There was no law stating that someone who had betrayed once wouldn’t do so again.
Cedric’s words made sense.
Seeing the emperor’s expression hardening, Duke Fleche, with grinding teeth, denied his words vehemently.
“Your Majesty, do not listen to Cedric’s words, clouding the issue. I have devoted my life to you. Would I betray you? It’s an absurd conjecture!”
He sent an earnest gaze toward the emperor and then glared at Cedric.
“Cedric, instead of kneeling and apologizing, are you trying to sow discord between me and His Majesty?”
Cedric and Duke Fleche growled at each other in front of the emperor.
“It seems I was too generous, Cedric! I shouldn’t have bothered picking up someone with an unchanged background!”
Having been a secretary of the Wens family, he was deeply moved by Duke Fleche’s words.
Cedric had a sense of inferiority about his birth.
The word he disliked the most was ‘background.’ His mother was an ordinary commoner.
“Why bring up my background here! Your Excellency, you…!”
“Enough!!”
The emperor interrupted Cedric’s words and shouted harshly.
They, who had been hurling sharp daggers at each other, finally stopped. However, the intense gaze between them remained.
The air in the office was heavy.
The emperor, as if his head was complicated, sighed deeply and ruffled his disheveled hair.
The rhythmic breaths of the tough men gradually subsided. Breaking the silence and opening their mouths first was none other than the emperor.
“That’s enough.”
He spoke to them in a calm voice that had become quite composed.
“Cedric.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“I’ll leave this matter to you.”
Cedric’s mouth curled up with a sardonic smile upon the emperor’s words.
“Yes, please leave it to me.”
The emperor entrusted the task to Cedric rather than Duke Fleche. Cedric’s words about Duke Fleche coveting the throne seemed to be accepted.
Cedric looked at Duke Fleche with a relaxed smile.
Duke Fleche was extremely irritated by Cedric, who dared to defy him.
‘You…!’
It was a clear declaration of war.
‘This brat, who rolled on the ground, is now recklessly jumping around.’
What seemed solid between them on the surface was beginning to crack.
Internal division was a shortcut to ruin.
The profound thoughts of the emperor seemed to make him emit a deep sigh, and he messed up his already disheveled hair.
Cedric walked away with complicated feelings.
He no longer felt like staying in the palace. With dragging steps, he intended to return home.
On the long and winding corridor, someone familiar came into Cedric’s view.
It was Eric.
“…What are you doing over there?”
Eric’s face, wandering around as if looking for something, looked quite innocent.
“Eric.”
Cedric approached Eric.
‘I should take this kid with me.’
There was a risk that he might catch the eye of Duke Fleche for no reason and get in trouble with his son.
“Let’s go. The atmosphere here today is not suitable for the palace.”
Cedric approached, but Eric’s gaze remained as dead as ever.
“Where is your mother and Valiar? Bring them immediately by carriage.”
In response to Cedric’s command, Eric showed signs of refusal.
“I’ll go ahead. I still have business to attend to.”
“Business? What business could you possibly have left at the palace?”
“I haven’t confirmed it yet.”
Eric, looking extremely anxious, mumbled the end of his sentence.
“Even though Rose is likely poisoned, you should check if she’s okay. There are things left to discuss.”
When the story of ‘Rose’ came up, Cedric’s expression stiffened.
“…What lingering attachment is making you say this? Clearly, you wanted the divorce, didn’t you?”
Eric’s eyebrows twitched at Cedric’s words.
“I wanted a divorce? No. The one who wanted the divorce was Father.”
“What? You…! Okay, you wanted a divorce when it was convenient for you, and now you come to blame me for it?!”
It was true that Cedric wanted Eric’s divorce. However, the final decision was made by Eric.
At the time, Eric didn’t even bother to glance at Rose, but now he seemed to be trying to shift the blame onto Cedric.
“If it weren’t for Father, I wouldn’t have divorced Rose!”
Eric’s growling voice sharply cut through the air.
“Both the harsh words from Rose and her running away… All of that wouldn’t have happened if Father hadn’t instigated it!”
Eric glared at Cedric with resentful eyes.
Cedric’s head throbbed at Eric blaming everything on him.
On the other hand, seeing his son played by Rose, he felt a sense of suffocation and frustration.
It felt like witnessing his mother, Libera, play with herself again…
“…Damn it!”
A mother and son duo shaking the Wens family back and forth. His pride was hurt, but not to this extent.
“It won’t make any sense to talk about it now. I’ll settle the misunderstandings with Rose and leave. Whether you go first or not, decide for yourself.”
Eric’s cold voice echoed sharply.
Seeing Eric clinging to Rose like that, Cedric’s attempt to hold on to reason snapped.
Cedric harshly grabbed Eric, who had turned his back on him. Then he raised his hand above Eric’s shoulder and shouted.
“Snap out of it! That woman never loved you from the beginning. So stop worrying about that damn woman!”
At Cedric’s words, Eric’s expression twisted like crumpled paper.
‘Rose never loved me?’
He didn’t want to hear Cedric’s ambiguous words any longer.
“Father, stop it. How long are you going to keep tearing apart my relationship with Rose!”
Eric rejected Cedric’s words, pushing his arm away.
Cedric, faced with Eric ignoring his words, opened his eyes wide and shouted.
“You fool!”
At the same time, Eric’s cheek was forcefully turned.
Cedric couldn’t hide his anger-twisted face, and the palm of his hand stung painfully from the impact.
Cedric yelled in frustration, “Wake up!! That woman never loved you from the beginning. So stop worrying about that damn woman!”
“Do you still not know?! You have been thoroughly used by the Serbiat family! That child, Rose, has faked everything just to use you!”
Eric remained stunned, as if struck by a hammer, unable to close his mouth.
He no longer wanted to hear Cedric’s words.
He wanted to go to Rose.
He wanted to hear everything from her.
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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