I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 141

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Antonio and Edgar, who had run desperately to arrive in front of the music room, witnessed Lilliana receiving a confession from Noah.

Lilliana, whose lips parted slightly in surprise, began to blush at Noah’s confession.

Seeing her face turning red, Edgar felt his heart drop.

“Damn.”

Antonio, who was watching from the side, twisted his lips.

Antonio was seething so much that he looked ready to burst out and tackle Noah right then and there.

“You don’t have to answer right away. I just wanted to express my feelings.”

When Noah blushed all the way to his nape, Lilliana’s face grew even hotter.

Unlike Antonio who was heated up, Edgar felt anxious and his chest tightened. His palms became damp with sweat.

Why am I acting like this? Am I going crazy?

“Hmm. I like you. We did that group project together in art class last time.”

“Y-yes, we did.”

“But dating feels burdensome, so let’s be friends first. I’ll see you at school tomorrow!”

With an excited face, Lilliana fanned herself as she emerged from among the onlookers. Antonio approached Lilliana and asked.

“What’s wrong with you?”

“Huh, what?”

“He draws terribly, so why do you like him?”

“He did his best during the group project. He’s diligent and kind too.”

“So you’re going to accept him? Are you going to accept that guy?”

“Hmm. I don’t know. But he seems like a decent guy.”

Antonio asked in a slightly rougher voice.

“Do you want to accept him?”

Other friends who had become close in the Empire tried to restrain Antonio.

But Antonio couldn’t hide that he was thoroughly angry.

Lilliana frowned and grumbled.

“Why are you getting angry?”

“You blushed. Are you interested in him?”

“Of course I’m interested. He confessed to me!”

“It’s not like this is the first or second time you’ve been confessed to, so why are you blushing?”

“What’s wrong with that? Are you jealous?”

“Then what does it look like to you?”

Lilliana’s steps stopped. Antonio boldly threw a tantrum.

“You know how I feel. Do you find it fun to boldly ignore it when you know?”

When Antonio shot back coldly and swept past her, Lilliana watched her friend walking away.

Then, perhaps bewildered by Antonio’s attitude, she began to shed tears drop by drop.

“W-we’re best friends, so why, why…”

Edgar instinctively knew that his plan to apologize to Lilliana and end things had fallen through.

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“Noah is pretty cool. There’s no need to dislike him that much, right? And anyone would blush when receiving a confession.”

His build was decent, but he didn’t look particularly cool.

“Even if she gets a boyfriend, it’s not like she and I won’t be friends anymore. Is he feeling competitive with me or something?”

It’s probably affection, not competitiveness.

“I’m already struggling with a hole in my head, so why is Antonio acting like this too!”

Why indeed.

Edgar glanced at the sniffling Lilliana and responded inwardly.

Helene pushed a sweet dessert toward Lilliana as comfort, and Chris rolled his eyes and muttered.

“This happened before too.”

His voice was so quiet that even Edgar sitting next to him couldn’t hear.

Helene comforted the dejected Lilliana.

“Antonio acts like that because he really likes you.”

“I know Antonio likes me more than I like him. We’ve been best friends our whole lives and will continue to be.”

“That’s not what I mean.”

“Helene. Sorry, but Antonio and I can’t develop romantic feelings. Because—”

“Where are there friends between men and women?”

Getting annoyed at hearing nothing but wrong guesses, Edgar cut off Lilliana’s words.

“You’re probably the only one who believed you were just friends.”

“Helene. Tell him to go home. Why did he follow me all the way here?”

“You go.”

“Tell her I’m not going.”

“He says he won’t go.”

“Ask if he wants to get hit.”

“He’s asking if you want to get hit.”

Who does Lilliana Berchio think she is?

Edgar, who couldn’t find the reason why he had followed her to the cafe, glared at Lilliana who was sitting curled up in her chair.

No, he tried to glare.

Seeing her black curly hair made his mood churn like a conditioned reflex.

The water glass was shaking, and at some point it seemed like the contents would spill out.

“I understand Antonio. …Tell her that.”

