“Just wait a moment.”
Duke Rocard rose immediately.
The royal archives were exclusive to the royal family. Finid waited for Duke Rocard to get permission, but instead of returning to the second prince’s palace, he left the palace and galloped straight to the Balloa street.
(This is a time separator.)
I heard the sound of a horse stopping in front of the store, but as I was preparing to leave for the day, I intended to pass the customer to another clerk.
My off time is precious.
But the clerk who went to the entrance called me.
“The customer is looking for a blonde female clerk?”
Wondering if I had a customer who knew me by name, I went out with a smile, and a man on horseback with a cloak turned around approached.
“Roar Yang.”
“……Yo, Your Grace?”
When he slightly lifted his hood, I thought my heart stopped.
Duke Kaidel? Seriously! Where does he think this is?
I quickly went out to the street and moved him away from the store.
“What are you doing here now…”
“Let’s talk while we go.”
Before I finished speaking, I was being led to sit behind him.
What? What am I doing…? Kidnapping, right? Isn’t it? Am I getting arrested for using an alias when entering the royal palace?
I shouted in haste.
“Your Grace? I told you that’s my childhood name! You agreed to let it go, right? I will scream. Ah! Ahhh! You saw that, right?”
But he did not respond. When I looked at him suspiciously, he finally spoke.
“That letter, I might forgive you if you confess now.”
Perhaps I never racked my brain so quickly in my short life. Even in this tense situation, I decided to bargain.
“I’ve been telling you since last time that I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
“Tsk!”
Duke Kaidel snapped his tongue as if to say ‘too bad!’
“If you’re free, come and help. It’s important.”
“Hah, seriously! Don’t you know that you just kidnapped a working person, Your Grace? My store’s owner grandpa is so sensitive about punctuality!”
“I’ll compensate.”
Holding his back, I could feel his warm body temperature and tension. It was clear that he needed help now.
Anyway, it felt quite stable to drive a horse like a madman with such a wide back.
“……What compensation?”
“You’ll know when you go. You won’t regret it.”
“…….”
I quietly decided to be kidnapped. I was already being dragged along, so I thought it would be better to be obedient now and later demand the reward he mentioned. The reward given by someone like Duke Kaidel wouldn’t be disappointing.
Then I realized how greedy a person I was. It had been since my heart had been beating fast.
But when Duke Kaidel stopped the horse in front of the back gate of the royal palace, I nearly had a heart attack.
Why on earth is he bringing me to the royal palace!
Duke Kaidel, who got off the horse first, reached out to help me down, but I vehemently shook my head to refuse.
“Why? What are we doing here?”
As I grabbed the reins of the horse, ready to dash away, Duke Kaidel quickly snatched them away from me. He asked if I couldn’t ride a horse even though I could drive a carriage.
“I will pretend not to know about the attendance register. And your unladylike behavior that night. Is that okay?”
Hmm. Not bad.
“That malicious letter too.”
It’s a trap!
If I agree here, I will be admitting that I wrote it.
“If you keep talking nonsense, I will really leave!”
Then Duke Kaidel shut his mouth tightly. Only then did I silently dismount the horse.
Duke Kaidel took off his cloak and put it on me, then took me to the side gate of the third imperial palace. A faint fragrance wafted inside the hood.
Wearing someone else’s clothes and feeling their body odor made me feel unnecessarily tense.
Such a person who makes others uncomfortable in many ways.
He didn’t leave a register. A privileged class that passes through the imperial palace gate without identifying the companion’s identity by face alone. Duke Kaidel was such a person.
I followed him, regaining my composure once more. It would have been big trouble if I had let my guard down just because we were inside the imperial palace, and he suddenly attacked. He didn’t seem to give up the matter of the letter easily.
We walked a dark corridor for quite a while. As we turned a corner, a man was waiting. I recognized him immediately. We both were surprised at the same time.
“Director Loman?”
“Miss Roba?”
“……!”
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!!!
