Gleaming silver hair that went extremely well with the cold, sunken golden eyes and a sharply risen nose bridge.
A long, slender body with graceful movement.
Duke Barlock was an intellectual beauty that captured attention in an instant.
Furthermore, even without his reputation as Termina’s Dragon, he appeared to be quite noble.
Yet, such a man now……
“HHow can you say such a thing!”
“Wooing is an important matter.”
Bianca, who was taken aback, muttered softly.
Having made such an embarrassingly loud statement, there wasn’t even a hint of blush on Duke Barlock’s face.
“Will you tell me, madam? I’m terribly curious since you didn’t answer even inside the carriage.”
Even his serious tone was full of persistence.
A feeling close to certainty that he wouldn’t leave without an answer.
“TThat kind of thing.”
“That kind of thing?”
Born with original sin.
Love was something that Bianca could hardly hope for.
But how could she choose it?
It was Bianca Termina, of all people.
Feeling slightly aggrieved, Bianca shouted quietly.
“There’s no such thing!”
“Think carefully. It must be there.”
“Your Grace.”
“Gillian.”
Bianca gazed at Duke Barlock, who stubbornly insisted on using his name, and drooped her shoulders.
He was no ordinary person.
Whether he was truly a descendant of the dragon as in the legend, or it was because his thinking ability far exceeded that of humans, he was alien in unexpected ways.
Polite and kind, but foreign.
“I have never been loved, so how can I have preferences?”
Her whole mouth tasted bitter as she stated the fact.
“Not having memories of being loved and having preferences are slightly different matters.”
“……”
“If you don’t have them, think from now on and let me know.”
He didn’t ask, ‘Will you tell me?’
He spoke sharply, yet politely.
Bianca added one more evaluation of the duke.
A suspicious and clever man, and extremely cunning.
She sighed quietly to herself.
Jillian’s index finger, entering through the window, stroked the wet corner of Bianca’s eye.
“You look pretty when you cry, but I think it’s a little prettier when you don’t.”
Although his tone was undoubtedly cunning, his hand stroking her eye seemed to ask, ‘Is this much okay?’ slow and gentle.
Even though her face turned red in an instant, Bianca did not slap Gillian’s hand away.
It was hard to bear the embarrassing sound, but it seemed she heard another hidden message.
‘Don’t cry.’
“Shall we get going now? Come on, I want to go home.”
Though he withdrew himself, his expression was still fluttering, and Bianca thought that what she saw was not everything.
“Thank you.”
Her scattered greeting was for that reason.
“…Don’t mention it.”
The man who seemed surprised and then smiled as a habit did not deny Bianca’s gratitude.
As the carriage window closed with a thunk, Gillian straightened his waist and turned his head.
The affectionate smile he had shown to Bianca had completely evaporated.
His eyes were quite annoyed when they rushed to console the crying Bianca as soon as the procession stopped.
Twenty on both sides of the bridge, and four at each castle gate.
In total, over a hundred archers had their bows tightly drawn.
The tips of the arrows were pointing at.
“……”
Jillian slowly rolled his eyes to look at his left chest, then smiled briefly.
He must have really lost his mind.
It was too indifferent to be called an assassination attempt, and too brazen to be called terror.
“What shall we do?”
Creta, his lieutenant, silently approached him from behind and asked as Gillian’s gaze lengthened.
“Let them be.”
Jillian added a cool word at the end of his speech.
“For now.”
“Then……”
“Is there any need for the lady to see it?”
Creta didn’t ask any more, bowed deeply, and stepped back.
The duke’s procession moved again as Gillian turned the horse’s head.
However, Creta stood still in its place.
Until the procession turned into a small dot and finally disappeared from sight.
Bianca suddenly startled and sat up.
“…….”
She seemed to have heard something eerie, but the inside of the carriage remained still.
Rubbing her goosebumpcovered arms, just then, there was a knock on the door.
“Madam?”
“Uh, hmm. What is it?”
A low, subdued voice.
Bianca then realized that she had just awakened from a nap.
“We are about to pass through the warp.”
Hearing the polite tone from outside, Bianca replied ‘yes’ and tidied her disheveled hair. Suddenly, she made a strange face.
Warps were convenient, but they could cause nausea, dizziness, and tinnitus.
Though they had been steadily improved since commercialization, there were still some people who suffered from side effects.
So, notifying passengers before a warp had become a customary practice.
Nothing special about the notice.
But it was special to Bianca.
It might seem funny to be touched by such a mundane mannerism.
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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