The Obsessive Male Lead Found Out I'm Alive

“Her Majesty is already asleep.”

Kaiden nodded to the words of the guard who was guarding his room where Evelina was asleep.

“When did she fall asleep?”

“It was about three in the morning.”

It was five o’clock in the morning. Because he had been in tourney hall all night.

“Is Lina sleeping well?”

“She often wakes up because he’s pregnant… probably because she is full term.”

Kaiden recalled a book about pregnancy that Evelina been looking for when she was pregnant. It was really fun when he studied unlike all the studies he had done to live.

When he thought his child was growing up in Evelina’s stomach, he read and read the whole book whenever he had time to memorize it.

Maybe that’s why Evelina, who was nearing the end of her term, often woke up. Pregnancy was a real challenge. It was enough to feel the pain just by looking at it in the book. You won’t be able to fall asleep. If your stomach is pressed on, it will be hard to breathe.

“Open the door.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

So the door opened quietly with a squeak. Even the sound of the door breaking the silence, Evelina was asleep.

When Kaiden saw Evelina asleep, her heart began to beat again. Evelina’s chest and shoulders moving with a wheezing sound. And still beautiful hair and face.

When one became pregnant, their face changes because it’s swollen. But she kept her beauty as when he first saw her. It was pathetic for Kaiden to say that his heart forgave her and wanted to touch her again and again.

At the same time, he couldn’t control my desire to approach her without realizing it and looked at her in detail.

Her gently spread lips were enchantingly swollen. He sighed when he remembered that Evelina’s lips had changed like this every day after spending the night together.

At the time, he really thought she loved him and held him. Rather, she was of the same mind as him, so he believed that he was hugged because she was anxious. He was actually nervous, too. Whenever Evelina and he tried to touch each other, there was an interruption.

So he thought it was because she was exhausted.

But it wasn’t. Her memory was really not intact and she wanted Marquis Logias, who believed she was her father, to live. He knew it dimly but didn’t want to admit it. Even so, he thought he could forgive her if she loved him even a little.

He thought his life was like a tower built of matches.

The matches are all made out of his heart for Evelina. Evelina was also the reason why he thought it was okay to live as a mercenary. And it was Evelina that caused the rebellion of the mercenary group and the reason why he tried to restore order by creating a new mercenary group.

He could be happy to live as a common mercenary on the side of the road if he had Evelina. That’s why he had to go back to the Emperor when she went to a higher position. When he returned to the imperial family, she became an adopted daughter of a family that could not be achieved with his status alone, so he built up his military merit.

He thought she was pretending not to know him when he went back to the Crown Prince. If he became a man worthy of her, he thought she would look at him as a man even if she pretended not to remember. When the military merits accumulated like that made the Abelard empire rich and strong, he knew everything.

He was glad when he found out that she didn’t actually pretend not to know him, but that she really forgot. His body trembled with hatred and anger at the Marquis of Logias who made her do so.

So for the first time since he became Crown Prince, he was able to say what he wanted most. He had been worried that she might be pretending not to know her in order to live.

He seemed to know now how he had forgiven Evelina.

She was the only one he wanted in the midst of many disagreements. No position, no power, no power, no merit and fame. The color just felt like different sand to him.

There was only one thing of value to him.

“Lina.”

He called Evelina and placed her hair behind her ears.

At that moment, Evelina opened her eyes.

“Your Majesty!”

As soon as she opened her eyes, she checked him hastily. But contrary to Kaiden’s expectations, Evelina turned her body as soon as she opened her eyes. Then she buried her face in the sheet and curled up.

“Why, why did you come?”

Kaiden felt her heart break as her voice trembled like a frightened person.

“It was Lina who came to find me. But you didn’t want me to come?”

“Go away.”

“…Lina.”

“Please… Please, go.”

Evelina was going crazy because he seemed to see the ugly side of her.

Selena Verdeen was by his side. She was as fresh and beautiful as the heroine of the original novel. Unlike her pale appearance, she was elegant and beautiful like a living spring butterfly.

What about her?

A swollen body and a face that was not the same as before due to pregnancy, along with dry hair and ever-puffy lips, and thin limbs. Evelina felt so ugly and gross.

