The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 9

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Episode 9

[You will take your own life by your own will]

Honestly, it wasn’t particularly good content. However, the Empress somehow managed to interpret this in a positive direction.

She argued that as long as he didn’t take his own life, he wouldn’t die by any means.

While this seemed a bit forced, it wasn’t entirely wrong when you thought about it.

Moreover, when combined with the oracle Lionel received, it couldn’t be definitively said that the First Prince wouldn’t ascend to the throne, so under the Empress’s fierce opposition, Lionel’s appointment as crown prince had been postponed repeatedly until now.

“Is there anything else you’re curious about?”

“No. I’ve pretty much figured everything out.”

“Look at you taking interest in Imperial Palace politics. It really seems like position makes the person.”

My brother probably thought I was worried about not being able to become Empress.

‘It’s not like I particularly want to become Empress.’

I just didn’t want to be kidnapped and confined, and I didn’t want to worry our family, but I couldn’t voice this fact, so I quietly focused on my meal.

After that, it was still too early to go to sleep. Instead of heading to my bedroom, I went to the workshop.

“Miss, are you going to make a magical tool?”

“Yeah. I tried to behave and attend lessons properly, but no matter how I think about it, the Imperial Family genealogy is just not happening.”

Due to previous unfinished work, the large workbench was cluttered with blueprints, magic stone fragments, and various other work tools.

Since I had made it so no one could touch anything in this workshop, I had to do the cleaning myself. Of course, that was something that happened maybe once a year.

Today too, I roughly swept the items on the desk to one side and spread out a large piece of paper, securing it with paperweights.

“Now then, what kind of magical tool should I make…?”

If it’s a form that would allow natural cheating, it would probably be this.

“Alright, I’ve decided on you!”

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“All of them… are correct.”

After checking the test paper, the Empress spoke in a bewildered voice and looked at me with a truly surprised face.

“How did you memorize all of this?”

“I didn’t memorize everything. I was lucky. And…”

I folded the arms of the glasses I was wearing, put them in their case, then covered my mouth with my hand and laughed softly.

“When my father heard I was receiving Empress lessons, he gave me these glasses as a gift. Thanks to these glasses, I think I was able to concentrate well.”

It wasn’t a lie.

It was true that I got good grades thanks to the glasses, and it was also true that the person who gave me these glasses was my father.

The only secret was that these glasses were a magical tool with the ability to input the contents of books I read just like filming with a camera lens and search for only the parts I wanted.

‘Since it’s not known externally that I’m a magical tool creator, they could never suspect these glasses.’

If there was a possibility that another magical tool creator could have made them, they might have been suspicious, but I was the only person who could create a magical tool with this level of ability.

Because I’m a genius!

Swallowing the desire to laugh out loud, I smiled brightly at the Empress.

“Today’s lesson ends with this, right? Then may I take my leave now?”

The Empress made a displeased expression, but since there was nothing particular to find fault with, she nodded.

“Very well… You may do so.”

“Yes. Then I’ll come to see you again next week.”

On my way out of the Empress’s Palace after gracefully bowing in greeting, I hummed a tune in good spirits.

‘With this, one problem solved! I’ll have to keep getting help from these glasses for the Imperial Family genealogy memorization tests.’

However, this good mood didn’t last long.

“I’m sorry. I lost the fountain pen you gave me.”

It was because of this news that Lionel, who greeted me, confessed straight away without any thought of hiding it.

My blood pressure shot up instantly and I reflexively grabbed the back of my neck.

But I couldn’t act rashly in a place that wasn’t home. I immediately straightened my posture and cooled my anger with the rose tea the head butler brought out.

However, because the tea was hot, the heat didn’t subside at all.

“Whew… Fine. Since you told me honestly, I think I’ll forgive you?”

Perhaps my glaring eyes were burdensome, as Lionel avoided my gaze and looked down.

I called his name, telling him to look at me properly.

“How many days has it been since I gave you that fountain pen and you’ve already lost it? Where exactly, how, and what were you doing when you lost it?”

Lionel remained silent for a long time with an unreadable expression.

