I wanted to endure longer, but a cough spurted out like crazy, preventing me. My waist naturally bent.
I had no choice but to let go of his hand, and I pounded my chest wildly.
The cough lingered, leaving a foreign sensation only after it had erupted enough to irritate my throat.
I kept thumping my chest, glaring at Levanfell.
Even though we had both strangled each other, he looked fine. Looking down at me with cold eyes, appearing completely normal.
Seeing his gaze, I belatedly became furious.
“You bastard. Are you insane?”
I couldn’t help but grab his collar.
However, Levanfell, in turn, grabbed my wrists tightly and asked,
“Answer my question first. Who are you?”
“You rotten brat, that’s what I should be asking. Who are you? My friend Levanfell is not a violent person like you.”
“!”
“No, starting tomorrow, you’re not even my friend. How can you strangle someone’s throat out of the blue?”
I had just died from poison and regressed, and it was only the third day. If I died from being strangled in just three days, it would be too unfair, right?
Oh, my throat hurts so much. If I look in the mirror, there will be red handprints on my neck.
Handprints would be better. I may even have a bruise shaped like a hand.
How long had he been ranting?
As my eyes became hot and tears were about to well, Levanfell released my wrists as if to shake me off and asked,
“Where did you hear about my family?”
I shouted in anger.
“From your mouth!”
But after yelling, I belatedly felt my heart sink.
Thinking about it, the time when Levanfell had told me about his family was… unclear.
He did talk about his family in his past life, but I didn’t know when that was.
It seemed like it was after he had drunkenly misspoken.
Levanfell’s eyes narrowed. Damn it. Apparently, he had not yet told me in this life. That’s why he was suspicious.
‘What do I do?’
My heart was beating fast, pounding like a drum in my head, urging me to quickly resolve the situation.
Using my wits, I halfhonestly confessed.
“You said it when you were drunk.”
“When? I don’t remember.”
“You wouldn’t remember because you were drunk! When I said my sister liked you, you talked about your family! Saying you and my sister wouldn’t fit!”
Except for the fact that it happened before the regression, it was true.
When drunk, I first brought up Linhua, and he reluctantly refused, using his family as an excuse.
Levanfell, unaware of Linhua’s feelings at this point, looked at me bewildered and soon became furious.
“Linhua likes me?”
As I intended, the topic seemed to have shifted from his family to my sister.
I was relieved inwardly, but I purposely exaggerated my grinding teeth.
“She does. But you will never be with my sister. I have no intention of becoming family with a bastard who strangles people’s throats when angry.”
“!”
Levanfell looked surprised for a moment but soon smiled bitterly.
“You’re right. I’m unworthy of your sister.”
He looked unexpectedly pitiful.
But I wasn’t swayed by that and turned my head away, snorting in mock laughter, arms crossed.
Having firmly shown my anger, Levanfell belatedly apologized.
“Sorry. I was suspicious because I knew the mother’s secret you never told anyone.”
“What is there to doubt? Who else would hear this from me?”
“There was a complicated matter. In fact, an assassin even came.”
“Assassin? An assassin came? To whom? To you?”
“Um. Well. Just that.”
After saying a tremendous word that was hard to pass over, Seonan nonchalantly avoided the subject and stood up, making a shy proposal.
“Anyway, I’ll help you find a hideout since I’m sorry. But why suddenly need a hideout?”
“I have some business too.”
Just like before, when he avoided the subject, Seonan raised an eyebrow.
But perhaps he thought that he couldn’t ask about my situation without telling his own, instead of asking more, he shrugged his shoulders and opened the door.
“Follow me. If you have money, it’s easy to get.”
(This is a time separator.)
Seonan, who confidently left the house, took me to his regular gambling den, Cheongeum Suhwa.
I never thought he would take me to a gambling den, so I was stunned and stood at the entrance of the gambling den and asked.
“Do you have to win a hideout by gambling? Do we have to go in here?”
Seonan shook his head and lowered his voice.
“I’m not here to gamble. This gambling den is our maternal home.”
“Re, really?”
I didn’t know that even before the regression? I knew he frequented the gambling den, but I thought it was just a hobby.
“What did you think I came here for?”
“A gambler.”
With a scrunched face, Seonan pinched my arm once and pulled it to follow.
‘Ah… If I get caught, my parents will try to kill me.’
I stared blankly at the door, which had red curtains stretched to the floor, and closed my eyes tightly as I entered.
Cheongeum Suhwa was resplendent, befitting its reputation as the most glamorous gambling den in Hwaeum, the capital.
The floor, pillars, and ceiling were all golden, and there were huge flowers made of transparent fabric scattered everywhere.
People were gambling or drinking in private rooms surrounded by these huge flowers, and musicians were playing songs on the stage in the center.
But it was when I was frozen in an unfamiliar space.
“Huh?”
Seonan saw someone passing by and hardened his face, then tapped my arm and quickly said.
“You, stay here for a moment. If the staff come, tell them you are waiting under my name.”
“You?”
“Just a moment.”
With that, Seonan suddenly ran off somewhere.
I followed him to this unfamiliar gambling den just by watching that one thing. I was left alone in this strange space in an instant.
Standing confused, passersby smirked at me and laughed among themselves.
In this glamorous gambling den, my appearance, awkward in my modest western clothing, seemed ridiculous.
Damn it. I came to find a hideout, but I don’t know what’s happening.
I cursed to myself but obediently stood waiting for him as Seonan instructed.
When a staff member approached to guide me to a room, I refused, mentioning Seonan’s name.
It was about an hour. My legs were slowly starting to hurt, and I was getting angry and wanting to leave.
From not far away, I heard the voice I feared most.
“Could it be…… Master?”
“!”
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
_____
Please help me, I want to bring you the best possible things.
If you find any chapter or novel with poor translation and editing quality, let me know by commenting directly under that novel or chapter. I will retranslate it as soon as possible.
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
