Today, more than ever, he resented not remembering his time with Adeline.
‘Whom should I blame?’
It was his own memory loss, yet Cassis continuously blamed himself.
As Adeline’s return got later, his sense of self-loathing intensified.
In the early morning breeze, Adeline entered the courtyard.
Cassis, watching from the office window, was conflicted.
The door opened.
“Why are you here?”
The Duke, leaning against the office wall with his arms crossed, stood up.
“You’re late.”
Instead of answering Adeline’s question, he spoke of something else.
“I got caught up talking with a friend I haven’t seen in a while.”
She couldn’t imagine the Duke’s misunderstanding.
She was just tired from trying to send Hailo back.
“……”
“Mel, why did you go alone? Without even answering when I called.”
Adeline answered nonchalantly, having spent a long time with that man.
Cassis’s brow furrowed at her seemingly indifferent behavior.
“Who is it?”
“I told you I was meeting a friend.”
Cassis’s mood twisted further at Adeline’s indifferent words.
“Does a friend come all the way here in the middle of the night to find you?”
Adeline hadn’t expected Hailo to come looking for her.
She was just as perplexed by his sudden arrival. She hesitated to respond.
That brief silence was enough to deepen the Duke’s misunderstanding.
“Was he your other fiancé before you fled?”
Cassis spoke irritably.
“What are you talking about……”
Before Adeline could fully respond, Cassis started reading the crumpled letter in the open drawer.
“You told me to wait, but seeing no contact from you, I find it hard to endure… Every night, worried and unable to sleep, you don’t know how I feel.”
Adeline quickly approached Cassis to snatch away the letter he was reading.
“Why are you reading someone else’s letter!”
Adeline tried to reach for the letter, but she couldn’t match the height of Cassis’s raised hand.
Cassis’s eyes flashed red in fury at Adeline’s panicked look.
“Do you wish to return to this affectionate fiancé?”
Briefly startled by Cassis’s knowledge of the letter’s content, Adeline’s irritation began to rise at his mocking tone.
“I told you, he’s just a friend.”
“Friends can be this deeply connected, I see.”
Adeline felt suffocated with frustration.
The Duke had sought her out, and before that tension eased, Hailo suddenly appeared. After a day of constant nerves, she had no energy left to deal with Cassis.
“It seems there’s a misunderstanding, but I’m tired. Let’s talk tomorrow.”
Adeline, unwilling to waste energy on a pointless argument, attempted to leave the office.
“Are you going to that man?”
Cassis bitingly remarked as Adeline tried to escape.
“What?”
“Isn’t he your fiancé?”
Adeline’s patience finally snapped under Cassis’s continuous provocations.
“What if he is my fiancé?”
Unable to tolerate Cassis’s words any longer, Adeline retorted irritably.
“If you like him so much, why don’t you go to your fiancé?”
“If I wanted to, I would. Mind your own business.”
Both highly sensitive, they were preoccupied with hurting each other with their words.
The ‘fiancé’ Cassis referred to was Hailo, but Adeline was increasingly annoyed by the word, reminding her of the Crown Prince.
Frustration boiled over.
Tired of the meaningless argument, Adeline angrily slammed the door and left the office.
After Adeline departed, Cassis irritably threw the letter aside.
‘I really am pathetic.’
Was it because he had no right to hold her back even if she chose to leave him?
He was like a frightened cat, bristling at the fear of being abandoned.
‘I shouldn’t have looked at that letter.’
Initially, it was Cassis who had read the letter without permission. Quickly regretting his anger, he decided to apologize to Adeline once he calmed down.
Feeling guilty for reading and seizing the letter, he thought he should at least put it back in its place.
Reaching for the letter that had slid into the furniture, Cassis bent down to pick it up.
His eyes caught something unusual.
“Why is there a hinge here?”
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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