I Was The Hero, But I Woke Up as a Phoenix Princess! – Chapter 352

Chapter 352 Chapter 146 Unspoken Confession (Part 1)
“Young Lady, I came to apologize. Also, I wanted to talk to you about some things…”
“Hmph, you think a single apology can dismiss that matter! Do I look like I’m easy to bully?”
Verafia’s voice suddenly turned angry again, “You hateful guy, I told you, I don’t want to see you!”
“Young Lady, if you don’t want to see me, then let me stay outside the door…”
“What if I don’t want to hear you speak!”
The young girl’s voice abruptly interrupted his words. Ig fell silent again, but remained standing in the distance, showing his willingness.
A gentle breeze blew, as if touching the girl’s delicate hair. Ig seemed to sense the girl’s anger slowly fading, transforming into bewildered cluelessness.
After a long while, her voice, now much softer, came out: “Forget it. Come in, the door isn’t locked.”
Ig’s palm touched the wooden door and he gently pushed it open. The richly decorated, thick solid wood door swung open, revealing the scene in the girl’s room.
The crystal lamps hung high, illuminating everything, and bright light filled the entire room. Both the spacious bed and other furniture remained as tidy as ever, with no signs of being touched or creased.
Ig’s eyes shifted, and he finally found the girl by the window in the corner, hugging her knees as if curled up in a small corner. It seemed she had been staying in that small space all along.
The girl’s small face lifted to look at him. Between her delicate, youthful skin, as smooth as jade, traces of tears could still be seen. Under the faint moonlight, she looked like exquisite porcelain, but pale and fragile.
Verafia’s gorgeous gold eyes gazed at him. Ig could still see her red-rimmed eyes, even now, the tears in her eyes had not completely dried. Perhaps, the young girl had shed tears silently just now.
The girl’s appearance stabbed at his chest like a sharp knife, making him feel even more self-reproachful. After the atmosphere in the room settled slightly, the girl gently lifted her face: “Ig, you came to find me, what do you want?”
The girl’s voice was clear and pleasant. However, there was an obvious tremor in it, as if she was suppressing a lot of emotions.
Ig walked towards her: “Young Lady, I came to apologize.”
“Apologize, hmph, you say it so lightly…”
Verafia twisted her head and let out a soft hum.
“Young Lady, I don’t expect your forgiveness… I also clearly know that since I met you, you have done so much for me. If it weren’t for you, I would have likely died completely long ago.”
Ig approached the girl. The girl’s flawless skin, as if carved from jade, was adorned by the moonlight. Her slightly raised pupils rippled, and her emotions seemed unstable: “Little Fei also told me that you just now… you didn’t hesitate to hurt yourself… At that time, I didn’t doubt your intentions, I was just worried that when you found out, you would hate me.”
Verafia turned her head to look at the young man in front of her: “Afraid I would hate you? What kind of reason is that… Hmph, and then you used that attitude, as if afraid I wouldn’t notice, to try and placate me?”
“This is because, I don’t want you, Young Lady…”
Ig was about to explain, but seeing the girl’s expression, he suddenly closed his eyes and nodded: “Vera, you are right. I shouldn’t have doubted you. It’s just that I didn’t expect you to be so sad.”
Verafia had originally wanted to bicker with this guy for a while longer to vent her anger, but upon hearing Ig say that, a sudden wave of shyness washed over her delicate heart.
“Sad… Heh, I’m perfectly fine, how could I be sad for someone like you!”
Verafia glared fiercely at the young man in front of her, arguing stubbornly.
Ig did not retort, maintaining his silence, his clear azure eyes gazing at the girl in front of him.
The girl clenched her fingertips, her flawless snowy cheeks, sculpted like frost and jade, lowered. She felt her face getting a little hot.
Although she had recalled and pondered a lot in her heart before Ig arrived, the feeling was completely different from what she had imagined, from the boy looking at her and speaking her feelings out loud in front of her.
Sadness… such words used to describe myself.
She knew very well that whether it was sadness, grievance, or anger, these words were generated in her heart because of Ig… The meaning they represented was, at least, that she had genuine feelings for the young man beside her, at least, the kind that would make her upset.
Verafia lightly bit her lips, tilted her head slightly, and looked up at the young man in front of her with her scorching gold eyes: “But, you came to me, just to say these things?”
“I want to apologize to you.”
“What if I don’t want you to deceive me, and I want to know everything you saw!”
Verafia looked at the young man in front of her. Ig’s pupils moved, but he did not hesitate: “I have nothing to hide from the Young Lady. If Vera wants to know, then what I saw…”
Suddenly, a slender, fair, and delicate little hand covered his lips. Ig was stunned for a moment, lowered his gaze, and met the girl’s eyes.
Verafia leaped down from the windowsill to the floor, and a smile suddenly bloomed on her exquisite snowy cheeks: “Mm. I’ve changed my mind. Since you, this guy, didn’t intentionally hide it from me, then I won’t force it!”
Ig looked at the girl with some surprise.
“Mm. That’s how it is. Although you, this guy, are my attendant, it doesn’t mean I have to know everything. After all, everyone has their private secrets.”
The girl raised her snowy cheeks and smiled prettily. She moved her hand away and touched her hair again, her brilliant gold eyes flashing once more, “Just like, I have quite a few secrets myself. Would you, this guy, care a lot and force me to tell you?”
Looking at the girl’s relaxed and cute expression on her flawless snowy cheeks, Ig also showed a slight smile.
Yes. This Miss Phoenix, if her true self was not what she revealed, would he choose to leave her side?
Ig remembered his conversation with Dofiraia back then. At that time, the girl asked him if he liked Verafia, and he answered affirmatively, but with more confusion.
Did he really like the Miss Phoenix beside him? He had asked himself this question countless times in the days that followed.
Did he like her exquisite beauty, her cute and charming personality, or the inseparable feelings from their long companionship… Although Ig still found it difficult to judge which was more important, he felt that he should not hesitate again.