Trapped in the Mad Duke's Snare (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 6
What kind of relationship do we have?
“Hn.”
The hand brushing back her hair fully revealed Adeline’s reddened ear.
At the hot breath, Adeline’s shoulders shrank even further.
“Yes? Th-that is……”
“We’re in a respectful relationship, you said. Hurry and tell me……”
Adeline’s dazed mind gradually returned.
The man pressed close to her was no longer the threatening duke. He was merely a man who had lost his memories.
Adeline, unsure of what relationship to claim, decided to shift the responsibility appropriately.
“You remember it.”
‘Our relationship? Heirs of rival houses, perhaps.’
Adeline muttered her true thoughts inwardly, unable to voice them.
On the surface, she crafted a sorrowful face like a tragic heroine.
“If I have to tell you directly that you forgot me…… that would be too pitiful.”
‘How can I say I’m someone who almost died by your hand.’
Adeline’s inner thoughts and spoken words did not match.
The lingering low voice and downcast eyes created a pitiful atmosphere. Exactly as Adeline intended.
Even she thought it was too shameless, but what could she do? This was all to survive.
‘Still, I saved your life.’
If not for the reader comment Adeline saw in her previous life, the duke would have died alone here in vain.
Of course, Adeline saved the duke to survive herself. But whatever the reason, the duke lived because of it.
However, unaware of Adeline’s dark intentions, confusion filled the duke’s eyes.
As if the situation was not flowing as desired.
“Th-that…… still, telling me something would help the memories return.”
At Adeline’s words, the duke fully revealed his confusion.
“Do you need words? You and I are in an inseparable relationship.”
It was sincere.
Before losing memories, between hostile houses. After losing memories, deeply entangled by saving each other’s lives.
Moreover.
‘I’d be better off if those memories never return?’
But she couldn’t say that directly, so Adeline only smiled vaguely with ambiguous words.
In truth, if this war of nerves prolonged, she would be the one in trouble.
Thus, she hurriedly changed the topic.
“Oh my, there’s blood on your shoulder…….”
Was it because the unhealed wound had been in water too long?
Crimson blood slowly spread from the shoulder down the chest and past the abs.
As it flowed down, diluted by water into pink, it further emphasized the scars etched on the abs.
‘This looks like a burn mark…….’
Adeline unknowingly placed her hand on the fresh wound on the sculpted abs.
She had thought his life wasn’t smooth, seeing the threats he faced…….
‘You’ve lived a life as rugged as mine.’
Whether her life about to end by her fiancé’s hand, or the duke nearly dying from poison arrows, it was the same.
A surge of pity or some unknown emotion arose.
With her hand moving little by little. At Adeline’s unrelenting touch, the duke’s face only grew redder.
Unable to bear the embarrassment any longer, he cleared his throat.
“Ahem…….”
At the sound, Adeline’s gaze, which had been endlessly lowering, turned upward again.
“Ah!”
Regaining her senses, Adeline escaped from the duke’s arms as if fleeing.
“We need to stop the bleeding. H-hurry and wash up and come out!”
Adeline shouted into the air and vanished from the bathroom in an instant.
The bathroom she had bolted from was enveloped in silence, as if nothing had happened.
“Sigh…… that woman.”
The duke tossed aside the large towel wrapped around his head as if it were stifling and sighed.
What kind of relationship made her stare at his naked body so brazenly?
The duke looked at his body, not wearing a single thread.
The places the woman’s hands had touched moments ago felt burning hot.
Feeling a stiffness somewhere, the duke shook his head.
At this rate, he felt he would be endlessly swept up by that small woman.
To cool the rising heat, he poured cold water over his head.
[This is the timeline separator]The duke barely finished showering, but his right arm couldn’t move freely due to the shoulder injury.
There was a limit to wiping his body dry alone in detail.
He didn’t know how familiar Adeline was with his naked body. For him without memories, he couldn’t step out of the bathroom still wet.
Thus, he had struggled to put on pants and come out.
Drip, drip, water droplets he couldn’t wipe fell from his body, leaving footprints.
Worried the carpet would get soaked, Adeline grabbed a towel and rushed to him.
“You should have said you needed wiping. Your pants are all wet.”
Adeline raised the towel and shook the water from the duke’s hair.
His build was so large that Adeline had to stand on tiptoes to barely reach his head.
“Here. Change out of those wet pants.”
Thinking the water was mostly gone, Adeline’s gaze lowered to the pants.
“No need! It’s cool, so I wore them like this on purpose, leave it!……”
Fearing the woman might naturally take off his pants too, the duke waved his hands.
At his flustered appearance, a mischievous smile spread on Adeline’s lips.
“I wasn’t planning to change your pants anyway?”
Adeline pulled the blankly staring duke and walked to the sofa.
“Come sit here. I’ll rebandage it.”
Adeline patted the seat next to her on the sofa and gestured.
Watching Adeline skillfully wrap the bandage with now familiar hands, the duke casually asked.
“Are you really not going to tell me?”
“You have to remember on your own.”
Does it bother you that much?
The duke seemed to continue guessing their relationship.
“I don’t remember anything at all, were we that special?”
To the duke’s question, Adeline answered as if it were obvious.
Her conscience no longer pricked, making her even more brazen.
“Of course. We’re quite deep.”
