The Obsessive Male Lead Found Out I'm Alive

“Verdeen… I’ve never heard of that surname before.”

Evelina felt blood cold when she saw Selena hugging Kaiden and poking her finger in his cheek like she was playing around.

“I’ve lived in Tenesi for a long time. I came to the Abelard Empire because I had relatives.”

“…I see.”

Every time she saw Selena, she felt so shabby. Her lean and ragged appearance seemed to be compared to her freshness.

“Oh, Your Majesty is related to me.”

“…what?”

“The Marquis of Logias made me his goddaughter.”

“What…”

“But I was in Tenesi for a long time because I had some work to do. We’re like sisters, Your Majesty?”

Evelina thought she was the only one the marquis of Logias adopted after the death of his daughter. But, goddaughter.

At the same time, she was not surprised when thinking of the atrocities her adoptive parents did to her. Maybe anyone similar to their daughter would have been the one to adopt.

“Why with Kaiden… Is it that close?”

Evelina was so pathetic to ask that question. At the same time, she couldn’t help but ask because I’d never seen Kaiden not push anyone away.

“Actually, I might come to the position of Empress.”

“Verdeen.”

“Yes.”

“Get out.”

Kaiden beckoned as if he was about to kick Selena Verdeen out. Evelina’s heart dropped at Selena’s words, and she lowered her head without realizing it. Unconsciously, tears flowed out and fell to the floor.

Kaiden saw it and tried to get up from his chair, but Selena sat down, hugging him tighter.

“Help the marquise’s wealth come to me, not to Her Majesty. After all, the secret is the property of the Imperial Palace, right? I need more of that property.”

“Didn’t you hear me tell you to get out?”

“Your Majesty, too. You’re doing this again because you’re ashamed.”

As Kaiden stared coldly at Selena, Selena looked at Evelina’s expression. Evelina couldn’t bear to raise her head, and she said with her head down.

“I’m sorry to interrupt, Kaiden.”

Kaiden tried to say something, but he didn’t. When he saw her cry, I thought she’d say what she’s been holding back.

Selena laughed as he clenched his fist.

“See you next time, Your Majesty.”

Evelina ran away from the office.

As her steps moved away completely.

– Bang!

“Ugh!”

Kaiden knocked Selena Verdeen over his desk, then pulled out the gun he had stuck in his holster and stuffed it into her mouth.

“I have told you not to touch my body.”

“Oop…! Op!”

“I don’t need a will.”

“Ooooo! Opp! Ooop! Oop!”

Kaiden was speaking to Selena, so he hesitated when he dared to pull the trigger. It was because her hair color is the same as Evelina’s, and her eyes are the same mysterious purple.

“Puha!!”

“Entrance to the Imperial Palace is prohibited forever. I will confiscate the property of the Verdeens and demote them to commoners.”

“Your Majesty!”

“If you don’t like it, you die. Do you want me to kill you here?”

“Argh!”

Kaiden grabbed Selena’s clothes hard and soon threw her to the floor. He hated it when someone touched him. Displeased, as if insects were crawling all over his body, he involuntarily mingled with sighs and anger, and his fists trembled.

“Oh, didn’t you see it earlier? Her Majesty cried!”

As Selena shouted, Kaiden put the gun to her head as if he had given up the idea of saving her life.

“You don’t look like her, so I’ll have to shoot you in the face.”

“Your Majesty! Didn’t you love Her Majesty?”

“Shut up.”

“Ian is in the middle of the Cold War…!”

“Come to think of it, he was. You had something to do with Ianathas Peran.”

Kaiden looked at Selena with hatred. When he tried to pull the trigger, Selena took his hand and raised it.

– Bang!

Because Kaiden shot, the bullet hit the ceiling. The recoil rattled the chandelier.

“Thanks to Ianathas Peran, you don’t know how precious your life is to be living.”

“Ian said so! I hear you’re in the middle of the Cold War. Then you have to thank me!”

“Thank you in advance. Go to hell.”

“Listen!”

Kaiden grabbed her by the collar as if to kill her this time. Then he tried to put the gun close to the cheek that looked the least like Evelina. The heat of the gun was almost felt by Selena.

“This is why you really can’t do it. There’s a reason why Her Majesty ran away.”

Kaiden wanted to shoot her, but he couldn’t.

He couldn’t understand Evelina. She pretended to love him when he treated her sincerely, but now she loved him. He wondered how much she hated him and what happened to his child and how she would have another man’s child.

He was also angry to think that his child would have been miscarried in the process. At the same time, he felt pathetic and hated himself for worrying about how hard it must have been for her when she miscarried.

