Rose’s heart pounded irregularly at a fast pace.
Red wine was scattered like blood on Duke Artem’s pristine white shirt.
“…Duke?”
Rose shook the Duke, her face pale. The Duke showed no signs of movement.
‘…He can’t be dead, right?’
For a moment, a terrifying thought crossed Rose’s mind that Duke Artem might have died like this.
Rose’s body trembled like a quivering bamboo.
In the end, could she not change the contents of the novel?
Was it Rose’s arrogance to think that she could defy fate?
“Ah…”
The Duke was dead.
As the dreadful thought passed by, Rose’s face stiffened pale.
Reddened eyes welled up with hot tears. Large tears overflowed down her transparent cheeks.
With a blurred vision, Rose stared blankly at the Duke. Tears fell on his shirt with a hood-like sound.
Several imperial physicians approached through the crowd.
They hurriedly approached the Duke and checked under his nose. Then, overlapping their palms, they performed CPR on the Duke’s chest.
In the center of the chaotic banquet hall, the fallen Duke.
Despite the emergency treatment, he showed no signs of waking up.
Imperial physicians carried the Duke on a stretcher and swiftly left the scene.
Rose, who had been staring blankly at the Duke, finally came to her senses and shouted.
“No!!”
She reached out belatedly, but there was nothing in Rose’s hands.
Then, a piercing scream echoed.
“No, no… No more… Aaah!!”
It was Diana’s voice.
Staggering with the support of the knights, she suddenly screamed and clutched her head in agony.
“Your Highness!”
“Are you okay?”
The knights supported Diana, who staggered. With the Duke collapsing and Diana losing consciousness, the banquet hall became even more chaotic.
“Aah!!”
Diana, with a lost focus in her eyes, suddenly had a seizure. Repeating the words ‘no,’ she eventually collapsed weakly.
“Your Highness!”
“Diana!”
As Diana collapsed, the Emperor, Empress, and imperial physicians rushed in.
Diana’s birth celebration was ultimately interrupted as Duke Artem and she collapsed.
“It seems like he has been poisoned.”
The physician, feeling the pulse of the Duke lying like a corpse, muttered quietly.
“What? Poisoned!”
A man with a fierce appearance shouted at the physician with an incredulous expression.
With platinum blond hair and sharp blue eyes, his gaze was sharply piercing. He was Duke Artem’s uncle and Diana’s father, the current Emperor of the Pestona Empire.
The Emperor clenched his fist and ground his teeth with a grim expression.
“Dare…! Who dares to attempt the execution of the one who inherits the blood of the imperial family! Bring them here immediately!”
In response to the enraged outburst of the emperor, the knights hurriedly left the room. Then, they brought in the maid and servant, who were staggering and falling with barely opened eyes.
It was the maid who handed the wine glasses to Rose, Duke Artem, and Diana, and the servant who uncorked the bottle.
They seemed to have undergone severe torture. Bruises were visible all over their faces, and they staggered as if they could collapse at any moment.
The knights forcibly made them kneel in front of the emperor.
“Ugh…”
“Uuh…”
The servants groaned in pain.
“To whom did you receive the poison from?”
In the cold voice of the emperor, they flinched as if unjustly accused.
The emperor’s tone was threatening, and their bodies trembled. Fear of potential death overwhelmed them.
“Uh, it’s unfair… Your Majesty…”
The maid looked as if she would cry at any moment, bowing her head with an expression of injustice.
“Unfair? You say it’s unfair even though poison was found in your pocket!”
At the mention of ‘poison,’ the maid closed her eyes tightly. Then, with a desperate feeling, she fumbled to speak.
“I truly didn’t know anything. I just did what I was told because they promised to give me a lot of money… I really didn’t know it was poison! I swear!”
A new maid who had entered the palace just a few months ago.
She was an inexperienced young woman who didn’t know much about the world. In the scheming and betraying palace, to survive, one should not easily comply with others’ requests. However, she had accepted this job without realizing that it could be a murder plot, just because they promised her a year’s worth of wages.
In broad daylight, in front of hundreds of people, she had never dreamed that the task assigned to her was ‘assassination.’
In contrast, the servant who opened the cork had done nothing. He was an unfortunate fellow caught up in the unfortunate incident without knowing anything.
‘I just… changed shifts as he asked…’
He had no suitable tasks for his vacation. When a fellow servant had an emergency, he suddenly begged him to take over for a day.
And now, he ended up being dragged in front of the emperor.
Although he wanted to say he was innocent, the brutal torture prevented him from speaking.
“Ugh… Uuh!”
The servant shed tears pitifully, clasping his hands in supplication.
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
