“Yes, Mother. It seems that the stench is due to what Ariana has vomited. I’ll take care of this place, so you go rest in the garden first.”
Honestly, the old lady did not want to get involved in this matter, so she was going to pretend not to know and follow her daughterinlaw’s intentions.
But Ariana did something unexpected.
“Sa… save me… please save me, grandmother… I ate rotten food… something… seems wrong…”
The sight of the little girl lying down and pleading for help was pitiful, and the maids standing behind the old lady sighed softly.
Since the old lady’s maids were all from noble families, she could no longer ignore the situation where appearance mattered to her.
No matter how tightlipped, rumors tend to leak.
If she ignored Ariana at this place and turned away, rumors would spread that the Duchess of the Bronthe family was abusing her daughterinlaw’s child.
The old lady was displeased with Ariana, whom Rachel had brought from her relationship with the Eastern Emperor, but her heart softened at the sight of the child begging for her life.
“Call the physician.”
Before the physician arrived, Rachel had the maids move Ariana to another room, and sent Luigi away with a glance.
Luigi quickly gathered the dishes to leave, but the old lady said,
“You stay here. We must find out what the child ate wrong to become like this.”
“Mother, she must have choked from eating too quickly. Ariana has a bit of gluttony, so she tends to swallow without chewing properly.”
Rachel tried to cover for Luigi, but the old lady was adamant. There were many watching eyes.
“Didn’t you smell that when you entered the room? Don’t add any more words.”
Soon after, the physician arrived and examined Ariana.
“What did you eat?” asked the physician, to which Ariana answered in a weak voice.
“It was all mixed together… I don’t know what I ate. Just… the smell was horrible… it was hard to eat because of the strange smell.”
“You shouldn’t have eaten it then, Miss.”
“But… if I don’t eat it all, Luigi gets angry…”
As Ariana spoke, carefully glancing around, everyone’s expressions in the room shifted rapidly.
Rachel glared at Ariana with eyes mixed with irritation and anger, Luigi’s face turned pale, and the old lady, maids, and physician were in shock.
“The maid… is angry with the young lady?”
Ariana did not answer the doctor’s question.
She simply cowered as if afraid.
Only then did the doctor realize that Ariana was not a noble young lady, but a commoner.
“You shouldn’t be wearing such thin clothes in this cold weather, miss.”
He described it as thin clothes since he could see them, but to be precise, they were wornout clothes that even the maids would not wear.
Rachel’s face turned red, having not thought to change Ariana’s clothes.
The doctor’s expression after the examination was not good.
“It seems you have eaten a lot of spoiled food and are suffering from symptoms of malnutrition. If the Duke’s finances are not in difficulty, it would be good to provide food made from fresh ingredients.”
It was a rude comment, but no one reproached the doctor.
“You are misunderstanding. We always give good food to this child. It’s just that today, the kitchen maid made a mistake, and the food spoiled.”
Rachel spoke kindly, but the doctor did not seem to believe her.
The doctor prescribed medicine to cure Ariana’s food poisoning and gave her some sleeping pills after hearing that she could not sleep, then left the room.
A heavy silence fell over Ariana’s room.
Louis paced restlessly, glancing at Rachel and the old lady, while Rachel wondered how to appease the old lady’s mood.
Ariana, lying in a ‘bed’ for the first time since coming to the mansion, wrapped in a warm quilt, quietly observed them, planning her next move.
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Cyrus and Isaac were watching the whole event from outside the window.
“It’s pitiful. She finally collapsed.”
At Isaac’s muttered words, Cyrus smiled coldly.
Cyrus looked intently into Ariana’s cold blue eyes.
Before eating the spoiled food, he had seen Ariana approach Louis and do something.
Ariana, clutching her stomach and rolling on the floor, had not lost the menacing force in her eyes, and her bright blue pupils had not wavered even when Rachel scolded the maid.
“Pitiful? Well, I think the other side might become more pitiful.”
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In the heavy silence, Ariana was waiting for someone to speak.
If the old lady’s character was as Ariana knew it, the old lady would surely be the first to inquire about Ariana’s situation.
If the old lady had come alone, she would probably have ignored it, but she had brought six maids with her.
The old lady would not want to appear as a ‘cold grandmother’ to the child her daughterinlaw had brought.
“Does this child always stay in that room?”
As Ariana had anticipated, the old lady broke the silence.
The old lady, who lived in another mansion, did not know Ariana’s exact situation.
Rachel quickly answered.
“Of course not, mother. I wouldn’t let my daughter stay in such a place. It’s just that she stole and lied, so I locked her in that room for a while to reflect.”
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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