“You recognize this ring. It was the Duchess’s, and Kyan gave it to me.”
Passing down a mother’s heirloom usually signified a promise of eternal fidelity and love.
“Tell your lady that Kyan already had someone else he promised to marry. Whether he is married or not, your lady will never step foot in Kyan’s bedroom.”
“It’s astonishing. And you, an unmarried maiden, have the audacity to frequent a man’s bedroom?”
“And you are ridiculous. What does a mere signed contract matter? It’s your mistress who is lacking, unable to win even a piece of his heart.”
“…”
Antoinette left the hallway, rubbing her waist and neck as if she had had a strenuous night.
Hanna was left speechless, outraged and incredulous.
A husband bringing another woman into his bedroom just three days after his wife’s arrival!
“What do we do? Poor our lady.”
It was a total mess.
Hanna’s thoughts leaned towards escaping Lowen with Clodel.
Clodel’s bedroom was quiet.
“My Lord.”
As dawn broke, casting light into the hallway, Kyan, who had been standing there all night, turned at the butler’s voice.
“Why are you doing this?”
“I don’t know.”
“Are you regretting it?”
Regret?
It was a word absent from Kyan’s vocabulary, as everything he did was right.
“No.”
“Don’t be stubborn. The best time to correct any mistake is now.”
The aged butler sighed briefly.
“How will you handle the heir’s education if you treat the Lady this way? The discipline in the castle is a mess.”
The butler was right.
If Clodel were to have a child while being so disregarded, the existence of that child would be precarious. A child raised amidst such contempt and torment could hardly become a successor admired by all, like Kyan.
“The noise is inevitable, given that nobody in the Temnes family ever imagined a bride from the Bermontes would enter. But, my Lord, you must bolster the Lady’s spirit. Only then will they accept her.”
The butler’s words, always sound and reasonable, felt particularly harsh today.
“Please, come inside.”
When the butler suggested, Kyan shook his head.
“No, I’ll leave it for today.”
After three days of marriage celebrations, Kyan had a backlog of duties to attend to. Moreover, he hadn’t yet figured out what to say to Clodel or how to act around her.
Approaching her in this state seemed to only complicate things further, so he decided to step back.
“Will you rest?”
“No. I’m heading to the office.”
“I’ll accompany you.”
The butler understood why Kyan had been pacing in front of Clodel’s bedroom all night but couldn’t lecture him on such matters.
‘Soon, he’ll come to realize on his own.’
The butler did not know that a day would come when Kyan would reflect on this decision with regret.
Clodel had a sleepless night.
“I didn’t sleep a wink.”
Lying in bed with the blanket over her, she sat up as dawn broke.
“He didn’t come after all.”
Kyan had not visited her room last night. Turning away after telling her not to cause a commotion, he seemed quite upset.
She had thought he might not come tonight, but since he did visit on the second night, which was not a duty of the wedding night, she harbored some hope.
“Why do I even think like this? He’s a Temnes, and I’m a Bermonte.”
From the start, he was not someone within a realm where she could harbor any expectations.
The two families were like water and oil, destined never to mix, forever enemies.
“I just want to sleep.”
If only she could forget everything and sleep soundly during such emotional turmoil.
Having spent two nights awake, feeling sore where Kyan had touched her, only brought more sorrow.
“I thought that after the first night, I would never see him in my bedroom again.”
But why did she feel so sorrowful and empty?
“It must be because I can’t sleep.”
Rubbing her head, which started to ache faintly, Clodel sighed deeply.
“Uh. Cough. Cough.”
The harsh cough seemed to scrape her chest, bringing a pain that felt like it was wringing her lungs.
“Cough. Cough. Cough.”
The coughing continued for a long time, tormenting Clodel.
“Ha.”
When she removed her palm from her mouth, a warm and bitter liquid ran down her wrist, staining the front of her nightgown and the blanket.
Seeing this, Clodel murmured to herself.
“…Blood.”
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!!!
