Wrong Genre! - Chapter 20.2
As Rueg gazed up at Felix, wanting to ask a hundred questions, Felix lowered his eyes and met Rueg’s gaze.
“You were crying so miserably.”
“…W-What?”
“I told them to have the shawl thoroughly washed. Ah, and don’t worry, I’m not going to get angry just because it got a little dirty.”
At Felix’s teasing tone, Rueg’s face grew even redder.
“Your Highness, how did you even…?”
At that time, he was alone in the office. How could Felix possibly know what he’d said to himself?
“The shawl you were wearing told me.”
“How could a shawl talk…! I know I make a lot of mistakes, but I’m not an idiot, you know?!”
Feeling wronged, Rueg clenched his fist and gave the water’s surface a sharp tap.
Splash! A droplet of water landed on Felix’s face, and Rueg reflexively held his breath.
“…On your face…”
Wait, wouldn’t that count as an offense against a member of the imperial family?
Flustered, Rueg reached out to wipe the water from Felix’s face, but then froze.
He wasn’t sure if he was allowed to touch a royal’s face, so he just fidgeted his fingers uncertainly. With one eye closed, Felix spoke.
“Wipe it for me.”
“…Is that alright?”
“Mm.”
At Felix’s voice, softer than usual, Rueg unconsciously swallowed hard.
It was just wiping away a little water, but for some reason, it felt like such an intimate act that he couldn’t tell anyone about it.
Carefully, Rueg wiped the water near Felix’s right eye.
The closed eye slowly opened, and the moment he met that jewel-like, beautiful crimson gaze—
Thump.
He felt as if his heart had dropped heavily.
His entire face flushed red up to his ears, and Rueg couldn’t bring himself to meet those eyes any longer, so he dropped his gaze.
‘Why… Why does he have to be so handsome…’
He knew he liked pretty, handsome faces, and that he was weak for them. But that didn’t mean just making eye contact would make his heart race or leave him breathless.
Drip, drop.
As silence stretched between them, the only sounds left in the bath were the falling droplets of water.
He wanted to say something to break the tension, but he was too embarrassed to look at Felix’s face, and couldn’t find the words.
“Your face is red, Rueg.”
…There it is again.
Felix, who had charmed not only the female lead of the novel but even her own younger brother, was just as lethal to Rueg.
“Why…”
“……”
“Why are you looking at me… with those eyes…”
Rueg’s lips moved a few times, but he only glanced at Felix before bowing his head deeply again.
“And how am I looking at you?”
Those eyes, full of burning passion.
There were so many things he wanted to say, so many feelings he wanted to pour out, but he had desperately held them back. Now, that gaze overflowing with barely restrained emotions was focused entirely on Rueg.
But Rueg knew.
‘It’s only because Felix is the male lead.’
Maybe that was why even Versha in the novel fell for Felix. Because when you looked into those crimson eyes, it felt like you were truly loved by this man.
But.
‘The novel I was reincarnated into isn’t going to give me the path I want.’
If only this was a BL novel, maybe he could have loved him a little more freely.
At the very least, even if he was a man who liked another man, he could have confessed his feelings without hiding them.
But that was impossible here.
This was a world where he wasn’t allowed that kind of love.
“It’s nothing…”
“Rueg?”
“It’s nothing.”
Even as he answered, Rueg lifted his hand to cover Felix’s eyes. He just couldn’t bear to face that blazing gaze.
“If it’s nothing, then why are you covering my eyes?”
…What a bad guy.
If you’re not even going to let me be someone who’s allowed to like you, then don’t shake me up like this.
Every word, every action, even the eyelashes brushing his palm… Everything about Felix was so charming that it was infuriating.
“You said it before, Your Highness. That I’m ugly…”
“…I don’t see what that has to do with you covering my eyes now.”
“I-I thought you wouldn’t like it if you saw an ugly face up close.”
At that, Felix let out a short, incredulous laugh.
The arms that had been holding Rueg around the waist slowly relaxed, and he gently intertwined his fingers with Rueg’s hand that was covering his eyes.
“I may not have realized it then, but now I can’t seem to stop wanting to look at you.”
Felix lowered Rueg’s hand and met his eyes.
With that gentle smile, Rueg’s heart thumped uncontrollably once again.
“Because you’re adorable.”
With that single word, Rueg’s lips drooped in defeat.
Felix really is… an awful, awful bastard.
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