When The Villainess Died, The Male Lead Went Crazy - Chapter 63
Translator and Editor: Effe and Yonnee
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Chapter 63
“Wife.”
“…….”
“You’re shaking.”
Kylian hugged Anais, who was trapped in his arms. He let go of her hand that he was holding, conscious of her back touching his chest.
“Wife.”
Anais let out a quivering breath hearing the sound of his low voice in her left ear. Then he let go of her waist, which he had held tight.
“I didn’t wipe your back enough.”
He said that as a warning and let her go completely.
Anais could tell without looking back that she was trapped between his legs. She didn’t resist and decided to stay that way. Then, in relief, he wet the towel again and wiped her back.
It was ticklish.
Even so, he was gentle. But there was roughness when his rough fingers brushed against her. She had to endure in silence. Even when he stroked her shoulder blades, pressed on her back, and tickled her lower back.
The casually passing hands were just too stimulating.
“Wife.”
“Kyl… ugh…”
With her throat clenching up, it made Anais unable to speak at all. Besides, she was frustrated because she couldn’t figure out just what in the world was going on.
Kylian watched Anais sleep and then fell asleep himself. He hadn’t dreamed since she awoke, but now he was dreaming about the old days.
A dream of the day he first met her.
“Hi?”
“…Hi.”
In front of him was ten year old Anais. Kylian knew that he was sold here because he was of the imperial family.
Kylian was born as a prince, but he was recognized as a prince only on his ninth birthday. The reason he came here, less than a year after he was formally recognized as the prince, was because the prince who had previously come to Duke Percival’s residence had died.
Kylian was the Emperor’s fourteenth son. He had thirteen older brothers and twenty older sisters. Among them, only one was the Empress’s son, and all of them had different mothers. There were over a hundred women who slept with the Emperor, but were not even treated as mistresses, while there were four imperial consorts.
Kylian’s mother was one of those people. A woman whom the Emperor held in his arms just to waste a bit of time. The Emperor did not even treat lowly women as mistresses.
Mad with jealousy, the empress did not hesitate to kill the women that once lay in the Emperor’s bed. If the women bore any children, she would kill both mother and child in the middle of the infant’s delivery. Further, if they were favored by the Emperor without having children, the Empress would make those women barren and ruined their families. She would even forced them to commit suicide.
Kylian’s mother hid that she had been held by the emperor, so Kylian’s presence had not been discovered until after he was born.
However, she could not hide it until the moment she gave birth to a child, so she was confined to a spire in the west in the name of recuperation after giving birth to him. Confined to the spire, his mother was eventually poisoned.
On the day his mother died, Kylian was assigned the building behind the annex, not the spire. And exactly one year after his mother’s death, he was recognized as the prince.
The girl in front of him was very beautiful. She was a person who shined so brightly that there was no one prettier than her among the people he had seen in his life.
However, those who did not know about her cruelty would have been busy praising her fairy-like appearance.
“Do you know what kind of person that Lady is?”
“Brother.”
“No less than three of my younger brothers got killed by that Lady as a joke, Kylian.”
Kylian remembered the Crown Prince, who he met alone with before coming here. He knew it even if the Crown Prince didn’t say it.
There were three princes who died mysteriously after coming to this mansion. The princes died because Anais Percival didn’t like any of them. And that Duke Percival, whom the Emperor relied on the most, was someone who could not be unaware that the Emperor was sending his sons here to support the Crown Prince.
“Hi.”
She was a strange person. She greeted him twice. That was how he felt the first time he saw Anais.
A strange and beautiful girl.
After greeting her, he was shown to a shabby room. The room where Kylian arrived was a room that even the servants were reluctant to stay in.
The room itself was spacious. However, the furniture here was all very old. It was not enchanted, so it was old and worn out, and there was nothing practical about it.
It was obvious why there was a place like this in the house of a noble. It was a place deliberately created to humiliate its inhabitant. To drive away intruders.
“This is the room that was used by other princes as well.”
“…….”
Kylian didn’t answer and looked at the chief attendant. He looked at Kylian coldly, but he opened his mouth unknowingly, perhaps because Kylian somehow reminded him of his grandson.
“You cannot survive with that attitude.”
“…….”
“Be soft, but look like a flexible person.”
Kylian couldn’t understand what the chief attendant said at the time.
He just felt that there was nothing he could do in the empty, shabby room.
Fortunately, the bed was clean. The sheets appeared to be new. But he never learned to sleep in a bed.
