Adenmir unknowingly furrowed his brow. The story he had not expected to hear seemed unreal.
Is it true?
Elodie avoided Adenmir’s probing gaze, covering her cheeks with both hands.
“I’m embarrassed.”
Suddenly, a particularly red cheek caught his eye.
Why hadn’t he noticed until now? Her cheeks were flushed red.
“I can’t have feelings for someone else when I’m engaged.”
She didn’t seem to be lying. The Elodie Ferdia he knew was a person who did not know how to lie, no matter how fiery and temperamental she might be.
People don’t change overnight, so that must be the truth…
For some reason, Adenmir asked, feeling somewhat displeased.
“Who is the person?”
“Do I have to tell Your Highness that?”
When Elodie asked back with wide eyes, Adenmir felt stung.
“…No.”
There was no reason for her to tell whom she liked.
Even if the conversational partner was her fiancé.
“Anyway, that’s why I can no longer maintain my engagement with Your Highness.”
Elodie started to lift her teacup but then put it back down.
Adenmir noticed her fingertips trembling and guessed she was nervous.
A teacup wouldn’t be that heavy.
“When do you plan to submit the divorce document?”
Adenmir silently watched Elodie’s lips speak about the divorce.
‘Divorce, divorce.’
It was not impossible.
Elodie Ferdia was not suitable to become an empress, so it would be Adenmir’s task to decide what to do when he became the emperor.
Rather, it was a good thing.
She said she would leave on her own, so he had no reason to refuse.
Since Elodie brought up the divorce first, Duke Ferdia wouldn’t be able to pass the responsibility on to him. Then their political relationship could be maintained as well.
But.
‘Why don’t I want to go along with it?’
He did not want to obediently comply with his fiancée, who kept repeating the word divorce like a parrot.
The oddly rising childish defiance didn’t feel like his own.
He stared at his fiancée, who looked more impatient than usual.
It still didn’t make sense.
The sudden claim that she had someone she liked, and the persistent mention of divorce.
No matter how he thought about it, the greedy Elodie Ferdia would not give up the position of Crown Princess.
Adenmir carefully examined Elodie. He saw something he hadn’t seen before.
Apparently stung by something, she was sweating.
He already knew that she pestered Duke Ferdia daily to become engaged to him.
After doing so much, she wouldn’t speak of divorce so easily.
She must still have feelings for me.
Adenmir was sure.
A greedy woman like her would never give up the future empress’s position.
“Crown Princess.”
“Yes, Your Highness…”
Elodie’s voice was almost inaudible. And she hadn’t even properly looked at his face.
Adenmir spat out the question he had been holding.
“What is this trick?”
“…What?”
“If you’re trying to attract my attention like this, you better stop.”
“…What?”
As her face turned from red to pale, Adenmir stood up, looking at Elodie.
“If you want a divorce, I can’t refuse, but it’s not a matter to be decided hastily… We’ll discuss it further later.”
“…”
“We’d better talk about the previously asked matters regarding the birthday party of the Empress in a letter.”
“…”
Despite his words, Elodie said nothing.
She rested her forehead on her hand and bowed her head.
‘Is she now pretending to be ill to attract attention? How ridiculous.’
He had no intention of falling for such shallow tricks. Not wanting to be played, Adenmir headed toward the door.
That’s when it happened.
Thump.
The unusual sound from behind made Adenmir turn his head and see Elodie collapsed to the side.
“Crown Princess.”
Was this an act of pretending to collapse?
With a sense of seeing how far it could go, he crossed his arms and stared at the fallen Elodie.
He soon felt that something was strange.
“…Princess.”
“…”
“Princess?”
There was no response.
With large strides, Adenmir headed straight for Elodie and examined her condition.
Her body was hot like fire. Her breathing was unstable, and cold sweat was beaded on her forehead.
It wasn’t a feigning; she really had fainted.
“Princess!”
He shook Elodie’s body to wake her, but she did not rise. Looking at his fiancée who had lost consciousness, he narrowed his brows.
“…Damn it.”
Having grown up among the knights from a young age, his experience with women was rare.
This was no exception for his fiancée Elodie.
Dancing together at a banquet was all they did.
His hesitation was brief with a person fallen before him. Adenmir picked up Elodie and kicked his way out of the reception room.
“Look here!”
He walked through the hallway looking for someone, but no servant was seen in the annex where Elodie stayed.
It was like being in a haunted mansion.
It was strange.
Could there be no resident servant in the building where Duke Ferdia’s only daughter stayed, even though she was an illegitimate child?
He rarely visited Ferdia’s house himself, and when he did, he had brushed off the absence of servants, but was that not the case?
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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