The Abandoned Villainess Takes Everything This Time - Chapter 122

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122.

Lillian only blinked her eyes.

This man was making an expression as if he couldn’t understand at all.

‘This is strange.’

It was the Tillard Family who had abandoned Lillian in the crumbling Imperial Palace.

There were other people who had left her to bleed to death from debris instead of Iris.

Ramio did apologize though.

But she would never be able to receive an apology for that moment forever.

‘But why does it seem like this man is the one with regrets?’

Lillian hesitated for a moment, then reached her hand toward the Villain’s cheek.

Her Villain had always acted like a cat, asking to have his cheek stroked every time.

‘Even if it’s a dream, wouldn’t he like it if he’s the same person?’

And as expected, an immediate reaction appeared.

The Villain inhaled slowly and roughly.

His face, which had been distorted with pain and anger just moments ago, relaxed at an unbelievably fast pace.

“It’s me, it’s really Lillian.”

“….”

“I really awakened and became like this.”

Watching his eyes turn reddish, Lillian slowly moved her hand down to his nape.

As soon as she touched it, the chain mark appeared translucently.

‘Even in this dream, he’s imprinted to me?’

Just how far did Caspian’s lucid dream implement things.

It was really perverted, giving her chills in a different way from Carkin or Prince Kail.

But she heard a restraining breath from above her head.

Her shoulders flinched involuntarily.

“Ah….”

After slightly moving her eyes upward from his nape, Lillian swallowed dry saliva.

It felt like every strand of her hair would burn under this man’s gaze.

“…Don’t touch.”

“Yes.”

Lillian also wanted to quickly remove her hand.

But she couldn’t remove it because he was holding Lillian’s hand that had been stroking his nape.

‘This is strange.’

A tingling sensation arose from the hand clasped with his.

Hot bubble-like stimulation flowed quickly to her heart, making her feel like she might hiccup.

The air in the room was so difficult to look at him directly….

Strangely hot.

‘Come to think of it, our position.’

Is it a bit improper…?

Originally, she held hands with the Villain every day and even gave cheek kisses as greetings.

Why am I suddenly so embarrassed, like heat is rising throughout my body….

“…Ugh.”

“Lillian?”

It wasn’t just like heat was rising.

In the blink of an eye, heat was really rising.

The man’s voice calling her name sounded muffled.

‘Huh.’

This seems very similar to when we first met in the North…?

‘But that was awakening fever back then.’

There’s no way awakening fever would come again now.

So this must be fever rising from exhaustion.

But as her consciousness became hazily blurred, she had an ominous feeling.

What if this isn’t a dream?

* * *

Lillian was bedridden with fever again.

Evren took out the nursing supplies that were stocked in this barracks. He was used to it since it happened often.

Just then, an attendant asked carefully through the slightly open barracks door.

“Your Highness, Lady Tillard’s nursing—.”

“Get out.”

Evren commanded without even looking.

He had never liked exposing Lillian Tillard to others’ eyes. Now he hated it to the point of nausea.

But it wasn’t for that reason that he made the empty medicine bottle disappear.

“I hear there were rumors about this woman while I was away.”

“…That.”

“Excellent. You managed it well so it wouldn’t reach my ears.”

“Pl, please forgive us!”

The attendant and the servants following behind prostrated themselves flat.

While Belliel was the one who ignited the gossip, there had always been those who spoke ill of Lillian before.

Evren was often out in battle, so he was in the dark about such rumors.

Evren slowly approached the attendant.

When he placed his hand on his shoulder, only a sensation like winter had passed remained.

Evren turned around again and commanded.

“Belliel. I’ll interrogate that priest myself, so deal with his limbs first.”

“…! Yes, understood!”

Those who received the order hurriedly left their positions.

Evren slowly wiped Lillian’s face, which had bloomed with fever, with a wet towel.

His hand still trembled slightly from the stimulation when Lillian had touched him.

He knows it too.

That to anyone watching, he also looks like a seriously ill patient.

‘Is Lillian Tillard playing with me?’

It was so unbelievable that he even had such thoughts.

In fact, the two fought all the time.

He didn’t really know why they fought either.

They clearly spoke the same language, but communication didn’t go well.

It was the same on the day he learned about the ‘prophecy’ that had been given to Lillian.

‘You and I could never be imprinted even if we died and came back to life.’

He felt a maddening sense of loss at the fact that he could not become Lillian Tillard’s destiny.

He couldn’t even explain well why he felt loss, or his own condition.

On the other hand, Lillian was angry.

‘Then abandon me! Strange guys will target me. What are you doing holding onto baggage!’

Lillian was in pain in her own way.

He also despaired every time without knowing why he was frustrated.

“…I’m crazy.”

Why would he abandon her.

He had to protect her by killing even one more of those bastards.

His body was rattling, but if he just had a little more time.

‘Even if I could just eliminate all of the annoying Kail’s side—.’

He was no longer interested in things like the Emperor’s throne.

Completely eradicating the elements that would threaten this woman was most important.

That alone was his driving force.

‘Why doesn’t she know that?’

When he slowly removed the towel from Lillian’s cheek, her delicate eyelashes trembled like the movement of butterfly wings.

As Lillian looked at him with hazy eyes, he deliberately spoke harshly.

“Why are you looking at me like that.”

“….”

“Do you hate me again now that you see me?”

“….”

He wouldn’t let her go, but he asked just to be sure.

Lillian pouted her lips.

Evren found himself paying more attention to the shape and color of those lips than he expected.

“If you speak nicely to me, I won’t hate you….”

“…Nicely?”

It was an unexpected answer.

Evren awkwardly touched the corner of his mouth.

There were consequences to his rock-bottom understanding of humans.

“Is there a problem with how I talk?”

“…Record yourself and listen….”

“….”

“Objectively, look back at what you’ve said so far….”

Lillian turned her back to him completely and lay down.

“You always call me useless.”

“That’s-.”

It’s just that it didn’t matter if she was useless.

Lillian was the first being he wanted to keep by his side without considering efficiency.

That’s why he said it that way.

Even now that Lillian had awakened as a Controller, her value to him wouldn’t change.

Lillian, who had turned her back to him, hunched her shoulders.

“Whenever I tried to do anything, you only got angry.”

She was the woman he wanted to meet after leaving the Tower of Seclusion.

He hated seeing such a woman trying to do menial tasks while reading the faces of those beneath her.

“You always hurt me the most.”

“….”

“Please speak kindly to me.”

For the first time, Lillian explained in words he could understand.

His heart throbbed.

In their relationship that had been full of pain and anger, a solution seemed to appear.

Yet a numbing pain arose in his heart.

Because the woman who was his heart was in pain.

Evren buried his face in Lillian’s shoulder. The lily scent from Lillian made his heart race as if it would burst.

He didn’t know that wanting someone too much could make you want to kill everything in the world and want to die yourself.

He was that desperate.

“Don’t cry.”

“….”

“I’ll give it all back to you.”

“What…?”

“Everything you lost because of me.”

The legs that became unusable because he attacked the Imperial Palace.

The honor she lost for being on the same side as him, and all the places she could go….

“I’ll give it all back.”

“….”

Lillian never turned around. But she didn’t push him away either.

Evren touched the back of his neck.

It had been so painful that he had imprinted it long ago, but foolishly didn’t realize.

He didn’t know that the pleasure of becoming Lillian’s felt like this.

Evren closed his eyes.

It was one week before this timeline’s world would be destroyed.

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