Treason is the heaviest crime in the Empire.
Once the Emperor’s approval was obtained, everything was handled smoothly.
The entire Libertan dukedom was miserably dragged away by the palace knights. The Duke of Libertan, realizing that everything ended the moment he was imprisoned in the palace jail, was hanged in disgrace.
“There is no way to suddenly drag a high noble like this!”
But since they themselves had committed the crime, the situation did not change.
Johann overlaid the tragic destruction of the Blanchett dukedom, which had turned into a living hell, onto the Libertan dukedom.
It happened suddenly one day.
Father, who went to the palace in the morning, did not return. At first, I thought he was just busy, but as days passed and ominous rumors began to circulate, I could no longer sit still.
“I’m sorry. It seems your father is caught in a big problem.”
The Blanchett dukedom was a noble family, but unfortunately, as a dukedom, its power was not that high. The noble families that they had been dealing well with initially began to shun them, caught in the strange rumors that began to spread secretly.
“Just wait a little longer, I will return with your father. In the meantime, take care of Lili.”
Eventually, my mother left for the royal palace with the captain of our family’s knights.
However, it was not mother who returned, but the royal knights.
The royal knights, led by the Duke of Libertan, trampled completely on the noble legacy of the Blanchett dukedom, slaughtered innocent people, and dragged the remaining ones to jail.
“Young Master! Run!”
The head servant tried to facilitate Johann’s escape, but Johann could not run away because he was taking care of his crying sister.
He should have escaped then. If he had escaped and planned for the future then, the situation might have been resolved more easily.
After all, nothing would have changed if Johann, who was a young boy at that time, was taken to jail.
But Johann could not abandon his sister, who was crying and unable to escape properly.
Because he couldn’t cruelly abandon his sister, Johann had to see his parents tortured to a mess.
Father, who had left smiling, was already unable to speak, and mother, who had turned into a brutal skeleton, hugged the young him and tried to comfort him.
“It’s okay, Johann. Mom is okay.”
What followed was a hell that he dared not look at with his eyes open.
All those Johann loved were tortured by Libertan and eventually executed. The last to be dragged to the stake was his sister.
She was a sister who, despite being younger than him, was immature and slow to learn, and always seemed young. His sister, with a face that had lost its light, seemed to squeeze out her last strength and shouted.
“Don’t see anything, don’t hear anything. Pretend you don’t know. Just think that you are not here. Got it?”
At that time, his sister was not the immature girl Johann knew.
“Even if it’s hard, promise to do it.”
Lili, who should have resented Johann for being the only one unharmed, tried to protect him.
Johann might have been better off dying with his family then, even if it was unjust. But he couldn’t bear the moment when he had to watch his family’s pain helplessly while he remained unharmed.
But absurdly, that empire’s law that had unjustly brought down the Duke of Blanchett.
That ridiculous law of the empire, no matter how heavy the crime, did not allow them to kill or cause permanent damage to the last descendant of the dukedom.
Instead, the Duke of Libertan used a loophole in the law to make Johann witness all the punishments.
“Hell starts from now.”
“Let’s see how long you can pretend to be that foolish Duke of Blanchett.”
Lili hoped that Johann would forget everything and live, but Johann couldn’t.
Johann remembered everything, implanting the hell of his family into his eyes so he would never forget.
He drove himself into a corner, repeating the screams of his family drowning in pain, so that he would never forget for the rest of his life, so that he could somehow pay for all this.
The downfall of Libertan was the moment that the young him had been eagerly waiting for.
But the feeling he felt after completing his revenge was never exhilarating. Despite what he had long anticipated, Johann’s wounds were still vivid.
The innocent woman appeared in his eyes stepping on the blood pool of Libertan.
“Duke.”
Everything was going as planned.
Libertan was caught for treason, and all that was left was to play with that woman and do to her as his family had suffered.
But strangely, Johann didn’t seem to enjoy seeing the woman’s face filled with pain.
‘Why on earth?’
It was unplanned that he went to the woman’s room at that late hour. Half of the reason he brought a gorgeous bouquet of roses to mock the woman was also an impulse.
‘What kind of expression would the woman have?’
In fact, this blatant mockery was not Johann’s preferred method. He preferred a more elegant and cunning approach.
However, he acted impulsively. It was quite strange.
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!!!
