Adopting the Male Protagonist Changed the Genre - Chapter 291

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Special Side Story Episode 4

‘No, what part of that conversation just now was worth getting angry about?’

She had been confident at first that she could see right through him, but it seemed increasingly difficult to read his inner thoughts.

After a brief silence mixed with contemplation.

“If you don’t like the name Lord Cheri, should I call you by a different nickname?”

“Yes. I think it would be fine if you just called me Cesar.”

She had wondered, and it really seemed he didn’t like the nickname Lord Cheri.

Belinda answered with a bewildered expression.

“Alright then. Um… would you think of a new nickname for me, Cesar?”

It was half a joke, but Cesar began to seriously contemplate it.

His expression gradually became more serious as if he had encountered an impregnable fortress, and Belinda was about to say ‘just Belinda is enough’ when.

After much deliberation, Cesar’s mouth opened.

“…Older Sister?”

“Pfft! Cough, cough.”

Belinda choked and burst into coughs. By the time her coughing finally subsided, her face was bright red.

Cesar asked her shamelessly.

“Are you alright?”

I’m not alright! Older Sister? Are you crazy?!

Even if I’ve become 8 years younger mentally, still, Older Sister! What kind of… heart-fluttering younger man material… nickname is that…

‘Huh? This… might not be as bad as I thought.’

Belinda, who had been wavering, hurriedly shook her head.

No, get it together!

I need to make him regain his memories, not get excited over being called Older Sister or Sister!

Belinda, who had barely managed to firmly close the lid on her desires, spoke calmly.

“Just calling me Belinda is enough.”

“I’ll do that. …Belinda.”

The voice that followed was slightly hoarse.

Belinda glanced up at Cesar and paused.

His expression was indifferent, but the tips of his ears and the back of his neck were bright red.

‘See, he does like me after all, right?’

Belinda’s cheeks also reddened as she casually looked around.

Early noon. There were only the two of them in the garden.

Since it had come to this, she decided to try advancing things a bit more while she was at it.

Belinda moved very slowly closer to Cesar.

Finally, when their hands brushed against each other, and she pretended it was an accident as she very lightly intertwined her fingers with his.

Cesar stiffened and quickly pulled his hand away, then said bluntly.

“Although we are engaged, such contact seems improper.”

His reaction was as if he had been sexually harassed, leaving even the great Belinda deflated.

It was just holding hands. No, not even holding hands, just their fingertips barely intertwining, and he had such a reaction.

‘Was Cesar always like this?’

He was someone who was strict about manners and etiquette, but he wasn’t this conservative, was he?

As she pondered how to close the distance with him in the future, a chilling fact occurred to her.

If he was this startled by just brushing hands with his fiancée.

‘This is trouble. If he finds out he’s not a virgin, it won’t end with just fainting.’

It was a truth that the current Cesar must never know.

* * *

A month and a half since Belinda came to the Winter Castle.

She had very naturally taken root in Cesar’s life.

Cesar found himself taking the time spent with her quite naturally for granted.

The more time he spent with her like this, the more Cesar couldn’t help but realize one fact.

“How long are you going to keep calling me Marquess? That’s not like Lord Cheri. We’re engaged, aren’t we?”

The fact that the man Belinda envisioned was different from himself.

He couldn’t immediately respond to the nickname Lord Cheri, and didn’t even know he liked sweet foods so much.

Of course, reading romance novels wasn’t his hobby either.

Therefore, when Belinda spoke about his future self, he unintentionally felt guilty as if he were deceiving her.

Not only that. Before he knew it, he was even feeling a strange sense of competition with his future self.

Cesar was flustered when he realized the nature of his emotions. He felt unfamiliar to himself.

One day, as he continued to agonize like this.

“I am not the man you think I am, Belinda. So I don’t think it’s right to continue this relationship any further.”

The words that had been inside suddenly burst out.

At the sudden confession, Belinda, who had been weaving Paffen flowers into a ring in the middle of the flower bed, widened her eyes.

Then she asked back with a shocked expression.

“Don’t tell me… you’re saying you want to break off the engagement?”

Cesar nodded with the feeling of swallowing poison.

Realizing that Cesar was serious, Belinda spoke with a grave expression.

“That’s impossible. Our engagement has a special clause that it cannot be broken even by His Majesty’s command. This is a clause you added yourself.”

Faced with the sudden crisis of a broken engagement, Belinda, whose heart was racing, decided to use underhanded tactics.

“Even if you don’t want it, this engagement must be maintained. Because you are-“

Just before uttering irreversible words, Belinda barely swallowed them and pressed her forehead with a troubled expression.

No matter how urgent she felt, she couldn’t be sure if it was okay to reveal this fact.

Would it be okay to tell him that they weren’t just engaged on paper, but had spent nights together?

Knowing Cesar’s personality, if he learned that fact, he would immediately hold a wedding ceremony and try to take responsibility for her somehow. That way she could prevent the broken engagement, but… somehow she hesitated to reveal that fact.

But why are we postponing our wedding and living like a weekend couple?

She didn’t want to have their precious wedding ceremony because of his sense of duty.

Even so… if he never regained his memories and had to live like this for the rest of his life, she planned to keep him by her side by any means necessary.

It wasn’t because she was blinded by love, but because Cesar was truly a perfect groom that anyone would covet.

Moreover, if there was the biggest problem, it was that the current Cesar was someone who would sell himself even through a political marriage if it would help his estate.

Just like what he had demanded when he first came to find Belinda.

Having made up her mind, she continued with a serious expression.

“Since it’s come to this anyway, let’s marry first and fall in love later!”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about…”

“So you and I…!”

She had definitely made up her mind.

For some reason, her throat seemed choked and no more words would come out.

‘Because…’

Because I don’t want him to marry me out of a sense of responsibility.

Because he likes me, because that feeling overflows, I want us to exchange vows amid all kinds of happiness and blessings, and promise eternity.

Suddenly, something welled up inside her. In her frustration, resentment toward him burst out without her knowing.

“We liked each other so much! You completely forgot all that and didn’t even come out to meet me when I was coming…”

The flower petals crumpled in Belinda’s hands. It seemed just like their memories, making her sad.

“You bad man! You forgot all of that?”

Finally, a tear rolled down Belinda’s cheek.

Seeing that, Cesar felt as if his heart was plummeting to the ground.

He half-knelt before her.

“I was wrong.”

“You’re right, it’s my fault! So tell me. Why aren’t you being proactive about recovering your memories?”

After hesitating for a moment, Cesar answered honestly.

“Because my future self felt too unfamiliar. I was afraid I would lose myself.”

Perhaps saying he had become weak after 8 years was just an excuse. Cesar simply couldn’t accept his future self.

To think he had something he cherished so much that he would even postpone his duties, which were everything to him. It was something he couldn’t even imagine, and it frightened him.

The stirring of emotions he had never felt in his entire life also confused him.

However, the moment he saw Belinda’s tears, he realized it clearly.

Whether it was his current self or his future self, there was nothing more frightening than making the woman before him sad.

His heart, not his head, remembered that fact.

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