Then, perhaps deciding it wasn’t something to hide, he looked into my eyes and told me the truth.

“To be precise, I didn’t lose it. My older brother asked for it, so I gave it to him.”

“You just gave it away because he asked for it? A token of love from your fiancée?”

“I’m sorry.”

I was so dumbfounded that my mouth fell open.

Lionel apologized with a face that made me wonder if he really felt sorry toward me, then continued while slightly lowering his gaze.

“So please don’t give me such gifts anymore. I don’t have the ability to take care of precious things.”

It left a bitter taste. Because I could tell that wasn’t an excuse because he didn’t want to receive my gifts, but his literal sincere feelings.

“That’s quite an ungraceful thing to say.”

“It’s not much of a replacement, but I’ve prepared a return gift.”

Lionel’s gaze turned toward the attendant, who immediately approached where we were sitting and held out a small box.

When I checked inside, there was a fountain pen. It was a fountain pen with an amethyst the same color as Lionel’s eyes embedded in the clip part.

It seems he did listen to what I said about it being a blue diamond the exact same color as my eyes.

‘The body is nice, and the nib is good too…’

I liked it, but without showing such feelings, I put the fountain pen back in the box and closed the lid.

“Please keep this for now.”

“Didn’t you like it?”

“No. You said this was a return gift for the present I gave you, right? Then first, Leo needs to have my gift.”

“But…”

“Never mind that, just wait a moment.”

Honestly, I had anticipated this kind of thing would happen from the moment I gave him the fountain pen as a gift, and today I even came to the Imperial Palace fully prepared for it.

But actually experiencing this…

‘I’m so annoyed I could die. How dare he steal my gift?’

I don’t know how twisted someone’s personality has to be to steal a gift that a younger brother’s fiancée gave to her younger brother.

‘The younger brother might have just watched it happen, but the younger brother’s fiancée won’t let this slide!’

I headed toward the First Prince’s Palace, fuming.

* * *

“Really? She passed the genealogy memorization test with a perfect score?”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

Cayen pretended to be calm on the outside, but inwardly he couldn’t help but be amazed.

‘Mother would have definitely made the test difficult…’

Of course, since it was a simple memorization test, all that was required of Cecilia was memory.

But passing the Empress’s test with a perfect score was definitely not something to take lightly.

Moreover, hadn’t he blown plenty of wind into his mother’s ears about the need to strictly educate the future Empress?

“Did she go to meet Leo today too?”

“Yes. I confirmed that the Duke’s daughter’s carriage headed toward the Second Prince’s Palace.”

“I see. Good work, you may go.”

Left alone in the room, Cayen lay stretched out on the sofa and held up high the fountain pen he had gotten from Lionel.

‘Blue diamond… This color isn’t common.’

A color closer to water than blue.

It was a color that reminded him of Cecilia’s eyes.

‘Indeed, this is fitting for a gift to give to one’s fiancé.’

Cayen looked at the jewel embedded in the fountain pen with deep eyes whose inner thoughts were unreadable.

In his ears, the voices of the Empress’s Palace maids were echoing.

“The Second Prince and the Duke of Roheim’s daughter? As expected, it ended up that way after all.”

“So that’s why Her Majesty the Empress was so angry. She had put effort into trying to match the Duke of Roheim’s daughter with the First Prince.”

“Honestly, it’s impossible. If it were me, with the Second Prince there, I wouldn’t choose the First Prince…”

Learning the facts from listening to the maids’ chatter, Cayen realized that the world operated in a most unreasonable way.

Why should he have to give up everything just because he’s sickly? Being born weak isn’t even his fault!

But despite feeling wronged and resentful, there was nothing he could do. For his own sake, he had to give up what was no longer his.

Still, he had lingering regrets.

Not for some pathetic, childish reason like falling for Cecilia at first sight or anything like that….

“Your Highness. The Duke of Roheim’s daughter is requesting an audience with you.”

“Duke of Roheim’s… who did you say?”

Cayen snapped out of his reverie as if awakening from a light sleep, his face startled as he bolted upright.

“Cecilia? She came to see me?”

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