Before Lea, who was dragged toward him, could reach his embrace, he stopped abruptly. With each word from the Duke, Lea felt his steady breath on her face.
Inadvertently, Akia, now so close that their noses might touch, let out a strange laugh.
“I can satisfy you.”
Lea’s pupils shook violently at the Duke’s ambiguous words.
‘Satisfaction…?’
There were so many types of satisfaction in the world, including economic satisfaction, food satisfaction, and satisfaction with living arrangements.
Among these numerous choices, Lea naturally recalled the night she spent with him.
‘Does he really mean that?’
Lea sighed inwardly.
Her heart began to thump as Akia’s lips curled up into a leisurely smile.
When Dmitry entered the garden where Ariel’s traces still lingered, even in midsummer, his heart felt empty.
“I suppose you’re thinking the same, Button?”
Duke Belarus, strolling through the deserted courtyard, asked the butler who followed behind.
“Yes. You resemble Miss Ariel, who we last saw.”
Button, who had stopped and turned to face Duke Belarus, bowed his head.
“Yeah. Her damned father’s face was nowhere to be seen. I thought my daughter had come back to life.”
Dmitry, feeling deeply sympathetic, understood. Clearly, the child his granddaughter gave birth to was reported dead. Something was off, as if someone had abducted his granddaughter.
“Send people to the south to search for the mountainous area. Investigate the situation when Ariel gave birth again.”
“Understood.”
Dmitry’s decades of keen intuition, honed as a head of the family, told him that Lea was saying the truth.
As evidence, both Ariel and Lea didn’t have allergies to legumes, and allergies were generally highly hereditary.
Not only that, but the shining red hair, as if engulfed in flames, was too similar to Dmitry’s own hair.
“And.”
Duke Belarus, who had turned away, stopped Button, who was about to leave.
“In your view, how does the relationship between that young Duke and Lea appear?”
“…Are you asking for my opinion, sir?”
Button recalled the incident where he took Duke Heidern, citing an urgent matter.
Akia watched Dmitry and Lea distancing themselves for a while.
Despite following him, Duke Heidern’s full attention was directed toward the two.
Having the two in mind, Button honestly replied to Duke Belarus.
“It doesn’t seem like an ordinary relationship.”
“As expected… You think the same way, don’t you?”
Dmitry, reflecting on Akia’s behavior at the restaurant earlier, touched his chin. Clearly, Akia’s actions weren’t just the attitude of a mere apothecary.
When Dmitry grabbed Lea, suggesting they have some tea, he saw sparks in Akia’s eyes.
The fellow seemed to be harboring some affection for Lea.
‘Akia seems to like my granddaughter.’
He was already convinced that Lea was his granddaughter.
Although they had only spent a few days together in his mansion, Dmitry honestly saw Akia again.
Akia, standing before him, who had once ruled the empire, didn’t seem the least bit intimidated. The more Dmitry looked, the more Akia resembled his father, Prince Philip III.
‘Quite different from when he was a young prince.’
In his younger prince days, whenever they met in the imperial palace, Akia couldn’t even lift his head properly under the weight of his armor.
But seeing Akia after a dozen years, he seemed to have matured. Akia, who had cast away any weakness, looked more fitting for the position of the emperor than the current emperor, Illei.
‘No, perhaps he’s been hiding his claws until now.’
The image of Illei at the imperial palace came to mind. He felt it, too. What thoughts did the emperor have when looking at Akia?
His interest in Akia grew. Initially, he tried not to care about whether Akia ended up in the mines or not.
‘But if it involves my granddaughter, it’s a different story.’
Duke Belarus chuckled mysteriously.
“Duke Heidern…”
Duke Belarus paused for a moment, as if deeply lost in thought. Then, having concluded his thoughts, he spoke to Button.
“Summon Cox.”
“Duke, you can’t mean…”
Button’s surprised expression blurred his words as he turned to Dmitry.
“Maybe it’s time I lent a hand.”
A meaningful smile appeared on Duke Belarus’s face.
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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