Johan narrowed his deep eyes.
‘Scars?’
Even though he couldn’t see them well, he was sure they were scars.
No matter that she’s adopted, scars on a princess’s body? It’s absurd.
‘Especially since Estelle was a beloved daughter in Libertan.’
A scar was a very big problem for a noblewoman. And yet, a scar remained on the daughter cherished in Libertan.
‘Libertan has ties with the temple.’
For the frail Estelle, the priests frequently visited the duke’s residence.
‘A single divine power could heal the wound, yet they left it.’
Before the adopted Estelle arrived, when his biological daughter Yestella was present, the Duke and Duchess of Blanchet made substantial donations to the temple, even having a priest reside in the duke’s residence.
They even had the priest take care of their sick biological daughter.
Perhaps Estelle was…
‘Leave me alone.’
At that moment, Johan recalled what happened in the mawful forest.
Tears flowed ceaselessly over the pretty face of the woman, stuck to her by the rain.
Her small hand pushing him away felt too cold to be alive.
Johan was angry that she kept trying to die. If you’re a living being, you should want to live, but she did not.
Before he knew it, Johan lost his cool judgment and reason, swept away by emotion.
He yelled at Estelle with a face he didn’t recognize himself.
‘Why! Why do you keep saying you want to die?’
He grabbed her frail shoulders and shook her.
‘Beg to live!’
He couldn’t bear it otherwise.
Estelle, who always smiled prettily at Johan, who only did lovable actions that were unbearable to hear Johan’s desired words, was broken.
Her blue eyes lost their light, like a white foam breaking on the waves.
‘You want me to want to live?’
‘You think I don’t want to live?’
Estelle was bitterly angry.
‘Did it look easy to you?’
‘Why would you think it was easy? How could it be easy?’
Johan saw that face of Estelle’s for the first time.
His sudden rage cooled shockingly.
‘What do you know about me, Johan?’
It felt like he saw the real hidden Estelle for the first time.
The beautiful and lovable adopted daughter of Libertan, the woman named ‘Estelle.’
Estelle, not Libertan’s daughter as countless people said.
‘You dare tell me to want to live?’
Johan held Estelle tightly. His hand gripping her clothes was shaking strongly.
“How can you make such a face….”
A face so sorrowful and sad, even to the point of being desperate.
‘You know nothing.’
That face revealed her true feelings.
Intense emotions hit Johan like waves, tearing his heart.
“Estelle, you are right.”
Johan thought he had known enough about Estelle.
“I thought I knew you.”
Not only research about Estelle Libertan but he also had sent spies to the duke’s residence.
However, the reports from the spies were not much different from public opinion.
‘The Duke and Duchess of Libertan dote on that imposter greatly. Somehow they spend time together.’
‘I snuck into the imposter’s room. She was sleeping happily among all kinds of luxury goods.’
‘Whenever something displeased her, she tortured the maids who shared the room with her. Even though she doesn’t carry Libertan’s blood, she looks just like them.’
Some spies even showed strong animosity towards Estelle.
‘I can’t bear to watch this disgrace.’
‘Relying on the might of the Duke and Duchess of Libertan, she really ignores and looks down on people. It seems she has forgotten that she’s from the common folk.’
‘I tried not to be prejudiced, but she really is remarkable.’
The spies are basically almost emotionless.
A woman that can even make them dislike her.
“But I knew nothing.”
Estelle, who became the Duchess of Blanchet, was no different from the spies’ reports.
Libertan’s lovable adopted daughter.
Even though she’s pretending in a new place, her true colors that bored the spies will reveal themselves soon.
That’s what Johan thought.
“Why didn’t I try to know you more?”
But the face Johan saw in the rain was not something he could imagine.
“I should have known more about you, at least.”
Johan gave a hollow laugh.
Looking back, he too had considered her just a ceremonial wife. He didn’t try to see the real her.
“Estelle, you weren’t loved in Libertan but neglected—”
Estelle twitched and writhed in her body.
Even out of his embrace, Estelle was sleeping well. Her peacefully sleeping face was as lovely as an angel’s.
Thump, thud— long raindrops struck the window, and the downpour resumed.
It was a terrible monsoon.
The moment Johan got out of bed, thunder roared in the dark sky.
Bang! Crash!
At that moment, Estelle, who had been quietly asleep, started with a jerk.
“Estelle. Did you sleep well?”
Johan approached Estelle with a gentle voice.
But Estelle neither looked in Johan’s direction nor answered. She just stared at the floor.
‘Her eyes are completely unfocused.’
Her lovely face was pale, seeming as if she was holding back tears.
“……Estelle?”
It was when Johan was about to sit beside Estelle and put his hand on her shoulder.
“No, no—!”
Estelle suddenly cringed unconsciously.
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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