The Abandoned Villainess Takes Everything This Time - Chapter 158

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158.
It had been about a week since Evren brought Lillian to the Castle.
“You should eat.”
He went to wake her every morning.
Lillian, who had fallen asleep in the Chamber of Pearls, wore a disgruntled expression—whether from lingering drowsiness or something else.
“I don’t want to.”
“You can’t skip breakfast. You’ll suffer for it when you’re older.”
…….
Only then did Lillian follow him to the Dining Room.
Evren studied her complexion carefully.
Had she lost even a little weight compared to yesterday? Did she look fatigued?
Any trace of tears? Had she wept for him?
But Lillian seemed more spirited than he expected.
“You’re eating well.”
As he murmured this with satisfaction, Lillian replied curtly.
“Why would I starve for someone else’s sake?”
“At least I’d hate it. It hurts to see you go hungry.”
“That’s enough. I’ll eat well.”
“You’re seasoning that far too heavily.”
Lillian sprinkled pepper liberally, and Evren grew genuinely concerned.
“After you were bedridden every day—”
…….
“If you keep that up, you’ll get sick again.”
Then Lillian’s eyes narrowed to slits.
“Don’t you realize what happens when someone living here irritates me? I have to season my food heavily just to keep my temper down.”
“Hmm, I’m sorry about that.”
“You have no conscience.”
“Born without one, I’m afraid. It runs in the family.”
He acknowledged it with genuine remorse.
Lillian glared at him before beginning her meal.
Being hated really does hurt. He smiled bitterly.
But someday, Lillian would grow comfortable here too.
He had adjusted the humidity, temperature, and seasonal feeling of this space so she could live at ease.
Whatever she wanted, he could bring her.
The woman he loved would not suffer at all in this place.
After the meal, he reached out his hand slightly.
But when Lillian flinched from his gesture, he withdrew it.
“Would you like to go out?”
“It’s just a fake village anyway.”
Lillian replied coldly.
Evren had indeed created a village around the Castle.
He had determined that for Lillian’s mental well-being, she needed interactive living beings.
Even if they were beings like Shadow.
Evren laughed lightly.
“I’ll bring real humans later. I enjoyed seeing you loved, after all.”
“Then why are you keeping me like this now?”
“……Because I was feeling irritable.”
In his currently twisted and warped frame of mind, he couldn’t bear the thought of another human seeing Lillian for the next hundred years.
‘Any Ability User would fall for this woman entirely…….’
Even Controllers couldn’t be trusted. Not the same sex, not even children.
Every being in all existence would become obsessed with Lillian.
And thinking of that made him suddenly anxious.
He rose from his seat.
He needed to eliminate one more world where Lillian might escape. Now.
“Lillian.”
…….
“I’m going out. I’ll bring back a gift when I return.”
…….
“Is there anything you want?”
Lillian turned her back to him.
Even as she ate, her back was narrow, her body gaunt.
It hurt just to look at. But he had spilled the water knowingly.
And he felt no regret whatsoever.
* * *
Lillian admitted it herself.
This was truly, utterly, completely catastrophic.
Worse than when she’d followed the Phytoncide and her entire life plan fell apart.
‘I underestimated that man.’
If he was capable of destroying his own world and crossing over, how unstable must he have been?
In other words, that man was nothing like Ren—not some sweet, iced Americano.
He was bitter—brewed far too long and scalding.
Like taking one sip and only then realizing it was poison.
Most of all, Lillian had let her guard down without realizing it.
‘If I died like this, did you think I’d forgive you?’
The moment he’d held her dying self and sobbed was still vivid.
……This is why affection and tenderness are so frightening.
But spilled water cannot be gathered again, so let it evaporate on its own.
‘That man could destroy the world where Ren and everyone else lives at any moment. I have to hurry!’
The instant Evren left, Lillian rushed after him as if she’d been waiting.
She concentrated all her senses on smell.
In a place saturated with Phytoncide scent, there was one spot where it cut off abruptly.
Right outside the Palace Gate.
“So it’s here.”
The place that man uses to travel!
‘He can make as many movement holes as he wants with his ability, but uses only one?’
Perhaps because this space is unstable—he only uses one specific point.
“……Then I can get out.”
If it’s not a perfect cage, there’s always a way to smash through from the inside and escape!
‘If I can, I want to let Ren know I’m alive first.’
If there were someone like Barkan, the former Duke Baltazar’s Familiar—
He could carry information by word of mouth. A shame I don’t know how to summon one.
“Hmm.”
I know all sorts of random things, but not how to command a Familiar.
And to destroy this point—
“What to do.”
Lillian paced in circles.
Walking was a source of inspiration, so she hoped something would come to her.
Hello there, Bride?
“……!”
But she never imagined that inspiration would appear in the form of a palm-sized Demon Creature.
The undulating creature stretched lazily.
Phew, hiding like this was killing me.
“You—didn’t you die in the Revenants’ Palace?”
No, the Bride’s House of Tarandia took me as a servant, so I came back to life.
“Did you tell Ren about body transformation?”
…….
“You want to die?”
This damn creature.
“How did you get in here?”
Hehe, my new master stuck me right on the Bride’s back.
“……!”
Now that I think about it.
‘When we parted, I felt something being attached while I was wiping my back.’
Whether it was Ren or Evren.
Both were suspicious. They were busy locking and unlocking Lillian.
But thanks to that, I now have all the pieces I need.
“Good.”
It was time to plan an escape.
* * *
After finishing his business and returning.
Evren clicked his tongue at the flowers he’d brought back.
The moment he entered this space, the blossoms withered to black.
“……Why won’t this work?”
Hmm. What a disappointment.
For some reason, flowers kept dying in the world he’d created.
So Lillian ended up surrounded by dead plants.
‘This would be worse than the garden that man made.’
This was a problem.
Evren entered the Garden.
Lillian was dozing lightly on the swing in the Garden.
Evren carefully picked her up.
Not long after, Lillian’s eyes opened.
“You’re awake?”
He’d thought she’d turn her head away. Or respond coldly with reproach.
“……Yeah.”
But this time, Lillian didn’t refuse.
She simply nodded and stayed still, and yet he felt like he was going mad.
‘You’re so hateful!’
Better than the days when they were just stacking misunderstandings and he’d cry out like that, but now felt…….
Far more unbearable. Happy, yet anxious—his stomach churned.
Why?
He’d confined her to a world of just the two of them, yet this woman felt more distant than ever.
He sensed the answer but deliberately turned away from it.
“……What are you thinking about?”
“Your Highness.”
If she said she wanted to go home.
If she begged him to send her back to that man—
‘I’ll destroy that entire world.’
Even if Lillian watched, even if she wept, he would do it.
But Lillian blinked with a sullen expression.
“I’m bored.”
“……Hmm?”
“I’m bored, you know.”
Lillian sighed with a whimper in her voice.
“Then find me some Artifact materials.”
“You don’t like resting and taking it easy?”
“Sleeping in only lasts so long. When there’s a Workshop right here, how can I do nothing?”
“Why do you have to live each day so productively?”
His eyes narrowed.
“Why are you like this? Are you planning something entertaining?”
If she was thinking of escaping—
But then Lillian frowned.
“Evren. Don’t you like me?”
Evren’s breath caught.
He nearly dropped her from the shock.
How could she say such a thing?

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