Thought It Was ‘The End’, Only to Return to a Changed Genre - Chapter 118

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Epilogue 3. My Daughter Can’t Be a Villainess (4)

One day before the marriage proposal arrived.

Edelaine was enjoying a leisurely holiday morning.

After all, a holiday meant staying in bed half-asleep even after the sun had risen.

Feeling the sunlight tickling her eyelids, she turned to lie on her right side, and the soft pillowcase touched her cheek.

The early summer morning had hot sunlight but the breeze was still cool. Such a pleasant morning would be hard to enjoy in just a few days. Edelaine resolved to stay in bed until at least lunchtime.

A thick arm wrapped around Edelaine’s waist as she turned over.

He spread his large palm between her chest and stomach, pressing down, then pulled her body toward him. When her soft bottom touched his firm body and stopped, warm breath reached the top of her head.

Edelaine unconsciously smiled and turned only her upper body back.

Though he kept his eyes closed pretending not to be awake, judging by what was pressed tightly below, he was clearly awake. Edelaine gently bit the sharp tip of his chin in front of her and said.

“Are you acting spoiled?”

“Don’t move away, Edelaine.”

He stretched his neck out and kissed her slightly dry lips with a smacking sound.

Since he had stopped pretending to sleep and opened his eyes, she kissed his cheekbone too. Shane laid his head on the pillow. Edelaine climbed on top of him and lay overlapping.

His bare upper body was firm and warm.

Though it seemed like it would be rough being so firm, Shane’s skin was rather soft. It was dry since he didn’t sweat much, but warm due to his slightly higher body temperature.

She worried if the body part pressed by her stomach might be uncomfortable, but Shane himself seemed unbothered.

Just looking at his expression, he seemed like a peaceful, languid person who had just woken up. Edelaine playfully rested her chin on his chest and said.

“I just turned over. When did I move away?”

She had only moved a little away from the center of the bed. It wasn’t even worth calling a distance. At most about 30 centimeters.

“You weren’t within reach of my hand.”

“The bed is this big, so I could be a little apart…”

Why did we even bring in such a huge bed that could fit five grown men, if this was going to happen.

“No. It’s lonely.”

Shane smiled and stroked Edelaine’s head with his large hand.

He ran his fingers through her hair that had gotten tangled overnight, combing it down, and carefully rubbed her earlobes and behind her ears. Edelaine slightly frowned and hunched her shoulders.

“Lonely, my foot. You just want to touch me.”

“I get anxious too. You know I can’t sleep without you.”

His teasing tone was mischievous.

He knew her ears were sensitive and was deliberately rubbing them suggestively.

While making such a saintly face.

Having been tormented until she fainted from exhaustion last night, Edelaine didn’t want to be worn out from the morning. Holiday mornings should be for enjoying languid leisure, not breaking a sweat. When she slightly twisted her head to avoid his touch, this time he started massaging her nape.

Edelaine, who had been about to glare at Shane, pursed her lips.

How could he make such eyes?

When she saw Shane’s eyes looking at her, she felt as if sand was mixing with blood inside her heart.

How should she put it. As if he was looking at the most lovable and beautiful thing that existed in the world…

‘Even though I’m not that wonderful.’

What must she look like in Shane’s eyes to have such a warm color?

Edelaine grumbled.

“I even had a child, where would I go if I left?”

“I could be left behind, but the child couldn’t?”

“I’m saying isn’t it time to feel secure now…”

Shane shook his head with slightly mischievous eyes.

“What makes you charming is that you make it impossible to feel secure, Edelaine.”

“Right, so…”

“Maybe I could feel a little secure if you had three children like in the fairy tale.”

A fairy tale similar to 【The Fairy and the Woodcutter】 existed in this world too.

In the end, that fairy also managed to take all three children she had and left, but Edelaine pretended not to know and said.

“Then let’s have two more.”

“No.”

“Ah, why. Isn’t Lisa pretty? The second and third will be pretty too. I want to have more.”

“I told you, Edelaine. If I had known you’d have to risk your life giving birth, I would have been thorough with contraception from the start.”

“But we can’t not have children. As long as it’s not right before death, Genevieve might save me, and also.”

“Your life, safety, none of it is up for compromise. It’s useless to persuade me, so stop it, my love.”

“If you love me, you should respect me too.”

“It’s family planning, so respect my opinion too.”

Shane was firm and cold.

Though the labor was short and intense at two hours, after hearing she nearly died from excessive bleeding, Shane was thorough with contraception during relations.

That didn’t mean the duration or frequency of relations decreased though.

“Lisa will be lonely growing up alone.”

“Lisa will never know what loneliness is in her lifetime. First of all, Lloyd won’t let that happen.”

“…When Lisa gets married…”

“…Well, I don’t want to assume such a terrible future that I don’t need to imagine yet, but if she must marry, we can bring in a son-in-law.”

“You really hate it, Shane…”

“It’s not that I hate children, Edelaine.”

Shane pressed his lips firmly against Edelaine’s temple.

If Edelaine was his color, then Lisa was temperature.

When he found parts of Lisa that resembled Edelaine, that child’s existence became unbearably lovable. Her very existence seemed like a miracle.

But regardless of how lovable Lisa was, the fact that Edelaine had risked her life to give birth to her remained unchanged.

Edelaine was insensitive to her own pain and wouldn’t scream unless it was quite painful. As if she thought she was the protagonist of some heroic tale, she would grit her teeth and endure flesh-tearing pain.

And no matter how difficult it was, whether she cried or writhed in pain, she would treat it lightly as something that had passed.

That Edelaine couldn’t endure it and screamed for two whole hours. It meant unimaginable pain.

During the moment when Edelaine fully bore such pain and risked her life, Shane had to stand helplessly beyond the wall, trembling with fear. That was so terrifying.

If Edelaine had died giving birth… Shane wouldn’t have been able to love Lisa as he does now.

He would have cherished and loved Edelaine’s traces and wished for happiness, but that would have been loving Edelaine’s traces, not Lisa herself.

“Jeff’s older brother said recently that there’s no way Lisa could get a boyfriend.”

“It would be good if she didn’t.”

Shane chuckled and said.

“Who could handle it? Most would run away just seeing the guardians’ or caregivers’ eyes.”

“What cowards.”

“…Wouldn’t most people run away?”

Even Genevieve had developed a sharp image after becoming Pope. According to rumors, even ogres would run away just seeing the Pope’s gaze.

Though it was probably an exaggerated rumor, it meant she had gained that much dignity.

Come to think of it, Lisa had no friends, let alone a boyfriend.

It was because of Lloyd and Genevieve, among others, who were wary of anyone who approached her.

Isn’t my daughter going to become a loner at this rate?

“It’s still a distant future, Edelaine. You don’t need to worry about it already.”

Our daughter is only three years old now.

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That evening, they heard about the marriage proposal at dinner with Prince Edwin.

Edwin alone remained calm in the coldly settled atmosphere.

“It’s just a marriage proposal, Shane. I’m not saying to accept it.”

“I know.”

“That’s not a face I know at all.”

That’s a face ready to tear someone apart and kill them.

“The First Prince of the Kingdom of Rembui sent a marriage proposal. To be precise, he asked me to make the connection.”

“The Kingdom of Rembui, you say.”

Edelaine searched her memory.

She recalled the incident where the princess of Rembui, who had been Edwin’s former fiancée, personally started a rebellion to overthrow her parents and made the man she loved king.

He was the son of that couple.

‘What is this, this narrative.’

Isn’t this really a novel.

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