Episode 14:1 Realized

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“Chloe, if you wish,”

Kailos, who forced me to lie on the bed, smiled softly, lifting the white blanket to my chest.

“You can call my name.”

“What?”

“I’ll give you my name, so it’s okay to call me Kyle.”

It was a little out of the blue.

“What do you mean?”

“The marquis called my name, aren’t you upset because of that?”

I was upset? I didn’t think much, but I guess Kailos thought so.

“It’s not like that. How can I call my uncle’s name?”

“Why isn’t it working? In fact, it’s been a long time since the blood ties between the Ludwigs and the Garnets have faded, but I think it’s weird for you to call me uncle.”

“Then I…..What should I call my uncle?”

“I just told you. Kyle, call my name.”

“Uncle, do you want me to call your name and not the Marquis?” (to call his name)

I was genuinely surprised and asked, then he sighed, with a slightly hurt look.

“I don’t know why you’re thinking like that…….”

Kailos’ palm gently stroked my hair.

“You are incomparably precious to me, even compared to the only Marquis, Chloe.”

“But you’ve never said that before.”

I was taken in purely by the needs of Kailos. Wasn’t la chess piece for Kailos to get rid of?

That’s why I loved Kailos but never asked for anything in return, I didn’t dare to wish for it. It was none other than Kailos who imprinted the fact on me, who was clumsy at seventeen.

As he stared at me, he murmured, frowning around his eyes.

“Strangely….I think you’ve changed a little.”

Oddly enough, Kailos must have been thinking the same thing as me. I was also feeling that he seemed to have changed a little.

“Is it possible?”

I consciously denied his words with a grin.

“I suffered a lot. That’s why I feel different than usual.”

“Yes, if I had known you were sick this much, I would have paid more attention.”

The drooping eyes that seemed to be upset caught my attention.

He was the one who deceived me with false affection Maybe those drooping eyes are also false.

“Uncle, you are a busy Grand Duke.”

“Kailos.”

He grabbed my hand and recited it firmly.

“I said it’s okay to call my name.”

“Is it an order?”

He frowned at my question.

“Have I ever ordered you?”

“……No, that’s never happened.”

He had never given me a direct order. I’ve just been brainwashed for a long time so that I can only move for him, because I loved him.

Even the act of seducing the emperor and giving birth to the emperor’s child was a clever call under the pretext of ‘for him’.

He seemed to have something on his mind. After a long silence, he brought it up again.

“It’s not an order, it’s a request.”

I wiggled my fingers as I wanted to get them out of his grasp. The more I did, the stronger his grip on my hand grew.

“Chloe, I’ll correct it. Can I allow you to call my name?”

Suddenly, I felt shivering at the appearance of Kailos in a submissive appearance. I wanted to ask why. However, if I had spit out what was in my mind as it was, he would have felt strange.

I didn’t want to let anyone know my secret yet. Even if the other person was once the one I loved, Kallos.

“Okay, uncle.”

So I tried to smile as much as possible, recalling how laughed in a dim memory.

“No, Kailos……Nim.”

I couldn’t even call him by his name. It was a name granted only to only one woman, Marquis Rosaline. Kailos looked a little disappointed, but he didn’t take this issue any further.

“Master, this is Erikson.”

Erikson, the butler, entered the room with a neat knock.

“What’s going on?”

His calm tone towards the butler was quite different from when he treated me. Erikson answered with a tensed expression.

“The imperial family sent a carriage.”

At those words, Kailos’ and my expressions hardened at the same time. The emperor’s carriage arrived ten days earlier than from the future I’d experienced.

Before I went back in time, I was sick for a much longer time. Perhaps the Emperor’s carriage had already come and gone once while it was too painful for me to get up.

Is that really true?

I thought that if it was Kailos, he might have forced me to get up and put me in the Emperor’s carriage. No, it’s not ‘forced’, cause I was a stupid girl who did whatever he wanted.

Anyway, unlike then, I am quite well and became lively, but when the emperor’s carriage arrived, I felt strange. I was afraid of meeting the emperor again.

But before I could say anything, Kailos said firmly first,

“Send it back.”

“What? But it’s the call of His Majesty……”

“Chloe says she can’t go out because she’s not feeling well right now.”

“Okay.”

Erikson went out to return the emperor’s carriage,

I was afraid of having to face the emperor again, but apart from that, embarrassed, I looked back and asked him.

“Why did you send the carriage back?”

