Villainous Husband, the One You’re Obsessed With Is Over There - Chapter 2
Chapter 1.2
It was because a man who could be called the incarnation of the sun was gazing at me. In the novel, the word ‘sublime’ was highlighted whenever the author mentioned him once every ten pages, yet in reality, the ripple effect was utterly distant.
‘No… how does a person even look like this?’
His brilliant golden hair curled dazzlingly as it was trimmed to the perfect proportions of his neck. The bright scarlet eyes added a hint of ominousness and unrealism to his face. I could see him smirking at me, who was struggling to digest this overbearing beauty. To be precise, only one side of his thin lips was pulled up.
Then, he uttered in a smooth, courteous voice.
“That’s a relief.”
…W, what is a relief?
“If you had opened your eyes five seconds later, I would have been very bored.”
With those words, he pulled my waist before drawing me in closer to him. I honestly couldn’t remember what the kiss was like. It was because I was relieved that he did not feel bored just minutes after marrying me.
゚・ : * ✧ * :・ ゚
『 Flowers Bloom In The Abyss. 』
That was the title of the novel I possessed into.
The word flower,’ of course, signifies the female protagonist, Saint Seraphina, while the word ‘abyss’ refers to the Actilus Empire. His Majesty, the Emperor of the Actilus Empire, whose hobby is conquest, was as busy as usual when he met the Saint, Seraphina, at the temple. Seeing the reflection of himself, stained with blood in the eyes of a beautiful, pure Saint, he felt intense love and hatred towards her.
As a result, after robbing her from the temple and bringing her into the Empire, he tried to defile her…
As you could deduce from the title of the novel, far from getting tainted, Seraphina shone more virtuously and more beautifully even when she went through rough situations. However, because the Emperor’s obsession gets worse and worse, he then kills the heroine’s first love, Eden, the knight.
When Seraphina, who could not stand that fact, ran away, the Emperor went on a rampage.
…I mean, the Emperor was the male protagonist of the novel. Nonetheless, he did have garbage behaviors and died at the end — so in a way, he could also be regarded as the final villain as well. After I finished reading the novel, I left a review in anger before falling asleep, commenting, “Why is this selling in the romance novels section when there is no romance anywhere?”
Having said that, what about the Empress’ presence in the novel?
None.
Well, you might ask… Why not?
Since the Emperor could only remarry after bereavement, the first thing he did after kidnapping Seraphina and returning was… to slit the Empress’s throat in front of her. While Seraphina’s face turned white in astonishment, he only smiled gruesomely with blood spattered on his face.
Up to this point, that was just the prologue of 『 Flowers Bloom In The Abyss. 』
The Empress was decapitated almost immediately at the beginning of the novel without even mentioning her name.
…And that Empress is me.
‘Author, are you punishing me like this for leaving such a bad review…’
I felt like tearing my hair out.
Even though I have read a lot of books and novels, don’t a lot of people usually get possessed into villains or some evil characters? So, am I beating the original work by not making the mistakes the villains would do…?
However, I…
In a way, being possessed into an extra was not too bad. It was because if I possessed the villain, I might try to throw a curveball into the situation that could reverse the original behavior of the Emperor nonsensically.
Nevertheless, in this case, what should I do?
Taming the Emperor…?
Why would I choose something crazy like that?
The Actilus Empire gave birth to many children and crowned only the strongest ones. That meant the one who slaughtered others and ascended up became the Emperor. The current Emperor of Actilus, Raniero, was the youngest at the age of thirteen during the ‘Blood Succession Ceremony,’ killing both his older brothers and sisters to become Crown Prince.
I only know up until that point.
As he dragged his brothers’ severed heads by their hairs and reached the former Emperor’s presence, the moment when the former Emperor was delighted by the strength of the youngest prince and was about to congratulate him—
—A dagger flew and pierced his chest.
In front of the former Emperor, who heaved blood, Raniero was smiling innocently. Supposedly, he had said this while staring at the dying Emperor.
“Waiting is boring. I just want to be crowned now. Besides, it annoys me that someone is on top of me.”
Now, do you see how serious this idiot Emperor detested boredom? So, was it not obvious how he would react to someone trying to tame him?
Even if I had nine lives, I would never try in this situation. Still, I did not want to just die quietly.
…So, there was only one way.
‘Let’s live as if I was dead, as if I wasn’t really here.’
Fortunately, it was said that the Emperor, Raniero, did not visit the Empress after the wedding. The original Empress must have cautiously challenged that part, but let’s not do anything that I don’t even know about since it would be a big deal to imprint my presence like that. Besides, did he not slit the Empress’ throat as soon as he caught the Saint because the original Empress had appealed to him by periodically requesting annexation over the Saint? He would not have done such a thing if he did not care about the Empress’ existence.
‘And, on the day Raniero goes to the temple, let’s pretend to be dead in disguise and run away!’
Raniero wouldn’t bother to confirm if the Empress was really dead because he just needed an excuse to take the Saint as his second wife. Since in Actilus, a monogamous marriage where divorce was impossible, there was no other way.
‘…Oh? This might be easier than I thought, right?’
It was when the happiness circuit ignited in my head, a smooth voice could be heard right under my nose.
“Empress, how long are you going to ignore me standing in front of you like this?
“Hiik…”
I almost jumped out of my spot.
As I endured my eyes that were trying to pop out and covered my mouth in surprise, I finally saw the crazy Emperor.
“Are you… ignoring my presence?”
Asking that, his lips twisted up. At the same time, the danger alarm started spinning in my head as cold sweat was running down my spine.
A second after I decided to live like a dead man, what crisis is this again…!
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