I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 9

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Chapter 9

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Naturally, I couldn’t sleep properly.

I was lying on the stone floor like a beggar, and the cold ground made me shiver all night long.

I was so exhausted that I didn’t even think about how sleeping like that might leave my face twisted.

It was raining, and the cave was filled with cold air, and the temperature difference was so severe that it was incredibly cold…

Even in my dreams, I was shivering from the cold.

‘It’s really cold.’

The accumulated fatigue seemed to be washing over me, making even my mind feel hazy. What a vivid dream this was.

As I was shivering for a while in my half-conscious state, someone approached me. In my blurry vision, I could see Enoch’s jacket flickering.

I desperately reached out and grabbed onto Enoch’s jacket. The warm sensation touching my hands somehow made my heart ache.

“What’s wrong?”

Someone in the dream asked me. I frowned with a pained expression while looking at the jacket.

“Because it’s heartless.”

“…Heartless?”

I pulled on Enoch’s jacket again as I answered.

“This guy, I mean. Jackie. It’s the one that used to cover my shoulders when I was shivering from the cold.”

Right. That’s how it used to be… Suddenly overwhelmed by sadness, tears welled up in my eyes.

“Stupid thing. What’s the point of being draped over some other useless body… I’m so cold right now.”

“…”

“I guess its love for me has cooled. Bad bastard. How can love change like that?”

Sniffling with tears, I wistfully let go of the jacket I was holding. The jacket was wrinkled and misshapen from how tightly I had gripped it.

Even that pitiful sight tugged at my heartstrings.

My heart ached again, so I turned away from the wrinkled jacket and fell asleep.

I think I even heard someone chuckling softly after our conversation…

When I came to my senses, it was already morning.

‘What kind of dream was that?’

I lay there in a daze with just my eyes open. I thought I had fallen asleep while shivering from the cold, but my body felt surprisingly refreshed.

‘It doesn’t feel real and my memory is hazy… Was it really just a dream?’

As I was tilting my head in confusion, I felt something cozy and looked down.

A jacket made of luxurious fabric was wrapped around my shoulders. It was Enoch’s.

Looking around and then toward the cave entrance, I could see morning sunlight streaming in between the stone walls that had been stacked up to waist height. The rain seemed to have completely stopped.

Enoch was at the cave entrance. He had rolled up his shirt sleeves and was diligently moving large stone blocks.

Perhaps due to his years spent on battlefields, Enoch tended to pursue practicality rather than maintaining his dignity as the crown prince.

I didn’t refuse the jacket he had covered me with and put it on properly as I approached Enoch.

He glanced at me briefly. I thought he might say something, but he simply turned his head away and started clearing stones again without a word.

I was sure that in my dream, I had looked at Enoch’s jacket and said something like ‘What’s the point of being draped over some other useless body?’

It couldn’t have been real and not a dream, could it? If that were the case…

‘Am I crazy? I wasn’t even drunk, so why did I do that? Spouting such nonsense without any context.’

My mind went completely blank. Forget worrying about insulting royalty, it was just embarrassing!

But fortunately, Enoch seemed no different than usual.

‘…Since he’s not saying anything, it must have been a dream, right?’

Finally feeling a bit relieved, I gathered my strength and helped him clear the stones.

But then,

“It seems your love has been fulfilled.”

“…Excuse me?”

The sudden question hit my eardrums like a punch.

Enoch finished clearing all the stones, dusted off his hands, and turned to look at me. With one hand placed on his hip, he pointed at the jacket I was wearing and smiled.

“Wouldn’t it be better to fulfill the jacket’s love rather than having it on this useless body that I am?”

‘Damn it, it wasn’t a dream!’

I panicked and rolled my eyes to avoid his gaze. And at that moment,

“Bad bastard, how can love change like that?”

Even the last line I had uttered came back to me.

This is why people should speak nicely even in everyday life.

“That… I don’t know what you mean.”

“Are you going to pretend you don’t know?”

An uncharacteristically playful question from Enoch pierced my ears. Flustered, I just opened and closed my mouth before finally answering in a small voice.

“That was… just nonsense I said while half-asleep…”

“After giving it such a cute name like Jackie, if you deny it like that, Jackie the bastard will be hurt.”

Damn it, he heard the cursing too.

Trying to change the subject somehow, I rolled my eyes and carefully opened my mouth.

“You sound very awkward when you curse.”

“It’s my first time using such explicit profanity. But Young Lady, you were very natural at it. As if it were everyday speech.”

Shit. It was everyday speech, so I had nothing to say again.

“N-no! That wasn’t me. Your Highness must have been dreaming. I can’t curse like that. I’m nobility, after all.”

Enoch languidly stroked his chin and smiled.

“…If you’re embarrassed, I’ll pretend not to know.”

He spoke as if doing me a favor.

Then he approached me with leisurely steps and tapped the gold insignia on the shoulder of the jacket I was wearing with his finger.

His gaze slowly traveled up from my shoulder, along my neck. Eventually, our eyes met.

A crooked smile appeared on his lips. He spoke as if he found this situation very interesting.

“Well, Young Lady has always been quite eccentric. So it wasn’t strange.”

‘Just call me strange instead. Cruel bastard.’

It seemed I still had a long way to go to improve my image. Feeling somewhat sad, I wiped away tears that weren’t even flowing.

“I support Young Lady’s love.”

“It’s not like that!”

When I finally shouted in annoyance, he burst into laughter with a delighted expression.

His laughing face was so handsome. I forgot about being annoyed and stared at him in a daze.

Of course, that laughter didn’t last long. He returned to his calm expression and looked at me with a blank face.

He looked so serious that I thought he was going to say something profound, but

“Keep wearing the jacket. I’m afraid of being called a useless body again.”

He’s teasing me to the very end, damn it.

Wait, was Enoch always this kind of person?

In the original work, and even in Margaret’s memories of Crown Prince Enoch, he definitely wasn’t like this!

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