Having received education about s*x before the possession, but never having practiced it, she felt aversion. The unfamiliar sensation felt strange.

“For someone who snuck in here, your reaction is quite intense. Why are you suddenly acting like this? Do you think I’ll fall for your pretense?”

His finger stirred relentlessly inside her tightly gripping walls. Ciella tried to lift her upper body to push his hand away, but she couldn’t.

“It’s tight indeed.”

“Huh, ah, no!”

She hated it. She hated the strange feeling of her stomach muscles tensing involuntarily, the tingling sensation in her abdomen, and the strange sounds coming from her mouth.

But with tears pooling in her eyes, all she could do was whimper and let out painful moans.

‘Stop it, I hate this.’

With a flushed face, she continued struggling with all her might, but the more she resisted, the more violently his hand stirred inside her.

“She is a virgin after all…”

When her body began to convulse, the merciless probing inside her stopped. Simultaneously, Ciella was able to regain her senses.

It was fortunate the contact was brief; had his hand stayed longer, it would have been truly unpleasant. Strength returned to Ciella’s previously languid eyes, and she glared fiercely at the man.

The one consolation was knowing her body remained pure.

It was ridiculous to feel relieved that the possessor hadn’t been promiscuous despite doing other strange things, but it was reassuring nonetheless.

When she exhaled a long sigh of relief, the man’s eyes narrowed further, his gaze still full of suspicion.

“Now that you’ve confirmed it, are we done? I need to cover myself with the blanket, so would you please move aside for a moment?”

Ignoring his suspicious gaze, Ciella spoke with a dignified attitude. Though her voice trembled with fear from what the man had just done, she didn’t want to show it outwardly.

Ciella hurriedly drew her legs together, curling up while covering her chest with one hand and struggling to pull out the blanket beneath her with the other.

Rather than hiding under the blanket, she now needed to cover herself and prepare to leave this place. She wanted to escape this unpleasant space as quickly as possible.

Good grief, the man moved aside with an expression of disbelief, and she tried to get up.

Wait…

Suddenly, Ciella realized that the body she had just looked down at wasn’t the familiar form she had expected.

Noticing a large mirror next to a portrait, Ciella covered herself with the blanket and strode over to stand before it. In the mirror stood a somewhat unfamiliar woman.

She had thought there wouldn’t be much difference between her 19-year-old and 22-year-old appearance, but the overall impression had completely changed.

‘Is this really me…?’

Full br*asts, a slender waist, and smooth curves extending down to her hips… During the three years, Ciella had become a mature woman.

Particularly, the beauty mark below her right eye gave her a less innocent impression, making her look both familiar and unfamiliar.

‘Did I ever make such expressions?’

Ciella had originally been proper in her demeanor with gentle facial features. She couldn’t take her eyes off the mirror, surprised by how much she had changed in three years.

Momentarily forgetting she was in a stranger’s room, Ciella became absorbed in her reflection.

What crazy behavior is this now?

The man let out a derisive laugh at the woman who was acting shamelessly, not at all like someone who had secretly entered another’s bedroom.

He couldn’t predict her behavior at all. How long would he have to tolerate her unpredictable actions?

“What are you doing in front of the mirror? This isn’t your bedroom, aren’t you being too brazen? Why don’t you look in the mirror when you get home?”

He gave the woman standing before the mirror a look of contempt.

‘Yikes, I must have lost my mind for a moment.’

Brought back to her senses by his words, Ciella hastily stepped away from the mirror. She only now realized she had forgotten the man’s presence, caught up in the joy of returning to her body.

When her gaze returned to the man, his intense eyes, full of contempt, were still staring at her.

“Th-then should I leave?”

In the silence filled with suffocating pressure and tense atmosphere, Ciella didn’t know what she was saying.

Her mind was filled only with the thought that she needed to leave this place as quickly as possible, rather than being amazed by her appearance.

