Leandro called Charlotte and asked.
Did you tell your grandfather about the engagement proposal not even a day after it was made?
“Yes. I brought it up.”
“I know very well that you’ve become close to His Highness. I also know that the two of you are of similar age, and I was relieved to see you getting along well with him. But that doesn’t mean it’s time to mention an engagement.”
Leandro exuded a heavy aura.
He is the head of the family. That weight is not to be taken lightly.
“Tell me a reason I can accept.”
Leandro studied Charlotte with a calm gaze.
“I know you’re not one to do things without reason. Tell me the reason. It’s not just because you talked about it, I want to hear it from you.”
Leandro had sized up his granddaughter in a short period of time.
Those eyes were not just looking at the present.
How much time had passed.
You are making a gesture that only those beaten by time could make.
Leandro felt a disconnect from Charlotte.
Charlotte had a strange distance that was difficult to explain at her age.
Her pale face was soaked in resentment, and her dark, sunken eyes watched them from an appropriate distance.
“What am I to do with you? I don’t know what to do with you. Cozette, that child, ended up like that…!”
What if you also break down?
What if that life breaks down? Leandro asked.
“I won’t break down.”
Charlotte hesitated and licked her lips.
“Grandfather.”
At the soft call of Charlotte, Leandro noticeably flinched.
“I want to stand by his side.”
Charlotte lifted her gloomy, soaked eyes.
“I’ve lost too much. I covered my mother’s grave with my hands, I dug my mother’s tomb, I took out the urn. I dug the soil until my nails were worn out, and I found the urn and went to Windsor.”
“What, what are you saying?”
The child dug up her own mother’s tomb and took the urn.
What was she thinking as she stood here? What is she thinking as she makes that face?
Leandro banged the table.
“I took care of my mother’s illness, and I barely endured it. And all that was left for me… was my mother’s urn. In that corner of the house…! All that was left for me was my mother’s ashes.”
Isn’t the death of a person something that cannot be helped?
After watching the mistress and her illegitimate child trample on the tomb,
After watching my father disgrace my mother’s death,
What more are you telling me to endure?
“I must stand by his side.”
Even if it’s because of a past death, I must stand by his side. Looking down at them all from his side.
“From the highest place.”
Their graves
“I must step on them and rise.”
Charlotte touched her chest and lifted her head.
“Is that answer enough?”
Leandro closed his eyes and caught his breath.
“You believe in what of that person? What did you believe to throw yourself at me?”
“He is firm.”
“The talk of abdication is going around.”
“I don’t mind being abdicated.”
There’s not the slightest doubt. That person will take the throne. And draws the sword.
“Tuteur has disowned me, and now I have no parents.”
“Charlotte, you…!”
“I am glad. My father has no reason to interfere with my betrothal.”
Even if the furious father rages long and demands his daughter, he no longer has the authority.
“You, are you thinking of stabbing your father with a sword?”
Leandro was a veteran who had been through thick and thin.
Leading a family required that much shrewdness.
“You’ve looked far ahead.”
Charlotte laughed bashfully.
“My father used to say that he did all he could, so I should find my own way to live.”
“That guy is a blabbermouth…!”
“Each person finds their own way to live. His situation is not my concern.”
Where did this malice begin?
Where was it?
Ah, was it when the damned father told my mother to die?
No, not even then.
It was before my death.
‘The two women will die like dogs. I regret for you.’
Mogens. He said it with his mouth.
That death was a dog’s death.
“I won’t make the same mistake twice.”
Charlotte cast her gaze into the void.
(This is a time divider.)
Charlotte passed through the dark corridor.
Shadows loomed in the corridor, and she stopped in her tracks.
“Did you overhear?”
The approaching footsteps behind her were heavy.
There’s no need to turn around. Benjamin Visennov had already approached.
“I’m curious about what you were talking about.”
“How about it?”
“The talk of my abdication is true.”
Just in case Charlotte heard, Benjamin Visennov repeated.
“I also know very well that you will abdicate since I’ve heard it too. If you become a fallen crown prince, I will be abdicated as well.”
“If you die then, that too is a dog’s death.”
Charlotte burst into laughter.
“Then my life must end there.”
But it didn’t mean she would give up her life easily.
You will reach the highest place. I experienced you firsthand.
“There’s no way to run back.”
Benjamin Visennov cupped Charlotte’s cheek with his hand.
“Will you have no regrets this way?”
“You don’t need to worry about me.”
Charlotte smiled faintly.
Benjamin Visennov also smiled broadly.
The tyrant of a previous life.
You will ascend to the throne.
Devour everyone and seize the throne yourself, purge the opposition and hostile forces, swing your sword from the highest place.
“Devour and snatch.”
She wants one thing.
‘End it nicely?’
For whom should I end it nicely?
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!!!
