At that moment, the Serbiat Mansion.
Rose had a face full of worry as she sighed.
Libera, Rose’s mother, looked at her with an uneasy expression.
“After attending Viscount Wentz’s wedding, she looks so troubled.”
As the demon said, she shouldn’t have shown the wedding invitation.
Even though there were no lingering emotions, her ex-husband was someone she had been married to for three years. So, it was inevitably unsettling.
“…Could it be that she misses Eric or something like that?”
Libera found it challenging to erase the anxiety that was blooming from one side of her chest.
Rose passionately loved Eric more than anyone else.
Unless she changed into someone else, such emotions wouldn’t disappear overnight.
Just watching the wedding of a long-lost ex-boyfriend would be awkward enough, but the wedding of her ex-husband, divorced less than a week ago…!
Rose’s mother, who hadn’t imagined that Rose would completely become a different person, worried about her.
“Darling, are you okay?”
Libera cautiously called Rose. However, Rose, deeply engrossed in her thoughts, couldn’t hear Libera’s voice at all.
Rose was clutching her head and groaning.
“Let me think…”
She tried hard to recall the content of the unfinished original work she was reading. However, nothing significant came to mind.
“Ha…”
An involuntary sigh escaped from Rose’s mouth.
“If I knew how to possess, I should have read it until the end…”
Rose mumbled to herself and buried her head on the table. She regretted not having read the original work to the end.
“…The celebration of the Crown Princess’s birth is less than ten days away.”
To her, who grew up in ordinary South Korea, “Toxic” was an entirely different world story. So, solving it alone was too difficult for her.
“Toxic…”
Rose closed her eyes and calmly pondered.
“Come to think of it, the last cosmetic incident was related to poison, right?”
Suddenly, she remembered that Doana had stolen her cosmetics without knowing the source.
Blisters swelling on the right cheek.
“Both drugs and magic couldn’t cure it.”
The medicine in this era was almost ineffective. Magic, believed to be omnipotent, turned out not to be so.
“I thought any problem could be solved as long as there was healing magic…”
Rose, curious about Doana’s refusal to treat her facial injury, asked Gwen about it.
Gwen answered like this:
With human magic abilities, you couldn’t reattach a severed arm or resurrect the dead.
Healing magic only maximized human recovery abilities, and already damaged organs or skin couldn’t be restored.
Gwen explained that Doana’s skin was damaged by a strong poison, making it impossible to completely cure it.
Of course, Doana seemed to be unaware of this fact. She thought she couldn’t receive proper treatment because she was pregnant.
“Why covet other people’s belongings like that?”
If Rose hadn’t harbored any greed, she wouldn’t have had to endure such anger.
“The perpetrator of the cosmetics incident is probably Cedric.”
The day Cedric visited the mansion, the incident occurred. Rose recalled Cedric’s face, which looked at her with cunning eyes like a snake.
Though similar to Eric, he was by no means an easy opponent.
“Phew.”
In front of Rose, who sighed deeply, Libera offered a warm cup of cocoa.
“You’ll get wrinkles on that pretty face. What’s bothering you? Your expression seems quite dark.”
Libera subtly probed Rose to peer into her inner thoughts.
“It’s nothing. I just have some things on my mind.”
With a smile that seemed to say it was nothing, Rose lifted the cup of cocoa.
The cup was quite warm. Rose blew onto the cocoa to cool it down.
When Rose remained silent, Libera’s concern grew even more significant. Eventually, unable to hold back, she asked Rose.
“Could it be that you’re upset because of the wedding you attended?”
“What?”
“You’ve been looking upset since yesterday, and I’m worried. …Is Viscount Wentz bothering you?”
In response to Libera’s words, Rose raised her hand and said.
“It’s not because of the wedding.”
“Really?”
“Of course. Instead, I felt so refreshed after attending the wedding!”
Thinking of Doana, Rose burst into laughter. Looking at Rose’s bright smile, it didn’t seem like a lie.
“Alright, that’s a relief. I was worried because I thought I shouldn’t have handed you that wedding invitation for no reason.”
Only now did Libera breathe a sigh of relief.
“But you keep sighing. Is it because of the business I mentioned last time?”
“Ah, yes. That’s right. It’s nothing to worry about, so you don’t need to be concerned.”
It wasn’t business but a matter of life and death, but she didn’t want to worry Libera. Rose comforted her, caressing Libera.
“I’m curious about what kind of business it is. To keep it a secret from even your mother. I could help if needed.”
“If I open up, I’ll take you first, Mom.”
“Really? I’m looking forward to it.”
At Rose’s words, Libera smiled with her eyes turned into crescents. It seemed she was quite pleased with Rose’s dignified appearance.
Knock, knock.
“Madam Serbiat, hello!”
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
