The night market was in full swing.
“Hey, hey! Did you hear that?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Didn’t the ground just shake!”
The men who were drinking in the streets of the night market frowned. What’s this nonsense about the ground shaking while enjoying a good drink?
“Tsk tsk. Already drunk? If you’re going to get drunk, do it together. If you get drunk alone, what will you do? You should keep pace, you seemed to be drinking too fast! You should stop drinking!”
“Isn’t this the cry of a monster? It’s a sound I heard when I went out to subdue a monster. Doesn’t it resemble the cry of a beast……?”
They all held their breath. What could they hear? Realizing the eerie silence, they snatched the man’s bottle of alcohol.
“Why is there talk of monsters here in the middle of a good drink? This is Huang City, right? Besides, if so, the guards would have warned us to evacuate.”
This area was occupied by street vendors. People bustled about, moderately drunk, enjoying the night market.
The man tilted his head.
‘Did I really hear wrong?’
Hanelri, passing nearby, met the man’s eyes.
“…….”
Hanelri turned her head away indifferently.
Her steps were orderly and dignified. Young priests accompanied her.
“Did the Pope tell you to watch me?”
“No, no way.”
“Then stop staring. When you guys stare like that, I feel like I’ve become a criminal, you know?”
Dragged out by young priests while drinking.
“I will apologize for this rudeness later.”
“Never mind. What sin have you committed?”
Hanelri put on her robe.
“I thought I’d get a little more rest this time.”
The place she arrived at with the young priests was an alleyway behind the night market.
“Us priests are weak against venom. Since our divine power has been tied by the ancient covenant, it has become the opposite of black magic, hasn’t it?”
“Stop talking, just clear away the venom.”
Hanelri led the young priests to burn the venom.
Flames flickered at her fingertips.
Those with weak divine power exhibit a red hue in their divine power.
However, raw divine power was originally blue.
Hanelri covered the area with divine power and burned it.
“Step back.”
“Ugh!”
“Something wrong has crawled up to the surface.”
Hanelri dropped her arm. Her arm fell lifelessly. Her fingertips paled.
“Hide in the dark shadow.”
Her eyes gradually clouded.
“Hide in that shadow.”
Something that should never invade this land had invaded it.
In the past, ‘those things’ that stepped on this land are scratching the ground below, trying to crawl up.
Closer to death than anyone.
Living in the dark,
Becoming the origin of filthy and muddy things, ‘that thing’
“I just want to drink and have fun…….”
“Are you still talking here?”
“I want to tear the meat, just want to be like that.”
Just like this.
However, it was all my worthless desire.
Hopefully, that soul does not tire.
Hopefully, that cry ceases.
The pitiful soul that howled alone, let this cry stop just this time.
“I am a soul that is now tired enough. Breathing in that time, now gradually recovering…….”
Hanelri turned her head.
“They will be placed in it again.”
There was a man standing alone in the distance.
The guards controlled the surrounding area, and he stood guarding the spot.
When he took off his robe, his black hair flew finely.
He exuded a cool and dry atmosphere. It suited him well.
“Your Majesty.”
Benjamin turned his head at the call.
“What is it?”
“The monster is a monster, but…….”
Hanelri threw holy water at Benjamin.
“Are you in your right mind to touch that venom with your bare hands?”
Benjamin narrowed his eyes as he applied holy water to the wounded scar.
“Is this the story you told me to hear?”
“You didn’t say a word while burning the poison. If I hadn’t brought it up, would you have not treated it?”
“If you treated it, that’s enough.”
If indifferent, indifferent.
If dry, dry.
“Your body doesn’t get stronger like a piece of iron when beaten. You have always been hard on yourself since childhood, especially.”
The young priests burned off all the residual poison, and all the while Hanelli stood guard.
“His Holiness the Pope has stuck some annoying fish to you.”
“You stick them well, yet you find them annoying.”
“If I force them away when they follow me chirping, they scatter like a lost school of fish and wander around. It’s more frustrating for me to see that.”
“The relationship is close.”
“It’s tedious. How easy do you think it is to take care of each and every one of them?”
Hanelli adjusted her energy.
“Please take care of yourself, anyway. It’s a lower rank poison. A little more delay and it would have burnt all your skin.”
“You talk just like the Imperial Guard.”
“Please, take care of your body. If that path is wrong, I tell you this because I would abandon my own body first.”
“Is it a joke?”
“It was advice. If the Imperial Guard said something similar, then it must have been a counsel. Do not ignore the loyal advice. The time when you acted as you pleased even though you were soon to die as the Crown Prince is different now.”
Poison melts flesh. The dense poison burns all nerves, and flows deep into the body through the blood vessels.
“Be a little more cautious.”
Benjamin replied that he understood.
“What about the outside?”
“The Imperial City’s guard isn’t breached. They don’t know anything outside yet. The night market is in full swing, so most of the noise is drowned out.”
Hanelli asked as she gathered her energy.
“Will you return to the Imperial Palace now?”
Benjamin nodded his head.
“Is the treatment over?”
“Yes. You’ve always had good recovery, so you’re healed.”
Hanelli bowed her body.
“Go back and see.”
“I’m going back now.”
When Benjamin stepped out of the alley, the waiting Imperial Guard followed him.
“Her Majesty the Empress has already returned.”
Benjamin nodded his head.
“It would have been a rare outing, but it left a bad memory.”
(This is a time separator.)
Having parted with Benjamin early.
“Get on the carriage. The Imperial Guard will escort you.”
Charlotte placed her foot on the carriage threshold.
It was the most brilliant time of the night market fire.
“Your Majesty?”
“I am dealing with the monster. Since His Majesty the Emperor caught it, it will be concluded soon, so please avoid, Your Majesty the Empress.”
Charlotte nodded her head.
‘Has there ever been such a thing before?’
It’s likely to have been buried as an internal secret.
“…….”
At that time.
Squeak. Squeak.
Something scraped the floor.
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!!!
