Not Bianca Termina.
To Bianca.
It sounded like a play on words, but it was enough to burst the tears that had stopped.
A woman who had never lived as herself couldn’t control her emotions at the words that looked at her as a whole person, and she burst into tears.
Gillian reached out and held her wet cheek, whispering tenderly.
“It’s okay to refuse, but please accept if you can. I’ll keep asking until you do.”
“What am I?”
“Be my mate.”
His proposal was like poison.
It seeped in slowly, corroding the person.
“If you don’t hate me, accept it. Let’s marry properly.”
“What… we’ve already signed the marriage oath, haven’t we?”
Sobbing into her ear, Gillian whispered without stopping.
“I want a sign that you want.”
Huh?
“Fill in the vow as you like. How about it? Write anything. As you wish.”
Finally, at the sweet voice ringing in her ears, Bianca dropped her shoulders and cried.
In the end, Gillian had to end teatime without hearing an answer.
[Star icon] [Star icon] [Star icon]“Take some rest.”
With a tender greeting, and as Gillian left and Bianca remained alone, she rubbed the tears that flowed without stopping.
What a disgrace!
Even when alone, the tears did not stop.
“‘It’s not something we both wanted or chose, so we can’t help but distrust and be anxious.'”
“‘I want a sign that you want.'”
“‘Fill in the vow as you like. How about it? Write anything. As you wish.'”
Gillian said it was natural to be guarded because the beginning was wrong.
The beginning was wrong.
It’s not Bianca’s fault.
The reason why his words keep coming to mind and the tears won’t stop is because of that.
‘If only it wasn’t you!’
The indulgence given naturally to a woman who always had to wear guilt was too strange and good.
Shedding tears, Bianca whispered the words Gillian had said.
“Write anything. As you wish.”
As she repeated his words exactly, the feeling that had choked her earlier came back to life.
Her stomach churned and her vision went dark.
Ah.
‘I’ll do as you wish.’
‘It’s okay to refuse. I’ll keep asking until you accept.’
His words swirled around madly in her head like an auditory hallucination.
The ground beneath her feet gave way and her mind felt like it would fly away, but Bianca held her head in dizziness and still smiled.
The words that looked at ‘me’ as a whole person were too sweet.
Bianca admitted that she could no longer endure.
[Star Icon] [Star Icon] [Star Icon]“Have all the castle commanders gathered?”
After the luncheon, Gillian immediately convened a meeting.
All the castles’ ‘commanders’ had been summoned, so the atmosphere in the main castle was rather rigid.
The gathering of the commanders in this place, which was the main and the first castle, was customary before a wave, for strategic meetings.
“Isn’t it too early?”
“It was observed that groups were moving several days ago, so it’s not too early.”
Worried about Bianca, who wouldn’t stop crying, Gillian was the last to arrive, busy conveying a separate message to Hailey.
In the office, the voices of the gathered castle commanders could be heard nonstop beyond the thick wooden door.
“How are the repairs at the 5th castle going?”
“It’s still in progress. This is a headache.”
“Did you say all the reserved food in the 6th castle has been filled?”
“Yesterday.”
Gillian shrugged at the commanders’ words checking the situation in each castle.
“The fuss.”
“Since all the castle commanders have been summoned, it’s natural.”
“What’s natural?”
Hmph.
Gillian chuckled at Crustel’s words and suddenly flung open the office door.
With a bang, and the sound of wood moaning, all eyes were drawn through the wideopen door.
Gillian, who entered under the pouring gazes, dropped a bombshell to the waiting commanders.
“Each of you will lend twenty knights.”
“What?”
“We need manpower at the main castle.”
“The main castle, not the 7th castle?”
When the wave began, the most attacked place was the outermost 7th castle.
Sometimes the 6th castle.
The 5th castle only twice in history.
The 4th castle had allowed a battle only once since it was built.
But now, where and who?
The commanders thought Gillian had misspoken the main castle and the 7th castle.
“What …… If it’s the 7th castle.”
“Main castle.”
“7th castle.”
“Main castle. A giant rabbit got in there a while ago.”
At Gillian’s words, Blat, the commander of the 7th castle, raised his voice.
“That was something that got dragged in by a cart, wasn’t it?”
“Either way, if I hadn’t been there that day, the giant rabbit would have caught and swallowed the maids.”
“7th castle is always short of knights. If we lend twenty from here, it will disrupt our forces.”
“I’m at the 7th castle during the wave, not the main castle.”
“Your Grace!”
“What assurance that such an incident won’t happen again? Who guarantees that the next target won’t be the Duchess?”
“Even so.”
Gillian puckered his lips at Blat’s obvious objection.
“Will it be okay if I command from the main castle during the wave?”
“Are you really overdoing it!”
That last statement was mean.
Handling the wave was nobody else’s job, but Duke Barlock’s.
He was the most critical force.
And now he was threatening to withdraw.
He had just made an incredible threat.
The commanders’ eyes were unfriendly, but Gillian feigned ignorance and stood his ground.
In the end, the commanders lost.
They had to protect the castles, the families that made their homes here.
“…… When should we send them?”
“Right now.”
Gillian concluded his onesided coercion by promising to send twice the number of ‘new forces’ to replace the borrowed knights.
At the words promising to send more knights than what was taken, the commanders’ stern faces slightly relaxed.
“You do know you went too far, right?”
Blat did not hide his crushed voice before returning to the 7th castle.
“I know.”
Gillian knew it too, but he had no choice.
Bianca was in danger.
His instincts were warning him.
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!!!