Lilliana, who had been ignoring Edgar all this time, looked straight at him for the first time.

When her blue eyes turned toward him, Edgar felt like running away.

“Lilliana. Edgar says he’ll sound out Antonio.”

“Helene, relay the message properly.”

“Can you two just talk to each other directly now?”

When Helene got annoyed, Edgar stepped forward.

“I’ll talk to Antonio. In exchange for helping you two make up, forgive me for your head, that thing.”

In Lilliana’s hair was still the flower that had wilted in the afternoon.

Perhaps because of that, he felt quite uncomfortable every time he looked at it.

“Fine.”

When Lilliana nodded, Chris whispered in her ear.

“Will it be okay?”

“He and I are nothing to each other.”

The sulky girl in front of him is no longer special like before.

Edgar began his final denial while ignoring his churning feelings.

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Francois visited the Waldrafen Estate carrying bundles of gifts.

Having helped Regina give birth healthily, he felt moved seeing how much the twins had grown.

“There was a time when Lilliana was that small too. Sometimes I miss those days.”

“Is it because she’s going through puberty now?”

“Lilliana passed through without much of a puberty phase. She’s not interested in the opposite sex, and she doesn’t lock herself in her room.”

“Instead, she causes accidents. You don’t know how shocked I was by the letter saying she broke her leg playing around on her first day of middle school.”

Being such an active child, she caused all sorts of accidents.

There was even a time when she tried to have a campfire in the courtyard and burned newspapers, but ended up burning the herbs dried between the newspapers and summoned the Drug Enforcement Unit.

When the note she left saying she was sleeping over at a friend’s house blew away in the wind and they filed a missing person report, his mouth went completely dry.

‘Thanks to that, Andrea’s nagging has lessened too.’

When he first went to Trobancha, Andrea would throw a fit just for visiting the neighborhood.

But as Lilliana kept causing accidents while he was unwell, she ended up cleaning up the messes and gradually became able to stay at the house.

“Oh right. Regina. Um… did Emilia happen to say anything?”

Regina immediately realized what Francois wanted to know.

It would be a lie to say she didn’t know.

Emilia had visited a few days ago and confided about the same topic.

“Can’t we just continue like now even after dealing with Lazarus?”

But it was too sensitive a matter for Regina to discuss.

“Well, I was busy playing with the twins, so there wasn’t much other conversation.”

“Really?”

He forced a smile, but Francois was burning with anxiety and hurriedly looked for water to drink.

Emilia’s lukewarm response had filled him with all sorts of worries.

‘What if she got tired of me long ago and is only meeting me because of Lazarus?’

After six years together, their expiration date might well be up.

As this ridiculous suspicion suddenly struck him, his hands trembled frantically.

Water spilled slightly and wet the back of his hand, but he didn’t even notice.

“Francois. I know what you’re worried about—”

As Francois’s complexion rapidly worsened, Regina tried to comfort him, but was interrupted by rough knocking from outside.

The person who entered with a flushed red face was Antonio. Francois asked with a hopeful heart.

“Did Lilliana cause another accident?”

“No. That’s not it… Today she received a confession, but she told the guy she likes him and wants to start as friends.”

“Oh my. What kind of boy?”

“Some guy called Noah Shu or something. Sister, how could she say that to me?”

Francois looked at Antonio with an understanding expression.

His characteristic relaxed and mischievous attitude was nowhere to be found, leaving only an anxious young boy.

“Even as a child, you liked Lilliana so much, and it’s finally come to this.”

“Antonio. It would be good for you to confess to Lilliana first. Tell her honestly that you’d like her to think of you as number one. If you just stay still, you’re nothing but a fool.”

“Everyone becomes a fool in front of love anyway. The guy who becomes the biggest fool in front of Emilia shouldn’t be saying that.”

Antonio sharply jabbed at Francois, then ruffled his hair and came to a conclusion.

‘Now that it’s come to this, I can’t stand it anymore.’

It was a problem that would explode eventually anyway, so it was time to settle things.

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