Chapter 5: Chapter 4.1

Something about what he had told her made her feel feverish.

She still felt somehow even though Cassian had repeated how surprised he was several times.

Yernia leaped at Cassian and grabbed him by the collar.

His blue eyes darkened, and it bled to black the longer he stared at Yernia.

She was wondering why he looked so happy, somehow.

Cassian was always like this.

Even if Yernia got angry or cried in front of him, he seemed to enjoy it.

He’s like a psychopath.

“Now, you can’t say something like that as if it was simple.”

Yernia was frustrated.

She just wanted to shake him by the collar and explain that this entire fiasco doesn’t make sense.

No, she shouldn’t.

Cassian was surprised, too.

But instead of venting her grievances at Cassian, Yernia began to unbutton his shirt.

Never in his life would he imagine that Yernia would take his clothes off.

He arched an eyebrow.

“Why are you taking my clothes off?”

“I need to check again.”

“You just saw your name written on my body.”

” I couldn’t believe it. I had to see it again.”

If her name did appear in Cassian’s chest, Yernia would not have been blinded by jealousy in the original novel.

Why did it change in the first place?

They haven’t even started talking yet.

It would have been easy to theorize what started this whole thing if Herena had appeared earlier.

Yernia did nothing at all, so of course, she had no idea what caused this change, and it confused her more.

“Wait a minute.”

All of a sudden, Cassian grabbed Yena’s wrist.

The hand that touched her skin burned hot.

“I’ll take it off.”

“I will lose my mind if I wait for you to take off your clothes.”

Yernia had to recheck her name right away if it was engraved.

Yes, she already witnessed it with her own eyes, but she thought about checking it just one more time.

What if she had seen it wrong?

What if it was Herena’s name and not Yernia Cilliard?

Yernia was desperate to refuse the reality in front of her.

Thoughts of seeing her name bombarded her brain, which bothered her that she hadn’t seen anything yet.

As it continued to test her patience, her limit had hit rock bottom.

However, Cassian held Yernia’s hand tighter and didn’t dare release him.

Yernia was tempted to finish undressing him, but she suddenly felt strange.

“Why are your hands so hot?”

Did he have a fever?

She became worried about him, and Cassian’s expression crumpled as if he disliked his question.

He turned his head and avoided Yernia’s gaze.

What’s wrong with him?

Yernia looked at Cassian strangely and placed her free hand on his forehead.

“Are you sick?”

“…….”

Cassian sighed and pushed Yernia’s hand away.

“You are too close. Yena, do you have any idea about what you’re doing now?”

“What did I do? What am I doing? I’m only taking off your clothes.”

“Yeah. That’s the problem.”

“But, haven’t I  taken your clothes off once or twice?”

What’s wrong with this?

They never hesitated to do this in front of each other as they grew up.

Yernia took off and put on Cassian’s clothes when they used to be children.

It started when Cassian fell into the water while they played by the lake.

Yes, it was Yernia’s mistake.

“Let’s take that off quickly so that you don’t catch a cold.”

“I’m getting rid of it, so let me.”

“You’re all wet because of me.”

Yernia would remove Cassian’s clothes without a fuss and place her cloak around his shoulders.

Cassian was more feisty when he was young.

Yernia disliked wearing a dress, and she would rather put on her cape instead.

Unfortunately, she couldn’t do that when she entered the academy.

Although he is an adult now, he just grew old in terms of age.

For Yernia, nothing had changed since their childhood and even as the two of them entered adulthood.

He was still the same.

She hasn’t seen him have a runny nose, but she can’t say he’s old enough.

For Yernia, Cassian was nothing more than a younger brother.

Cassian pushed her to take his clothes off anymore, which earned him a strange look from Yernia.

He had used his strength on her, and it’s too much.

You’re giving me strength, too much strength.

“I know you’re surprised, but calm down. Let your hands fall.”

Since Cassian insisted, Yernia was forced to submit.

What’s wrong with him?

“Okay. Then take it off.”

“—You shouldn’t say that.”

“What’s wrong with what I’m saying?”

His nose wrinkled in disapproval, and he began to unbutton his shirt with a single hand.

Cassian had acted strange as he peeked at Yernia.

He had shown her everything before.

“It frustrates me.”

She had to check her name on his chest, pronto, but how long did he want her to wait?

She couldn’t hold herself back anymore, so Yernia tried to take Cassian’s shirt off again.

“YE NA, please.”

“If you don’t want me to, then do it yourself.”

He had pushed Yernia a bit for aggressively trying to rush him, and Cassian unbuttoned his shirt quicker this time.

She felt like she had done something wrong.

“It’s because you keep stalling that I…”

Yernia murmured in his ear while she grabbed Cassian’s shirt.

Unfortunately, his shirt button couldn’t withstand her pulling at it that it bounced off.

The torn button made his gaping shirt more open, revealing a muscular chest in her plain sight.

Uh… she didn’t mean to do this.

She was supposed to take off his clothes but not like this.

It embarrassed her that she had torn it, but the feeling was brief.

Yernia caught sight of her name engraved on Cassian’s body.

It clearly stated, “Yernia Cilliard.”

She had checked twice, and there was no denying that her eyes had seen correctly.