She looked around, searching for the dress she might have worn when she came here. She needed to get properly dressed before leaving this unfamiliar place.

“Lady Roxburrow, have you perhaps lost your mind?”

As she frantically searched for clothes on the floor, the man now looked at her like she was insane.

He could make whatever assumptions he wanted, but wasn’t it too much to look at her like she was mentally ill?

Of course, she might appear strange and eccentric to him, but she felt wronged. About to refute his words, she hesitated.

Wait… Would it be better to act temporarily insane, just as he suggested? No, that could harm the family’s reputation.

Though she desperately wanted him to continue misunderstanding, she couldn’t risk her family’s honor.

She couldn’t act carelessly without knowing whether this man was loose-lipped or discreet.

No, the fact that she had secretly entered his bedroom was already established, so wasn’t it already determined that strange rumors would spread?

Her mind was in chaos.

How should she behave to avoid strange rumors while escaping this situation?

Ciella racked her brain for a clever solution.

Ah, acting mentally ill might be too much, but what about behaving shamelessly?

Since leaving this place was the priority, after much deliberation, Ciella decided to act brazenly.

“I’m… really sorry. I won’t sneak into your bedroom anymore. No, I’ll disappear from your sight right now. So could you please let this incident slide today? I’ll formally apologize later.”

She pleaded, rubbing her hands together.

Because of the absurd actions already committed by the possessor, she had no dignity left.

Whatever relationship they had before, she could simply avoid seeing him in the future. So she just needed to endure this moment.

“What?”

The man’s face froze coldly.

‘Did I say something wrong?’

“I truly apologize for what happened today. I’ll make amends in any way. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m telling you that I regret my mistake and it won’t happen again. If you want me to write a pledge, I will. I can stake the honor of the Roxburrow family on it.”

After pouring out everything in her heart, Ciella observed the man’s expression.

She considered kneeling to apologize but thought it better to first convey her sincerity and then gauge his reaction.

“This is truly tiresome.”

He responded with irritated words, his gaze icy cold.

What exactly was tiresome?

“Did you think I would fall for such an act? If you think I’ll overlook what you’ve done, you’re greatly mistaken.”

Act? She had spoken sincerely, so why did he think it was an act?

Ciella was taken aback by his unexpected response.

“It’s not an act, it’s sincere.”

“Why? Why not shed tears again today? I might become soft-hearted enough to sleep with you for one night, enough to soak the floor with your tears.”

Again today? Could it be that the possessor had been putting on false acts and clinging to this man all along?

“N-no. I truly won’t cling to you anymore. I’m being sincere.”

“You think I’d believe a woman who pressured the Duke of Roxburrow to force an engagement with me, and then barged into my bedroom n*ked? Who knows what you’ll do when you return? Do you think I’ll fall for your lies?”

Relentless words that trampled her heart flowed from the man’s mouth. Just hearing them made her heart feel like it was shriveling.

Lies? How many lies had the possessor told for him not to believe her? And engagement? Could it be that she was engaged to this man?

“If that’s the case, you shouldn’t have gotten engaged in the first place. After forcing an engagement, you suddenly say you’ll disappear…”

As she looked at him with a bewildered expression, he returned a look of disbelief.

“I clearly set conditions when we got engaged. We would be engaged but not interfere with each other’s bodies. But who was it that broke that promise?”

“T-today I’m being sincere. So please believe me.”

‘I’m a different person now. So I’m being sincere!’

Unable to shout these words, Ciella looked at the man with desperate eyes, hoping he would believe her just this once.

“You shouldn’t think you can leave so easily. I’ve been patient until now, but I can’t bear it anymore. You must pay for the crime of coming to my bedroom today.”

But the man cruelly ignored her pleading gaze and uttered merciless words.

“H-how?”

A wicked smile spread across the man’s face. Just seeing it made the hair on her body stand on end.

“What method would you prefer? I can give you a choice.”