“No, it didn’t seem like you were curious about anything.”

This kid has no interest in people!

I suppressed the urge to slap Seth, who was giggling.

“So, if I ask, will you tell me?”

“Well, not right now? I’ll tell you when some more time has passed.”

“When will that be?”

“When you have had me properly, Master.”

I almost spewed out the water I had in my mouth.

Since earlier, I’d been curious about the meaning of “have”, but I decided not to ask. It probably doesn’t contain any innocent meaning.

I ate, looked around the room, and the day went by surprisingly normally. When it was time to go to bed, I was nervous, but Seth didn’t do anything.

He just laid down next to me, facing me.

“I wouldn’t turn your back on me, Master.”

There was a fleeting glint of excitement in his eyes as he pulled me to lie on my back, but nothing out of the ordinary. He didn’t stop me from lying down facing the ceiling.

I was worried he was going to ask for something weird, but I was glad he didn’t.

If the person whose life I ruined asked me to do something using that reasoning as an excuse, it would be difficult for me to refuse.

It’s definitely not because Seth has a handsome face that my heart is swayed. That couldn’t be it.

I tossed and turned for a while, and then I heard a sharp intake of breath next to me.

There was a strong scent coming from Seth. It was part of his backstory that he has to rely on sleep-inducing incense because he can’t sleep, and it was mentioned that he wears perfume to mask this smell.

“Seth, are you going to sleep? If you don’t sleep, I’ll go crazy.”

No response. He must be sleeping.

Earlier, I was surprised and couldn’t properly look at his face. Now I had the chance to carefully observe it. As expected, seeing this face made me forget that I was kidnapped.

It was a similar story for the female protagonist.

Seth was the one who kidnapped and confined her, but the heroine didn’t show any anger toward him.

Although the reason was not explicitly stated, just by looking at this face, even if she were about to get angry, her anger would disappear.

He was even my type.

“Wow, he’s handsome. Seriously, insanely handsome, eup–”

I clamped my mouth shut at the sound of my own praise in my ears. My mouth was going off on its own about how handsome he is!

Fortunately, he must have been fast asleep because it seemed that he didn’t hear me.

However, he was so stupidly good-looking that I was almost willing to accept my absurd turn of events in life. 

To cautiously confirm the reality of his handsomeness, I lightly poked his cheek with my finger.

“Wow, wow, wow.”

Even when I pressed his cheek firmly, he stayed handsome. On a whim, I tried brushing his nose and lips with my fingers, but it felt too presumptuous, so I stopped.

Today was the most surreal day I’d had since I entered a book. Even more so than the day I found out that this place was inside my book.

Because my counterpart in the events of the day was the male lead of an over-indulgent R-19 novel. 

After such a shock, I was very tired, and just as I was about to fall asleep, I remembered something important.

“Eh…….?”

Seth Milan suffers from severe insomnia and rarely sleeps, which makes him more sensitive and irritable.

But, ever since meeting the female protagonist, he had been able to sleep soundly.

“Uh…?”

I realized something was wrong, but my eyelids were too heavy, and I fell fast asleep.

***

As soon as I opened my eyes, I touched my neck.

“Oh, I’m still here.” Neck attached to body and everything.

I must have snored all night, because I put my leg over Seth’s body.

The other side was empty. I ran my hand over the space, and it felt like it had been cold for a while.

I tried to get up first and find a way to escape, but I failed.

“Hmm…….”

Seriously, who set up the villainous chancellor as a character who goes to bed late and wakes up early because he can’t sleep? 

He’s incredibly intelligent. Not only is he smart, but if the mentally unstable villain doesn’t sleep, how many accidents will he cause? Whoever did this to him was seriously irresponsible! 

Haaaah, it was me. I made him a character without sleep on purpose.

Moreover, I made him a person who doesn’t sleep because of the trauma he experienced in his childhood, so he even has nightmares.

Yeah, that was me.

“Sh*t.”

The reason I touched my neck was also because I thought Seth, who felt the presence of a living person while dreaming, would be choking me.

There was a private office attached to the bedroom, so I went there, but no one was there. I took this opportunity to try to open the door, but it was locked.

All of this was just like Seth, the master of kidnapping and imprisonment.

I opened the curtains and looked out the window, and then I heard the sound of a key turning and the door opening.

“Master, are you awake already?” The owner of the house appeared, glowing, despite the morning’s early hours. “I thought you were going to be up late. Didn’t you get off work late yesterday?”

I didn’t know I was such a morning person either.

“I just moved into a new house, so my eyes are wide open.”

But my mouth was working dutifully to save face.

“Then let’s have breakfast together.”

Seth smiled and kissed my cheek.

After finishing the meal, he said he would dress me up and lead me to the study.

The impeccably organized study had a dry atmosphere. There was a large couch in the center of the room, with dresses strewn about it, and a long table beside it with various jewelry on it.

The amount of women’s jewelry and clothing certainly didn’t seem like something that could have been prepared in a short period of time.

No matter how powerful and wealthy the villainous chancellor was, it takes a considerable amount of time to create and transport these things.

…No matter how much I thought about it, the only conclusion that came to mind is that this man had known my true identity for quite some time.

“Seth, when did you actually figure out who I am?”