants to show others that she still has a significant influence on the imperial family.
That’s likely why she sought out Amelia.
And he already knows, doesn’t he?
How that damned mother and son, Flora Alois and Lloyd Alois, exploited his precious Amelia.
Barely suppressing the urge to draw his sword and cut down the two right now, he headed to Amelia’s office with Arnold.
Striding, almost running, he arrived there and as expected, Flora Alois was present.
She was boasting as if her son’s skills were her own, spouting nonsense to Amelia.
“…So as an elder of the imperial family, I came to meet the Crown Princess in person. Also to greet you since you’re close with my son Lloyd.”
“Is that so?”
Without needing to announce his visit or enter, his hearing, honed through numerous wars and intense training, was better than average.
It meant he could roughly hear what the two were discussing inside.
He had to make an effort not to drag out his aunt who was shamelessly talking about her son in front of the Crown Princess.
“Please endure it, Your Highness.”
His quick-witted assistant swiftly grabbed his arm.
Leoprick ground his teeth slightly, imagining Amelia’s expression that he didn’t even need to see.
“…How dare she.”
How dare she pull this kind of stunt in his palace.
Leoprick bit his lip and waited for the right moment to enter, standing outside the door where he could clearly hear their conversation.
He would have gone in much earlier if Arnold hadn’t stopped him.
Leoprick clenched his fists, fully hearing what the two people were saying inside.
“If you need any help, just say so. And ask me about managing the royal villa, as I’ve been in charge of it. Her Majesty the Empress probably doesn’t know much about it, having become Empress right after marriage.”
“I see.”
“Ah, right. Have you met with Lloyd recently? That child was talking about the Crown Princess some time ago.”
Flora prattled on with a bright voice, but Amelia responded with a consistently calm tone.
Short answers that appropriately satisfied the other person.
He thought she was quite wise, but suddenly Flora brought up something out of the blue.
Lloyd?
Calling Amelia the Crown Princess while mentioning Lloyd?
No more waiting was needed.
The moment he heard that irksome name, Leoprick made up his mind.
Now.
Now is the time to go in.
He would open the door right away and shut that thoughtless mouth.
With that thought, he was about to grab the doorknob with a jerk.
“For what reason are you asking me about Viscount Alois?”
Amelia, who had been responding indifferently and coldly the whole time, spoke in a completely frigid voice.
A tone that clearly conveyed her displeasure to anyone listening.
Leoprick, who was about to open the door and somehow drag Flora out, paused for a moment.
“By calling me the Crown Princess while suddenly asking about Viscount Alois… do you mean you don’t actually acknowledge me as the Crown Princess?”
Me, with the Reinhart name of the imperial family?
The temperature of her words was so icy that one might mistakenly think everything in the room had frozen over.
Leoprick unconsciously swallowed.
I don’t know why I’m so nervous when she’s not even talking to me, but…
“This is unpleasant, Countess Alois.”
Her voice cutting off firmly, it felt like it was aimed at him by mistake.
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
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