Evelia Caroline tightly closed her eyes. She sensed that a situation she couldn’t handle on her own was approaching. Not just her, but everyone maintaining their position felt a storm was about to hit.
Everyone except for one person, Lirelia.
“Of course, Your Highness. I can do it. I will give you everything you desire. So please, stop this and come to me.”
“Really? You’re so sure, I’m curious what you can offer me.”
He mockingly released Evelia’s captured arm and took one step after another towards Lirelia.
“Tell me, what can you give me?”
His voice flowed out in a series of sarcastic tones, unimaginably cruel. Yet Lirelia looked at him as if she were in ecstasy, simply because she could face him directly.
“I will do my best to ensure you safely inherit the throne, Your Highness. Whatever is necessary for that, I will give it all to you.”
Lirelia answered without hesitation, her voice filled with conviction. She couldn’t contain her joy that he had come back to her.
It was absurd. Liurian Petrov turning his back on the Crown Princess and me was unthinkable.
Lirelia quickly awaited his outstretched hand towards her. It felt like she could easily forget the pain she had just received. But her joy was short-lived.
“Is that all you’re offering me?”
“Your Highness, I–”
“So in your eyes, I’m nothing more than a fool who can’t inherit the throne without the help of a mere duke’s daughter.”
“Your Highness, that’s not what I mean…!”
Lirelia instinctively spit out words of objection. But she had to stop when Liurian, as if not wanting to hear any of it, raised his hand.
“Ah, so that’s why you treated the Crown Princess so poorly?”
The air grew quiet in an instant, and Liurian’s sneer ominously echoed. Only then did Rellia, sensing his unusual aura, look at Liurian with a stiff expression.
“Why were you so curious? Just a mere princess ignoring the crown prince’s concubine repeatedly—what were you thinking?”
“Your Highness…”
“Now I understand.”
Liurian nodded slightly and stared sharply at Rellia. He then muttered softly.
“I find the princess amusing as well, so how trivial must I have seemed in the eyes of such a princess? Right?”
“I, Your Highness, that’s not it. That’s not what I—”
“It’s quite unfortunate that the princess finds both me and my concubine amusing.”
“Your Highness, you misunderstand. To think that I find Your Highness amusing, that’s a baseless accusation!”
Rellia, more flustered than ever, cried out as if wronged. However, this only served as a decisive opportunity for Liurian, who had been waiting for just such a moment.
“Is that so? Does that mean it’s true that you’ve belittled my concubine?”
Liurian seized the opportunity as if he had been waiting for it. Rellia couldn’t shake the feeling that she had fallen into a trap.
She was trembling. The gaze piercing through her was chillingly cold and heartless.
“Ah, you can’t answer. You wouldn’t be able to deny it. After all, so many people here have seen you not only disrespecting the crown prince’s concubine but also causing her harm.”
Liurian slowly turned his head and took a disdainful look at his servants.
As their gazes turned increasingly into blame and resentment, the abyss Rellia would fall into also deepened.
When that depth reached a point where she could not escape on her own, Liurian stared at Rellia once again.
She was trembling like a wet puppy, but he felt no compassion whatsoever.
“Ah, my Rellia. Shaking so pitifully. But what can you do? You’ve committed such a heinous act in front of so many.”
“…”
“Through this experience, you should learn something valuable. Just how heavy the weight of the sin is for looking down on the royal family.”
As he said this, he gently brushed Rellia’s cheek. His face shone brighter than ever.
“What are you waiting for? Take the princess to the prison immediately.”
He spoke without hesitation to the knights guarding the surroundings. Relria, trembling like a leaf, hastily knelt and clung to him, but he paid her no mind.
“Your Highness! That’s not it! Please, listen to my words! Your Highness! Your Highness!”
Her plaintive cries reverberated fiercely through the garden, filled to the last with foolish resentment.
Liurian Petrov kept a close watch on Relria as she moved away. A smile still vividly occupied the corners of his lips.
It was a face too brutal and merciless to belong to someone who was crushing another’s life so ruthlessly.
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!!!
