And in the next moment, a vein bulged on the back of Cryer’s hand.
“Keu, keukeuk… keukeuk.”
The garbage that wanted to live was desperately scratching at Cryer’s hand, which was gripping its throat, but it was all in vain.
Soon, the garbage’s struggle began to subside, and eventually, it stopped completely.
Thump.
Looking down at the garbage pathetically sprawled on the cold marble floor, Cryer soon turned his back.
Following the moonlight that finally revealed his face, Cryer’s shadow was stretching long.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Knock, knock.
Olivia, who was busy with documents even in the middle of the night, raised her head at the sudden knocking sound.
“Come in.”
As soon as she gave permission, Cryer revealed himself from behind the silently opened door.
“Cryer?”
Olivia, surprised by the unexpected arrival, widened her eyes.
“What’s the matter?”
“I saw the light on.”
“There’s still work to do. It seems like I’ll have a hard time sleeping in the bedroom today.”
Looking at Olivia, who lightly shrugged her shoulders and groaned in pain from the ache rising in her stiff neck, Cryer nodded.
“Good choice.”
It was very strange that this was his response to her, who said she couldn’t properly rest due to too much work.
Olivia, who completely let go of the pen she had been tightly holding, asked him while staring at him.
“What do you mean by that?”
His answer was as light as if he was saying that the night was rather cool.
“There was some garbage trying to force something on you, so I took care of it on my way here.”
“Ah, I see. Garbage disposal….”
Olivia, too, lightly nodded her head at his not at all serious response, and then paused.
“What? Garbage?”
“Isn’t it abnormal for someone to loiter near the princess’s bedroom at this hour?”
Force, garbage, this hour, and secretly.
Olivia, who picked words out from his unfriendly speech and combined them to draw a picture, frowned.
“That… right. You took care of it?”
“Yes.”
“How did you… no, nevermind. Don’t tell me.”
There’s no way that Cryer would have obediently called the palace knights to clean up the garbage.
Since she wasn’t curious about the end of the garbage, Olivia quickly changed the topic.
“I was looking at something related to you. It’s a good timing.”
She then pulled out a small portrait from the pile of documents.
“Similar…right?”
As Olivia alternately looked at the palmsized portrait and Cryer, she narrowed her eyes.
At least the hair color is the same, and the eye color is similar….
Cryer, who had leisurely taken a seat on the sofa near Olivia’s desk and deeply leaned his back, casually crossed his legs.
“What’s similar?”
Looking at him, Olivia soon threw the portrait and shook her head.
“Indeed, it doesn’t look like you at all.”
How can the person in this portrait resemble that man in any way?
Even if their skins are a bit similar, no one could imitate what is swirling in those dark red eyes.
The eyes of a man who alone started a continentwide war and ended it alone.
Should it be called madness?
Unknowingly, Olivia came close to Cryer and looked into his eyes.
His dark red eyes, like the night mixed in, were swirling.
A maelstrom of countless emotions that no one else could grasp, no, that even Cryer himself might not fully understand.
And then suddenly.
Really suddenly, Olivia found a very faint sorrow in his empty, swirling eyes.
It was a fleeting moment, and it was so faint…
“You’re close.”
At the slow voice that was heard right next to her, Olivia’s hair on the back of her neck stood straight.
Upon seeing Olivia freeze, Cryer lightly patted her shoulder.
“Euaha!”
Only then did Olivia quickly retreat and frantically rubbed her arm where goosebumps had sprung up.
Looking at Olivia, who was panting like a frightened and startled cat, Cryer shrugged his shoulders.
“I was just standing still.”
Only after a bit more time had passed did her heart, which was thumping so hard that it felt like it would jump out of her throat, calm down.
And during that time, Cryer picked up the palmsized portrait that Olivia had been comparing him to.
“Do I resemble this?”
“No, not at all.”
Olivia repeated twice with a very serious face.
“Not at all similar.”
Cryer put down the portrait and stroked his chin.
“It’s been too long since I’ve seen the face properly.”
“The mirror is here……”
“No. What’s all this?”
Cryer gestured towards the small portrait that Olivia had thrown and the documents piled up around it.
“Information.”
“Information.”
Cryer, who picked out one of the documents, tilted his head.
“Is this worthless thing also considered information?”
“We’ll only know whether it’s useless or not over time.”
Cryer, who had been looking down at the diligently nodding Olivia, opened his mouth.
“I doubt the information that the man in these documents ate two candies today will still be important over time.”
Unable to find a response, Olivia only licked her lips, and Cryer nonchalantly put the documents down and brought up a completely different topic.
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!!!
