The Beast Who Hides Darkness Is Obsessed With Me - chapter 0

“” = indicates speech

‘’ = indicates thoughts

With the splendid lights shining down on them, a man and a woman stood in the middle of the banquet hall and captured everyone’s attention.

To be precise, the splendid and sparkling lights shined down everywhere in the banquet hall, but the lights made the man and woman appear like they were the main characters, as if the lights were especially prepared for them.

Due to the lights, the young man who stealthily approached the woman, had no choice but to stop his desperate footsteps.

It is unknown how it appeared to the surrounding people, but while capturing everyone’s attention under the bright lights, the man and the woman next to him seemed extremely troubled.

No, this is correct.

The man and woman unintentionally standing underneath the spotlights were troubled.

“It is unfathomably sad that we meet like this. Bella.”

I had been nervous for when and where the man in front of me would eventually ruin everything.

That was currently the present situation.

Dian, who used to whisper to me in a low voice that only I could hear in the past, he now explained he was sad in a loud and powerful voice.

Before I could sense anything was strange, Dian spoke first.

“I still can’t forget the hot night I spent with you.”

“…What?”

“I waited for four years for you but you abandoned me and you’re now infatuated with another bastard.”

Hot night? Hot night…?

Hot night…

‘…That is nonsense!’

My face was steaming hot because of that one phrase!

If he wasn’t the male lead, I would have cursed him with a string of curses to tell him to stop speaking nonsense…

‘Dian is no longer the small puppy from four years ago.’

If this was four years ago in the past, I could act crazy and confront him.

The man who appeared in front of me was not the boy in the past who pushed me away with a trembling hand.

In other words, if things go wrong and I get caught here, then I could die.

Frightening me with the threat of ruining things, I sensed the young man’s steps stop in front of me with a heavy sound while I was unable to answer.

‘Ahh. Is this what you were after?’

I stared at Dian with a glare, but Dian raised his hand with a languid expression, as if he had been waiting for this moment, and gently brushed his fingers around my eyes.

Dian spoke right at the moment his touch started to annoy me and I was starting to get goosebumps all over my body.

“Your expression while crying under me was exceedingly lovable.”

I was about to lose control of my facial expressions due to the nonsense he spoke.

Before I could explain, the young man who stopped in front of me stepped away from me without saving face.

Before I could turn to face him, he had already run away.

Dian tensed the hand he used to annoy my eyes and stretched his hand.

And then.

“You’re so hideous when you run away. Bella likes pretty and beautiful things.”

He was shrugging with that handsome expression on his face.

To add to that, he shoved that handsome face near my ears, and whispered in a low voice.

“Right, why are you yawning so hard that you shed tears?”

It was too late to explain.

Because the young man who had stealthily approached me was already far away.

Even that was not enough, it seemed the rumors would be spreading soon after the young man furtively approached the young woman.

The moment I saw this, I wanted to curse them.

‘If I go back and leave things like this, rumors will spread that I am the villainess who slept the night with the Grand Duke!’

Then I will receive the title of the villainess who unintentionally slept with the male lead, and if Dian confronts this rumor after he comes to his senses…

…I’ll be killed.’

I won’t even be killed in a nice manner, my precious Felix who is far away struggling against the emperor, will also be killed.

I tried so hard to avoid the male lead and the death flag…

‘I didn’t know the male lead would bring the death flag to the villainess himself!’

You didn’t pay me back for my kindness back then, so you repay me back now by becoming my sworn enemy?!

Since I saved you, you should have lived a happy and beautiful life! How dare you surprise me by returning back as a twisted duke concealing secrets!

I worried about how I would deal with this situation to the point I couldn’t control my facial expression.

Would it be quicker to dash right now and catch that young man with the rumored inability to keep secrets?

Or would it be quicker to send a magic mana missile and knock that young man out?

Ahh. If I do that, I’ll instantly become everyone’s hated villainess.

So what should I do?

It was only a matter of time before the young man seized the opportunity to penetrate the weakness of the young woman, and then the next day she would have the title of the villainess.

If that happens, my happy life with Felix will die and depart far away into the sky.

‘I’ll first go and catch that young man who is running away.”

I nodded with a determined expression.

Now matter how much I thought about it, that was the only choice I could choose right now.

And when my worries had yet to end, a familiar hand was held out to me as if it was waiting all this time.

Perhaps it was natural that the hand belonged to Dian.

“I think it is time for me to give you a helping hand.”

…This bastard?

You are the reason everything is like this right now!

I looked at Dian with a look full of resentment and Dian came a step closer to me with a look of indifference.

“That hand that saved me on that day four years ago. Could you hold it out again?”

You picked the most opportune time.

You fully well know it is not you, but I who needs to grab that damn helping hand.

He was a skilled pro at this to confidently hold out his own hand while indifferently asking me to hold out my hand.

In the end, while I bit my lower lip, I placed my hand on top of Dian’s outstretched hand.

‘Naturally, you need to gently tame people. It needs to be so slow and complete they don’t even realize they are being tamed.’

…It seemed I should wait and see to find out who is the one being tamed.

“…If you run away, I’ll get back at you. Dian.”

“Is there any doubt?”

I already told you it is too late to run away.

Since the moment you picked me up four years ago.