The Beast Swallowed by the Flower (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 31
A brief silence passed.
The Wittelo family did not immediately grasp the meaning of what Jamie had said.
Gloven, realizing the implication belatedly, suddenly shouted.
“What on earth are you talking about!”
“I believe Your Grace understands better than I do what I’m referring to.”
“Oh—so Iris has been spreading lies again, hasn’t she, dear?”
Denise quickly grasped Gloven’s wrist and spoke.
Gloven regained his composure and cleared his throat with a rough cough.
“Sir Jamie. It seems you’re under a misunderstanding… The truth is, our Iris suffers from pathological lying.”
Gloven changed his tone.
“Yes, exactly. We’ve been worried about that ourselves… Oh dear. Looks like she hasn’t managed to break that habit even here. We thought marriage would help her improve.”
Britney backed Gloven up.
“But please don’t hate our Iris too much. It just slips out habitually—it’s not something she can easily help. She’s been trying very hard to fix it, too.”
Britney spoke with the concerned gaze of an elder sister.
Jamie simply smiled without a word.
“You might not know this, but… our Iris actually said she didn’t want to get married yet. And amid all that, Count Green pressured her—ah, excuse me. He’s your lord, Sir Jamie.”
Britney covered her mouth with one hand.
“No, please go on. I wasn’t aware of this.”
“Well… Anyway, my sister seems furious with us for forcing her into a marriage she didn’t want. That’s probably why she’s avoiding us. But you understand, don’t you? Iris is the pride of the Wittelo ducal house. Just think how delicately we’ve raised her.”
“The problem is you’ve spoiled her too much.”
Denise added.
“She’ll be happy to see our faces again soon enough. Her heart will soften. Sir Jamie, please go ahead and tell her we’re waiting for her.”
Gloven said.
Jamie was astonished.
The Wittelo family was speaking and acting precisely as Lisi had predicted.
“They’ll probably claim I suffer from pathological lying. Britney will pretend to be the caring elder sister, feigning concern for me.”
“Then how should I respond?”
“Pretend to believe them. Then tell them you’ll escort them to the west wing.”
“Will they obediently go to the west wing?”
“No. They’ll insist on finding me instead.”
And it happened exactly as foretold.
When told they’d be escorted to the west wing—the guest quarters—and asked to meet Iris again tomorrow, Gloven immediately changed his stance, insisting he must see Iris right away, and stormed out of the reception room.
Denise and Britney followed after him, pretending to hold him back.
Jamie didn’t stop them.
“Just leave it. That’s all Jamie needs to do.”
Jamie’s role was finished.
Now it was Lisi’s turn.
He regretted not being able to witness the scene firsthand.
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Two men stood guard outside the door to Lisi’s room, which she had located by asking the maids.
One had thick ash-gray hair and a beard, giving him a wild, untamed look.
The other had cold eyes and brown hair, his expression utterly impassive.
Though their auras differed, both were strikingly handsome.
Britney remembered seeing them before—at a party, escorting Kai. She recalled the wild-looking man as Wallace, and the one with chilling eyes as Eugene.
As the Wittelo family approached, the two guards immediately placed their hands on the swords at their waists. Their threatening stance—without even asking why—put the Wittelo household knights on high alert.
The Wittelo knights knew full well who Eugene and Wallace were. Even if they charged at them risking their lives, they wouldn’t be able to inflict even a scratch.
“Is this Iris’s room?”
Gloven asked with feigned dignity.
“This is the Countess Green’s room.”
Eugene replied.
“You know who I am, don’t you? I’ve come to see my daughter.”
“The Countess Green is busy.”
“Busy, busy, busy! Do you have any idea how many days I’ve heard that excuse already? What business could a girl possibly have!”
Gloven’s patience snapped. At his outburst, Wallace frowned.
“What country’s etiquette allows parents to be blocked like this when they wish to meet their child? Step aside at once! I must see my daughter today!”
Gloven took a step forward, but neither Wallace nor Eugene moved an inch.
Britney quickly grabbed Gloven’s arm.
“Father, please calm down.”
“Do I look calm? Tell me—what terrible things are they doing to our Iris? Is that why she claims to be ‘busy’ and avoids us?”
“Yes! Maybe Count Green even struck her? Did he leave a mark on her face, making her too ashamed to face us?”
Denise supported Gloven.
Unlike the emotionless Eugene, Wallace’s expression grew increasingly menacing.
Cold sweat beaded on the backs of the Wittelo knights.
Click—
At that moment, the door opened, and a maid stepped out. The elegant-looking, black-haired maid addressed Eugene.
“The Countess says it’s getting too noisy outside and asked me to find out what’s going on.”
The instant the door opened, Gloven lunged to enter.
But he couldn’t outmaneuver Eugene and Wallace’s sharp senses. Each seized one of Gloven’s arms and shoved him back into the hallway, nearly throwing him off balance.
