The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 10

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Episode 10

“Yes. She’s in the reception room.”

Cayen didn’t realize it, but the moment he heard those words, the corners of his mouth curled upward.

“Then right now… Ugh.”

The moment he stood up from the sofa, Cayen staggered as sudden dizziness overwhelmed him.

“Your Highness!”

Before the attendant could hurry to support him, Cayen’s body collapsed onto the sofa.

“Your Highness, are you alright? Should I call the palace physician?”

“No…”

If he called the palace physician, that news would immediately reach the Empress’s ears. Then she would come straight to the First Prince’s Palace, making it impossible to meet Cecilia.

“I’m fine… Guide Cecilia here.”

“Here, you say?”

The reason the attendant hesitated was because this place was Cayen’s bedroom.

Regardless of his physical condition, it wasn’t an appropriate place to meet his younger brother’s fiancée alone.

“Is there some problem with that?”

“No… Not at all. I’ll bring the Duke’s daughter right away.”

The attendant wasn’t in a position to refuse the First Prince’s command in the first place.

Shortly after, he returned to the bedroom with Cecilia.

“Your Highness. This is Duke Roheim’s daughter.”

The attendant who brought Cecilia to Cayen’s bedroom quietly called the attendants who were outside to come in, and also had Cecilia’s maid enter together.

Then he left the door wide open as well. This was his best effort to prevent any potential scandal.

“It’s an honor to meet you, First Prince. Cecilia Roheim greets you.”

Cecilia gracefully curtsied toward Cayen, who had barely managed to sit up on the sofa.

Cayen slowly exhaled while observing her appearance.

‘At the dinner, she seemed like a thoughtless child…’

Her movements were quite decent. Her pretty face still had a youthful quality, but when she grew up and became an adult, she seemed likely to bloom like a white lily.

Even though there was no reason for it, Cayen’s mood improved and he offered Cecilia a seat with a faint smile on his lips.

“Philip, serve tea to the Duke’s daughter. You like rose tea, don’t you?”

“No. Tea is fine. I’ll be leaving soon anyway.”

“Leaving soon?”

His mood strangely sank. Cayen looked at Cecilia’s brightly smiling face with a pale gaze and crossed his legs.

“Now that I think about it, I’m curious. What purpose did the Duke’s daughter have in coming to see me?”

“I wanted to give Your Highness a gift.”

“A gift?”

Are you trying to win my favor?

While Cayen was making such speculation, Cecilia told Uni to bring the gifts.

Shortly after, five boxes were stacked on the table.

“What’s this?”

“They’re gifts, I told you. Try opening one.”

Cecilia said with a bright smile.

Cayen stared at her face, then picked up a box and opened the lid.

“This is… a fountain pen.”

It was a considerably high-quality item, impressive even to his eyes as a prince.

Though he hadn’t opened them yet, the gifts in the other four boxes were likely luxury items of the same caliber.

Cayen satisfyingly gripped the fountain pen’s body, then spun it between his fingers while asking Cecilia.

“You wouldn’t give me something like this for no reason… What’s your reason for trying to win my favor?”

“I heard that Your Highness took the fountain pen I gave to my fiancé.”

The fountain pen stopped abruptly between Cayen’s fingers, and his gaze turned to the fountain pen with the blue diamond that he had placed on the table earlier.

Since the item was out in plain sight, he couldn’t make excuses.

Somehow his cheeks felt hot. To avoid being caught, Cayen met Cecilia’s eyes and spoke in a deliberately leisurely tone.

“That’s right. Did Lionel tell you that?”

“Yes. Your Highness wouldn’t have taken the fountain pen my younger brother received from his fiancée for no reason. You must have needed a fountain pen to use right away.”

Cecilia, who had been smiling brightly the whole time, picked up the fountain pen with the blue diamond before Cayen could stop her.

“This is part of a matching set between me and my fiancé. I’ll take it back so there won’t be any unnecessary misunderstandings.”

“By whose authority?”

Cayen replied in a cold voice, but Cecilia didn’t even blink.