Adeline added words, knowing full well the duke would misunderstand.
“We’ve known each other well for a long time.”
The bad blood between houses entangled even before Adeline and Cassis were born.
“We watched each other. We have deep feelings to be together like this.”
From the moment she knew she was the young lady of House Credion, destined to die by her fiancé’s hand, Adeline watched the duke.
Believing he would one day be her savior.
“It must be fate. We’re too important to each other.”
A fate to save each other.
And.
‘I already saved you.’
“I really only have you, Mel.”
Adeline deliberately emphasized, hoping her sincerity would reach.
‘So you have to save me too, don’t forget.’
Adeline didn’t lie, but she didn’t state clear facts either.
She only spoke vaguely and ambiguously, yet the man’s misunderstanding deepened further.
“There. All done.”
Adeline, having perfectly wrapped the bandage, picked up the prepared shirt.
“I’ll do that myself.”
If he asked for help changing clothes twice, he’d have to take another cold bath.
Snatching the shirt from Adeline’s hand and putting it on, the duke was puzzled.
“Why is the clothes like this…….”
The clothes Adeline prepared were far too small.
In a hurry, she had pulled out an old shirt from the closet in the villa that had been stored away.
‘Why doesn’t it fit like that?’
Since it was a villa belonging to the Torpeo duke family, she thought it would naturally be the duke’s clothes.
But it seemed the duke hadn’t visited this villa in much longer than Adeline thought.
How much had he grown? She brought clothes that seemed roughly fitting, but the duke’s build was far more robust.
“That…… the clothes shrank from washing.”
She said it was their original home, but no clothes fitting the duke? Did that make sense?
Adeline quickly came up with an excuse.
“Ahaha, tomorrow let’s go buy new clothes!”
“You did the laundry yourself? How does clothes shrink this much…….”
He needed to divert the duke’s gaze as he lowered his head to closely examine the shirt.
Worried the lie might be exposed if looked at closely, Adeline hurriedly grabbed both his cheeks to make him look at her.
“It’s not ‘you,’ it’s ‘Del’! How long will you keep hurting me?”
“Uh. Right. Del…….”
Suddenly having his face grabbed, the duke blinked. Adeline then made a deeply hurt expression.
“Let’s sleep for today.”
At Adeline’s sulky face, the duke nodded obediently.
“Alright…… Del.”
Adeline took the shirt. Then she laid the duke straight on the bed and left the bedroom.
That was close.
Adeline, out of the bedroom, looked at the crumpled shirt in her hand.
‘Good acting.’
Adeline was proud of herself.
She hid all the remaining clothes in the closet in an inconspicuous place.
[This is the timeline separator]Adeline was pacing the hallway around the bedroom.
In a rush to avoid the spot, she left him in the bedroom, but an unforeseen problem arose.
The house had been empty for so long that only one bedroom was tidied.
This sweltering summer.
The only bedroom with cool air circulating was the one the duke was in now.
While staying with the duke, Adeline slept lightly on the edge of the bed or used the sofa as a bed.
And today was the same. Unable to bear the heat, Adeline quietly opened the door to check inside the bedroom.
As befitting a duke, he had no bad sleeping habits, so the bedroom was always quiet.
As she quietly stepped inside, a small groan was heard.
“Mel, still not asleep?”
No answer from the duke to her question.
As she got closer, the groan became clearer, and Adeline rushed to him urgently.
“Hah…….”
Up close, the duke was covered in cold sweat.
“Where does it hurt? Snap out of it.”
Adeline tried to shake the duke awake, his brow painfully furrowed.
“Why so much sweat again…… I’ll get a wet towel.”
She was about to run to wipe Adeline, soaked in sweat again.
As she turned back, her skirt hem was grabbed.
“No……. Don’t go. Please……. Please don’t go.”
Unable to leave at the pleading voice barely uttered, Adeline sat back on the edge of the bed where the duke lay.
“I’m not going anywhere.”
In a hurry, she was about to wipe the sweat on his forehead with her hand.
“Don’t leave me alone. Mother.”
The duke, speaking again, tightly gripped even the wrist of Adeline wiping his sweat.
Held by him, Adeline couldn’t move.
In the end, Adeline gave up and lay obliquely beside the duke.
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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Chapter Comments (71)
“Understood. Even though I’ve lost my memory, I’m truly lucky to have you.”
+“Me too. I’m really lucky to have you.”
Bwahahahaha 😂 i don’t expect this to be a comedy!!!
Hahaha, they’re really funny, each one of them is drowning in misunderstanding.
I wonder how the Duke will respond once he has his memory back.
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The Duke stormed out of the study.
Hmm, I feel that the Duke hasn’t lost his memory and that he’s trying to uncover it.
Faced with the sudden risk of being mislabeled a married woman, Adeline hastily
You just had a golden opportunity to turn this misunderstanding around and save your future self some pain and embarrassment…why claim to be lovers?
Counting the falling raindrops, Adeline soon drifted off to sleep.
This female lead is creating all sorts of issues for herself. Behavior like this makes forfeit any right to complain regarding future complications.
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Blairwoods
“He needed to divert the duke’s gaze as he lowered his head to closely examine the shirt.”
u meant “she” there
Miioo
Poor Duke, what happened to him? I hope he gets better soon.