“…….”
He lay down on the carpet under the bed. Then he tried to sleep.
After a nap, he realized a small ringing in his ears. He was more afraid of the dream that would follow after this ringing than the ringing itself. The ringing was irregular, like the highest note that a violin could make—as if it would tear his eardrums.
“Avenge this mother of yours, Kylian! I want you to kill all those imperial dogs!”
He saw his mother, clutching his tiny hand as she collapsed coughing up blood.
“If only you hadn’t been born…!”
He still stopped at that time that day and couldn’t say anything.
Gruuuumble… CRACKLE!
He was afraid as if the thunder had struck his chest. His mother’s vomited blood soaked his face and body and flowed down hotly.
Piiiiiiii!
“Huuk—”
Gasping as he woke up, it was early morning when he opened his eyes again. The darkest dawn before the sun rises. He clutched at his beating heart and curled up.
Why was he born like this? No, maybe he shouldn’t have been born.
He had to listen to his breath as he crouched down, relaxing his body. The distant ticking of the grandfather clock was slower than his heartbeat, and he could hear the rattling of the windows and the bleak passing of the wind.
“I should never have been born.”
He said so and closed his eyes again. Hope it won’t open again.
He laid there for a very long time without falling asleep. As time passed, he couldn’t tell how much time had passed, there was a small ‘creak’ of the door opening.
Kylian noticed someone touching his hair, but he didn’t open his eyes.
“Welcome, Kylian. I’m really glad you came.”
He knew the voice even without opening his eyes.
“Hi?”
Because it was the same voice that greeted him. He thought he should be afraid of her touch. But no one had ever touched him like this.
He thought that if he was going to die anyway, he might be worthy enough to receive such kindness. Her touch stayed with him for a long time.
After he came to Duke Percival’s residence, unexpectedly, no one was interested in him.
As soon as he arrived, Kylian knew he would die soon. The three princes before him each lasted less than a month in this place.
He heard that one of the princes even broke his neck and died while getting off his horse on the day he came to Duke Percival’s residence.
“What’s wrong with your fork?”
“…….”
“Can you pick things up properly with that?”
“Miss, that…”
“Swap that one for mine, Mary.”
Kylian was looking at the fork in front of him. There was something strange about his tableware. The tips of the forks were pointed like an awl, but it looked like it was for piercing rather than for picking up something. He couldn’t pick up anything with it. Besides, the knife was so dull that it couldn’t even cut bread.
“Do you not hear me?”
“B-But, Miss…”
“Mary. Didn’t you hear what happened to the maid before you?”
“Ah… I, I will change it!”
The maid named Mary handed the fork that had been placed in front of Anais and placed it in front of Kylian. And the strangely shaped fork in front of Kylian was moved to Anais’s table setting.
“What are you doing? Are you mad that I took your fork and knife?”
“…….”
“If you can’t eat it all, stay there until you eat it all.”
After saying that, she cut the meat with the strangely shaped fork and knife in front of her. She gave up after the second fork and started eating with a knife.
“How funny…”
It was also the first strange sight for Kylian to see her eat, enduring something even when she looked like she was about to drop everything she picked up.
After that, she continued changing his knives and forks. Kylian couldn’t tell if she was bullying him or if she was acting on a strange caprice. Anais’s words were harsh every time and she was unkind to him.
However, because she acted so selfishly, proper tableware began to pop on Kylian’s table. Because Anais might use it.
He decided to think that he had just become a toy of an eccentric girl, as she had been rumored. A trivial thing that would soon be disposed of.
Gruuuumble… CRACKLE!
That day was the day the typhoon came. The thunder was pounding very hard, and the rain was pouring down.
Shwaaaa— Grumble… BANG!
There was a very loud thunder, as if lightning had struck nearby.
“Ugh…”
Kylian was afraid of lightning. The sound of thunder was more frightening.
“Avenge this mother of yours!”
He was terrified of the flashing lights and the deafening bursts of lightning he had seen on the day his mother died. It continued to haunt him like an indelible nightmare.
With his back on the bed, wrapped in a blanket and curled up on the floor.
Gruuumble!
“Hu, hiic…”
His heart skipped a beat as he thought he would hear his mother’s voice again.
Clack.
At that moment the door opened. Blue eyes looking this way while holding a lantern in one hand as if bewildered. And, like a fairy, with bright platinum hair.
“Hi?”
Anais Percival.
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