To You Whom I Don’t Love That Much (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 021
21.
What, what, what did you say? This crazy man.
Blood rushed to her face in an instant. She had thought him to be a straightforward man, but who would have known he could be this slick? Ro clicked her tongue. Was he born this way, or had time changed him?
The Cardier Montrosa that Ro originally knew had always been rather plain when confessing love. “I like you. I love you.” He used only clear and direct expressions—like a sunflower following the sun, or a blindly devoted puppy trailing its master. Had she never known the earlier Cardier, she wouldn’t have felt this sense of dissonance at all.
Recently, Rosetta sometimes felt as though she were facing a monstrous creature from a tranquil abyss whenever she saw Cardier. Like someone unknowingly stepping into a monster’s nest, only to realize the beast had woken and was secretly watching her while pretending otherwise—that was the chilling sensation she got. Especially moments like this…
“…….”
“…….”
Whenever she happened to look up and meet his deep blue gaze, fixed intently on her, the feeling intensified even more.
Cardier gently reached out and wrapped his arm around her waist as she instinctively stepped back in fluster. His hold wasn’t improper by etiquette, yet firm enough to make it clear he wouldn’t let her escape. Rosetta felt like a herring impaled on a fisherman’s metal skewer.
Whether it was a reflexive action or not, Cardier slightly furrowed his brow and soon released her. Instead, he draped a shawl over her bare shoulders and said,
“This way, if you’re taking the carriage.”
“…….”
“Watch your step.”
The words came the moment the lady-in-waiting nearly stumbled, stepping on the hem of her dress. The Duchess’s face lit up with deep satisfaction at such attentive and considerate words. To be honest, Cardier was undoubtedly the most precious and rarest target among all the eligible bachelors in the social season—one any noble maiden in the empire, including her own daughter, would dream of capturing.
The three imperial dukes regularly hosted social events for the purpose of exchange, and naturally, Lea and Cardier had grown up meeting each other at least twice a year since childhood. Secretly, the Duchess had always hoped her daughter would live a peaceful life as the mistress of a suitable noble house, rather than becoming the crown princess—so more than anyone, she had wished for the two to grow close.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
A very interesting story. I’m delighted.