He couldn’t forgive her in his head. At the same time, his heart couldn’t erase his gratitude just because she was alive.

He couldn’t sleep with Evelina. Because of the shock when he woke up and saw her cold.

There was not a day in eight months that he didn’t regret. Because he thought everything Evelina showed him was sincere. He regretted every day because he couldn’t have been nicer to her.

But they were all fake.

He tried to understand her. Even though her memory was not intact, and pretending to love him was her only way to survive.

But she wanted to have a family, so he tried to make her a family, and eventually did everything for her, but she abandoned it all.

If she hated it so much, she would have pretended to be dead.

Thinking she was dead, he went to her grave every day and cried. Repent, reflect, and promise for the next life. He endured for eight months, hoping that he would see her in the next world if he finished his life as a saint.

Maybe that’s why he didn’t want to be around her. But he was afraid that she would love someone other than him again. He hugged her every day because he wanted to believe that she loved him by sharing her body. 

“It’s because Your Majesty is always being so mean.”

Kaiden didn’t think Selena was wrong. Because Evelina was the best woman for him.

“Playing hard to get into a relationship is important. Because Her Majesty must have just pulled*.”

*TN: Pushing and pulling in a relationship. So she’s saying that Evelina just had to ask for him and he came without a second’s thought

“…”

“You saw it earlier, right? She didn’t want to… I was around for a bit and she was crying.”

Selena, who was avoiding his eyes, quickly continued as Kaiden stared coldly.

“I’m sure she likes Your Majesty too. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have cried.”

“…Lina doesn’t love me.”

“Even so, isn’t it true that Your Majesty loves her?”

When Selena saw Kaiden’s hurt expression, she continued her words with relief and removed the gun that was blasting heat near her cheek.

“Say you’ll put me on the throne.”

“That’s a lot of nonsense. Did you ask for Marquis Logias’ property because of that?

“Oh, absolutely not. I have someone else I want to marry?”

Kaiden recalled their previous meeting at the Imperial Palace.

‘She’s my goddaughter.’

Marquis Logias introduced Selena Verdeen to him without thinking.

‘I told you not to touch me.’

Kaiden tried to take off Selena, who hugged him every time they met, pretending to be a coincidence, and he had a scar on his neck while throwing her away roughly, which kept bothering him.

“Your Majesty! Selena is just bad at thinking!”

At that time, it was Ianathas Peran who blocked Kaiden.

‘I would’ve said I’d kill you if you kept bothering me.’

Kaiden didn’t want anyone but Evelina to touch him. It was because he was wary of people and hated them because of the threat of murder he had felt since he was a child and the dangers he had experienced repeatedly.

Soon Selena Verdeen made a big mistake and had to go to the Kingdom of Tenesi.

‘This is the person I love.’

Because of the words that came out of the mouth of Ianathas Peran, Kaiden was able to use Ianathas.

‘I’ll be Lina’s escort. Then you can save Selena Verdeen.’

Kaiden originally intended to kill Selena. A crazy woman who touched his body carelessly. And the goddaughter of the Marquis of Logias. He wanted to deal with Evelina when she didn’t know he existed.

So when he was unwittingly organizing his unpleasant feelings about Selena, Selena said.

“Ian will marry me.”

“Do you know that Marquis Peran tried to marry Elsius?”

“That’s it. Her Majesty asked him to do it, so he pretended to do it.”

When Selena spoke casually, Kaiden glared at her. Selena, who got up from the floor, smiled brightly at Kaiden.

“I will connect Your Majesty and Her Majesty.”

“…”

“Instead, give me the entire fortune of the Marquis of Logias. That’s mine.”

Kaiden didn’t want anyone to come between Evelina and him. It was true that he had a great grudge against her. But it was about Evelina and him. No one should get in the way.

“It’s the last mercy. Go away.”

Selena shrugged her shoulders, pretending to be surprised.

“Okay, but don’t refuse me even if you don’t like me. Stop looking disgusted.”

That’s how Kaiden sighed. He couldn’t kill her when he saw her open her eyes wide with a similar expression to Evelina’s.

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“What about Kaiden?”

Evelina was waiting in surprise that Kaiden wouldn’t come until night even though she returned to such a bedroom. She hugged the sheet of the bed and cried for a long time before she fainted, but Kaiden was not coming even at dawn. He came to hug her every night.

“His Majesty has already gone to bed.”

“What…? Where?”

“The Empress’ Palace’s bedroom.”

“Do you mean my palace?”

Then the maid closed her eyes tightly and said,

“Your Majesty no longer has a palace. The place where His Majesty went is the Empress’ Palace.”

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