My Fiancé Keeps Sabotaging My Love Life - Chapter 7 - Bonds of Eternal Salvation

Chapter 4.1

Having returned to the marquisate, Evelyn went straight up to her room and collapsed onto her bed.

‘Ugh, I’m exhausted.’

Just two days of dealing with Axion had completely worn her out. Before long, she found herself staring at the bracelet he had given her and let out a heavy sigh.

“What on earth is he thinking?”

It was said that through imprinting, you could stabilize your unstable abilities, but finding an imprint partner was as difficult as plucking a star from the sky.

Even if their seal appeared, anyone who couldn’t find an imprint partner was doomed to writhe in agony for the rest of their lives. The transcendent powers handed down since the founding of the kingdom granted immense abilities, but they always came with excruciating pain as the price.

‘Not that it matters whether you even want those powers.’

In this world, the seal was no different from a curse.

Just like the title, 《 Bonds of Eternal Salvation 》, the original story’s female lead always freed the male lead from his curse. So to him, she was his one and only savior and salvation.

Unlike them, however, Axion had never found his imprint partner and was left to suffer all his life.

Evelyn, who had known him for a long time, felt a little sorry for him, but she shook her head firmly.

‘No, wait. Why am I worrying about someone else right now?’

She shouldn’t be wasting time worrying about someone else. She needed to focus on surviving as the villainous side character first! Since her healing power wasn’t an offensive ability, even if a seal manifested, it wouldn’t affect her much. But if, by some chance, she ended up with a seal like Axion’s, that would be a whole different problem.

‘If I remember the original story…’

He had systematically eliminated the people around the heroine he loved, one by one, manipulating circumstances to isolate her completely. And when she finally found out and got angry, he went so far as to kidnap and confine her. He wanted to make sure that only he could see her, and that she could see no one but him.

‘It wasn’t exactly easy to run away, either.’

Being the head of the underworld, Axion assigned the top guild members to keep watch over her, all under the excuse of ‘protecting’ her, but it was no different from trapping her in a cage disguised as a paradise.

“And I’m supposed to marry a guy like that, knowing all this?”

Evelyn grimaced just imagining what married life with him would look like. If she went through with the marriage and he later met the woman he truly loved, she would only be hastening her own death flag.

“Right. That’s absolutely out of the question.”

There was no point in stressing over things that haven’t even happened yet, especially when she couldn’t even be sure a seal would ever show up for her.

Even so, Evelyn clenched her fist tightly, vowing to survive no matter what.

︵‿୨ ₊‧꒰ა ཐི༏ཋྀ ໒꒱ ˚₊ ୧‿︵

The servants of the Inevasel marquisate were busier than usual. The marquis and marchioness were throwing themselves into preparations for their only daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony, and the whole house was swept up in the chaos.

‘If I’d known it would be like this, I would’ve just listened to my parents and started preparing early.’

After finishing her dress fitting, Evelyn flopped down on the sofa, looking completely drained. With the ceremony just around the corner, her days had been a nonstop whirlwind.

Just then, there was a gentle knock, and her personal maid stepped into the dressing room.

“My lady, I’ve returned all the gifts as you instructed.”

Barely a day had passed since the wedding rumors had spread, but Axion had already issued a correction as promised. The statement clarified that the marriage announcement was nothing but an unfounded rumor, and that for now, they would remain faithful to their engagement.

But that didn’t stop the quick-thinking nobles from already sending out wedding gifts, so each and every one had to be returned along with a polite refusal letter.

Remembering the carriages that had lined up outside the manor, Evelyn let out a weary sigh.

“Thank you, Larie. You did well.”