Chapter 59

I was amazed at the perfect setting, so I looked down at Liliana and her calm eyes looked at me.

“I’m not sure what the young lady’s life must have been like, but mine hasn’t been easy.”

A bitter smile appeared on her lips as she looked back on the past.

“So, as someone who has experienced it earlier, I would like to say something. You should keep a safe distance from him.”

“Why?”

“Your blood has been his medicine up till now.”

Liliana’s quiet voice made me swallow uneasily, and I let go of her hand hopelessly at the words that followed.

“One day it will become poison.”

My heart sank with a thud.

“And the consequences will be solely your responsibility, my lady.”

* * *

I’m not sure how I came back to my room. As I sat still with my face buried in a pillow, I could feel the bedside sink.

“Rosetta. Are you all right?”

Sihael, who pretended to be upset that I had left him alone in the living room, noticed my sadness and quietly shut his mouth. He followed me into my bedroom and asked, “Did she say anything strange?”

‘You will become poison to each other.’ ‘

‘You have to keep your distance from him, my lady.’

The words of Liliana rang in my ears. My blood was only described as a mild medicine or nutritional tonic, but when I learned that it was poison to him, my head went numb. What would happen to Sihael’s body because of my blood?

And it would be me who would have to take all the fallout. How much harm would my blood cause him for her to issue such a terrifying warning?

“Is he going to die?”‘

If that was the case, he would have to move away from this place for our sake.

Sihael must break the curse and become a perfect emperor, while I must survive and live in this world safely.

The risk factors needed to be eliminated sooner.

‘But I don’t want us to separate ways like this.’

Sihael, despite being the male lead, was the first friend I made as Rosetta.

Our relationship to me had a different meaning from the others who had a connection with Rosetta from the beginning. My relationship with Sihael was a relationship that I wove the strings of by myself. As a result, it was not easy to cut it off like cutting it with scissors.

‘We would naturally drift apart when he would go to the capital, but… This is so sad.’

Sihael gently patted my shoulder as I sighed deeply in sadness.

“I’m not sure what that woman said to you, but ignore it because it’s probably nonsense.”

Sihael’s comfort didn’t do much for me. It was after all Liliana who told this — the female lead with special abilities that no one else possessed.

And she was very sincere when she told about her experience.

‘There’s no way I can ignore it.’

After groaning for a while, I gave up thinking. Let’s listen to Sihael’s opinion and decide what to do with it.

I raised my head, having made my decision.

“We need to talk.”

Sihael, who was standing right in front of me, flinched and convulsed his shoulders.

“Huh?”

Wait, did he just flinch seeing my face?

I grabbed him by the shoulder as he moved away and brought my face close to his.

“Are you scared of my face?””

“….. A little?”

I was here anxious to death but he was still provoking me like this?

Sihael instantly shut his mouth close upon observing my gloomy countenance. I removed my hand from his shoulder and grabbed a cushion. Sihael immediately grasped the pillow after observing my hand’s bulging veins.

“Wait a minute.”

What ‘wait a minute’? I raised my pillow high and hit him on the shoulder.

“You have to say no at times like this!”

“No, your face is so pretty. So cute.”

“You’re late now!”

Duck feathers flew from the torn pillow. A heavy hitting sound echoed in the room. I did not stop until after all the feathers in the pillow had been scattered away. When I came back to my senses, I noticed that everything around the bed was covered with duck feathers.

And Sihael…..

The sight of a handsome man lying on the bed and covered in duck’s feathers was truly a sight to behold, but the handsome man in question was none other than the Crown Prince. When I belatedly came back to my senses, I seated Sihael very carefully, as if handling a glass. He wrapped his arms around his shoulders and frowned.

“I think my shoulder has been dislocated.”

“…. I’m sorry.”

“Ah, it hurts.”

“I’ll call a doctor now.”

“It’s not that bad. But it hurts.”

As he kept complaining about his shoulders hurting, I wondered if he enjoyed seeing me get worked up. He was obviously being a crybaby, but I kept apologising without saying anything because I had indeed done something wrong. However, my patience quickly ran out due to his constant whining.

“I think if anyone can make it better, it would be me.”

Since it was me who hurt him, I’d have to take the responsibility. So, I grabbed Sihael’s shoulder and his eyes trembled at my strong grip.

“What are you going to do?”

“I’ll fix it.”

“It’s ok…!”

Thump.

“Ugh.”

As I twisted his intact shoulder, Sihael clenched his teeth.

“You really…”

Sihael grabbed my waist, throwing me off balance, and then threw me down with force. My head was spinning. Soon after, the soft bed touched my back.

“Ah, that’s enough.”

Sihael turned his shoulder lightly, saying, “Thanks to you, I’m all better.”

‘Did he just moan because he enjoyed it?’

As I looked at Sihael, he shrugged his shoulders with an innocent expression.

“Now, let’s have that talk.”

“In this position?”

With me lying on the bed and you looking down at me?

“Don’t you like it?”

“To be honest, I do.”

The posture was a little strange, but it was okay because my eyes were getting one hell of a service.

He looks so handsome even from this angle.

When I stared at Sihael’s face with arms crossed, he smirked, as if to say ‘Look as much as you want without feeling burdened.’

“Have you calmed down now that you’ve seen my face?”

“…Yes.”