Thought It Was 'The End', Only to Return to a Changed Genre - Chapter 117
To be honest, Adeline didn’t intend to save him.
The man lounging on the sofa, brushing back his blond hair, reeked of trash.
His shirt was open almost to his navel, revealing red lipstick marks on his neck and collarbone, and his face showed obvious signs of exhaustion in a decadent manner.
Crown Prince Edwin was one of the men who loved the female lead, Genevieve. The playboy supporting male lead usually reforms when he falls in love with the female lead and begins a sincere, unrequited love, but such love generally doesn’t bear fruit.
‘It’s the right ending.’
Who would believe that a playboy’s heart has truly changed?
He must endure heartache while watching the female lead date the main male lead, reflect on his past mistakes, and sometimes become a sucker who helps the female lead without expecting anything in return. Only then does he earn the right to new love. Not to be entangled with the female lead.
Here, however, Adeline thought the playboy supporting lead was just trash.
Even if the female lead dated, loved, or even married the main male lead, the supporting male lead would silently express his love. Of course, there were exceptions. There were many more pure and sacrificial supporting male leads that people cheered for.
But personally, she didn’t care for the playboy supporting lead.
After toying with women’s hearts, now he shows devotion?
‘Isn’t that as shameless as the female lead dating the male lead who already has a fiancée?’
As long as you’re on the female lead’s side, does that make hypocrisy okay…?
Because of these feelings, she never liked Edwin from the start.
Seeing him meet this woman and that woman, claiming it was all without repercussions, she thought he might get stabbed one day and even gave him some advice…
Now, Genevieve was a female lead without a male lead, but Edwin hadn’t even managed to date her, let alone marry her. They weren’t even involved anymore, so what connection was left?
Adeline didn’t care how many lovers Edwin had or how much he fooled around. There was no point in meddling in someone else’s love life.
Edwin was adept at looking after his own interests, and she didn’t need to worry about him taking losses.
According to her dream, he was supposed to get stabbed by a long-time lover and lose consciousness today, but she didn’t intend to intervene.
He wouldn’t wake up for about ten days, but his life wasn’t in danger, and thanks to Genevieve, his injuries would heal quickly.
She thought it was a good enough lesson to give.
If she hadn’t seen Edwin sneaking out while on her way to the bathroom, she would have let it be.
…If she hadn’t seen him standing next to Empress Viola.
‘I almost died chasing after him out of breath.’
She debated giving up dozens of times due to her lack of stamina.
But she wanted to commend herself for persevering with determination.
‘If I leave him indebted, I might be able to ask for a favor in the future. It also reduces the chance of some unknown woman coming after me.’
A true villainess needed tenacity.
The tenacity to commit continuous misdeeds for love, even when the whole world hated and opposed her, was comparable to that of a protagonist in a sports manga.
“How did you know I was here, Adeline?”
“Have you forgotten already? I mentioned it once before.”
“Did you…?”
No, she hadn’t.
“See, I told you someday you’d get stabbed. Going around with so many women, you were bound to end up like this.”
“Are you worried about me?”
“No, I’m disgusted.”
“Believe it or not, if I truly love someone, I can be single-hearted.”
Adeline couldn’t help but scoff.
“Then find someone. There are plenty.”
“It’s not fun if it’s too easy.”
“Do you need it to be difficult to love?”
“I’m neither Shane nor Genevieve.”
“…….”
“I don’t know how to love someone….”
What was with this sentimental musing…?
‘Is he experiencing pre-marriage blues?’
His marriage partner wasn’t even decided yet, and here he was wallowing in sentimentality. He looked unusually deflated.
“You’re terribly easy to dislike, though.”
As she found the situation absurd, she also saw Edwin as human for the first time.
He was like a big middle schooler.
She always thought of him as a sadist who enjoyed tormenting people, a playboy with no sense of chastity, and a strategist who would use any means to achieve his goals. But here, he had a cute side too.
“Why don’t you start with someone difficult? Isn’t that where it all begins?”
“A friend’s wife would be difficult enough.”
“…….”
“That gaze of yours is insolent, Adeline.”
“I shouldn’t have saved you. I should have let you get stabbed.”
Thank goodness Genevieve hadn’t picked up this piece of trash.
“Sometimes love starts in strange places.”
“That doesn’t happen.”
“Seeing Shane and Genevieve love you makes me think I can do it too. The two people who love you seem happy.”
Edwin grabbed Adeline’s wrist. There was no hint of playfulness in his expression, one she had never seen before.
‘This little sh-t is crazy!’
Was it a destiny for the playboy supporting character to experience unhappy love?
Did he lose his appetite when he saw someone who seemed destined for misfortune if they loved?
