Duke Valige’s words seemed to bring Lina to resignation as she closed her eyes.
‘Well. Maybe it’s for the best. Rather than being tied to that man, leaving the mansion might be better.’
Lina exhaled a soft breath. Looking at it positively, it wasn’t such a bad thing.
No, rather, it might be a blessing.
A faint smile formed on her lips as she finished thinking.
‘Smiling?’
Valige’s eyebrows twitched as he looked indifferently at Lina’s face.
The strange look of pleasure on the maid’s face irritated Valige’s nerves.
“Wait.”
And that impulsively uttered word caught Lina’s ankle as she was about to leave the room.
“Come to think of it, I may have been too harsh.”
Valige leaned back in his chair, glancing at Lina.
“I almost falsely accused you.”
“……Yes?”
“You don’t have to leave the mansion. You’ll work in the annex from now on.”
The maid’s face dramatically darkened.
“For the time being, without pay.”
[This is the time separator]“Uh, uhuh.”
In the dark room where a chilly aura lingered.
There were sounds of tossing and turning, and repeated painful groans.
The man’s hand, clutching the sheet on the bed, was soaked with sweat.
After suffering for a long time, the man sat up as if bouncing from the bed, then drew in a harsh breath like someone who had been unable to breathe for a long time.
“Ha……. Hah.”
Beads of sweat like pearls flowed down Valige’s neck. His body was wet with cold sweat, like someone who had been caught in the rain.
He wiped his face with his hand, blinking his eyes rapidly as if trying to remember the dream he just had, but no slight memory or common image remained.
“It’s starting again…….”
Valige, kneeling with his head bowed, let out a low string of curses.
‘It didn’t end.’
Valige had been plagued by inexplicable nightmares every night since who knows when.
The resulting insomnia was tough, but what made him even more frustrated and tormented was the emptiness he felt after dreaming.
‘Why can’t I remember anything?’
He didn’t even know what he had dreamt.
When he opened his eyes, only piercing pain and a dreadful loneliness, as if drifting alone on an empty sea, remained.
Initially, he thought the nightmares were some kind of trauma from fighting in the war at a young age.
The nightmares began when he participated in the war, and after returning to the empire, he resumed his peaceful sleep as before.
‘No, precisely, it was after attending that party.’
He was reluctantly pushed into the party by the crown prince. Valige, who had no intention of enjoying the party in the first place, went outside looking for a quiet place due to the inevitable headache.
And there……
‘……What did I do?’
He seemed to have met someone, but only vague memories remained, nothing came to mind.
‘I certainly met someone that day…….’
“Uhuh!”
Valige clutched his head again with a headache that felt like it would shatter. The slack tension that had been loose since the festival began to tighten once more.
“Is it indeed……. a curse?”
The divine curse that had dried up the blood of the permanence for hundreds of years.
His father had it, and so did his father’s father.
A piece of longburied memory floated to the surface. Blood began to seep from Valige’s teeth.
“Do you think I’ll die quietly like this?”
The men of the Permanence family had suffered from unexplained headaches and rapidly declining health after reaching adulthood.
Many renowned physicians in the empire had passed through the Permanence Duke’s family, but no one could cure this mysterious illness.
A moment later, a wave of complex emotions surged in.
‘I will end this pain in this generation.’
A surge of emotion swirled in his chest, and soon anger began to boil.
“Argh!”
Clang.
The bottle, powerless in his hand, crashed against the wall.
Along with the sound of glass breaking, the bottle shattered into pieces beyond recognition.
Among the broken glass shards lay red petals; perhaps it was an illusion that they looked like blood.
Duke Valige, furrowing his brow, gazed at the broken bottle and petals; it seemed as if someone was whispering in his ear.
You’ll be shattered into pieces just like that.
“Hello, Uncle Rick.”
Rick, the stableman who managed the stables, paused from handling the hay and greeted Lina with a wave.
“Oh, Lina is here. I heard the news! Is the annex work not too hard?”
“It’s hard. But I prefer the annex? I can come see the horses like this.”
Lina answered as she petted a horse eating hay.
‘Susan was whipped and chased out of the mansion, and I became penniless, unable to leave the mansion…’
It would have been better if she was chased out of the mansion. Then she could start anew somewhere else.
Lina felt uneasy.
‘I need to relax by taking care of the horses.’
Lina, who had always loved riding horses, often stopped by the stable to help Rick after finishing her work.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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