Deon and Liche’s eyes met, flustered.
Liche’s round eyes watched Deon’s upper body for a moment and then closed up.
“Thank goodness! You’re okay!”
Liche’s bright voice, full of joyful laughter, reached Deon through the window.
Deon scowled.
Then he pulled out a pen embedded in the wall and fiddled with the window sill.
‘What’s she doing?’
Liche sat on the floor with her hands propped up, looking at Deon beyond the window.
Soon, with a click and a clatter, the lock was undone.
Deon opened the window and stood before Liche.
“Hey.”
“……?”
“Who’s saying who’s okay?”
“Uh……?”
Why is he suddenly picking a fight?
Liche looked at Deon, confused.
Did I make a mistake?
He seemed to have cooled down, and she had confirmed that the black energy was completely purified, so she said he was okay.
‘Is he still in pain?’
Deon helped Liche to her feet, then knelt on one knee and offered his back.
“?”
“Get on.”
(This is a time separator.)
“The young master has escaped!”
Upon receiving the report from the knight guarding Deon’s room, Blake finished the document he was signing and left the study.
Thanks to his son, who caused trouble almost every day, there was never a dull moment.
‘He must grow up before sitting in the lord’s seat.’
Because of the family history of dying young, the dukes had often taken the lord’s seat at a young age.
Blake had become lord at 16.
Now he was 32, and Deon was 9.
If you think about it, Deon will inherit the family when he’s around 16, too.
‘About 3 years left.’
Lodwik felt that day would come sooner than others anticipated.
I don’t have much time left.
“It’s okay to have only one child, Deon.”
“I’m the one who’s sorry. I want to leave a family for Deon. Neither you nor I have much time left.”
His wife, who had said this, had already passed away, along with their second child, without a single cry.
The day Blake would join his departed family was soon.
Until then…….
“Is Liche in her room?”
As Blake walked down the hall, he asked Zed, who was following him.
Liche had awakened that morning.
If Deon had gone out, he must have gone to Liche.
Just in case, he had put guards on Liche’s door.
It should be fine.
“I saw her last when I went with you, my lord. I’ll ask Anna.”
“That’s fine. I’ll know if I go to her room.”
Blake walked briskly down the stairs.
It wasn’t far from the study on the third floor to Liche’s room on the second.
He arrived at the door quickly.
Before Blake could knock, the door burst open.
It was Anna, about to leave. Her face, upon seeing Blake, turned thoughtful.
“My lord, you’ve come?”
“Is Liche inside?”
“Yes. She’s in there.”
“Anna, what’s with your face? You look like someone who hasn’t been to the bathroom in days.”
Anna glanced at Zed and turned her head.
You’ll be shocked, too. That’s what her gesture meant.
Indeed. Eyes were faster than words.
“…….”
Blake, who had already witnessed the scene in the room, was frozen like a statue.
Jed stammered, then, like Anna, fell into deep thought.
“Is this a dream?”
What they were seeing was Deon, reading a picture book to Riche with a smile.
(This is a time separator.)
“I’ve been thinking, Miss is not a human.”
“……?”
Chomp chomp.
Sitting at the table, Riche chewed the bread that Anna had torn for her, looking at Jed sitting across from her.
Jed, meeting Riche’s gaze, suddenly clutched his chest.
“Ugh. You think I’ll fall for you looking at me so cutely?”
‘Why is he like that.’
“What are you talking about? Miss is eating breakfast, and you come and start a fight all of a sudden.”
Anna scolded Jed.
Jed protested to his younger sister, as if he was wronged.
“Anna, you saw it yesterday too! Smiling? Our young master? Who has lived only 9 years and always wears a dismissive expression as if he’s lived his entire life?! How cute must the Miss have been!”
Gulp.
Riche, who had swallowed the bread, said to Jed,
“That’s because he was teasing me.”
Yesterday. Upon waking up, Riche went to check on Deon’s room, worried, and was pleased to find that the purification was complete.
She was about to return to her room, but Deon complained that her legs were too short to get there in time, and carried Riche to her room.
And that was the cause.
The picture book that Anna had placed on the bedside table.
“Hey, you can’t read?”
“……I can?”
“Then read it. If you read it, I’ll believe you.”
Riche’s picture book reading started at Deon’s provocation.
It was a picture book filled with pictures of dogs.
Deon didn’t even react to her fluent reading, only muttering, ‘This dog resembles you. That dog resembles you.’
When Riche didn’t give in and countered with ‘This dog resembles Deon. That dog resembles Deon.’ Deon burst out laughing, revealing the truth of the incident.
‘Fighting seriously with a 9yearold…….’
Although Jed had 10 more years of life experience than Deon,
He felt a slight sense of selfabasement, but strangely, he didn’t want to lose to Deon.
“No. The young master smiled because the Miss is cute.”
Riche’s lips twitched and closed, responding to Jed’s stern denial.
She almost said that she was not cute.
‘No selfdeprecating comments.’
Riche reminded herself of the task given to her.
There were a few rules that Blake had set for Riche when she woke up.
“Forbidden words include ‘slave,’ ‘dirty.’ And also…….”
Blake, who was confused by the many prohibitions, picked up Riche.
“Forbidden to say ‘Duke.'”
“Then…….”
What should she call the Duke if she couldn’t call him Duke?
“I told you. Call him ‘Daddy.'”
“Yes……?”
“It’s hard the first time, but easy after that. So try it.”
“A, a…….”
Her mouth would not open.
But Blake was not easy to give in.
He finally heard the word ‘Daddy’ from the shy Riche, and satisfied, he left.
“Young master Deon won’t come today. He’s locked in his room again.”
Jed shared the news of Deon and stood up, saying he should go.
And then the peaceful day went by.
She had lunch and dinner with Blake, strolled around the duke’s estate with the maids, and in the early night, lay in bed looking at the picture book that Anna read.
“Miss, are you asleep?”
Riche’s eyes, flickering with sleepiness, closed completely.
Anna quietly got up, turned off the light in the room, closed the door, and left.
“…….”
A moment later.
Left alone, Riche lifted her eyelids.
Her silvery, sparkling eyes stared into space.
[Lertium.]There was a small but brilliantly shining light there.
[Now it’s just the two of us?]An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