“By my own authority, of course. This is a token of love I made to give to my fiancé. But Your Highness isn’t my fiancé.”

And Cecilia stood up from her seat. With a very confident attitude, as if she wasn’t afraid of any consequences.

“Then I’ll take my leave now. I heard you’re not feeling well, so please rest well…”

“Do you know this? Your original fiancé was me. But the partner changed later.”

It was a lie. After blurting out those words without thinking, he regretted it himself.

Cecilia was also quite surprised, as astonishment spread across her beautiful face.

What could she be thinking beneath that pretty face?

Perhaps she was thinking it was a pity that the partner had changed…

“Anyway, my current fiancé is Lionel.”

“…You call him by a nickname?”

“He’s my fiancé. To become close, you have to start by calling each other nicknames.”

As if there was nothing more to discuss, Cecilia gracefully curtsied to Cayen.

“Then I’ll take my leave now, First Prince.”

While she called Lionel’s name so familiarly, her voice addressing him as “First Prince” was very formal.

Cayen scoffed as he watched Cecilia turn away from him and walk away without any lingering attachment. The more he thought about it, the more absurd it became.

‘How incredibly insolent.’

Rude and disrespectful. Arrogant and impudent. But that appearance wasn’t unpleasant to look at.

Cayen unconsciously found himself imagining.

“Cai.”

His nickname that no one except the Empress dared to speak.

Imagining that nickname, which would only be permitted to the woman who would stand by his side, coming from Cecilia’s lips, Cayen looked down at the gift boxes piled like a mountain in front of him.

Unlike the fountain pen Cecilia had taken, saying it was for her fiancé, these were cheap items with no meaning.

“Outrageous… Absolutely outrageous.”

The movement of his index finger tapping the chair’s armrest gradually quickened. Seeing his increasingly irritated and rough demeanor, the attendant nervously swallowed.

“Go tell my mother.”

“Pardon? …Ah, yes! Please command me!”

“The newcomer who became the youngest bishop wanted to treat me, didn’t he?”

He had met all the doctors said to be skilled, and of course the renowned archbishops and even the Pope.

Nevertheless, his body couldn’t be cured, so he no longer wanted to receive any more treatments…

“Cai.”

He needed to hear her call him that with that voice, with those small lips, to calm his anger.

“The youngest bishop or whatever… Tell her I’ll give a chance to those who stepped forward to treat me.”

It would be unfortunate for Lionel, but he should have it after all.

Everything that he currently held in his hands.

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Wow, this is crazy, absolutely crazy.

‘My original fiancé was the First Prince? Is this something our parents agreed on too?’

Could it be that in the novel, my fiancé changed after the First Prince became Crown Prince for that reason?

‘No, but still, wouldn’t you feel reluctant about a woman who was engaged to your younger brother? I’d find it a bit disgusting.’

Apart from that physiological discomfort, the First Prince and I just didn’t match in personality.

Just seeing how he came to his younger brother’s meeting and ruined the whole atmosphere was answer enough.

‘Actually, Lionel’s side is also a ticking time bomb.’

But this one had a possibility of ending as a dud if I chose the right red and blue wires to cut. …There is that possibility, right? I could only hope so.

Returning to the Second Prince’s Palace, I looked down at Lionel sitting at his desk and crossed my arms.

“Have you reflected on your actions at all?”

“What reflection do you mean?”

“Reflecting on how you failed to properly take care of the token of love your fiancée gave you.”

“Ah.”

Lionel blinked with a face that showed he hadn’t done any such thing.

I had to close my eyes for a moment to calm the rising anger within me.

‘Whether it’s the First Prince or Second Prince, wouldn’t it be better to take our whole family and run away right now?’

Thinking that I should seriously keep that possibility open, I sighed and set the box I was holding down on the desk.

“Here.”

“What is this?”

“What do you think it is?”

Despite my somewhat curt tone, he just blinked and carefully opened the box with cautious hands.

Then he looked at the fountain pen inside and showed a surprised expression.

For the first time, he who always seemed like a doll looked human.

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