“It’s true that you’re not feeling well.”

“It’s not to the point where I can’t go out.”

“The doctor said you still need to relax.”

In the midst of the twisted passage of time, I gradually felt worse.

“Does uncle mean my body is more important than his future?”

In the time period before retrograde, he was the one who didn’t care about my body.

“You’re saying something upsetting. You are as precious as my future.”

Isn’t this a ridiculous development?

“Chloe?”

A voice full of embarrassment called me. The cool fingertips caressed my eyes.

“Why are you crying?”

Slap. I slapped his hand out and looked straight at him, then I spoke in a clear voice.

“I’ll go to the emperor.”

You shouldn’t do that. You are not the one who forgets about your future and revolves around me, cherishing that my body will be damaged like this. Isn’t your behavior now as if you’re denying all the time I’ve gone through before coming back?

The loss and pain that I experienced, and Estelle…….

Even the existence of that child, who could not take a single step and vanished away.

“Chloe, you’re still…….”

“Now I feel better, I’m the same. So I’ll go now.”

“Chloe!”

I shook him off holding me and jumped up and headed outside.

“Stop, Chloe! It’s not the same! You’re really……!”

“Isn’t it my job to seduce the emperor anyway?”

I raised my voice to him, who was blocking me, his expression was distorted.

“I told you, you can quit! I, everyone!”

God, he was getting angry. He was the one who never got angry at me for not listening in the previous timeline.

He, who valued the dignity of the royal family most, even though he used to get annoyed and bothered, never raised his voice to anyone.

“Uncle, do you know you are really weird right now?”

He was showing a completely different appearance from the future, as well as from the past.

“You need to gain more weight. My handsome brother doesn’t like skinny women.

“The emperor’s biological mother was a royal daughter from the kingdom of Evran. Learn how to speak Evran, it’ll be useful.

“Did you spray perfume? It suits you, but it’s not his taste. I’ll give you something good as a present, to the point where it captures my brother’s heart at once.

“Chloe, you have good hair. Have I said this before? care so much about you because of your hair, the emperor likes silver-haired beauty.’

“Wouldn’t I be upset if you hurt your body like this? It’s a precious treasure for my brother.’

It was Kailos who had been raising me to suit the emperor’s taste for a long time. I also knew that not all of the support he showed me was without cost.

“I like you, too. You, who will bring me the emperor’s neck in the future, how can I not be delighted with you?’

At seventeen, it was Kailos who kissed my shy confession and inserted a dagger in it. He was my sanctuary that I could not dare to disobey, and I was a petty bait for Kailos.

It was also Kailos who imprinted me every time so that I wouldn’t forget the subject.

“Have the emperor’s child.’

A terrifyingly crafty whisper echoed in my ear. The distant future and the past mixed together, created a small spark.

“I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think you are weird, Chloe.”

He, who had never been equal to me, spoke to me wearing a human mask. Now just like in the previous time, everything is the same, only Kailos has changed,

“It’s just because I realized it too late.”

“You realized it? What?

“You, I…….”

A strange atmosphere flowed from his gaze at me. As if courting, he whispered, kissing my fingertips.

“that I love you.”

Saak.

My head went cold.

Thump, thump, thump, thump.

My heart beat unpleasantly, I pushed him and ran outside.

“Chloe! Chloe!”

Belatedly, Kailos followed me, calling my name. As he grabbed my wrist again, I looked at him and said, “You spent the night with the Marquis Rosaline three days ago. Four days ago, you sent me to the emperor.”

“That’s….”

Speechless, he bowed his head, the unbecoming appearance made me laugh.

“My uncle shouldn’t love me.”

This was a deception, it was an act of killing my heart twice, me, who loved him but eventually died, and the pitiful life that had been lost because of it.

I wanted to run away from Kailos. In my head, I only thought that I had to get out of here right away.

Fun fact:

The meaning of “Kailos” is gentle, affectionate.

The meaning of “Ludwig” is Famous Warrior

The meaning of “Chloe” is “blooming” or “fertility”

The meaning of “Garnet” is a Red Semi-precious Gem.

The meaning of “Raymond” is wise-protector.

The meaning of “Astaroth”, it’s the name of a demon.. Name Astaroth is of Gothic origin and is a Boy name.

Comments from Korean readers:

I think the writer who messed with the female lead is the worst.

Ha… I hope the emperor is male lead… It’s sad…

No, that… This isn’t it. No.

F*ck you writer if this b*tch is the male lead