The square teeming with enthralled spectators was the Duke of Julius’s improvement square.
At the front of the improvement army, Christina Julius stepped forward towards General Arthur, who was standing at the front. Holding the hem of her dress, she looked down and delicately bent her knee.
“……I see the rising light of the empire.”
At Christina’s first words to Arthur, the gathered crowd raised a cheer like thunder.
The cheer continued until the Duke of Julius raised his hand to stop the crowd.
Christina paused for a moment, bowed her body and continued speaking.
“……I congratulate you on your improvement amidst great honor. I am pleased to see you in good health.”
The square was boiling with another burst of cheering.
This time, the cheering subsided before the Duke raised his hand.
This was because the excited crowd each put their index finger on their lips, urging their neighbors to quickly lower their voices for fear of missing his first word.
The spectators’ eyes glowed.
The gathered people waited for Arthur’s answer, happy for the fortune of witnessing the reunion of the couple of the century.
What was unfolding before their eyes was a historical reunion that all the people of the empire had been waiting for.
“……”
Sitting on a horse, looking down at Christina, Arthur silently stared at her and smiled as if he found it interesting.
“……Are you my wife?”
The expectant crowd either looked at each other or lowered their heads, wondering, ‘What is Arthur saying?’
There were so many people gathered that only a few people close by could hear his voice directly.
However, everyone could tell that an exclamation of emotion had not burst out.
People lowered their voices even more, half wondering, half hoping, if they could hear even a single word.
“……”
Christina stood still, not saying anything, her mouth shut.
Silence hung between them.
“Lord Arthur.”
Just before the atmosphere got strange, the duchess stepped in on behalf of Christina.
“Perhaps Christina is very nervous, seeing you again after such a long time.”
Arthur quietly looked at the duchess with a smiling face.
He gave no answer, only offering a refreshing but somewhat chilly smile.
The duchess was a little taken aback, but she forced a gentle smile and continued speaking.
“You were only seventeen when you left, so you may not recognize her. ……She has grown so pretty you may not recognize her.”
At the duchess’s words, Arthur responded not with a reply but with a small, deflated laugh, and then he gently rubbed his creased eyebrows with his index and middle fingers.
Then he lifted his head and quietly scanned the people of the Duke’s house.
An odd atmosphere spread among the crowd, their faces becoming filled with bewilderment.
Taking a step back, Duke Julius, Antonio Julius, who had been maintaining a dignified and gracious lordly atmosphere, had a flash of discomfort cross his face.
……He doesn’t answer when the duchess speaks?
Duke Julius did not like that he did not respond as warmly as he expected, as he wanted to start their relationship anew in front of the people.
He even felt like indirectly pointing out and prompting a reply, but he was conscious of the many people watching them and simply smiled.
It would not be good in many ways for the first words of Duke Julius to the national hero Arthur to be a reprimand or criticism of his nonaristocratic attitude.
Moreover, they had to somehow solve the persistently arising suspicion of poor supplies.
To do that, they needed Arthur’s positive testimony.
Thinking as far, Duke Julius personally stepped forward as if to embrace him.
It would be nice to create a scene that could be an illustration in a newsletter.
The record keepers of the temple and the guild journalists were not sufficiently gathered due to the earlierthanexpected visit, but the word would be spread because there were many people watching.
But the moment Duke Julius, with a fullfaced smile, spread his arms and was about to step down,
Arthur opened his mouth with a troubled smile.
“That woman is not the woman I married?”
His voice clearly spread into the crowd.
Ignoring the surprised people, Arthur turned his cheerful gaze from Christina to the people of the Duke’s house.
“I said I wanted to see ‘my wife’.”
[This is the time separator]“……”
What on earth was happening?
Pulled out of sleep, Rayna stared at the duchess standing before her in confusion.
“Ma, Madam? I, I……”
The Duchess glared at Rayna, snapping shut the fan in her hand.
Under normal circumstances, Rayna would have looked back at her with pitiful and polite eyes, as if she was afraid. But that was impossible now.
After all, she was in the midst of having her clothes stripped off in a hurry.
Rayna let out a small sound as Mrs. Hurst, who was dressing her, turned her around like a spinning top.
Next, the corset was tightened with a snap. A gasp escaped her lips.
The corset was tightened again.
“Agh.”
There was still room for more tightening.
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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