The Male Lead’s Sickly Aide is My Type - Chapter 92.1
Chapter 92.1
The thoughts stopped there. He had finally released her lips, which he had been biting and holding on to as if he would devour her.
‘It’s finally over.’
Carinne slowly raised her head and met his eyes as he looked down at her. It wasn’t the usual affectionate, bland look. It was a strange, shimmering light, the eyes of someone clearly yearning for something.
“Why are you doing that?”
“….”
He didn’t answer, just slowly licking his upper lip. His face, slightly wrinkled, seemed to be in anguish or perhaps suppressing something. Carinne couldn’t help but remain quietly in his arms.
He chewed on his lip, looking troubled, then placed Carinne on the sofa.
“It’s nothing.”
Despite his words, he was deeply contemplating something.
What on earth had he been thinking about since earlier? Did he remember something he had to do?
When she thought of things to do, she thought of things to ask the maid to do. Every morning after breakfast, she had to tell her to bring out the brown bottle. She would feel better if she could see Archen empty the bottle with her own eyes.
The brown bottle, the square, hard one, the red bottle with the label, and also….
Wait a minute. She remembered. She remembered the side effects. Carinne carefully read the words on the label of the red bottle.
She wasn’t stupid, how could she forget this? Such a memorable and intense side effect!
When Carinne ordered the red bottle, she even chuckled at the side effects. Thinking, ‘If I play this right, I might be able to take my chance.’
What kind of chance, you ask?
Although they shared the same bed every night, that was all it ever was. She couldn’t help but feel frustrated that their relationship never progressed beyond hugs and kisses. Every night, she would go to the room with anticipation, but he would shatter her expectations with the words, “Good night.”
It wasn’t as if she didn’t have a lover, yet lying in the same bed while feeling like a widow in a separate one was an agony unlike any other. Could there be anything more exasperating?
Shouldn’t he stop acting like a naive young man by now? Of course, she had also initiated it.
She said, ‘It’s a little cold today.’ and he warmly covered her with a blanket. She also asked him to hug her, and he really hugged her tightly. She even tried to cling to him by kissing him out of the blue, but her head still hurt when she remembered what he said after they finished kissing.
“You’re being unusually proactive today.”
He said it with a smile, which made her even more annoyed.
“Is that all?”
“Huh? No… I don’t dislike it, but… Did something happen?”
Carinne didn’t speak to him until the next morning. He was terribly sorry, not knowing why.
If he didn’t dislike it, then why?!
As an adult, he must know everything, but in Carinne’s opinion, the problem was his perceptiveness. He was so clueless. But today, he emptied the red bottle with side effects and stared at her intently? He slowly licked his lips? And even made a troubled expression?
This was a chance. A once-in-a-millennium chance.
“What are you looking at?”
Archen asked curiously, and Carinne quickly hid the bottle behind her.
“It’s nothing. But, Archen.”
“Yes?”
He had returned to the appearance of an innocent boy. Just looking at him made her head hurt, but there was a chance now that he had emptied the red bottle.
Carinne jumped up and hugged him. Then she whispered in his ear.
“What we were doing earlier, do you want to finish it in the room?”
“What are you talking about?”
Ah, this clueless man. Did she have to say it directly? But she couldn’t do that, under the circumstances.
As if by reflex, Carinne moved her hand to his collarbone. Then, she extended her index finger and traced down his chest.
“Well, I think Archen knows better.”
Carinne deliberately made a coquettish voice and tapped his chest.
“For your information, I don’t care what we do.”
“….”
It was no use. He was still looking at her with a face that said he didn’t understand anything. Do you mean you don’t get it even after she has done this much?
Carinne, who could no longer bear it, finally lost her temper.
‘Do I have to say it out loud for him to understand? What more do I have to do here? I’ve done my part. If he doesn’t realize it even after I’ve done this much, it’s not my fault, it’s his. I’m as upset as I can be. Didn’t he had the desire? In romance novels, the male lead is so anxious to do things that he doesn’t know what to do, and the female lead thinks, ‘Why is this man acting like this?’’
Wasn’t he just pretending to be innocent? However, since the situation was already far from the norm with her boyfriend as an aide, was this different? Should she give up on making any progress at all?
Sighing heavily in frustration, he still looked clueless.
As a last resort, Carinne lifted her head and stared at him, earnestly hoping that her wish would be conveyed.
“….”
“….”
Just as she was about to give up and go eat, thinking she should at least fill her stomach if her heart was empty, a small realization dawned on his face like a sprout.
“…Ah.”
He let out a soft exclamation.
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