In any case, he couldn’t overlook someone daring to poison the Emperor of the country. He felt the immediate need to order a thorough investigation.
He had an idea of whose deed it might be, too.
What he needed was irrefutable evidence that could not be evaded.
“We must start the investigation immediately.”
“No.”
Elodie quickly replied with a serious face.
Adenmir, who was looking at her face, eventually nodded slowly.
“……I see.”
He understood Elodie’s words.
This incident had to be investigated as quietly as possible, without anyone knowing.
Not to mention even the chief servant.
If an investigation were to take place, the culprit would cut off the tail and escape.
But then, there was the fatal problem that the Emperor must be left to continue to be poisoned. Otherwise, it would arouse the other party’s suspicion.
As if reading Adenmir’s inner thoughts, Elodie offered a clear solution.
“I have a competent pharmacist in my family. We can make an antidote.”
She didn’t reveal that she was that pharmacist herself.
Anyway, she could make the antidote.
“It’s a poison that even the royal pharmacist couldn’t identify.”
“I told you. It’s Ferdia.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes. I’ll send it to you every week. Just keep sending me the incense from that incense burner and the medicine His Majesty takes.”
It wasn’t a strong poison. It had just been an addiction for too long.
‘So even the Duchess won’t notice if I make the antidote this way.’
Adenmir looked at Elodie without a word. Elodie, interpreting it as concern for her father, gently reassured him with a smile.
“He won’t recover immediately. His Majesty has been addicted for a long time… But I think he’ll get better if he keeps taking it.”
In a tender tone, Adenmir asked with a stern face,
“……Why are you doing so much?”
There was no reason for Elodie to go this far. No one could say anything even if she didn’t.
“It’s what I have to do as a subject of the Empire.”
“I didn’t know the princess was such a loyal person.”
“Um…….”
Elodie hesitated, considering.
Adenmir was indeed right to wonder. In the past, she was a selfish person who didn’t care about others at all.
But now, Elodie had obtained a power.
There was a poisoned person before her eyes, and she had the ability to save that person; there was no reason not to do so.
With a little bit of effort, couldn’t she save a person’s life?
‘If I ignore it, I will feel uncomfortable.’
So, no matter the result, it was an act meant to make her feel at ease, and it couldn’t be called altruistic behavior.
Elodie, who had no intention of telling even these thoughts to Prince Adenmir Presil Willeunt, awkwardly threw a joke.
“Shall we call it compensation then?”
Elodie looked up at him with a playful smile. Prince Adenmir, who met her eyes, was noticeably flustered.
Those malicious lips that mention divorce, the face of the betrothed woman that doesn’t match, why does it look so pretty?
Prince Adenmir unconsciously avoided her gaze.
‘It seems I’m going mad for a moment.’
Yes, that’s why it was.
It had to be.
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!!!
