When The Villainess Died, The Male Lead Went Crazy - Chapter 74
Translator and Editor: Effe and Yonnee
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Chapter 74
Kylian couldn’t sleep. Anais, on the other hand, was sleeping very well.
He knew that her scent was strangely different. The scent coming from Anais was a subtle yet sweet scent. He thought the scent matched her hair well.
The problem was the sound of her breathing deeply while hugging the pillow placed in the middle of her.
“Anais.”
Once Anais had fallen asleep, she wouldn’t not wake up again easily. That was a fact that Kylian also knew well. She’s been like that since she was young. She slept deeply, but she didn’t sleep all that much.
“Anais.”
When he saw her the first time, he was very bothered by her thin clothes. He lifted the sheet that was covering her a little, wondering if she would wake up when she got cold. Nevertheless, she was still sleeping with the regular breathing sounds.
“Anais, are you sleeping?”
She looked like she didn’t care that there was a strong adult man next to her.
“Ha.”
The Anais he looked down at was completely defenseless. She was wearing clothes made of thin fabric, which were made for the first night, so that her body would be exposed when only the strap at the waist was loosened.
Perhaps because she had been holding the sword for a long time, her body was firm and beautiful. The chest also has a curved shape on top of it.
“Driving me crazy.”
He covered her with the sheet again. All the way to her chin so that her body would be hidden. He then went to his place and lay down.
“Mmmh…”
Anais also had bad sleeping habits. She was making a mess on her bed, kicking and pushing the pillow between them with her foot.
It was even harder for Kylian. The desire that filled his head was like an elephant in a small room, running wild as if it didn’t want to listen to what its rider had to say.
“Ha…”
It was a sleepless night for Kylian. So he turned around again and looked at Anais. She was sleeping so well.
Even the faint breath coming from those parted lips felt seductive. Anais’ neat teeth and pink lips. And the pretty backs of her hands and pink cheeks. Beautifully shaped round ears.
“Please stop.”
He wished he could stop thinking about her in a different way.
However, the Anais in front of him only made the loud beating sound faster.
“This is too much, my wife.”
He said that and touched her hair.
Waiting for morning to come for a very long time.
It took a very long time for the morning sun to rise. As the sun rose and brightened the room, Kylian realized that he could finally live.
The unquenchable desire would soon fade away.
“Did you sleep well?”
“No.”
“Why are you awake?”
“…….”
Kylian opened his eyes and looked at the squirming Anais in reproach. But her eyes, half awake, were just innocent.
“Kylian.”
“Yes.”
“You look really handsome even in the morning.”
“…….”
He got up from the bed in shock. It felt like it would be dangerous if he stayed around like this.
“But why does it feel like….”
Anais blinked a few times and then widened her eyes when she had come to her senses.
“What’s this!”
“It was because I couldn’t sleep.”
“You couldn’t sleep…?”
“I have an urgent meeting, so I’m going to go.”
Kylian looked at her hair, which he had braided thinly and tightly, and quickly left the room.
He could only see Anais at the afternoon dinner. Perhaps because of the way he braided her hair, her long, straight hair was tied up high, unlike usual.
She wasn’t even wearing the Young Duke’s attire. She was just beautifully dressed like a noblewoman.
“Where have you been?”
“I’m late for the meeting because of someone. I pretended to have something to do and went out with Lewarren.”
“…Priests cannot marry. They can’t have lovers either.”
“What do you mean?”
“I told you because I thought you were sticking around him too much these days.”
“You hang out with Lewarren more often than me though.”
Kylian could not refute those words. He wanted to sit next to her, but he couldn’t. Duke Percival sits at the head of the ducal family table.
“I’ll see you at the Imperial Palace tomorrow at noon.”
“Is it because of the meeting?”
“No. We have to go and give our greetings as the Young Ducal couple tomorrow.”
“Oh, right.”
Kylian was reminded that the Young Ducal couple who got married had to go to greet the Emperor. But he couldn’t even do the first night. Because she slept like that.
He studied countless times and worked hard to control himself for that day. But she fell asleep as if she had no care at all.
Kylian couldn’t continue what to say. Even when he put the chopped food in his mouth, he couldn’t taste anything.
“Did Duke Percival leave because of that again?”
“Yes.”
Kylian also knew that Duke Percival was planning to oust the imperial family.
