It was impossible to continue doing laundry in such an atmosphere.
With that, Lina hurriedly gathered the unwashed clothes and left the room. Watching Lina walk away, Loen asked,
“Susan, why are you suddenly like this? Weren’t you always itching to get at Lina?”
“Just. Isn’t she pitiful?”
“Lina, who has become the Duke’s personal maid and struts around, what is pitiful about her?”
Still speaking in a soft voice, Loen muttered as she watched Susan.
Whether she heard Loen’s words or not, Susan twisted one corner of her mouth.
“Well, we’ll see about that.”
An ominous light flickered in her eyes.
[This is the time separator]“Once you enter, bow to the Duke immediately, and don’t straighten up until you have permission. Also, don’t look directly at the Duke’s face, and don’t speak until he addresses you first. And”
The butler repeated to Lina the things he had learned from the housekeeper on their way to greet the Duke.
Thanks to him, she was on the verge of going crazy.
Lina, anticipating the butler’s instructions to start again, interrupted him, saying,
“Don’t worry, Mr. Butler. I’ve been well trained by the housekeeper, so I won’t make any mistakes.”
“Alright, Lina, I trust only you.”
Relieved by Lina’s confident attitude, Cullen knocked on the door.
Knockknock.
“Duke, it’s Cullen.”
“Come in.”
At the sound of the deep voice behind the door, Cullen opened it.
Inside the office, only the sound of the nib scratching paper and pages turning resonated.
“I’m honored to meet you. I will serve you from today as Lina.”
Reflexively, Lina bowed deeply and rattled off her wellrehearsed lines.
Then the scratching of the pen stopped for a while, and she felt a piercing gaze.
Caught by the unexpectedly strong gaze, Lina straightened and naturally looked at the Duke’s face, opening her mouth to speak.
“I will serve the Duke with sincerity and… ”
The moment their eyes met, her words stuck, but.
‘It can’t be.’
Lina almost screamed but managed to stifle it, covering her mouth with both hands.
Without even thinking to avoid the Duke’s gaze, Lina’s face stiffened as if she had seen something terrible.
In contrast, the duke leaned deeper into his chair, raising one corner of his mouth, and said,
“Seems like she really was a maid.”
‘Why, that man…’
[Be careful.]A gentle spring breeze was warm as it weaved through her hair on a day long ago. Someone had whispered to her.
[Witches are unlucky.]Why did the memory of that distant day suddenly come to mind?
“Are you done gawking?”
Looking at the maid, whose mouth was agape, he spoke with a gloomy tone.
Even in response to the duke’s question, Lina stood there dumbfounded. Only after seeing Collen slap herself did she bow her head.
“Gazing so intently at your master’s face, I wonder where you learned such manners.”
The man’s voice, now lowered, echoed throughout the room.
“I apologize, Your Grace. I warned her, but… she seems to have made a mistake because she was nervous.”
Upon hearing Collen’s trembling voice, the realization that the man was a duke settled in once again.
‘A real duke…?’
Lina chewed on her lips, mulling over the events that had passed.
As she recalled the images of the man from the past, questions that had been carelessly overlooked began to unravel. An overwhelming sense of oppression was felt as well.
A soft sigh escaped Lina’s lips.
‘Why would a duke be at such a party…?’
She had thought it was a party for lowranking knights, and only the minor nobility, like baronets, would attend.
And yet, a duke had attended such a place. Her hands, clenched tightly, had turned white without her noticing.
“I was asking the maid.”
Lina, who had been biting her lips, came to her senses at the duke’s repeated question.
“I apologize, Your Grace. I was nervous, and I unintentionally behaved rudely.”
She tried to appear calm, but Lina’s mind was filled with confusion, as if her whole body was paralyzed.
Collen, sensing that something was different with Lina, apologized to the duke once again, saying,
“She’s not usually like this… I’m sorry. I’ll bring someone else right away.”
But the duke ignored Collen’s words, closely examining Lina as he asked,
“How old are you? You look too young to be a maid, don’t you?”
“I am twentyfour years old… Your Grace.”
Lina answered, barely hiding the tremble in her voice.
“Twentyfour, is it…”
The duke muttered, tapping the desk with his fingers.
“But.”
However, the duke didn’t grant Lina’s wish.
“Have we met somewhere before?”
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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