“I greet you, Your Majesty.”
It was Melanie, the young lady who had first greeted me.
She confidently stepped forward with a brash expression.
“Are you the young lady called Melanie?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Weren’t there servants outside?”
“There were.”
“Then why?”
When I asked coolly and coldly, Melanie’s expression changed slightly in surprise.
“We… We were chosen as Your Majesty’s maids, so we assumed that we naturally have the right to enter Your Majesty’s bedroom…”
Melanie quickly finished her words while maintaining eye contact with me.
I also stared back at Melanie.
For a while, our eyes clashed, and she was the first to look away from me.
“So you came into the empress’s bedroom? Without permission, without knocking, on the morning after the first night?”
I softly probed with a gently wrapped tone.
As Melanie opened her mouth to make some excuse, I quickly added,
“Whether the maids have the right to come and go in the empress’s bedroom or not, that decision is mine, the empress’s, not yours.”
“… If it was unpleasant, please forgive me.”
Melanie’s confident demeanor was slightly broken by my firm tone.
“From now on, there will be no such thing.”
Of course, there won’t be.
Because I will replace them with other maids.
I glared at Melanie and retorted in my mind.
But on the outside, I just nodded with an expressionless face.
“Now… We will do your makeup and choose your dress. In the style of the Lapeyon Empire!”
As Melanie smiled hypocritically and said, the other ladies stepped in as if they had been waiting.
“The Emperor of the Lapeyon Empire is famous for his high standards. Unless you are extraordinarily beautiful, you won’t be able to attract even a glance.”
“That’s right! Therefore, Your Majesty, originating from the Kingdom of Chatonil, will need our discernment even more.”
The young ladies were already underestimating me.
While they were dressing me up, they were probably thinking that they would be better suited as the Empress of Lapeyon, weren’t they?
I could tell enough from their contemptuous looks.
Moreover, the Lapeyon Empire treats the Kingdom of Chatonil as a vassal state. Therefore, it was predictable that their attitude towards the empress from there would not be friendly.
However, if they do not even show me the minimum courtesy, I do not need to smile kindly at them either.
After all, they are noble ladies who will be irrelevant to me after I finish my role.
“Didn’t Your Majesty also experience it last night?”
Melanie asked in a confident voice.
“What is it?”
“That His Majesty is cold and distant. It must have been the same in bed.”
It was a bold statement.
I shrugged my shoulders and asked back.
“Why do you think so?”
“He has never had a woman by his side. Unless the beauty is extraordinary, it’s hard to win His Majesty’s heart. So, Your Majesty, you must receive our help….”
The insinuation that my beauty is lessening, they’re going about it in such a roundabout way.
Interrupting the confident prattling of Lady Melanie, I rose from the bed.
“Just a moment.”
A simpler way than meticulously explaining last night’s incident to the ladies occurred to me.
“Seems like I don’t need that kind of help?”
At my words, the eyes of the curious ladies began to move restlessly.
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!!!
