‘Even seeing that face no longer stirs my heart. I don’t even want to talk to him.’
Esika entered the room, stretched once, and lay down on the bed.
The sky was visible through the small window of the cramped room.
She closed her eyes while watching the drifting cloud fragments.
The moment she first met Callian Klaus and fell for him flashed through her mind.
Along with it, the days of the spirit meeting the emperor in her previous life overlapped.
‘The result is disastrous. How foolish I was for an empty shell.’
Esika opened her eyelids again.
‘But now this body’s life is my own.’
A cold intelligence filled her blue eyes.
Although she hadn’t regained her past powers, she had the knowledge and experience to accurately judge the situation before her.
The situation would change slowly, but surely.
Tak-
Suddenly, the sound of the door opening without a knock was heard.
As Esika slowly raised herself from the bed, she saw four women before her eyes.
The three women in front were the maids directly under the Grand Duchess.
They were women who controlled the duke’s household, backed by the Grand Duchess’s authority.
‘I expected it, but the reaction is very immediate.’
And behind them stood Yuri, who had just been appointed as the new head maid.
The corner of her lips twisted askew.
The three maids who had brought buckets full of cold water splashed it towards Esika.
Splash- Splash-
The cold water was thrown over Esika.
Her neatly combed hair was completely soaked, and her clothes were likewise drenched.
Even after they emptied the buckets, water continued to drip from her chin and sleeve ends for a long time.
Yuri stepped forward with clicking sounds in front of the maids and stood before Esika.
Then, lifting her chin, she said:
“The Grand Duchess ordered us to bring you cool water.”
A cold smile hung at the corners of Yuri’s lips.
“She said that cool water is more effective than fragrant tea in correcting arrogant behavior.”
A joyful mockery could be felt in her voice.
“But… you look just like a drowned rat?”
The maids behind Yuri laughed out loud at her words.
Droplets were falling from the ends of Esika’s hair, and wet strands covered her face.
Yuri felt immensely satisfied seeing Esika’s disheveled appearance.
Who does she think she is, just a duchess in name only, to have tea with Callian?
Moreover, it’s said she left without even greeting him when Callian hadn’t even risen from his seat.
So she reported this incident while carefully provoking the Grand Duchess’s temper.
Deliberately fetching ice-cold water to splash, it must be mind-numbing.
Esika slowly pushed back the wet hair covering her eyes.
“……”
Yuri’s eyebrows twitched as her gaze met Esika’s blue eyes.
The eyes she expected to be terrified or crying from the cold water shower showed not the slightest emotion.
Yuri wouldn’t know.
The fact that the Thousand Spirit had trained for dozens of days in ice caves since childhood.
Even with her still weak body, she possesses the mental strength to not even flinch at this level.
“…Ha.”
She calmly got off the bed and slowly pushed her hair back from front to back.
The maids standing behind Yuri also looked startled at Esika’s unfazed reaction.
Originally, bullying is only fun when there’s a reaction from the person being bullied.
However, Esika…
“…Are you done?”
With a composed expression, or rather, eyes that seemed to look at something ridiculous, she brought her face close to Yuri’s.
Yuri’s upturned mouth corners trembled.
“…You…”
“Tell the Grand Duchess I drank the cold water well.”
Esika’s lips moved as her voice flowed out.
“…How honorable that the future daughter-in-law brought it herself. You must have gotten quite close?”
Then Esika’s gaze turned to the maids behind Yuri.
At the words ‘future daughter-in-law,’ Yuri’s hand twitched.
“What are you…!”
“Are you embarrassed in front of the maids? You said it yourself. That you’d become Klaus’s daughter-in-law.”
“…!”
The fact that Yuri was aiming for Callian shouldn’t reach the Grand Duchess’s ears yet.
Esika had been tormented so much because of the Grand Duchess’s intense maternal love.
If Yuri, who had just become head maid by offering jewels, were to become an eyesore… she might face a threat to her life.
“When… when did I ever say such a thing!”
As Yuri looked back, the maids who had followed her were exchanging subtle glances with each other.
And Esika was watching her panicked appearance with pleasure, the corners of her lips raised.