Kylian hated the emperor. However, he did not agree to it out of personal feelings. Duke Percival was a bad man, but he was the perfect lord to rule the estate. It seemed like Anais inherited that trait too.
The current imperial family was very corrupt, and they were not correcting the corruption for their own benefit. National power was weakening day by day, and neighboring countries increasingly began to look down on the Quipnos Empire.
The Quipnos Empire was ill because of the rotten imperial family.
Therefore, if cutting out that rotten flesh could lead the empire to the right path, Kylian could support it even if it meant cutting out his own flesh and blood.
It was always difficult for him to follow the right path. Because his surroundings were always full of darkness. Still, he was able to meet Anais and turn to the light, and he wanted to lead the rest of his life as well in her light.
“Are you okay?”
“What do you mean?”
“The Emperor is your father.”
“My father is the Emperor. An emperor needs appropriate responsibilities. A person who does not take responsibility and passes it on to his ministers is not worthy of the position.”
Anais faced him with a smile, as if somehow satisfied with Kylian’s answer. When Kylian looked into her eyes, he was convinced that his ideals and hers were the same.
As expected, his only fated partner was Anais.
“I…”
He remembered what she had said before. When her blue eyes were staring at him.
“I hate my eyes. It’s disgusting.”
“Your eyes are really pretty. It’s not yellow, it’s gold. A golden color as dazzling as the sun.”
“I look like His Majesty.”
“You don’t look alike. Your eyes are prettier.”
Kylian didn’t like the way his eyes resembled the Emperor’s. In some cases, members of the imperial family included gold in their external features. Even when he was proven to be of imperial blood, it was based on the color of his eyes.
So he said it without realizing it.
“Wife, what color do you like?”
Kylian casually called Anais his wife. She looked surprised for a moment, then smiled prettily again, looking at him as if nothing had happened.
“What color do you like, Kylian?”
He answered, looking at Anais with confidence.
“I like the color blue. A blue that’s close to sky blue.”
“Then it’s not blue, it’s light blue. You mean the one mixed with white, right?”
“Yes.”
“I like gold.”
Kylian had to swallow his saliva and calm down so as not to make his pounding heart known.
As time passed, Anais, as the Young Duke, received the complete trust of the imperial family. She was very capable, and the only thing she lacked was an official record.
In order to prepare, Duke Percival left everything to his successor for a while and took a step back to assist her.
The Emperor seemed quite pleased with the talented heir to the Percival Duchy.
Anais was going back to the room with him for the first time in a long while.
“His Majesty was curious about your well-being.”
“He’s probably curious about Duke Percival’s son-in-law, not about my well-being.”
“Let’s go to the imperial palace together tomorrow morning.”
“Yes.
Anais answered like that and deliberately avoided eye contact with Kylian, who was holding her hand tightly. Is it because it’s awkward? Kylian was like that too. Today, Anais was not wearing the usual Young Duke-like clothes, but the dress of a noble lady.
Everything looked good on her. However, perhaps because Kylian rarely saw his wife wear dresses like this, he found it difficult to control his gaze that kept turning towards Anais.
“Wife.”
“Yes.”
“Are you going to wear a dress like this tomorrow too?”
“Yes. You don’t like it?”
“No.”
Anais smiled brightly as if she had gained some courage from his words. This time, Kylian took sleeping pills in advance to make sure he wouldn’t not be able to sleep because of her.
“I will wash in the next room.”
“I will wash in the next room today.”
“Alright.”
Kylian washed up in the couple’s bedroom and quickly fell asleep.
Perhaps because he took a lot of the medicine, combined with the fatigue he felt after washing, he fell asleep very well. He thought it was a good thing he had taken a strong sleeping pill. Thinking about the desire that had kept him awake yesterday, he felt like he wouldn’t leave Anais alone today.
Remembering that Anais had said that he liked the color gold like his eyes, Kylian unconsciously ran his hand over his eyelids and fell asleep.
After a while, the door opened. Even just before he fell asleep, his mind was filled with thoughts of her. In his vaguely awakened consciousness, he wondered if Anais had even appeared in his dream, so he smiled briefly and fell into a deep sleep again.
“Kylian, are you sleeping?”
She spoke to Kylian, who was lying down on the bed, in a trembling voice.
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