Villainous Husband, the One You’re Obsessed With Is Over There - Chapter 227

Chapter 114.1

After he left, I fell into a deep sleep.

It was truly a sweet sleep. Monsters like boredom and loneliness couldn’t touch me while I was asleep. On lucky days, I was able to sleep in silence until just before Raniero would come back.

At times like that, I felt so much better.

Clink!

I faintly heard the sound of a bell.

The meal must have arrived at lunchtime, but I had no intention of waking up to eat lunch. It was because once I woke up, it was hard to fall back asleep.

I didn’t know exactly who brought me the food.

Well, it must be someone Raniero could trust. Still, it probably wasn’t a healthy kind of trust. It was likely a trust gained through violence and brainwashing. Anyway, whoever that person was, they didn’t try to wake me up anymore if I didn’t respond.

I gently pressed down my slightly wriggling consciousness and sank back into sleep.

But then.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Just as my consciousness was about to fade away, the bell started ringing loudly. The sleep that had been creeping up on me scampered away like a frightened cat.

“Aaaah!”

I got up, frustratedly ruffling my hair.

Why were they doing this to me? I was just trying to get some sleep. The only thing I had at my disposal here was sleep, and now they had to take that away from me too? The bell kept clanging as if mocking me.

At the thought, I flung open the elevator door.

Since the pulley string from below hadn’t been pulled yet, there was nothing in sight. I screamed into the aisle leading up to the elevator.

“Leave me alone! Just leave me alone!”

It felt like my throat was going to bleed.

After I screamed like that, my heart completely relaxed.

“Stop making such a racket…”

So the next thing I said sounded weak and dispirited, even to me.

The person below didn’t say anything. The only sound was the sound of the pulley rolling. As the rope was pulled, the elevator cut to fit the passageway and shaped like a box with openings at the front and back rose.

The food, brought warm, was placed there.

I bit my lip and furrowed my eyebrows before quickly turning and lying back down on the bed again, hoping that the sleep that had fled would miraculously return. I wished I could sleep soundly again until Raniero came back. But fully awake, I couldn’t fall back to sleep even after several hours.

I spent the time staring blankly with my eyes wide open.

Has Raniero finished his political meetings? Would he find some time to come see me today as well?

Once again, time passed unbearably slowly today—so slowly that I wondered if time was passing by at all. It was all because of the bell that woke me up with its unnecessary clanging sound. Why did they hate me so much that they had to wake me from my sound sleep? They must have done it just to torment me, right?

It was so unfair. What did I do wrong to deserve this torment?

I became unbearably frustrated, curled up in a ball and burst into tears.

‘I wish Raniero would come soon… I’ll tell him everything right away.’

I hoped he would scold that person.

If I clung to him and acted like a fool, he would listen to me—whether he beheaded them like a tyrant or annihilated their entire family. My psychology was pushed to its limit, and I was now comfortable with horrible thoughts that I would never have dreamed of before.

No matter how long I waited, Raniero didn’t come back.

Even as the shadows of the trees gradually lengthened, the sky and ground turned red, and darkness descended, causing the leaves to turn a dark silver, he still didn’t come.

I thought it must be another one of Raniero’s whims.

Frightened and anxious, I curled up on the bed and sobbed. No matter how much I cried, there was no one to comfort me… not until Raniero returned.

As my sadness grew, so did my cries.

I sobbed uncontrollably for a long time until I slumped forward and fainted from exhaustion.

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The oblivious sunlight shines down above my head as if boasting that winter has finally passed.

I stretched out my body with closed eyes.

By now, Raniero must have returned.

At the thought, I reach out my arms and feel around the bed with a faint smile, hoping he would hold my hand… but all I grasp are soft sheets and thick blankets.

My eyes snap open.

Only dry saliva slid down my throat.

I tried calling out slowly.

“Your Majesty…?”

There was no answer.

There was no sign of presence at all. The room was eerily quiet.

A sinister foreboding settled over me.

Finally, I scrambled to my feet and looked around the room.

Raniero wasn’t there.

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