“And yet, the lady wants this cursed one? He’s a defective product of our family.”
Defective product. Her smiling face froze. Have you been treated like this?
“That’s too harsh, Father. To me, he’s a very precious and valuable jewel.”
My cure. Who dares to insult it? Even if it’s his father, she couldn’t accept it. Her words were laced with chilly emotion.
“Even if others consider him worthless.”
What poor judgment you have, she implied. The Duke’s expression twisted slightly at her indirect criticism.
Caught in a tense standoff, Felice fidgeted a few steps away.
‘Ah, what to do? If I provoke Father further, he might not give his consent. Should I intervene?’
Contrary to Felice’s thoughts, the Duke found Diana intriguing.
Leaning back in his chair, he had an air of leisure. Even his chief aides could not withstand his gaze, except Roderick.
Facing the Duke’s intimidating gaze head-on, Diana met it squarely.
Her bright eyes were so defiant they seemed cheeky. The Duke couldn’t help but let out a snort.
“Fine, if you want to be a widow, I won’t stop you.”
“Father, calling me a widow? If you allow the engagement, I’m confident we’ll be together for a hundred years.”
“Such confidence.”
It sounded familiar. Roderick’s tone. Any fear she had vanished.
“With a wife as beautiful as me, can he even dare to close his eyes?”
“…….”
“He seems quite jealous, you know.”
Felice was genuinely impressed. Standing up to their father like that was no small feat. Normally, even the bravest would find it difficult to confront the Duke of Schwarz.
Watching Diana challenge her father without hesitation, Felice felt his heart race.
Felice clenched his fist, silently cheering her on. Go, Sister-in-law!
“The regret will also be the lady’s to bear.”
“Of course. I am fully responsible for my choices.”
Even as Diana stood firm against the Duke’s assumption of Roderick’s death, she didn’t flinch.
The intense tug-of-war paused briefly before the Duke finally stepped back.
“Fine. I’ll send a betrothal letter to Beatus.”
“No, could you please hold off on sending that betrothal letter?”
Why? The Duke’s eyebrows twitched. Wasn’t she just trying to get permission?
“I only came here to get your permission, Father. That way, I have a reason to stay in this castle with my brother.”
“And?”
“Please accept me as your future daughter-in-law for now, Father. My status in this castle should be the fiancée of the Knight Commander.”
The Beatus family was influential, but Diana’s status as the youngest lady of Beatus was relatively low compared to her brothers, who were more well-known. If she wanted to have a say here, she needed to establish her status. The skinship with the handsome cure was a bonus.
“Then I’ll take it as granted and leave now. Thank you for your precious time, Duke.”
As if she never challenged him, Diana gracefully retreated from the desk, politely excused herself, and left the office. But just before leaving, she turned back and added:
“However, it angers me to hear my jewel being treated as trash, Father.”
Thud. The door closed, and the office was once again enveloped in chilling silence.
Diana hadn’t explained why she wanted to delay the betrothal letter. That was something the Duke could find out himself. But her last remark certainly struck a nerve with him.
Her cheeky warning to be careful with her in the future left the Duke with a stern face.
Phew. After leaving the office, Diana exhaled deeply. Had she been too disrespectful?
Regret might have been creeping in, but what’s done is done.
“You did well in there?”
Roderick’s low voice tingled in her ears.
She hadn’t noticed his arrival. Roderick leaned against the wall, arms crossed, in a relaxed posture.
“Did you just get here?”
“I’ve been here since you started talking about the jewel.”
“The first jewel? Or the second?”
If he heard the last part about the jewel, he might not have caught the entire conversation.
“The first one.”
Diana frowned slightly.
“Then you heard everything?”
He touched the corner of his mouth and said:
“Yes.”
“You should have come in and backed me up!”
He couldn’t hold back his laughter any longer.
Roderick had initially been downtrodden upon hearing she was meeting his father. What could she possibly want with the Duke? Confused and about to pull her out of the office, he heard her:
“You’re too harsh, Father. To me, he’s a very precious and valuable jewel, no matter how others may see him.”
Roderick, with his keen senses, could hear Diana’s voice clearly through the well-insulated door.
Who else could stand up to the Duke like that? He wished he had seen the Duke’s twisted reaction himself.
“I should have seen that myself.”
His soft laughter echoed pleasantly through the corridor.
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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