Chapter 2
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“….Are you sure that’s enough?”
“Hmm…….I don’t know? That’s what I want though.”
Just one kiss could cover up the situation…
“Can you do that for me? It’s not too much to ask.”
His worries were absurd. If that’s all it took to keep everything a secret, I was the one who benefited more than him.
Standing on my tiptoe, I placed a hand on his shoulder, closed my eyes, and briefly kissed his lips.
“This should be okay, right?”
” I don’t think this is going to make me keep it a secret at all.”
“Then what more can I do to make you keep it a secret?”
He smiled, then put one hand on my cheek and made eye contact with me.
With his other hand, he wrapped around my waist and came close to my mouth.
Then, his lips overlapped mine. When his tongue penetrated inside my lips, my body started trembling.
I could feel the warm body temperature emitting from his body.
The illusion of being engulfed in swirling black ink surrounded my mind.
After I started losing my breath, our lips fell off.
Even after our lips fell off, the feeling of his lips still lingered.
I gasped for breath and my face felt so hot, I think my face was tomato red.
I met his bright red eyes and he showed a satisfactory smile. In a soft tone, he started whispering to me.
“I’ll keep it a secret for a while.”
“…..for a while?”
Only for a while?
“Yes. Did you think I’d keep it a secret for the rest of my life?”
I was speechless and at a loss for words. Isn’t this a fraud? How can you be so cruel to scam people?
Is this really the villain? Is he perhaps a doppelganger?
The villain shouldn’t be so cheap.
“Please patiently wait here. I would like to be with you all day, but unfortunately I have something to do.
“No…now wait a minute.”
It would be too embarrassing to back down like this.
Although my opponent was the villain, my stubborn personality would not let this just go.
Besides, I don’t think saying a couple words would get me killed.
“Do you have anything else to say?”
“Earlier you said you wouldn’t stop me from leaving the mansion, didn’t you?”
My memory was accurate. Since I was sober, I could trust my memories.
His eyes narrowed at me. When looking into those eyes, anxiety came over me but I still had to hear his answer nonetheless.
Because I wanted to get out of this place as soon as possible.
“Yes.”
I felt everything brighten in an instant at his positive answer. I hoped my future would not be a thorny path.
It was at that moment the happiness circuit in my brain turned on.
He stroked my cheek with his hand, grabbed a handful of my hair, kissed it, and warned me in a low voice.
“But you’ll have to be prepared. I have no intention of letting you go.”
“……”
“Once something is in my grasp, I’m very keen to hold onto it.”
He tucked my hair behind my ear. His face wore a friendly smile but the words he uttered were the exact opposite of his warm expression.
Ah, even if I was right I was still wrong.
It was foolish for me to have hope. I’m not usually a person who sheds a lot of tears, but why do I feel like crying again?
I’m not the female lead, and I wasn’t exactly the villainess either.
I was just an unfortunate soul who deeply fell in love with the villain who chased him around.
Yulia wasn’t a supporting character but it was hard to define it as an extra either…
Oh, my God, did I just call myself an extra.
“Oh! And don’t drink in front of anyone else other than me.”
“……Why?”
What did he mean?
The eyes staring at me intently were burdensome. I couldn’t understand why he was hesitating and sulking here instead of leaving to where he had to go.
I was thinking of going home as soon as he left.
“Yulia.”
In the midst of this, the voice calling for me was so sweet that my body almost trembled.
I felt like he whispered my name in a sweet voice this morning too.
No, let’s get rid of all these nonsensical thoughts!
“I’m warning you to wait here.”
He first calmly threatened me.
“I’ll reward you if you stay here quietly until I return.”
Then he used a conciliatory approach.
You think I won’t run away even if you use a kind and gentle proposition? I won’t be fooled even if you persuade me with ten thousand words!
I had to get out of this gloomy residence as soon as possible and return to my safe haven.
No matter how the villain feels, he won’t be able to kill the imperial family currently. I would still be able to buy some time.
Based on my age, I think it was two years after I became an adult that the imperial family was annihilated in the original story.
There was still plenty of time.
“But when I get back, and you’re not here, you’d better be prepared.”
“Are you threatening me?”
“No way.”
He was obviously smiling but he was emitting a creepy aura.
“But I’m a man who will do anything to get my things back.”
“……”
“Don’t be so scared. Anyone who sees you might think I’m hurting you.”
No? Isn’t he threatening to hurt me now?
I felt a little scared to talk now.
He was speaking so sweetly and kindly this morning that I almost fell for it, but now I’m not going to be deceived.
“Yulia, do I look like someone who will harm you?”
Yeah, you look like that.
In the novel, you slaughtered the imperial family in front of Yulia who was infatuated with you.
After that, he told Yulia to no longer bother him anymore, and that was merely a warning.
It gave me goosebumps to think about it.
Even in my point of view, Yulia was extremely pretty.
How can you not fall in love with such a beautiful woman, who was head over heels with you?
Would you have thought of exterminating an entire family just because you were annoyed?
If you say yes, then the victim should just quietly avoid you and not bother you, to protect her family.
Since the plan of not getting involved with the villain failed, I should keep in mind every action I make.
“I’m not going to hurt you.”
Yeah. You’re not going to hurt me.
It wasn’t you who killed me in the original, but the feeling of helplessness and self guilt. That’s why Yulia killed herself.
I was an extra with such a miserable ending.
“So, don’t look at me with an expression of fear.”
He hugged me and buried his face in my shoulder. Why did I feel a sense of guilt?
I really didn’t know the reason myself. Why was he trying to trick me again?
“What scares me is not you, but the situation of my father and brother knowing about this.”
“…Yulia.”
“Yes?”
“When would be a good time for a wedding?”
I blinked my eyes at his words. What did I just hear? His words were unrealistic.
I was embarrassed but I hid my embarrassment as much as possible and asked him a question.
“Who’s wedding?”
“Of course it’s me and Yulia’s marriage.”
He replied as if answering the obvious.
Maybe it was obvious to him, but I was shocked.
Ah. I really want to cry. How did my life end up like this?
“It’s Yulia who seduced me first, so you have to take responsibility for me.”
“I don’t remember anything at all….”
“Did you have enough for breakfast?”
He whispered softly in my ear. His lips slowly descended from my neck and touched my collarbone.
Then, his lips overlapped mine.
My head told me to refuse, but the kiss was so sweet that it paralyzed my sense of reason.
I thought I had to push him off, but I got drunk on him as the kiss eroded my head.
At that moment, his movements around his waist were unusual.
As I regained my senses, I didn’t want to continue anymore so I pushed him away as hard as I could.
“……don’t you like it? You seemed to like this kind of thing. Was I mistaken?”
Don’t like it You seemed to like this. Was I mistaken?”
“Chester, how am I supposed to take responsibility?”
“Chester, how do I take responsibility?”
“Of course by marrying me.”
“I can’t get married, is there another way?”
“No there isn’t.”
He was very determined, but I was stubborn to find another way.
“There’s a reason why I can’t take responsibility through marriage.”
“……”
His eyes staring at me scared me, but I still wanted to say add more.
Marriage is for a lifetime, so I didn’t want a marriage without love.
And, he eventually meets the heroine who he falls in love with. He gets so obsessed that he wants to possess her.
I didn’t want to be involved in any of that.
He seemed to want to hear the reason so he stayed quiet. Ignoring my trembling heart, I confidently said my reason.
“I have someone else in mind that I like!”