Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 124
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Chapter 124
Especially when she danced with Samuel, the dress spreading out in circles looked like a flower blooming in full, making it impossible to look away.
If Lilia hadn’t spoken to me, I would have been entranced until the dance ended.
Whether Anelli knew that Jeon was lost in thought or not, she enthusiastically continued her teaching.
“Here, the woman will move like this. Then you should… Ah!”
The movement that had been gently leading him suddenly went awry. Anelli’s body, which had been standing straight, swayed backward.
“Whoa!”
Jeon strongly pulled the arm that was wrapped around her waist. Anelli’s center, which had tilted backward, now shifted forward.
Looking down at her as she practically fell into his embrace, Jeon asked in a low voice.
“Is this also a dance move?”
“This is… it’s because this is a grass field. My shoes were more slippery than I thought.”
Anelli replied in an embarrassed voice, clearing her throat as she composed herself. The red flush on her previously pale nape came into Jeon’s view.
Seeing that made his throat feel dry for no reason.
“Jeon, I’m fine now.”
Compared to yesterday, today’s Anelli was not glamorous at all.
However, she was still beautiful.
Even with her hair loosely tied up carelessly, even with her face bare of makeup, even in her plain everyday clothes that were utterly unremarkable compared to yesterday.
It wasn’t just because of her appearance. Jeon suddenly realized.
Whether she was called a Reviver, Roam’s second daughter, the Crown Prince’s former fiancée, a beheaded villainess, or the leader of the Dura’han…
Whatever modifier was attached, or even if none were attached, Anelli always looked beautiful in his eyes.
Even the sad resignation that lay deeply beneath her cynical and bleak gaze.
“Jeon?”
Anelli looked up questioningly while still in his embrace.
Looking into those purple eyes, Jeon finally asked the question he should have asked long ago.
“Why are you teaching me to dance?”
“Huh?”
“Given your usual personality, I don’t think you’d make this kind of offer to anyone.”
At Jeon’s observation, Anelli’s eyes widened a little more. A faint bewilderment flashed through her slowly blinking eyes.
“Well, it’s because you’re the only one who can be my partner when I want to dance?”
Anelli answered in a bewildered tone, then frowned and added in a stronger voice.
“You said you’d go anywhere with me.”
“I said that with ulterior motives though.”
At Jeon’s blunt words, Anelli’s expression froze blankly.
“Actually, coming to the Imperial Palace was also with ulterior motives.”
Seeing Anelli looking up at him with an unusually innocent face made his insides burn inexplicably.
No matter how he thought about it, Jeon felt too wronged.
Wasn’t Anelli the one who treated Prince Heinley so coldly? She who was merciless even to royalty was being so casual with Jeon.
So wasn’t it natural that he would give his heart to her?
‘She doesn’t even know how troubled I am right now.’
Jeon had never had such worries in his entire life, nor had he ever thought he would.
Until now, he had hesitated to clearly define his feelings even though he vaguely understood them. He was afraid that the current special treatment might disappear.
But he could no longer endure it.
“What… ulterior motives?”
“Wicked intentions. Scheming and wanting many things.”
At his direct expression, Anelli was left speechless. Jeon, who had been looking down at her, narrowed his eyes and asked quietly.
“You know all this and you’re still acting like this, right?”
Actually, this was Jeon’s hope. She treated him specially after all. Wouldn’t this keep making him misunderstand?
So he hoped.
“This is my first unrequited love so I don’t know well, but am I just misunderstanding everything?”
Just like himself, who had grown fond through constant contact and kept giving glances until he finally gave his heart, he hoped the other person felt the same way.
“If you know and you’re still doing this, it means you’re trying to seduce me.”
Anelli couldn’t even think of pushing Jeon away and just stared up at him blankly. Then she suddenly averted her gaze.
She barely moved her lips as if she had finally found words to respond.
“You were the one who started seducing first.”
Her voice was utterly cold, but her exposed earlobes were red. Because that was cute, Jeon couldn’t take his eyes off her.
When exactly did he start thinking this woman was cute?
“Don’t think about making excuses.”
Jeon honestly admitted to his past efforts to somehow get close to the sharp Anelli, to approach her without being burdensome.
“You figured it out.”
“Do you think I’m a fool? I’ve had so many people who liked me, how could I not notice?”
Anelli replied quickly in a stiff voice and subtly turned her body. However, since Jeon didn’t relax his arm, she couldn’t move away at all.
After struggling a couple of times, she stopped moving as if giving up.
“If you don’t like it, kick me away.”
“What?”
To her looking up at him with incredulous eyes, Jeon emphasized in a firm voice.
“Kick me away.”
“…Were you always this extreme?”