She missed Kaiden.

But not as messy as she was now. She wanted to look as fresh before him.

So whenever she went to see him, she was obsessed with makeup, a colorful dress, and insisted on accessories. She tried to wear high shoes even if her ankle hurt and broke.

But now she was so defenseless. She couldn’t believe he came to see how ugly she was when the light was turned on.

“Please…”

As Evelina sobbed, Kaiden sighed.

“I really…”

He couldn’t understand why Evelina was rejecting him again.

“I don’t understand the Queen.”

She also cried when she realized that my title had returned to her position. But she couldn’t raise her head. She thought there would be no next time if he caught her miserable face.

She could hear footsteps. Kaiden eventually went out of the room.

Evelina had since called in an employee to put on makeup and change her clothes, but Evelina could not even tell where Kaiden was.

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“What are you up to now?”

Ianathas was having a secret meeting inside the palace, which was unlike him. Avoid the eyes of the Imperial Palace, in the woods near Lake Heliben, where no one comes unless there is an event.

“What do you mean what I’m up to?”

Ianathas frowned at Selena. Because every time he saw her, he remembered what Emperor Kaiden said.

‘If you listen to me carefully, you can save her.’

The woman was Selena. She was the real Evelina, but now she was living completely as Selena Verdeen, abandoning her name.

The rumor that the real Evelina was hiding in Tenesi came from there. Gallas Tenesi, the second Prince of Tenesi, secretly collected him with the Marquis of Logias.

It was also thanks to Prince Gallas that he was able to pretend to be dead under a landslide when he crossed the Balkans with former Crown Prince Renold Tenesi. He already had Renold Tenesi’s confidants in his hands and feet.

“How did you get into the palace? Don’t you know how much he hates you?”

“I know. But I came here because I needed the Marquis’ property. Do you know how many mercenaries can survive with just that?”

Ianathas knew the whole plan. The plans of the Marquis of Logias, the work of Tenesi, and what Usher Fronen suggested to Evelina.

Usher was lucky and mistook Evelina for an easy transfer, but it was actually Ianathas’ ploy.

Rather, Ianathas moved all the knights so that Usher could take Evelina out of the palace. Otherwise, Evelina would really have died that day. By a messenger from the Marquis of Logias, who was believed to be her father.

Ianathas had spent many years with Evelina. His first love, the real Evelina, became Selena Verdeen, but he really loved Evelina.

Selena changed after going to Tenesi.

He remembered Selena saying a long time ago that she would marry him. That’s why the Marquis of Logias, Prince Ashes, and their forces joined Evelina’s side.

He pretended to love her because Evelina was a childhood friend who almost died.

It was definitely like that.

;Don’t follow me.’

‘Drop me now. Forget about me in your life.’

He thought Evelina was trying to take advantage of him. He was using Evelina too.

But not Evelina.

‘Run with me, Lina.’

That’s what he said the day Evelina collapsed. Originally, he had no intention of saying such a thing.

As soon as he said that, he realized that the acting he did was not actually acting. Selena, who said she loved him but didn’t let him off the hook, and Evelina, who said she didn’t love him contrary to her actions, cared for him.

He continued to have a crush on Evelina, who pushed herself away from him without him realizing it. The misery he felt when he introduced himself to Elsius was not acting, but sincerity.

‘I hate pathetic people like you the most. What? Run away? Do you think I can live like a commoner with you?’

Even in a dangerous situation where she didn’t know when she would die, she thought of him first.

“I don’t think you’re the Selena I know.”

Ianathas said so without realizing it. Rather, Selena, who he had been separated from after thinking she had died at a young age, had changed. And when the fake came in and sat in her place, the fake became more real than anyone else.

He said, confirming that his heart was no longer beating for Selena.

“I’m going to get out of this. I mean…”

At that moment, Selena hugged Ianathas. Then she looked at him and said,

“You can’t have me if you fall out of here. Do you still want to?”

But Ianathas was rather certain when she hugged him. How he felt.

“Yeah. I don’t need you anymore, Selena.”

He thought he should tell the emperor all this.

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