Without further delay, I tossed the ruby necklace onto her skirt.
“See? It’s not a chain to cut your horns, but a necklace. And a very expensive one with a huge ruby in it.”
Mina briefly stopped crying and looked in astonishment at the ruby necklace on her skirt, then at me.
“Why would you give something so valuable to me…”
“It’s a payment.”
“A payment?”
“Yes, a payment for becoming one of my people.”
I nodded and continued.
“Now do you believe me?”
Mina’s lips, which had been rolling her eyes in bewilderment, slowly parted.
“So, you really mean to forgive me if I become one of your people…?”
“That’s right. If you follow my orders, more of these will keep coming your way.”
“…”
“How about it? Are you willing to be one of my people now?”
After a moment of dazed expression, Mina slowly nodded.
“Yes…”
Though she still looked intimidated, her face was a bit more relaxed compared to when she first brought the champagne.
‘Maybe it’s time to start asking the questions I’m curious about.’
I took out a sapphire necklace from the jewelry box and waved it in front of Mina.
“Alright. Now you’ll have to answer my questions earnestly. Answer well, and this one will be yours.”
Mina’s eyes shone subtly different from before.
Now that her extreme tension had eased a bit, the jewels finally seemed to look like jewels to her.
“Yes! I’ll answer honestly, Baroness!”
“Good, first question. How many half-demon servants are there in the Twins’ estate?”
“At least over a thousand. Including the townhouses in the capital… maybe a little under two thousand.”
“That many?”
“Most of the half-demons who have come out to the human world are currently working as servants in the Twins’ estate.”
“So all the half-demons are gathered in this family?”
“Yes.”
That meant the half-demons who set fire to the tower were all servants of the Twins’ family?
Rebecca was an icon of obsession and malevolence.
It was obvious that she used her servants as scapegoats for her outbursts.
Judging from her history of cutting off horns, it seemed her harassment was close to abuse.
‘Now I understand why the half-demons resented her so much.’
A sad premonition came to me.
Even without sacrificing half-demons on a black magic altar, it seemed like there were more than enough half-demons out to take my life.
After heaving a deep sigh, I leaned a bit more towards Mina and asked her in a lowered voice.
“Were there any among them who said they would kill me if I got a divorce and left the Twins’ Ducal House?”
“Huh?!”
“Well, you know. Sedric and I aren’t exactly close… and I might be a duchess now, but that could change after the divorce.”
Hearing my words, Mina’s eyes darted around as if she had been caught doing something wrong.
‘So, it’s not entirely unlikely.’
I intensified my gaze and pressured Mina.
“I won’t ask who they are, just tell me roughly how many there might be.”
“Baroness, that’s…”
“A hundred? Two hundred? You don’t want this, do you?”
As I shook the sapphire necklace, Mina bowed her head deeply.
“Tru…truthfully, there are too many to count. It seems like almost all the servants said something to that effect…”
“All of the over a thousand servants?”
Damn it, I knew it.
“The Duke and I discussed divorce recently, so some must be making real plans now, right?”
“…”
Her silence was an affirmation.
‘Rebecca was a prisoner directly under Sedric’s control when she was locked in the tower, so nobody could touch her.’
That ironically kept Rebecca alive till the end of the novel.
But if I divorce now and leave this ducal house?
Exactly.
I would be a target for the half-demons the moment I divorce and leave this house.
‘But if I don’t divorce and resist, I’ll be going against Sedric’s wishes…’
Massaging my throbbing temples, I tossed the sapphire necklace to Mina.
“Eek! Thank you, Baroness!”
“…You had plans too?”
“Huh?”
“The line seems long; you should have prepared in advance.”
As I chuckled half-heartedly, Mina waved her hands.
“I was approached, but I never made any plans! Hehe, actually, I specialize in poison-making. I can make a lot of undetectable poisons in the human world!”
“Oh, really?”
“Yes, I was asked to make poison but… Oh! No, no! I really didn’t want to!”
“Really?”
“Yes, truly!”
“If you keep lying, I’ll take that necklace back.”
“…”
“Did you plan to kill me?”
Watching me, Mina hesitated and then gave a shy smile.
“…A little?”
That evening, in the bathhouse of the ducal mansion.
The ivory marble floor spread wide to the ceiling adorned with a lavish chandelier.
The room was filled with fragrant steam from the massive bathtub.
The servants stood in line, bent at the waist, waiting for their master.
After some time, the door opened, and the master of this grand house appeared.
The Twins’ Ducal House, the only noble family recognized by both the human and demonic realms.
And its master, Sedric Twins.
The servants each looked at him with eyes full of respect and admiration.
Sedric, who had raised the small kingdom of Luman to the status of the Western Empire just six years ago, had made the half-demons, once invisible in the human world for centuries, suddenly recognized.
But their love for Sedric wasn’t just because of his remarkable abilities.
Their master was beautiful.
A man as handsome as Sedric was rare in both the human and demonic realms.
This made the servants of the Twins’ household proud.
Just wearing a navy silk robe, the angular drop of his shoulders and the solid muscle lines of his body were in no way concealed.
Strangely, this complemented his beautiful face, black hair, and arch-shaped eyebrows, which gave off a leisurely and somewhat arrogant impression, adding a sensual charm.
To them, Sedric seemed like a masterpiece of a god, reigning over everything in this world.
It was then, when everyone couldn’t take their eyes off Sedric.
“You may leave now.”
Their admiration was ironically broken by Sedric’s attractive low voice.
The servants, still filled with longing, left the room.
Left alone, Sedric slowly untied the knot of his robe.
Soon, his broad, appropriately muscled back and long legs were exposed.
Submerging himself in the bathtub, Sedric felt the day’s tension gradually melting away.
Especially today, as it was the day to check the protective barrier of ‘Lilian’s Heart,’ he felt extremely tired.
Leaning back in the tub, with his wet hair brushed back.
Sedric’s mind was again brushed by ‘that name’ that had been bothering him for the past few days.
“Rebecca.”
Uttering the name softly, Sedric slowly opened his eyes, revealing his cool and mysterious blue eyes.
The day they talked about divorce.
Normally, Rebecca would have sought him out from early dawn.
Clinging to him, crying that they can’t divorce, creating a ruckus questioning if there was another woman, begging for forgiveness, and eventually threatening to harm herself.
And no matter how the turmoil started…
‘It always ended with her begging to be embraced by tonight.’
To her, what mattered was only the ‘marking’ for one night.
‘Yes, that was the kind of woman Rebecca was.’
Thinking in the past tense, Sedric’s eyebrows gradually distorted.
‘But why…’
Rebecca, who had always been like that…
Had not sought him out since that day.
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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