She was right. In the Black Forest, the signal from his brother’s earring was lost.
But wandering the forest was no big deal for them.
The problem was the brother’s life and death. Even a fragile Schwartz should survive for a while.
“Do I have to say it twice? You’re just a burden, My Lady.”
“I’ll take care of my part. Just allow me to touch your body. Noel may be young, but he’s a magician. A valuable asset, right?”
“Yes! I’m not a burden.”
Noel emphatically raised his hand. Roderick, feeling befuddled, looked from Noel to Diana.
“Was there not some impure talk mixed in there?”
“Oh, about touching your body?”
“Don’t you know shame, My Lady?”
A noble lady without a hint of modesty. She was even assertive.
“What’s the matter with that in a life-or-death situation? So, you’re allowing it? Both staying with you and touching you?”
“…….”
“Don’t forget, you owe me your life.”
“….Yes, I owe you.”
As his handsome face approached, a tense Diana swallowed hard.
Suppressed by his presence, she unknowingly released the grip on his collar.
Their foreheads bumped lightly. Before she could think, Roderick muttered.
“No fever.”
“Um. I’m not in pain.”
You don’t think I was babbling in pain, do you?
“Right, not babbling then.”
He gasped. Can this man read minds?
“Your face says it all, so no need for idle thoughts.”
Haha, right? Diana laughed awkwardly, embarrassed.
“I wonder how far you plan to go with my permission.”
“Skinship?”
“Yes.”
If I say I’ve already kissed you, will you get angry? Well, since it wasn’t a deep kiss, maybe it doesn’t count.
Caught, Diana rolled her pink eyes away, avoiding his gaze.
Displeased, his gloved hand caught her chin.
“Why.”
Their lips were dangerously close, breath mingling.
“You were so confident before.”
The man, exuding a predatory aura, was suffocatingly sensual.
It felt like he might devour her at any moment.
“Ahem. Captain, what are you doing?”
The bearded man stood awkwardly, his pupils quaking.
He covered Noel’s eyes with his large hand, having entered at some unknown moment.
“Why?”
“Really now. Show some restraint in front of a child. Even in your prime. Ahem.”
Before the man could finish, Roderick raised an eyebrow in response.
Their posture was indeed quite compromising, with Roderick holding the woman on his leg and sending her heated glances, looking ready to proceed with a significant act.
Roderick looked at him as if asking, “Is there a problem?” with his characteristic indifference.
“Well, it’s just that it might not be good for the child, emotionally speaking.”
“The point.”
He wanted to get to the main topic, indicating that the previous conversation was irrelevant.
“It stopped raining, and you must be hungry. Shouldn’t you have a meal?”
“Bring it.”
“No!”
Diana, who had been quietly listening, suddenly shouted. She didn’t want special treatment in such a place.
Having resolved to befriend the knights to travel with them, Diana pushed Roderick’s face away with her slender hand and replied.
“We’ll go out. Thank you, Sir.”
“Oh, alright.”
The man responded awkwardly and left, not forgetting to take Noel with him.
Ugh. Diana, stiff from lying on Roderick’s leg for so long, stretched her legs.
Her legs were sore from being held for so long, but she was relieved to be recovering. With this strength, she wouldn’t be a burden.
“Going out like that?”
Under the blanket, she was in a thin nightdress. She had woken up in it since regaining consciousness in the castle.
Luckily, she had activity boots to wear. As long as her feet were fine, that was enough.
Diana shrugged.
“I can wrap the blanket around me.”
Roderick, who had been resting his chin on his hand on his knee, sighed deeply.
He got up, put his heavy top on her, and wrapped a robe around her.
When he covered her legs with a blanket in front of the knights gathered around the bonfire, their astonishment was inevitable.
“People die doing things they’ve never done before.”
“Hey, if you don’t want to die now, shut up. Look at the Captain’s eyes.”
“Just you shut up. The Captain’s eyes were always filthy.”
Listening to the knights’ nonsensical talk, the recruit felt like his soul was leaving his body.
These people are insane. Is this how you talk in front of the Captain?
Sipping his portion of soup, the young recruit glanced at Diana sitting next to Roderick.
Having lived in a northern village his whole life, he had never seen someone as beautiful as her.
Even the village’s famed beauty wasn’t as lovely as this noblewoman. Perhaps the nobles of the capital were different.
“Daren, the Lady and the boy will join us until we find Felice.”
Before Daren could respond, Diana’s reaction came first.
“Thank you, Roderick. Really, thank you!”
Wow. The young man’s mouth dropped open at her bright, ecstatic smile, as if she had the world.
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!!!
