It was the reaction Isabella had been waiting for. In the San Carlo society, if the person of higher status, or the gentleman if they are of the same status, does not speak to the lady first, the lady cannot start the conversation. She responded to Cesare with a roselike bright smile. However, she couldn’t remove the hidden thorns.
“Count Cesare! I thought you had forgotten me.”
Cesare received her words with a slick compliment.
“How could I forget such beauty.”
Afterwards, it was Isabella’s solo stage. She drew out Ottavio’s soul with sophisticated rhetoric and suppressed Clemente. However, whether Count Cesare was excited by this feat of flirting was another matter. He watched the banquet with an indifferent gaze, his watery eyes carrying nothing but a faint interest.
Isabella was starting to get anxious.
The banquet was heading towards its end. Isabella was feeling desperate knowing that after today’s gathering, she had no promise to meet Cesare or Ottavio again.
“Ottavio, excuse me for a moment.”
Count Cesare left his seat for a moment during the meal. He intended to go to the bathroom.
It’s a golden opportunity.
As soon as Count Cesare stood up and left the dining room, Isabella, forgetting her shame, shouted.
“Sister! I’m going to borrow the powder room for a moment!”
Isabella, who had left the dining room, forgot about her manners and caught up with Count Cesare halfway down the corridor.
“Count Cesare!”
Cesare slowly turned around.
“Lady de Mare, where are you going?”
“Where am I going? I’m also going to the bathroom.”
Cesare smirked.
“I’m not familiar with the layout of this house either.”
He glanced briefly at the opposite end of the corridor Isabella had run from.
“A domestic said the ladies’ restroom is at the end of the hallway on the opposite side.”
Count Cesare expected the girl’s face to turn red. He looked down at Isabella with a swirling smile. However, Isabella de Mare didn’t change color and replied.
“I see. Let’s put the excuses aside. Let’s have a little chat.”
At Isabella’s bold request, the smile on the corner of Count Cesare’s mouth deepened. This was interesting.
“What is it, Lady de Mare?”
He pretended to look at the time.
“Unlike others, I was really on my way to the restroom, so I can only have a brief conversation.”
Even the thickskinned Isabella couldn’t help but blush at this.
If she had been more cunning, she would have taken the initiative to say that he should go to the bathroom first, but Isabella de Mare was still only 17 years old.
The previous life of her who had dominated the San Carlo social circle and made a brilliant resurrection like a phoenix was after her husband died, she became a widow, and after going through all the hardships, she became a mature woman in her late twenties.
The still inexperienced Isabella brought up the main point straightforwardly.
“I won’t talk long. I heard that you declined the partner application for the royal palace ball from my sister.”
The corners of Count Cesare’s eyes twitched slightly.
“Did I?”
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!!!