“Argh!”
Gloven’s face flushed crimson.
No matter how blessed the Green family might be by the Holy Nation, this treatment of a duke like himself was utterly unacceptable.
This chaos stemmed from the government’s policy of promoting anyone with talent into nobility, which had shattered the social hierarchy—now even commoners held noble titles, leading to such outrageous disrespect.
“How dare you—how dare you treat me like this…!”
Gloven trembled with rage as he glared at Eugene and Wallace.
“I am… I am…!”
He realized shouting “I’m a duke!” would mean nothing to these two.
So Gloven cried out instead,
“I’m Iris’s father!”
At that instant, both Eugene—who had shown no expression—and Wallace—who had been scowling—curled their lips into a mocking sneer.
Seeing that, Britney shuddered.
“Why that look? Jamie was the same earlier… Could it be true? Has Iris really told everyone in this mansion everything we did to her?”
She refused to believe it.
The Iris Britney knew lacked the wit to do something like that. Even if she could, she wouldn’t shamelessly broadcast how she’d been treated like a maid at home. Who in their right mind would go around exposing their own humiliation?
“But…”
The Green household staff’s behavior was clearly abnormal.
The Wittelos still believed that even after Iris married into the Green family, she remained irrevocably tied to them—convinced she could never truly break free, that she’d still come running whenever summoned and kneel like a dog, just as she had before marriage.
“Iris…”
Britney clenched her fists and glared at the half-open door.
“It won’t happen. You’ll always remain the pride of the Wittelo ducal house. You becoming Countess Green? Ridiculous. I won’t let you have something I never could.”
The honor of the Green family—the guardians of sacred relics, blessed by the Holy Nation.
All the privileges exclusive to the Greens.
Even the knights serving Kai, whom every knight admired.
Britney wished for Lisi to have none of it.
Then, finally, Lisi appeared.
She was dressed almost like a man—black trousers accentuating her slender legs, a white shirt, a black vest on top, and dark brown boots reaching her calves.
Though not a lady’s typical attire, her elegance and allure surpassed any noblewoman’s, leaving Britney breathless.
“That’s supposed to be Iris? Impossible…”
She seemed like a stranger.
With cold eyes assessing the Wittelos, a confident smile, and an arrogant posture—chin slightly lifted—this Iris was someone Britney had never seen before, nor ever imagined she’d see.
Gloven and Denise, too, were seeing this side of Iris for the first time, and initially could only stare at her dumbfounded.
Gloven, belatedly recognizing her as Iris, shouted loudly,
“Iris! What is this ridiculous getup?”
In the past, Lisi would have bowed her head at Gloven’s reprimand—trembling like a terrified animal.
But now, Lisi didn’t even blink at his outburst. Instead, she offered a faint smile.
“Oh my. If you’ve come, why not just say so?”
Her languid tone left the Wittelos utterly speechless.
“We’ve come here multiple times and spoken to you repeatedly! Are you really treating us like this…?”
“Father.”
Britney gripped Gloven’s arm, unable to stay calm.
Too many eyes were watching. They couldn’t treat Iris recklessly in public. Only then did Gloven understand Britney’s intention and suppress his temper.
Watching this, Lisi finally spoke.
“I’ve been busy with wedding preparations and told them not to report trivial matters.”
“Trivial? You call this trivial? We came all the way here in person, and to you, it’s just ‘trivial’?”
Gloven gritted his teeth, though his voice was quieter than before.
Britney knew she had to change the atmosphere.
“I’m sorry, Iris.”
At Britney’s apology, Lisi tilted her head slightly.
“You’re upset because we forced you into this marriage against your will… That’s why you didn’t want to see us, and even told lies about us mistreating you… I’m sorry. I never realized you disliked Count Green this much.”
Britney hoped Lisi would protest, “That’s not true! I’d never lie like that!” It was easier to brand someone a liar than to clear their name.
But Lisi offered no defense. She simply gazed at Britney with a faint smile and said,
“Come in.”
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Once inside Lisi’s room, Britney quickly surveyed the space.
Lisi’s room was clean but not extravagant.
“Not as nice as my room.”
Good.
If it had been more luxurious than hers, she’d have been seething with envy.
Gloven and Denise strode in as if they owned the place and plopped onto the sofa. Britney, who had been glancing around, hurried to sit beside her parents.
Lisi sat on the opposite sofa and crossed her legs.
At her audacious posture, Denise frowned.
“Iris, what kind of attitude is this? So disrespectful in front of your elders?”
“I hope you’ll forgive my rudeness. You know perfectly well I never received proper upbringing, don’t you?”
Lisi said, wiggling her toes.
“Hah!”
Gloven and Denise let out a sharp, exasperated breath.
When anger reached its peak, it sometimes drained all energy to be angry—precisely their state now.
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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