“So who did you say sent this again?”
Despite the sender being clearly written in the last paragraph, Elaina asked Matilda.
About who had sent this letter she was now reading.
To Elaina’s question, her chief maid Matilda answered without a moment’s hesitation.
“It was sent by His Majesty the Emperor in the capital.”
“So it really was sent by him.”
There was no need to check who sent it in the first place.
With the seal proving it was from the owner of the imperial palace, it was obvious who it was from without even looking.
Elaina knew this too, so after examining the contents of the letter, she said.
“I must return to the imperial palace immediately.”
“But Your Majesty, there’s still about a week left until the date you were scheduled to return.”
It had been a long vacation she had looked forward to for years.
So Matilda was bewildered by Elaina’s sudden declaration that she would return to the imperial palace.
It was hard to understand why she, who had always wanted to enjoy rest outside the palace, was voluntarily trying to return.
“Has something happened at the palace?”
At Matilda’s question, she examined the letter once more and lifted the corners of her mouth.
“Something has indeed happened.”
Until just now, she had been upset about having her opera viewing interrupted.
But now something had come up that Elaina found even more exciting than the plans she had made over several years.
“It seems I’ll be getting a daughter-in-law soon.”
“*Cough!*”
Matilda, who suddenly spat out the tea she was drinking, immediately shifted her gaze to Elaina without even wiping her mouth.
But Elaina didn’t even glance at her, as if uninterested in whatever was happening beside her.
Matilda swallowed as she looked at the seemingly happy Elaina.
“You’re joking, right?”
“Does he seem like the type to joke about something like this?”
“What on earth is happening at the palace?”
Matilda found it difficult to understand how the situation had unfolded.
Elaina had only given birth to one child, Admund.
So when she spoke of a daughter-in-law, it naturally meant that Admund would be getting a wife.
‘Even though he didn’t seem to be listening at all no matter how much they nagged him to get married.’
Admund was twenty-two years old.
While it was still a good age to be in one’s prime.
In a society where people of higher status married earlier, there had been talk that he might be getting too late.
But Odin didn’t want to get too involved in Admund’s marriage.
In fact, Odin himself didn’t care at all about how others reacted.
However, Elaina prayed with both hands clasped for her son to get married as soon as possible.
Others thought it was because she, as the empress, felt obligated to preserve the imperial lineage, but that was a huge misunderstanding.
“I wonder what kind of girl my daughter-in-law will be? I want to go to the palace quickly and have a conversation with her.”
Because Odin and Admund were busy with state affairs day after day, she often felt lonely in the palace.
Although Elaina was also busy, she still wanted someone to talk to comfortably in the palace.
Although rumors had spread strangely in the world, Elaina didn’t mind.
She thought that reality was more important than rumors.
In that sense, Matilda asked her with a congratulatory smile.
“The crown princess will be Lady Aria, whom we’ve heard so much about, won’t it?”
Matilda was certain.
Aria was the only woman Admund had a good relationship with while attending the academy.
She guessed it must be Aria, since he had virtually no romantic relationships even after graduating from the academy.
“Aria?”
“Yes, the young lady of the Hersher ducal family.”
But the answer that came was completely different from Matilda’s expectation.
“It says here that my daughter-in-law will be Clea Odoi.”
“Not Lady Aria? Perhaps you should check the letter again…”
Matilda looked at Elaina with disbelieving eyes.
In response to Matilda’s reaction, Elaina tore the letter in half and said.
“It said Clea Odoi.”
Matilda was confused as she watched Elaina tear up the letter from Odin as if there was no need to look at it again.
Until they left their posts, Clea Odoi was engaged to marry Lloyd Percy.
Certain that something had happened during their brief absence from the palace, Matilda felt a headache coming on.
On the other hand, Elaina was delighted as she mulled over the contents of the letter.
‘I wonder how he stole that child’s heart. I’d like to call her separately later and have a chat over tea.’
The rumors about Clea Odoi were not good.
Elaina had also heard ladies gossiping about her wherever she went in the palace.
But Elaina decided not to believe any of it.
When she first entered the palace after marrying Odin, she too had been at the center of rumors.
