If I didn’t hear it wrong, mentioning the Empress was indeed correct, but it took some time for me to accept it right away.
“But doesn’t it take time to welcome the Empress? Prince Consort hasn’t ascended yet…”
Although there was a doubt about rushing into this, she wanted to hear again if it was really true that other families were preparing to make their daughters Empresses.
Becoming the Empress of the Empire? Naturally, it would be a position anyone wouldn’t refuse, but the problem was Etiénne herself. She had never thought about such a thing. However, if it wasn’t her.
“The moment anyone other than me becomes Empress…”
It would be Leharth’s wife. She didn’t like that.
“It hasn’t been long yet.”
It had not been long since they started dating. Even when doing nothing, moments when she thought of Leharth and burst into laughter just by locking eyes with him, and now she had to worry about something else.
It was distressing to think that another woman might become Leharth’s wife.
“Why does your face suddenly look like that?”
“What?”
The moment Etiénne raised her head, Sarah’s hand touched her cheek. Gently stroking and using her thumb to trace the eye area, the touch contained worries.
“Are you tired today? I should turn the carriage around. We should go home instead of the dressing room.”
“… Mother.”
Etiénne held the hand that enveloped her face. Was there anything that would change if she told her mother that I was dating Leharth?
But it seemed better than saying nothing at all.
“Why are you like this?”
“It’s saddening to think that Lord Leharth will marry another woman. Um… even just imagining it hurts my heart.”
“Oh…”
In the pitiful tone of Sarah, Etiénne leaned against her, bringing up a story she hadn’t been able to tell before.
“It’s too sad to worry about this when it hasn’t been long since I became Lord Leharth’s lover.”
“Oh, dear.”
Etiénne felt the hand she was holding twitch. She must have been surprised. It was a bit regrettable that she couldn’t properly confess and had to hurry and confess like this.
It would have been better if she could talk to Leharth at a better time later.
“I couldn’t say it because I was busy until now.”
The Emperor passed away, and the funeral was held…
While holding Sarah’s hand that had risen to her cheek, Etiénne slowly brought it down. Without letting go of her hand and still touching it, Etiénne said,
“I’m sorry.”
Now that it had come to this, she had to go and tell her father. Since she couldn’t instruct the coachman to turn the carriage around, another dressing room came into view.
Since she came all this way, she just wanted to stop by that dressing room and go straight home. She wanted to go home, tell her father, and have some time alone…
“Don’t worry.”
Etiénne looked at Sarah, who spoke in such a surprisingly loud voice. She couldn’t even ask why she was saying such things. Without asking, Sarah continued.
“I should have tailored it to fit you, not the dress.”
“The dress, you mean?”
Etiénne asked with a bewildered voice. Though her daughter stumbled through her words, Sarah paid no mind and nodded emphatically.
“I thought you were more fitting to be the Empress than anyone else because you go well with Prince Leharth. But not anymore.”
Going well with Leharth… Etiénne indeed openly displayed her closeness with him, and the trio of Fernand, Etiénne, and Leharth were often seen together.
So, Etiénne thought her mother had such thoughts, but she felt strength in the hand they were holding together. As Etiénne lowered her head and looked at their hands, Sarah firmly grasped Etiénne’s hand.
“It’s not about being suitable; it has to be you.”
“Mother…”
“This isn’t about being the Empress or Empress Consort. Since you’re the lover of Prince Leharth, it’s only natural for your man to be brought by you.”
“Oh, that…”
Etiénne was stumbling over her words frustratingly. Like any other noblewoman, her mother’s wish for her daughter to become the Empress had changed.
To bring Leharth.
“I, too, didn’t have an arranged marriage; I married for love. Your father liked me, and I didn’t want to give myself to anyone else. That’s why we got married.”
Now she even heard her mother’s love story without much surprise.
“Etiénne, listen well.”
Sarah held Etiénne’s chin with her other hand and lifted her head. As their eyes met involuntarily, Etiénne gazed into Sarah’s resolute eyes.
“Never let go of Leharth.”
“Mother…”
“Marry the man you love.”
“Just because I’m dating the Crown Prince doesn’t mean I have to marry him, right?”
Etiénne threw a joking remark intentionally because Sarah’s expression was too frightening.
“You won’t know what it’s like to live with the person you love until you experience it yourself. You won’t understand how precious it makes your time.”
“It makes your time precious?”
Those words resonated deeply.
“Your heart swells even without doing anything, and every day becomes fulfilling.”
Sarah’s expression softened, and a smile appeared.
“I’m living that kind of life.”
“Ah…”
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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