Ariadne did not let her guard down. Without taking Cesare’s outstretched hand, she countered.
“Count Cesare, where have you left your partner to be here?”
Ariadne hadn’t heard that Cesare had found another partner, but she didn’t think he came alone. As in her previous life, he would have brought any woman he wanted, whether she was married or not.
However, Cesare had a perfect alibi. He pointed to the VIP seats with a smile and a nod.
“I did some filial duty today. My partner is sitting there.”
Far off in the VIP seats, Countess Rubina was lavishly dressed, triumphantly tilting a glass of wine.
“My mother enjoyed the honor of entering with the most handsome man in San Carlo today.”
Although he had entered with a married woman, it was not the kind of married woman Ariadne had imagined. She laughed in disbelief. Cesare added another comment.
“Not only handsome, but also quite younger.”
Ariadne burst out laughing at his absurd remark. It was a strange feeling. Cesare, laughing along, held out his hand and took the somewhat relaxed Ariadne’s hand, leading her towards the floor.
“Well, don’t refuse.”
Ariadne didn’t shake off Cesare’s hand. Wasn’t Alfonso on that floor with Princess Lariessa right now?
Cesare naturally took Ariadne’s left hand in his right, smoothly dancing towards the center of the floor.
Ariadne slowed her step slightly as she felt uncomfortable approaching Alfonso and Princess Lariessa, but Cesare, noticing this, leaned his upper body towards Ariadne and asked in a low voice.
“Why, don’t you like the center?”
Ariadne was startled and countered.
“Pardon?”
“You keep tensing up. If you’re scared, we won’t go.”
He smoothly stepped, providing a space for Ariadne to turn. There was enough room to get away from the center. However, Ariadne, out of stubbornness, refused Cesare’s offer.
“No. What is there to be scared of?”
After lightly turning, she added.
“Let’s go, to the center.”
Cesare, with a slow smile on his lips, led Ariadne towards the center of the dance floor.
This was a place where Count Cesare frolicked like a fish in water. As soon as he took Ariadne’s hand and stepped onto the floor, the nobles’ eyes were drawn to them. The dancing nobles whispered in their partners’ ears, and the nobles watching the dance floor began whispering to their companions.
“Count Cesare, despite being rejected for a partner, he still brought her up.”
“They say Count Cesare likes that young lady, it seems this time he’s truly serious. He’s unstoppable.”
“Where would a man like that have sincerity? He’s just grooming her until she falls.”
Cesare, unflustered by the eyes of others, gracefully led Ariadne. In fact, he rather enjoyed the gaze of others.
While savoring the gazes of the people, he casually tossed a question to his dance partner.
“Is the guy you chose over me, Valdesar, any good?”
Ariadne chuckled and answered.
“Any good?”
“If you chose him over me, he should be handsomer, or more interesting, or more fun to hang out with, shouldn’t he?”
He pointed with his chin to Raphael, dancing with Julia in the distance, his silver hair shining.
“What does that guy have over me among those three? Don’t tell me, you prefer someone who looks so delicate?”
Cesare was subtly bothered by Octavio’s barbs.
Ariadne laughed out loud.
“Count Cesare, are you challenging the Viscount Valdesar now?”
He shamelessly received her words.
“Of course not. Valdesar is nothing compared to me. But your eyes could have been dazzled, right?”
“You’ve got the wrong idea, Count Cesare. Viscount Valdesar and I aren’t in that kind of relationship at all.”
“Oh dear, oh dear, Miss. So naive. All men are wolves.”
He whispered into Ariadne’s ear, giving a slight squeeze to her hand that he was holding.
“Especially if they are evil men like Rafael de Valdesar, who hides behind the guise of a white sheep.”
Ariadne tried to break free from Cesare’s grip and make a turn to the far perimeter, she wanted to say that Count Valdesar, who had thrown himself at the altar with the intention of becoming a priest, would have no interest in women. But she stopped herself.
Because she had promised Rafael to keep his secret. However, she couldn’t help but add a word when she thought Rafael was being terribly misunderstood.
“Don’t you think you see the world too much through your own eyes? I don’t think Count Valdesar is like that.”
Cesare laughed loudly and flung Ariadne around in a big turn.
“People like me, we’re just honest. We just look bad because we openly say what we want.”
“You know you look bad.”
He didn’t answer, just shrugged his shoulders.
“The most dangerous ones are those who pretend to be faithful, kind, and noble. They hide their desires because they are too low to even speak out.”
“Hypocrisy?”
“You’re learning fast! You’re my lady, after all. Yes, it’s all hypocrisy.”
Ariadne took Cesare’s hand and made a big turn. She wore a wide smile on her lips and took it headon.
“But I will always choose hypocrisy over evil. Because ultimately, hypocrisy is good.”
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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