‘Could she have deliberately brought this up?’
Yuri’s eyes wavered. Esika, that stupid girl, couldn’t possibly make such a meticulous calculation in this situation…!
Gritting her teeth, she clenched her fists.
“Also.”
Then Esika shifted her gaze to the maids behind Yuri.
“Emilia, Annie, Lusa. I’ll remember well what you three did today. Your attitude in serving your superiors is truly admirable…”
The maids, who had been frozen at the calm yet chilling voice, also flinched.
“I will… surely reward you someday.”
The Duchess knew their names?
The Duchess of Klaus had been a pale-looking woman who only adorned herself with jewels every day.
When the Grand Duchess, disgusted by that sight, said she would throw her out, she begged and moved to this dirty back room to repent, but people don’t change easily.
However, the look in the drenched Duchess’s eyes now…
‘It feels chilling.’
It’s eerily terrifying. With a faint killing intent flowing in her eyes and her mouth twisted into a slight smile, doesn’t she look… like a witch?
The maids’ expressions gradually hardened.
“Let’s… let’s go.”
Yuri, her clenched fists trembling, turned around abruptly.
The three maids followed behind her.
Their footsteps, which had entered proudly, had changed to anxious paces.
**
“My lady, I’ve brought dry clothes… but the clothes…”
Sella bowed deeply before Esika, almost prostrating herself as she begged forgiveness.
“I’m sorry, but I could only find maid’s clothes.”
Esika changed into the clothes silently, but Sella was watching her reaction carefully.
Esika shook her wet hair and thought.
About the luxurious dresses she had brought when she married into the family.
Originally, the room assigned to her was spacious and well-lit.
It was also a lavish room befitting the status of the Duchess of Klaus.
But the Grand Duchess began to torment Esika by finding fault with everything, and since Callian couldn’t act as a shield at all, Esika’s position could only become more precarious.
Finally, the Grand Duchess gave an ultimatum that if she was going to act so extravagantly and tarnish the family’s honor, she should get a divorce…
Esika voluntarily moved to this back room where no sunlight or people came.
She handed over all her dresses and accessories to the Grand Duchess, except for two outfits to be worn on formal occasions.
Yuri ruined one of the two outfits under the pretense of an accident, so Esika was left with just one set of clothes.
‘And this outfit is probably the Grand Duchess’s intention as well.’
For a noblewoman to wear a maid’s clothes is truly humiliating.
So Esika would have had to choose: either shiver in wet clothes until they dried, or feel the terrible humiliation of wearing maid’s clothes like a lowly servant.
“How is it, Sella?”
After tidying her appearance, Esika, wearing the maid’s uniform Sella had brought, asked her.
Sella slowly raised her head to look at Esika and was a bit surprised.
“My lady…”
Even an ordinary maid’s uniform couldn’t hide Esika’s uniqueness.
The noble dignity flowing from her posture was special, and though she hadn’t noticed before, she was certainly beautiful now.
‘Why on earth doesn’t the Duke cherish my lady?’
Such a thought suddenly occurred to her.
“It seems to fit your body perfectly, my lady, but for you to wear a maid’s uniform…”
“No, I’m asking if I look like a real maid.”
“That can’t be! You are the noble Duchess…”
Esika furrowed her delicate brows.
“I’m asking how I can look like a plausible maid.”
Sella, startled, answered.
“…Maids tie their hair up, so it might be better if you tied yours up.”
“I see. That’s the answer I wanted. I like practicality. I detest things that are just pretty on the outside but useless. I wore enough of those in my past life…”
Esika smiled with a wicked glint in her eyes as her lips moved.
“In that sense, I really like this outfit you brought and your advice to tie up my hair.”
“Th-thank you.”
Esika looked at her reflection in the mirror.
Life is full of unexpected turns; she couldn’t help but be pleased to have acquired clothes good for movement, like wings.
Sella, who had anticipated and dreaded seeing an angry and despairing duchess, stared blankly at Esika with a dumbfounded expression.
As she twisted her hair into a single braid, she was smiling as if truly enjoying herself.
And at this moment, there was a man heading towards the Klaus ducal residence.
Translation complete. 100% of original text translated.
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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