An instantaneous scream erupted, but Lucrezia couldn’t react to the scream in time and instinctively struck the ivory cane again.
“Thud!”
Lucrezia’s right arm, which had gathered momentum, cut through the air at a terrifying speed. Just before Sancha was hit for the tenth time, Ariadne threw herself in front of Sancha, blocking the blow.
That tenth blow struck Ariadne’s shoulder instead of Sancha.
“Smack!”
It was a piercing pain, like being struck by lightning. A sharp sense of impact spread from her left shoulder to her whole body, making her suddenly sober.
Lucrezia’s right arm rose high into the air again in anger. At the moment when she was ready to take the eleventh blow, a voice rang through the reception room, a voice she didn’t usually appreciate but at that moment it was tearfully welcome.
“What the hell is going on here!”
Cardinal de Mare has returned.
Cardinal de Mare strode into the reception room, his white cardinal’s robe fluttering.
“What has this household come to!”
Lucrezia, who was trembling with anger like a demon, burst into tears as soon as she saw Cardinal de Mare.
“You! Why are you only coming now! Do you even know what happened to me today?”
Lucrezia sobbed, pouring out the story of how Queen Marguerite had called her ‘Miss de Rossi’ that day, how shameful it had been, and how terrible Queen Marguerite had been.
Cardinal de Mare listened to her stories patiently, then asked a question.
“Why on earth are you hitting this maid and why is Ariadne getting hit as well?”
“It’s all because of these wretches!”
“Why on earth did Queen Marguerite, who had even invited you, suddenly call you ‘Miss de Rossi’? Even if the maid did something wrong, would the queen insult you because of a mere maid?”
Lucrezia was momentarily speechless, then her face turned red and she flared up in anger again.
“It’s all your fault!”
“What?”
“I could have married anyone I wanted! I could have been a noble lady! But I fell in love with you and chose to live this way, because of you, I couldn’t become the legal wife… You ruined me!”
Lucrezia was neither a beauty who could bring down a nation, nor was she a noble lady of a very noble lineage, nor were there any potential husbands among the nobles who interacted with her who could surpass Cardinal de Mare.
The fairest guess was that Lucrezia could have been at best the wife of a country count, usually the wife of a winner knight, a lawyer, or a doctor.
However, Lucrezia’s one and only talent was making Cardinal de Mare believe that Lucrezia could do better.
“Lucrezia, why are you doing this again.”
“I could have done much better, but you, you who are nothing, dare to look down on me…..”
The pattern of Cardinal de Mare and Lucrezia’s marital fights was always the same.
Cardinal de Mare, who seemed not to bleed even if pricked with a needle, would always crumble at Lucrezia’s attack. They seemed trapped in the time when they were young, a time of infinite possibilities.
Anyway, as the main character of the play changed, it was time for the previous characters to step aside. Ariadne decided to leave the reception room entirely to the couple who were making a melodrama, and quietly moved Sancha, whom she had been holding, towards the back.
She also picked up Arabella, who was crouched on the floor, silenced her by placing a finger on her lips, and left. The quickwitted Isabella had already disappeared.
The way out of the reception room, through the corridor, and to the front door, felt like a thousand miles with her center of gravity kept low.
When they reached the front door, Arabella went straight to her room without making eye contact, and Ariadne hurriedly pulled Sancha up to the attic on the third floor. Only then did she collapse, her tension abruptly dissipating.
“Sancha….!”
The clear green eyes of the freckled girl, marked all over by the beatings, turned towards Ariadne. Purple bruises were rising under the overturned blue ink all over her.
Looking at Sancha, whose entire body was a mess, Ariadne couldn’t stop her tears from pouring out.
“Sancha, Sancha, why didn’t you tell the truth! It’s all my fault!”
Ariadne sobbed, embracing Sancha.
“You did nothing wrong!”
With her lips parched, Sancha barely managed to say a word.
“Miss, you saved my life.”
“What…?”
“You are my savior. I’ll repay you. I’m always on your side.”
Ariadne’s decision to bring Sancha was not purely from a will to save her.
It just happened while trying to influence Maleta.
Ariadne did ask Lucrezia to bring Sancha, but she thought it would be great if she could keep Maleta in check and make use of a maid. She never cared as desperately for Sancha’s wellbeing as she does for Sancha’s goodwill and love.
But now she felt embarrassed by her own actions, overwhelmed by so much goodwill, love, and blind faith.
Ariadne looked at Sancha blankly. Sancha’s clear eyes looked back at Ariadne. At that moment, Ariadne resolved to give back as much as she had received.
“Sancha, I’m sorry……!”
Ariadne hugged Sancha tightly once again.
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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