Thinking that one couldn’t know until meeting in person, she looked forward to the day she would return to the palace.
* * *
“Did you sleep well?”
“Mm.”
“I’ve prepared water for you to wash your face.”
Clea gradually became uncomfortable in the crown prince’s palace.
When she first started living in the crown prince’s palace at Admund’s behest, no one paid any attention to her.
Until then, she had been nothing more than a guest who might leave at any time.
But as time passed, the way people treated her changed a lot.
‘Was it a mistake to meet Oberon before?’
She had intended to give Oberon a stern warning.
To never reveal what he had seen to anyone else.
But far from warning him, his gaze became even stranger after that day.
He began to treat her with extreme care, as if she were a precious piece of porcelain that would break easily at the slightest touch.
At first, Clea mistook it for him being intimidated by her.
But for someone who was intimidated, he interfered throughout the entire meal.
Because of this, Clea soon realized.
He wasn’t finding her difficult to approach.
After quickly finishing washing her face, she sat down at the desk.
‘I need to find a way to break this curse.’
Having only waited for the day she would die, she hadn’t particularly considered time important.
In a pitch-black place, she was always alone. In the face of slowly approaching death, there was nothing to fear except for life itself.
But now it was different.
A reason to break the curse had suddenly appeared.
For her, who had nothing precious in this place, something had unexpectedly emerged.
Something precious.
“I guess I should start by writing down what I know.”
She began writing down everything she remembered about the curse.
As time passes, the pain intensifies.
Periodically, it becomes difficult to breathe, and adverse reactions occur when in the presence of people one dislikes.
Adverse reactions.
‘Aria didn’t seem to have any adverse reactions like that.’
She recalled the red blood that had burst from her own mouth.
She couldn’t remember any mention of Aria coughing up blood in the original story.
Even when bullied by Clea or forcibly kidnapped by Lloyd, Aria only turned pale and her breathing quickened.
‘Come to think of it, Admund was always by her side at those times.’
Even when meeting characters she despised to the point of wanting to die, there was always someone there to protect her.
That person was Admund.
“How on earth did you manage to break this curse?”
If the curse was simply broken by the one you love.
Then she wondered how the current Aria had broken the curse.
When they last met, Admund clearly didn’t love Aria yet.
Far from love, she could tell that he found her bothersome.
However, the Aria she had seen appeared to have already broken the curse. To anyone who saw her, she looked healthy without a hint of shadow, unlike someone suffering from constant pain.
That’s why it was even more perplexing.
How on earth did she break it?
‘It’s not like I can go ask her directly.’
By the time of the possession, her relationship with Aria was already completely ruined.
It was after she had tormented Aria using every means possible out of jealousy for her closeness with Lloyd.
She hadn’t even thought about fixing the situation, so it didn’t really matter. But now she felt a little regretful.
If they had been on slightly better terms, she might have taken the opportunity to ask.
She looked at the paper knife on the desk for a moment.
“If I cut it out, would this suffocating feeling disappear too?”
Clea suddenly recalled a scene from the original story.
It was the scene where Admund misunderstood Aria, who was contemplating whether to cut it out, just like Clea was now.
Clea slowly moved the blade from her wrist to the back of her hand.
But it was only for a moment; she soon dismissed the thought and put down the knife.
Thinking that finding a way to break the curse should be the priority now, she refocused.
However, there was something she unfortunately failed to notice.
‘Clea.’
She didn’t realize that Admund had seen her actions through the gap in the door.
* * *
There was no response to his knock.
Admund had intended to just check what she was doing and leave.
And Admund saw.
‘Why are you.’
When she picked up the paper knife, Admund didn’t think much of it.
He vaguely thought she might be trying to open an unread letter.
But thinking about it, who would send her a letter?
To begin with, few people knew that Clea Odoi was in the crown prince’s palace.
After thinking this, when Clea moved the knife to her wrist, Admund felt his entire body freeze.
When her eyes became completely clouded as she looked at her wrist, Admund was about to rush in immediately.
But at her words, Admund’s feet wouldn’t move.
‘”If I cut it out, would this suffocating feeling disappear too?” Why would you say such a thing?’
Admund thought.
Clearly, there was something about her that he didn’t know.
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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