“Who are you?”
“Etienne Clare.”
“…….”
Fernando furrowed his eyebrows when Etienne told him her name in response to his question.
“Why are you here?”
“Well…….”
She couldn’t tell him she came knowing he was in danger. In her previous life, she had also come by chance and found him, so she was going to say the same this time.
However, it seemed that her presence wasn’t the main concern for Fernando, as he quickly changed his question.
“Did you pull me out?”
Watching Fernando slowly sit up, propping himself on the ground, Etienne pondered his question.
She understood why he asked who she was, but his next question seemed a bit odd. Why would he ask her in such a hesitant tone if she had pulled him out?
“Wasn’t it an accident that you fell into the lake?”
Previously, she had heard it was an accident. But the way Fernando phrased it now felt a bit off.
“It was an accident.”
‘What?’
If it was an accident, then he should be grateful that she saved him. Feeling almost scolded, Etienne frowned.
“I went to look at the lake and there was a person floating.”
Etienne said to Fernando in a measured tone, trying to keep her excitement in check, as if to say, ‘Could you have calmly observed something strange floating in the lake?’
“So I pulled you out so you wouldn’t die. What am I supposed to hear now?”
Looking at him, she expected an answer, and Fernando’s initially sharp demeanor seemed to be softening.
He didn’t say thank you, but she didn’t want to keep nagging someone who had just been rescued from the water, so she let it be.
“Why did you go into the lake in the first place?”
Instead of answering Etienne’s question, Fernando looked down at himself. He was soaked and dirtied with mud and grass but seemed rather indifferent to it.
Instead, he lifted a hand that Etienne hadn’t noticed before. The fist he had been clenching, as if determined not to let go of something since falling into the water, had deep nail marks on the palm.
“This fell in.”
Etienne leaned closer to see what Fernando was holding.
“…Paper?”
The water-soaked paper was so darkened she first thought it was a stone. But upon closer inspection, it was clear that it was a piece of paper that had been folded and bunched several times.
“What’s this?”
“This is what I had to protect today.”
Fernando began to unfold the paper. Although it was waterlogged, fortunately, it didn’t tear and unfolded in sequence. Etienne was curious about what was so important that Fernando had to protect it even at the risk of his life.
His hands, dirtied with mud, made the paper a bit dirty, but it didn’t hinder reading the text. At first, she thought it was written text.
But then Etienne realized that the water-blurred script was more akin to a drawing, and soon she recognized it as a familiar emblem.
“It’s the emblem of the Schupraher family.”
“Protecting this was my task today.”
Etienne was puzzled why protecting an emblem drawn on paper was considered a task. The paper wasn’t heavy and would have been easy to carry on one’s person.
“Why?”
“So I don’t forget who I am….”
Fernando answered readily. Etienne looked at the paper in the sunlight, wondering if it might contain other significant information or a map to the family’s treasure.
But no matter how much she examined it, there was nothing. It was merely a drawing of the family’s emblem. Lowering her hand holding the paper, Etienne asked Fernando.
“Is it to constantly remind you that you’re a descendant of the Schupraher family?”
Fernando nodded in response. Despite his answer, Etienne was still full of incomprehension.
Assigning such a task to remember one’s lineage? Fernando was already so similar to the Duke that anyone could tell they were father and son just by being together.
“Of course, inheriting his mother’s beautiful appearance made Fernando even more handsome, but it was obvious that he was the Duke’s son just by looking at him. But why go to such lengths to remember that?”
“I just don’t understand.”
Etienne shook her head, expressing her honest confusion, and Fernando looked around before speaking.
“My father’s knight threw this paper into the lake.”
“And you rushed in after it to retrieve it?”
“Yes. The emblem represents our family, so it meant to protect it until the end…”
Etienne’s expression became even more astonished at Fernando’s explanation. Jumping into a lake for a piece of paper, and considering it as protecting the family seemed excessive.
“It could have killed you, though. That’s dangerous.”
“I had no choice. It’s always been like this.”
Fernando seemed resigned, not at all indignant. A sense of resignation was evident.
“What do you mean it’s always been like this? Are all your tasks this difficult and dangerous?”
Etienne continued to question, intrigued by this side of Fernando she hadn’t known.
“To become the successor of the Schupraher family, I have to endure this much, as told by the Duke.”
“The Duke?”
Fernando’s silence confirmed it. Etienne was even more dumbfounded.
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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