Jeon, who had been quietly staring at Anelli who neither pushed him away forcefully nor shouted at him to let go, tilted his head.
“I can’t tell at all whether you’ve fallen for me or not.”
Anelli, who had been slightly moving her lips, took a deep breath. Her calmly composed face was the expression Jeon had always seen.
“I’ve always been lenient with you.”
“Come to think of it, that’s true.”
Laughter mixed with Jeon’s unconscious murmur.
“Why are you so lenient with me?”
“Because you’re on my side.”
Why was it? Jeon felt like she was about to burst into tears.
Even though there was no trace of tears and her voice and expression were utterly dry.
“On the side of ‘me who is nothing at all.'”
The whispered voice was very small. However, there was no difficulty understanding the words.
The distance between the two was close enough to easily touch with just a small movement.
Because he had unknowingly lowered his head that close.
“You like me enough to be entranced by my beauty like yesterday.”
Actually, it wasn’t just yesterday.
Jeon chuckled and pulled her closer.
“Since you’re so clever, you must also know that I have no intention of missing this opportunity.”
“Opportunity?”
He could feel their noses barely touching.
His insides boiled at the other person’s startled reaction.
“Yes, opportunity.”
With a quiet murmur, their lips touched.
The touching skin was soft and hot. He couldn’t tell if the heat he felt was his or Anelli’s.
Jeon, who traced her lower lip as if biting into soft ice cream, let out a sigh-like breath.
The lips that had briefly separated now locked together more deeply. Even after swallowing the hot breath, his thirst didn’t subside and he became increasingly persistent.
The noise felt distantly far away. Instead, rapid breathing and clinging touches occupied all his senses and paralyzed his reason.
It was a kiss so sweet, so sweet that it was suffocating.
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“You’re the only one who sees him as naive.”
When Samuel said that, honestly I didn’t pay much attention to it. I just thought he was saying that because he and Jeon didn’t get along well.
But the reason Samuel’s words came back to me now was because I had come to completely agree with what he said.
Certainly, Jeon is not naive.
There’s no way someone so naive could act like that.
[Captain, I didn’t see anything.]
What snapped me out of my dazed state was Bak’s booming cry.
[I really didn’t see anything!]
If he had a head attached, I would have smacked that chattering mouth of his.
[Shut up, Bak.]
“Thank you for saying what I wanted to say, Minte.”
When I calmly praised Minte, Bak crouched down in his cage and drooped his shoulders glumly.
Whether he did or not, I lost interest in him and collapsed back onto the outdoor table.
The surface of the table, cooled by the night air, soothed the heat in my flushed cheeks.
It was late at night now, and Jeon had returned to the guest room assigned to him.
‘Though he didn’t seem particularly eager to go.’
What if he hadn’t gone? Was he going to sleep over at this pavilion? If he had suddenly stayed the night, what would the palace servants say the next day? There would definitely be strange rumors…
‘…Even if rumors spread… it wouldn’t be completely false?’
If I hadn’t come to my senses at the sound of the fireworks going off loudly from the banquet hall, I really might have let him stay at the pavilion.
“Hah…”
Since my resurrection, had my mind ever been this empty and my vision this dark? Even when I talked with the squirrel at the temple, even when I first met Nadab and heard him call me captain, it wasn’t this bad.
When I unconsciously touched my lips, I felt the slightly swollen flesh.
“They’re swollen.”
How could he, when he usually acted so timid? That fraud Jeon. If the kiss had lasted just a little longer, my lips would have split.
[There’s no bleeding, Captain.]
“…I didn’t ask, Bak.”
How did he see such details in the midst of all that? When he doesn’t even have eyes?
[I told you to shut up, Bak.]
[But Minte…]
[Captain, it’s late at night, so please rest now.]
Minte, who had coldly ignored Bak, politely suggested.
Even I thought that sitting out here breathing the night air wouldn’t sort anything out. In fact, I was confused about what exactly was making me feel chaotic in the first place.
“I’m new to one-sided love, so I don’t know much about it, but is this all just my imagination?”
From the circumstances, Jeon had, well, seduced me. And I had fallen for it. The kiss with him wasn’t particularly bad. He probably felt the same way?
…So should we just say we both enjoyed it and call it quits?
‘That can’t be right.’
What face should I show him tomorrow? Like nothing happened? Since he likes me, he obviously won’t act that way.
Then what about me? I’m generous toward Jeon, and honestly, he gives me great comfort too.
How should I define this feeling?
“Captain.”
“…Yeah.”
I sat up for now. As Minte said, it was too late at night, and I had a feeling that thinking more wouldn’t give me any answers.
After sleeping and waking up, I could only hope that my mind would regain proper reason.
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