I Abandoned the Male Lead Who Cheated with the Villainess - Chapter 5
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It was the time when winter had just passed, and spring was beginning to bloom. As everything came to life, people who had been huddled in the cold were now stretching and regaining their vitality. However, Ivonne alone remained in her bed as if trapped by winter itself. No, she couldn’t move at all.
‘A poison…’
<Childhood Husband> was undoubtedly a typical daily healing romance novel, but even in such a story, there was an antagonist. And that antagonist was none other than Celestia Cyand, with whom Ivonne had shared tea just yesterday.
‘I never expected the female lead to be poisoned… I was too complacent, thinking it had never happened in the original story.’
Not only that, but in the original story, Celestia had never personally sought out Ivonne. So, facing an unexpected request for a meeting, Ivonne was extremely flustered. If Blitzen hadn’t been absent, leaving Ivonne, his fiancée and the mistress, to entertain the guest, she would have found any excuse to refuse the meeting.
‘I thought I was prepared to meet the villainess of the original story…’
The poison was undoubtedly related to magic, given that even a silver spoon couldn’t detect it.
Since the Cyand family was known for their expertise in magical elixirs, caution was essential, especially since Ivonne could also handle magic herself.
“It’s my fault; there’s no one else to blame.”
As Ivonne attempted to turn her aching body to lie down, a sharp pain surged within her, forcing her to sit up hastily. Fortunately, she had detoxified quickly at the time, so there was no lasting harm to her life. However, the melted esophagus and stomach, eroded by the poison, were still throbbing.
“Ugh…”
While she was suffering alone, she sensed someone in the corridor. Ivonne unconsciously turned her head to look at the door, but it remained closed.
‘No one’s coming…’
She didn’t think of herself as someone who craved company, but for some reason, it felt lonely.
Even though she had died once before, this was her first time ingesting poison, so she felt unexpectedly sad. Tears welled up in her eyes, but as they flowed down her cheeks and vanished, no one came to comfort her.
‘Well, of course not. Because I’m not Ivonne.’
Ivonne wiped her tear-streaked face with her dry, twig-like hands. In <Childhood Husband>, the original Ivonne was a commoner. Ivonne had rescued Blitzen who was chased by an assailant when she was young. Blitzed, infatuated with her, had brought her into the County like a noble.
While there were people who had taken care of her like raising children in the daily healing childcare novel, they had grown distant after her reincarnation, feeling somewhat awkward.
‘Perhaps they’re starting to realize that I’m not the real Ivonne.’
Blitzen still didn’t know. After hearing from the doctor that there was no lasting harm to her life, his once-present concern had unwittingly withered away. If Blitzen had treated Ivonne as someone special, things might have been different, but he hadn’t. He treated her the same way even after knowing that she had been poisoned. So, quietly, discussions among the servants began to spring up.
‘The Count seems to be ready to discard the commoner,’ they whispered, disregarding the ten years they had spent together.
‘It seems like social standing matters.’
Although she hadn’t originally planned to act as Ivonne in the novel following her reincarnation, perhaps it would have been better to do so, at least for the sake of the servants. This way, she might have been able to secure more medicine using the excuse that her body had been poisoned instead of just surviving on two watery soups a day.
Ivonne had been unable to sleep properly due to her burning insides and intermittent fever. With her inadequate food intake, her recovery was slow. It had been about three days since she had been spending her lonely time, her body poisoned.
One night, as she finally managed to fall asleep with great difficulty, she suddenly woke up. It was one of those inexplicable nights when sleep simply abandoned her, and her eyes snapped open for no apparent reason. That night had been just like that.
As Ivonne cast her empty gaze around the dark room, she heard a commotion outside the thin window.
‘What could be happening at this hour?’
Her body had recovered enough for her to move around a bit, so she draped a partially fallen blanket over her like a shawl and approached the window.
However, she shouldn’t have.
“Ah…”
The midnight garden, shrouded in darkness, was now brightly illuminated by lamps.
‘They look like large fireflies.’
People carrying lamps were rushing about, making the scene resemble a swarm of fireflies fluttering in disarray. But it seemed as if the fireflies were gathering at a single spot.
In front of them all, Blitzen, with a desperate expression, was running towards someone with an urgent look.
“……”
Ivonne’s gaze unintentionally fell upon the lifeless figure in Blitzen’s embrace. It was none other than Celestia Cyand. Incredibly out of place, the male lead was rescuing the villainess in the dead of night.
Blitzen shouted.
“She collapsed in the nearby forest! Call a doctor immediately! I will personally attend to Lady Cyand!”
But at that moment, their eyes met.
“…”
“…”
Ivonne’s gaze locked with Blitzen’s, and they both fell into a heavy silence.
