It was truly cruel.
Now she knew how much he disliked her.
Unlike the unstoppable tears, her mind, surprisingly, became calm.
She didn’t know where the courage to confront him came from, but at this moment, she didn’t want to back down.
“Since you won’t be looking for a woman after tonight, aren’t I beneath your notice, Your Highness, not your wife…?”
“Do you want me to treat you as my wife? Isn’t that what I’m doing? You’ll know when you hear the rumors. If I hadn’t acted with restraint, the lady beneath me would have been in a sorry state. So.”
His face slowly approached.
“Choose. Whether you’ll spend tonight with me or embrace the loneliness forever while holding onto another man in your heart.”
Another man, come to think of it, he had been mentioning another man to her as if she had someone else all along.
Thinking that the other man might be the secondary scholar Kim Hee-kyum, she felt that she shouldn’t stay like this.
“When you say another man, are you perhaps referring to the secondary scholar? He is my teacher. He is not what you think, Your Highness.”
“Why are you getting so worked up over what I might have thought?”
“Your Highness, it seems there might be a misunderstanding…”
“A misunderstanding? Did you just say misunderstanding now? With the countless things I’ve seen, a misunderstanding?”
He sharply cut off her words with a cold look.
I couldn’t understand what he saw.
No matter how much I thought about it, Hee-kyum had never behaved in a way that could be misunderstood.
I wanted to question him, but I couldn’t say anything in the face of his sharp gaze.
“The way the secondary scholar looked at you wasn’t the gaze of a teacher looking at a student but rather the gaze of a lover. Perhaps, isn’t the lady the same?”
“…”
“Seeing you unable to speak, I suppose I hit the mark.”
What should one say in front of someone who has already decided what to think?
Whether he hopes for an excuse or hopes for acknowledgment and retreat, I couldn’t tell.
She hesitated for a moment and then quietly spoke.
“I clearly said it’s not true. The secondary scholar is my teacher, and I’ve never thought of him in that way even once. I understand that you might be upset because I don’t like you, but I also know my place well.”
She paused for a moment, took a deep breath, and, suppressing the painful and bitter emotions, spoke quietly.
“I won’t ask you to look at me, and I won’t greedily desire your affection. If Your Highness truly meets a woman you desire, I will disappear. Please let me stay here until then.”
Having heard her words, he suddenly laughed out loud.
Even though his mouth was laughing, his eyes were looking at her as cold as ice.
“Be a bit more honest. Aren’t you trying to use my rumors, my lady?”
“What is that…”
“The lascivious General Jinheon has gone crazy over women and abandoned moral principles. Isn’t that what the lady desires? It would make it easier for me to escape. But what is this? I have no intention of playing along with his whims.”
He withdrew the hand that was holding her and took a step back, a bitter smile playing on his lips.
“Remember this. Since we’re married, you belong to me. As I mentioned before, I can’t tolerate others touching my belongings. And it’s better for you to give up on the idea of escaping from me.”
With those words, he turned around and left the room.
Eunseol stared at the closing door, still sitting on the floor.
His cold words lingered painfully in her heart for a very long time.
Eun, who sat deeply in the chair, was lost in thought.
The deeper the thoughts, the more uncomfortable her heart became.
The speed of tapping the armrest with her fingertips increased, and her gaze became fiercer.
How much time had passed?
As the day gradually brightened, Seo-yeom called him from outside.
When Seo-yeom entered the room and saw him, he narrowed his eyes and sighed.
“Didn’t you go to Madam? Did you get kicked out?”
“Who, me?”
“If not, why are you here at this hour?”
“Stop with the nonsense and tell me what you found out.”
Seo-yeom, wearing a face mask, awkwardly smiled and approached.
Then, he quickly composed himself and calmly began his report.
“After examining the bottle of liquor you gave, it was confirmed that there were special ingredients. As you suspected, it was done by the government official.”
Even after hearing it, he couldn’t believe it and let out a bitter laugh.
On his daughter’s coming-of-age day, giving a servant to his son-in-law.
It was absurd and shocking.
“There’s something you need to know, Your Excellency.”
Looking at the hesitant Seo-yeom, Eun gestured for him to speak.
“When the housemaid mentioned something strange, I investigated about the servant named Mina.”
“Why, is there a problem?”
“In fact, the constable has already assaulted that servant. In truth, Sir Pyeongpan has a history of touching maids and selling them elsewhere. So this time, it seems the government official deliberately sent her to Your Excellency’s residence.”
“Ha! Insane, those scoundrels!”
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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