“I cannot accept your offer.”
Johann’s low voice hovered around the ball hard. Dahlia looked up at his face in surprise.
A shabby piece of parchment rolled about the table. It was the divorce papers that the man just threw away.
Dahlia blinked with an expression of disbelief. He had a cold impression, but he looked embarrassed.
“Why, Johann? It was definitely a contract to divorce when the revenge was over.”
The contract was simple.
Helping Dahlia’s revenge. Dahlia will also help Johann’s revenge.
Until then, they will fulfill their marriage as partners, but when the revenge is over, they will return to their own lives in a clean manner.
“Because my mind is different from back then.”
However, Johann refused to ask for a divorce at once.
In the past, how much of a crisis the two of them have been through.
How much times did the two of them share their heart and minds each time they resolved a problem?
Johann had a hunch that my mind would not be different from his.
“I don’t think there’s any reason to divorce my beloved wife.”
It was a bland confession. It was a voice full of sincerity, but Dahlia’s face was tinted with mud.
‘No, we must get divorced.’
Everything. It was an embarrassing situation.
Dahlia knew the truth of this world better than anyone else.
Also, she hoped that the truth would not end as long as Johann did.
Johann wanted to have a happy future without knowing anything.
That was the choice of Dahlia who fell in love.
‘Johann will be left alone anyway.’
She tried not to love. However, it has come to an end.
So it was an inevitable choice.
God said, ‘The moment revenge is over, there’s only one person left in this world.’
From the moment she heard the oracle, she tried to somehow drive Florre into a hellish life.
She wanted to rest now, and leave Florre in this hellish world.
What Dahlia wanted was the end of Florre’s stay in this world and pay for her evil deeds.
‘I can’t stay here.’
Only when she left this place could she leave Florre in this world.
“I’ll send you the documents again. Please make sure to stamp it then.”
The back of Dahlia, who turned around pretending to be cold, looked graceful and elegant.
Even at this moment, Johann bit his lips gently as he responded without blinking an eye.
She was always elegant and cool and had no hesitation in her choice.
“I told you I wouldn’t stamp it.”
Johann, who trudged along, stood in the way of Dahlia.
It was a husband standing in the way of his wife, but at first glance, he looked so desperate that he was reminiscent of a slave to his master.
It felt even more so when a man was doing this to the whole empire as cold as frost.
“Then I’ll ask for a trial.”
Dahlia was as cold-hearted as he was.
“Dahlia!”
In the end, Johann raised his voice.
He hated himself for losing his coolness when he kept standing in front of her, but he had no choice but to admit it.
‘I love Dahlia Margaret.’
‘I can’t let you go because I love you.’
“Are you really going to break up?”
The desperate voice shook Dahlia’s eyes.
It wasn’t common for her to see a man wearing such a grim face.
She was well aware of the fact.
“There’s no way you don’t know my heart. You know it better than anyone!”
She also knew Johann’s mind. But Dahlia shook her head firmly.
“No, I don’t know.”
If she was not confident of accepting it, it was right to turn away from his love.
“I don’t want to know Your Highness’s thoughts in detail.”
A large palm held the woman’s sleeve.
The small, thin wrists were about to break.
Dahlia’s head dropped under the hard grip.
“Dahlia.”
“Johann, let me go now.”
A calm whisper pushed Johann away.
Dahlia shook his arm and his hands helplessly fell far away.
She shook her head without a trace of regret.
“Now that I’ve had my revenge, I have no regrets about this life anymore. Thank you for being so kind.”
You’ve been kind. It was a word that tightened his chest.
Johann had never been friendly to Dahlia.
The actions she said were friendly, distanced herself from Johann.
‘I’ll never fall in love with her.’
‘When the moment of decision comes, don’t let love distract you.’
But the wheel of fate led Johann to this situation.
To the future of loving Dahlia.
“I love you”
Dahlia raised her head in surprise. The man’s face, seen at a distant height, was awfully plain. That’s why it was sincere.
“What…?”
“I said I love you, Dahlia.”
Dahlia could not take her eyes off the face of a man, who was as straight as a sculpture, for a long time.
‘I never thought the day would come when he said love with his lips.’
In Dahlia’s mind, reflectively, the past time came up one by one.
Everything she went through in this world.
The day she tore the bookcase of this novel with her own hands and rebuilt it.
* * *
“Hey, did you hear the story?”
A maid, who was cleaning the long hallways, spoke to a colleague beside her.
