“Now, I will tell you the punishment for the lady. You have failed to fulfill your duties as a wife who was responsible for the mistress’s duties, and you have disturbed the order of the Duchy of Blanchett on your own. You have caused trouble for the Duke.”
“…”
“So you must impose a suitable punishment for your sin on your own.”
Now I can impose a suitable punishment on Patricia without lifting a finger. Without hearing any accusations of being too harsh.
‘If she gives herself a too light punishment?’
That’s fine as it is. Now that I can do the mistress’s duties, I can just fire her with that as an excuse.
I can block any way for Patricia to torment me as she did in the original work.
“Thank you, lady.”
Patricia, who had lowered her head, looked a bit vacant.
“I will be demoted and take a pay cut for ten years for the sin of disrupting the order of this house.”
Then, she raised her hand and slapped her own cheek very hard.
Slap!
Blood flowed from her lips after only one slap.
‘…She’s harsh…’
Despite my expectation that she would glare at me with terrifying eyes, Patricia’s eyes were strangely clear and lively.
‘Why doesn’t she seem to hate me?’
But that must be my misunderstanding.
There’s no way she doesn’t hate me when we’ve had such a direct confrontation. Even if we had a good relationship, we would have come to hate each other.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Patricia slowly came out of the lady’s room.
‘To think such a perfect person exists.’
Patricia originally ignored Estelle. Not only because she was the daughter of Libertan and could be despised, but also because no matter what the daughter of Libertan did, she thought she wouldn’t be as good as herself.
That’s why she couldn’t accept Johan’s decision to take away the mistress’s duties from her even more.
‘But the foolish one was you, Patricia.’
Patricia closed her eyes tightly, recalling the calm and composed words of Estelle.
“Your sin is not that you don’t respect me, but that you fail to fulfill your duties as a wife.”
Surely, Estelle must have hated her, too.
Because she’s a rude wife who didn’t even properly greet the mistress.
‘But even so…’
There was no sign of such trivial emotions in Estelle’s attitude. On the contrary, with an incredibly serene demeanor, she accurately pointed out the crime that Patricia had carelessly overlooked.
“So you must impose a suitable punishment for your sin on your own.”
At that moment, Patricia was unknowingly greatly shaken.
‘She could have driven me out.’
Usually, a wife who loses in such a power struggle gets kicked out of the house. It makes it easier for the mistress to control the house. That’s why.
However, Estelle gave Patricia a new chance to behave, putting aside her own convenience and hatred.
“This is consideration for me.”
Tears seemed to flow from Patricia’s dry eyes.
“Why are you showing me such tolerance…”
Estelle extended her goodwill even to Patricia, a person she had never seen before, who hated her.
“I will take over as the mistress of the Duchy of Blanchett from now on. Do you have any objections?”
She also asked her again about what she probably heard from Master Johan.
“She must have respected me who had been the mistress.”
By verbally recognizing what Patricia had been doing and asking her opinion, there was a decision by Master Johan, she could have simply imposed a punishment without asking her anything.
“That lady… she’s the mistress I’ve been dreaming of.”
A person who maintains dignity and duty, but gives appropriate tolerance and teaching to subordinates.
For a moment, Patricia slapped her own cheek hard to follow the order, forgetting that Estelle was the daughter of Libertan.
“What should I do now?”
Patricia’s mind was complicated as she was preparing for her near execution.
Estelle was a target for revenge from the Duchy of Blanchett, but she was also the mistress that Patricia had been dreaming of.
“I don’t think… I can hate her anymore.”
At the moment she looked down on her gracefully, Patricia unknowingly acknowledged Estelle as the Duchess of Blanchett.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]After Patricia left, I looked at the sky outside. The sky was already dark.
“I slept so much and it’s already night.”
I was not sleepy, but the doctor’s advice came to mind. He said that even if you are not sleepy, you should definitely sleep at night to recover your body.
“Let’s read a book until I fall asleep.”
But there was a note sandwiched between the books.
An elegant handwriting style, like any nobleman would write.
[Mistress, do not sleep tonight and wait. We have to sleep together.]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!!!
