Reborn as a Mind-Reading Empress
Chapter 299: Please Love Me Instead

Chapter 299: Please Love Me Instead

Arabella was grateful that her husband wanted to be honest with her despite the risks of getting turned down. He was being sincere and didn’t want her to agree without knowing what she was agreeing to.

Thus, she wanted to respond in turn and be honest with him too. After all, she truly wasn’t the kind of pure soul he thought either.

"Ferdinand, I know I am weak and you are strong. But there are other ways to kill. I can plot your death and let you die without having to do it myself. And you are wrong if you think I am a pure innocent girl. I have killed people. I have a ton of lives on my hands. I didn’t stab them myself nor slit their throats but it’s my fault they died. I plotted their death so it’s the same as me killing them. Are you sure you still want a wife like me?"

’Why am I saying all these? What if he changed his mind?’

But it was thousands of years or more they were talking about. She cannot possibly agree to this without giving Ferdinand a clue that she was not what he thought she was. She has to give him a clue she wasn’t just the pure and innocent little princess he once met.

[What’s the meaning of these?! She’s not lying. I have never seen this look in her eyes before, but this is the look of someone who had indeed killed people. Why would she need to plot people’s deaths herself? Didn’t they protect her so she wouldn’t have to be involved in matters like this?]

Ferdinand blinked repeatedly as he stared at her in disbelief.

Arabella gulped nervously. What would she do now if Ferdinand truly changes his mind?

"You’ve been through a lot. I’m so sorry, I didn’t realize it sooner," Ferdinand hugged her instead.

’Huh? Did he listen to what I just told him?’ Arabella was at a loss for words.

"Arabella, I will protect you from now on so you do not have to shed blood with these hands. Leave the plotting to Alwin and my cohorts. And leave all the killing to me. Whoever they are whom you want to get rid of, just tell me and I will do it for you. There’s no need for you to plot and shed blood yourself anymore. I will do it for you. I will be your sword," Ferdinand even caressed her cheek gently while saying such terrifying things.

"You like me this much?" Arabella blinked repeatedly and her husband chuckled.

"Yes, you just realized it now? I will do anything and everything for you, Arabella. Your enemies are my enemies," Ferdinand kissed the back of her hand.

"Then what if it’s you I want to get rid of? Will you kill yourself?"

Ferdinand flinched. She could tell he was hurt.

"I-I cannot kill myself. I’ve tried it several times but it doesn’t work. My body would up its defenses and move on its own because I had been fighting for my survival for thousands of years. It had been so ingrained in my body and my whole system that even I, cannot kill myself. But if you do desire to kill me, I can let you do it but I won’t guarantee my body would not move on its own," he replied honestly.

"But now that I think about it, if it’s you, my whole body and being would submit. As I have said earlier, I’ll gladly die by your hands," Ferdinand braved a smile.

[If it’s by her hands, I truly don’t mind dying. But why stain her beautiful hands with my blood? I don’t want her to be guilty about it. She looks like she regrets plotting the death of people. She shouldn’t do it if it would weigh on her in the end. I can do it all for her instead. She doesn’t have to be burdened by such things.]

’This guy. What am I going to do with you?’

"Don’t say something you’re hurting to say," Arabella could tell through his eyes.

"It does hurt. I thought you liked me a bit now. Was it all my delusions? Do you hate me so much that you want to kill me?" Ferdinand asked with such pained eyes.

[I was so elated every time we were together. But, was I deluding myself all this time? Just earlier, I thought she wanted me. Yet, now she’s telling me she would kill me. Did she dislike me that much? Was she actually disgusted with everything we had been doing so she wanted to kill me to end it all? She hated it that much?]

"No. I’m just stating a ’what if.’ It was hypothetically speaking. Why would I want to kill my dear hubby?" Arabella hugged and kissed him on the cheek.

[She called me her dear hubby?!] Ferdinand easily got swayed.

’What should I do with this husband of mine? If he is like this when he’s in love, I have to make sure he only loves me for the rest of his life. I can’t let him fall for another girl who would make him do all sorts of things since he would likely do it all.’

If she told him right now to raze a kingdom, he might just do it despite protest from his ministers.

"I was saying it because I want you to think about the possibility. We, humans, are greedy and easily change. What if I changed through the years and become that kind of woman that would kill you for my selfish desires? This was what I’m trying to point out," Arabella explained.

[So it’s not that she dislikes or hates me now?]

"I will do my best to give you all that your heart desires. If I fail, then you can attempt to kill me. But until, then, please love me instead," Ferdinand shamelessly asked and embraced her. "You don’t hate me anymore, right?"

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