The Villainess Captured The Grand Duke - Chapter 1

The guest room in Blain was warm, a surprise considering the climate. The hospitality, however, was the same as the temperature outside.

No, you even proposed, so dont be too surprised. Shed expected it to be difficult, but

Scheuer glanced toward the door that connected the room to the hallway. She was trapped inside this fancy place with the rooster. It wasnt arrest but the two stone-faced guards at the door were certainly not for decoration. She lifted the ring up to look at it.

Did he not like it? She roughly threw it onto the bed in disappointment.

Coming all the way from the South took much more patience than shed thought, especially as shed left her family without a word. She closed her eyes and remembered the circumstances that had caused her to arrive in this situation.

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Two Weeks Ago

Apparently, she had died. To be precise, the she who had lived in South Korea had died.

There was a time when shed liked her friends more than family and enjoyed being out more than being with them. She was an immature twenty-year-old whose parents worries sounded like nagging and their interference in her life only felt cumbersome. Thats when the car accident took place, leaving her an orphan.

It didnt feel real, even after shed seen the picture of her parents at the funeral hall.

A twenty-year-old is a kid. Youll need an adults protection, so lets live together.

You know your aunts house is closer to your school, right?

Her relatives descended on me to take over her inheritance. When she finally escaped them and returned to her house, she realized no one was there and the abode felt oddly spacious. Im back She broke down at the sound of a greeting after realizing the reality of the situation. There would be no one to nag her and wait for her to come home until the early hours of the morning.

After her family disappeared, all she had left were people clamoring for some of the insurance payouts. No one hugged her. It didnt take long to realize that everything shed found annoying was in fact just actions out of affection and attention.

Every day was full of regret.I should have behaved better. I should have told them that I loved them.It hadnt been difficult to express, so why couldnt she have said it? Why hadnt she? Thats how she chose isolation and cut all her ties.

After a year of essentially being a shut-in and passing the day in lethargy, a popular novel calledThe Princess of Flowers, which she happened to come across, changed her daily life. It was a story about the Knight Commanderwho was a beautiful woman full of intelligence and abilityand the Crown Prince who came to love her. They overcame many conflicts to save the Empire and achieve happiness.

It was a romantic fantasy that wasnt particularly noteworthy. It was near the end of the novel, however, that the Grand Duke Raygrein Blain of the North appears. The sub-male lead, whod inherited his familys ability to use emotion as a sword but lost all his emotions due to the frequent demon subjugation.

Grand Duke Raygrein was not swayed by emotion and maintained a steady demeanor that soon captured her heart. At first, it was simple envy.I wish I could feel nothing like him, but the more that she read, the more she began to feel sorry for him. He was like her: staying alone in the North and not appearing in public.

Unlike her, who wanted to let go of all her emotions, he considered his emotions for the protagonistErinato be important. From then on, she found herself conscious of his appearance without being aware of it. By the time she realized it, she had already been rooting for Raygrein to win the heroines heart.

She re-read the section where he appeared until the letters were worn-out. It was the first time that shed felt so entranced by something and imagined his face every day. In her dreams, she even saw the novel play out.

Not being able to feel emotion means living without joy or happiness. This thought made her heartache.

She awaited the sequel, hoping that hed regain his feelings as soon as possible. Quite a few changes had occurred in her life as she wished for his happiness. First, shed left the house after a year and met people. She even began studying again.

The life that had come to a standstill a year ago began moving once again. Unfortunately, unlike her who regained her emotions, Raygrein died.

The heroine, Erina, who was the only one whod sparked his emotions, eventually refused him. After being rejected by her and unable to feel anything else, he became unable to use his sword and after his weakening, the North collapsed.

Just like that, shed come to the last page.

The sentence proclaiming that the main couple lived happily ever after didnt catch her eye. Instead, she could only feel a sense of despondency as she walked aimlessly down the road in disbelief. The moment that she spent thinking about Raygreins ending in bewilderment, a truck came veering down the road and hit her with full impact.