Chapter 427: Substitute Bride of the Demon King (31)
Yue Ran raised her gaze, but the world around her was nothing but a hazy blur.
Overwhelmed, the young woman could only reach out in a futile attempt to grasp the fabric of the man’s sleeves, as though anchoring herself to him might steady the storm raging within her.
"Do you know what you are saying?" she asked. "How can you... We are already married; I am your wife now. How can you... how can you let me marry someone else? If you hate me, I can leave... I will go far away and never appear in front of you, but... but do not do this, okay?"
Looking at Yue Ran like this, Silas suddenly felt a tightness in his chest, a little reluctant. But then, his reason was swept away by the wave of anger after recalling that Ellie and Andre were to get married very soon.
Silas soon lost sight of that fleeting emotion and said coldly, "No, the person I wanted to marry from the start has never been you. I will return all the insults you, the Tallis noble family, and Andre have inflicted on me one by one! Since you want to be a substitute so much, then I will kindly fulfill your lifelong wish."
At this moment, Ellie’s position still held the upper hand in his heart. He was reluctant to hurt his sweetheart, so he vented all his anger on the person in front of him.
Suddenly, the Demon King remembered what happened a few days ago. The woman said that she loved him, and she said it with such confidence that even he could not help but want to believe it. There was even a moment when he...
Thinking of those things, Silas’s chest could not help but tighten, and he stared at her. "Did you not say that you like me?" He lowered his voice. "If you like me, then why don’t you do this for me?"
Yue Ran subconsciously stepped back as if in disbelief. She could not even cry anymore when she looked at the person in front of her. Her heart was filled with sadness and despair.
"How could you..." Yue Ran shook her head in denial. "No, I will not agree to your request..."
How could Silas, who was obsessed with his own obsession, let Yue Ran go? Seeing her look as if she had lost her soul, he felt both pleasure and discomfort at the same time. However, he quickly dismissed this feeling.
Silas curled his lips. "Do you think I am asking for your opinion? I have never failed to get what I want. I am just informing you of what will happen next."
Just like when that group of people had played him by substituting the bride in his marriage, who had asked for his consent? They toyed with him like clay on the palm of their hands, as if he were a mindless puppet.
Yue Ran’s body swayed uncontrollably, and she staggered back a step, all the way to the wooden frame. When her back hit the metallic object, she grasped onto the solid structure beside her to regain her balance.
She suddenly looked up at Silas with tears in her eyes. A very miserable smile graced her face. "Your Majesty asked me to marry... Andre, just to humiliate both him and me?"
Silas looked at Yue Ran. He felt an unbearable emotion in his heart, but he suppressed it and replied, "So what?"
"So Your Majesty hates me so much..." Yue Ran bit the corner of her lips too hard, blood was already flowing from the open wound. However, Yue Ran did not care about it at all, as if she felt no pain.
After receiving his answer, the bright eyes that had once radiated warmth and smiles suddenly dimmed, as if they had lost that light and turned silent.
Yue Ran suddenly reached out and wiped away the tears from her eyes. She turned her head away so that the other party could not see the expression on her face at the moment, then said softly, "I can agree to the request of Your Majesty, the Demon King... on one condition."
The young woman exhaled lightly, and the tears that she had just wiped away filled her eyes again in an instant. She did not care about them and continued to say, "I want Your Majesty, the Demon King, to accompany me for a day. Just for one day— at least, until the day ends."
"For that one day, I do not want to be a substitute for anyone. I want to spend this entire day as Leila and Leila alone."
"After that, I will be obedient and marry Andre honestly; is that okay?"
After saying that, Yue Ran gave Silas a calm smile.
Silas felt as if something was lodged in his heart, making him feel uncomfortable. He looked again at Yue Ran’s red eyes and noticed that there did not seem to be any more hope in them. He was stunned, and he did not know why. Suddenly, he heard his own voice agreeing to her words, "Okay."
...
The day Yue Ran asked him to accompany her, there happened to be a lantern parade in the capital.
After the last quarrel, Silas sent the guards to keep an eye on Andre and the others. In order to avoid making a fuss and alerting the two, Silas did not take any further action. He deliberately kept himself busy, for only in this way would Leila’s miserable and desperate face would not keep flashing in his mind. Every time he thought of her, he had the urge to escape.
When he recalled what he said to Leila that day, his heart clenched, and he felt as if he were being suffocated. After all, those words were too cruel for a woman who sincerely and genuinely liked him with all her heart.
Silas took a deep breath to suppress the discomfort in his heart.
