For a moment, Cedric, frozen like a statue, held his breath.
Offering his body? First love? Engagement?
The words nailed into his ears are clearly pointing to one person.
The wife’s eyes, waiting for an answer, are persistent.
“Are you talking about Cordelia?”
At that moment, Lamain slightly wrinkled her eyes.
Her husband calls the name of his first love so affectionately.
Of course, Roberto accurately told her that Lamain was Cedric’s first love, but somehow, it feels different.
“Yes, that’s right. Cordelia Ralph Yeongae.”
Quickly answering, she tightly sealed her lips.
Cedric, who had been looking at Lamain with a vacant expression, blinked slowly.
Then, he struggled to restrain his lips that were trying to twitch.
“To whom did you hear that story?”
As he asked in a soft voice, the wife remained silent.
“It’s Lord Roberto.”
The trembling eyelids of Lamain revealed the correct answer.
‘Something felt strange.’
He recalled Roberto, who unexpectedly brought up the party story about Ralph when he entered the room.
“Yes, that’s right. I heard it from Roberto.”
Lamain admitted willingly.
Cedric, looking at Lamain with a head that seemed to know it, slowly opened his mouth.
“What part are you curious about?”
Facing the question that flew towards her, Lamain bit her tightly closed small lips.
The subtle eye, containing only herself.
Her husband looked at her with a gaze that seemed to say he would tell anything.
In an instant, he realized what he had done.
‘Well, she already heard everything. What was I trying to hear?’
He honestly admitted that he was jealous of a woman whose face he didn’t even know.
Even if he denied it, he kept feeling uneasy.
Should he pretend not to know when Cedric comes back? Or should he ask? He pondered several times.
Considering his personality and the current situation, he concluded that pretending not to know was better.
He thought it wasn’t such an important matter.
But today, waiting for the unusually late husband, his thoughts swallowed one another, and his mood sank.
Even though he tried not to show it.
He had been trying so hard.
But because of the persistently probing husband, his suppressed feelings burst.
Even if he asked, he hadn’t thought of questioning it so much.
‘I must be crazy.’
He heard that jealousy blinds people, but he never dreamed he would experience it himself.
‘What have I done?’
He wished he could just pass out for exactly three hours and wake up.
“Why aren’t you saying anything?”
Cedric tilted his head slightly.
Lamain swallowed her breath slowly and opened her mouth.
“It’s not that I’m particularly curious. I just want to know if what I heard is true or not. Anyway, if I attend the party, I’ll meet Cordelia Yeongae. I just don’t want to make a mistake. Isn’t that right?”
Even to me, it sounds like an excuse.
Feeling the heat spreading over her ears and cheeks, Lamain forcefully suppressed the sigh that was about to escape.
“Of course, you should know these things.”
Lamain pushed up the eyelids that she had slightly dropped.
And at the same time, she lifted her chin.
“If you’re not that curious, it’s okay not to go into detail.”
Although she already thought he wouldn’t believe her.
“Just tell me if what Roberto said is true or not.”
Even by doing this, she wanted to hide her inner feelings a bit.
Cedric, with a subtle smile on his lips as if he understood, nodded.
“It’s partly true and partly not.”
And he threw in an ambiguous remark.
“Huh? What does that mean?”
“To tell you the part that is true, it’s true that I saved Cordelia from the cliff.”
A gentle smile appeared on Cedric’s lips.
“And about the first love… well.”
As for the first love… he glanced away and murmured, then met her eyes again.
“When I was young, there were rumors that Cordelia’s first love was me, but I don’t know why such rumors circulated.”
“…”
“The person who denied that fact the most was Cordelia. Since it happened when we were very young, Cordelia might not have forgotten it by now.”
Roberto. That damn guy…
Lamain clenched her small fist tightly.
It was a story like a childhood joke in one word.
“Then, about the engagement?”
Lamain, subtly raising her eyebrows, asked.
“Cordelia Yeongae formally proposed the engagement. What happened to that?”
“Didn’t you say you weren’t particularly curious about the details?”
…Oh no.
Lamain, who briefly considered knocking her head on the bedhead and fainting, quickly bit down on her lips.
Cedric’s lips seemed to be suppressing laughter as if he understood.
Ugh. I don’t know now.
“Just tell me everything from the beginning to the end. I’m curious about everything.”
Anyway, she decided to hear everything without being embarrassed.
“Cordelia is actually a celibate. I was like that too.”
“…”
“One day, Cordelia proposed to me.”
Even without hearing it, she could guess what kind of story was coming.
“Since there was constant pressure at home about marriage, let’s get married and live freely since both of us don’t have any intention of getting married.”
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
