Strategic Marriage with the Mad Villain (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 87

Since arriving in Levain, Reus’s mood had been steadily on a downward slope.

He had hoped that being away from the ducal estate in an unfamiliar place might grant them a bit more time together, but that had been a grave misconception.

Roel, who had lived confined within her tiny world, was now surrounded by countless things she had never encountered before—of course someone like him wouldn’t even register in her eyes. It felt absurdly foolish to have expected anything when he already knew how utterly insignificant he was to her.

It was ridiculous—almost unbearably so—to now regret a situation he himself had initiated, the one who had first proposed the contract and insisted they never cross that line.

‘This relationship was flawed from the very beginning.’

If it had been a pure marriage without any contract, would he have felt less anxious? He posed the question to himself, but the answer was negative.

‘It’s precisely because we’re bound by a contract that things are only this manageable.’

Reus knew very well that Roel had never particularly liked him.

Among the countless people filling the ballroom, she had been the only woman who looked at him with eyes entirely different from the rest—her gaze carried not merely dislike, but something far deeper.

Resentment and unease.

Even now, just as back then, Reus had no idea where those emotions came from or why they were directed at him.

He didn’t dare hope she’d like him—but what if, not even the tiniest bit of fondness remained, and instead, a trace of hatred lingered in her heart toward him?

Could his conversation with Teron a few days ago have something to do with it? Was that why she’d hesitated to take his hand?

Thus, he spent agonizing days assigning meaning to every tiny gesture and inflection in Roel’s speech. Yet Helen, oblivious to his feelings, kept summoning Roel at will.

‘For a queen consort, she really has nothing better to do?’

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