”What story?”
“I mean Lady Dahlia.”
The two continued to clean the floor and exchanged conversations. The topic of conversation was a rumor that caught the most attention in the mansion in recent years.
“If it’s Lady Dahlia, she was sick a while ago. With fever.”
The maid glanced around her surroundings. It was to check if there were any secretly listening ears.
“I heard she’s changed since she got sick. It feel like she’s a totally different person or something.”
“What’s changed about her?”
The maid with glasses snorted and laughed.
“You know……”
Her head beckoned, asking her to come closer. As she listened, a secret whisper came.
“She’s….. become very nice!”1
It was an unexpected remark.
“What?”
The maid raised her glasses and soon laughed as if all she had heard were funny stories.
“Hey, you gotta lie right! Lady Dahlia has become a good girl? Rather, say the Earth is flat. Who believes that?”
Dahlia Margaret, the most prominent evil woman in society.
A woman who is second to none in society because she is as filthy as her beautiful appearance.
Even the two sides of the world could never change her dirty personality.
“Really? Yesterday Susan broke the vase by mistake, and that’s what she said…..”
The maid, who was fiddling with her hair, swallowed dry saliva. She looked very solemn.
“She just stepped on it with her feet!”
In front of the shocking confession, the face of the maid in glasses hardened.
“R, really? Did she break just a piece of the vase or did she not spill the water? The Lady didn’t even slap her cheek?”
She tried telling her all the imaginable evils, but the maid shook her head neatly.
“Yes! I just screamed and kicked her out of the room! Susan cried saying she didn’t know she was such a good person. I thought it was a lie too.”
“Is her fever still running?”
“The doctor said no. Since she was ill, her physical strength has weakened, so her temper may have softened due to it”
“Hey, you two.”
A familiar voice interrupted the noisy chatter.
Ack, the two maids looked back, hardened like stones.
“What’s so funny that you’re talking about it while cleaning?”
Deep night, moonlit rum glistening silver hair hung over the river.
A violet-colored pupil, as subtle as a rain flower, bloomed before dawn and dew.
Sharp eyes and elegant figure that remind you of a noble cat.
“M, miss.”
No other modification was enough to embellish the beauty of Dahlia Margaret.
The appearance was noble and holy enough to even forget about her nasty temper for an instant.
“Hurry up and clean up every nook and cranny, because my cough is severe.”
Quite a cold shot, Dahlia left with a calm gait.
The two, who had been struck, gradually blushed their frozen faces, and then went on a rampage when Dahlia disappeared behind the pillar.
‘Did, did you just see that?”
“I saw it, I saw it!”
The two of them made a fuss. They looked as bright as if they had seen the face of an angel from heaven.
“I can’t believe she just passed by! Of course I thought she’d kick the bucket or point out to look at the dust!”
“She must have gotten really nice. Oh, my God, that’s good. Did Goddess Sueton offer her a blessing?”
Dahlia, who had been hiding behind the pillars far away, was pale and fed up of their shuddering taunts.
‘No, when the hell did I behave nicely?!’
She felt crazy and her arms were crossed.
It’s only been a week since she decided to play Dahlia Margaret perfectly.
After that week, she was struck by surprisingly strange rumors.
The rare evil woman, Dahlia Margaret, became good after her fever.
‘What is the criteria for being good? Are you saying I have to get worse than this?’
Dahlia Margaret. She was a supporting character with only an explanation that she was famous as an evil woman.
Therefore, it was hard to know exactly what kind of evil she committed.
I tried to commit bad deeds in my own way, but compared to Dahlia’s previous moves, I wasn’t even able to get it on my fingernails.
‘How bad was she?’
Did she really have to slap the maid in the face? That didn’t suit her taste.
Dahlia walked out of the corridor in all sorts of agony.
‘It’s only been a week since I’ve been reincarnated in this rough world.’
Still, she had more to learn than she knew about the woman called Dahlia Margaret, who she had reincarnated as. Even though it was a book she had read to the very end.
Because Dahlia Margaret is not the main character in this world.
While interfering with the female protagonist, she was destined to die desperately, by being abandoned by the male protagonist she loved.
In short, she was an extra villain that will disappear forever, although she is quite important. It’s pretty miserable, too.
‘You think someone’s going to go with the original story?’
However, the current version of “Dahlia” had no intention of dying like the original version of the novel.
‘Ending my life pitifully was good enough in my previous life.’