[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess":3,"chapter-i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-67":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I'm in Love with the Villainess!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},895217,1171,"Chapter 67: Jealousy...?","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-67",67,"\u003Cp>The air didn’t just tense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It compressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vivianne felt it instantly, her instincts screaming before her mind caught up. The magic pressure rolling off Evelina wasn’t aggressive, but it was heavy, like standing too close to a sleeping dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Ah,\" Vivianne said dumbly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was all she managed before instinctively taking a step back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evelina didn’t move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She simply stared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her crimson eyes slid from Vivianne... to the dagger launcher on my wrist... to the training scars etched into the courtyard stone... and finally, to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Painfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Explain,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One word, no raised voice, no magical flare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far more dangerous than either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She’s my student,\" I replied calmly. \"Training session.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vivianne nodded a bit too fast. \"Y-Yes! Just training! Physical conditioning, spell reaction drills, close-range adaptation—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evelina raised a hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vivianne stopped talking immediately, like someone had pressed a mute button.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had heard all about the gossip of her and Cael being together, but she chose not to believe it; there was no way the one and only Evelina herself would have chosen a lover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now she was proven wrong, very wrong...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Student,\" Evelina repeated, tasting the word. \"So you bring students to your estate now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was either this or have the academy gossip,\" I shrugged. \"I had no other choice, to be honest.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eye twitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That... was not the right answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vivianne swallowed hard. She could feel it now; this wasn’t just hostility directed at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was possessiveness, ownership, something so fitting for Evelina, but at the same time not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You,\" Evelina said, finally looking back at Vivianne. \"Name.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"V-Vivianne Crestwood!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Crestwood,\" Evelina echoed. \"So you’re the council girl.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Yes, Lady D’Arclight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vivianne bowed, deep, proper, perfectly trained. Evelina was ranked higher than her; one wrong move, and her entire family will have to deal with the backlash of disrespecting a D’Arclight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evelina looked unimpressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And you,\" Evelina continued, eyes narrowing, \"decided it was acceptable to monopolize my servant’s time... sweat all over him... in his own estate?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vivianne’s face went red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I-I didn’t—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Abyssal Spear]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Begone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a click of her tongue, she unleashed a human-sized lance that tore through the air with an explosive shockwave, sending her hair streaming back from the force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was planning to take out Vivianne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, and now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Profaned Gluttony]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stepped between them, thrusting my palm forward as a huge mass of purple energy erupted from it, shaping itself into a gaping mouth that collided with the spear, trying to devour it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Y-You stopped it!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evelina was taken aback; her hair started to float from the sheer magical pressure erupting from her very being, to the point that even the demonic energy within her was starting to leak out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How dare you!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Profaned Fireball—crack—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is a misunderstanding!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I yelled out, stopping her from casting another spell. I needed to defuse this situation and stop this misunderstanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But... something tells me this wasn’t just a misunderstanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She just didn’t want to share me with anyone else at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>TAP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Profaned Step]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"H-Huh!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll handle things here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I teleported Vivianne away from my estate and back into the academy to deal with Evelina alone. While I was definitely stronger, fighting her was definitely the last thing I wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hurting her was never an option for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t bring myself to do it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You insolent...!\" Evelina’s magical pressure immediately dissipated the moment Vivianne disappeared; she no longer had a reason to attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But... that didn’t mean I was completely out of trouble yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I leave you alone for a few days,\" Evelina continued, stepping closer with each word, heels clicking against the stone, \"and here you are bringing other girls to your estate!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her presence pressed down on me like gravity itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not hostile anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jealous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn’t bring her willingly,\" I replied carefully. \"Progress would stall if we stayed in the academy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That doesn’t make it better.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I only trained her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s also not better.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I sighed. This was going exactly how I feared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She’s a student. One of Kevin’s recommendations. Nothing more, and I would have refused if I could, but she asked for help from another student I owed, I couldn’t refuse.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evelina stopped just an arm’s length away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Close enough that I could see the faint glow of sealed demonic energy beneath her skin, pulsing slowly, like a heartbeat that didn’t belong to a human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes searched my face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not for lies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She already knew I wouldn’t lie to her, and even if I could, she could just easily touch me and dive straight into my mind for answers anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Did she touch you?\" she asked flatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you allow her to?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you think about allowing her to?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I blinked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...No?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her shoulders relaxed by the smallest margin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barely noticeable, but I felt it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmph.\" She turned away, folding her arms. \"Then explain why she looked so proud standing next to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...That’s your problem?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She shot me a glare sharp enough to cut stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That girl looked at you like you were something precious,\" Evelina snapped. \"I don’t like that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You know I would never—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know you would never...\" She sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose; even she was confused at her own emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had never felt such strange and powerful emotions well up inside her before, to a man no less, even her own family members don’t elicit this much reaction from her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...I belong to you,\" I answered without hesitation to cut the silence between us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That did it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pressure vanished from her completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Evelina froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then her ears, very subtly, turned red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Good,\" she muttered, looking away. \"Never... and I mean never, interact with her again unless you ask permission from me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t stop the small smile tugging at my lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was more possessive and prone to jealousy than I thought. You’d never expect such an ice queen like her to have a side like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But... It’s not like there are thousands of me out in the world; her wariness of someone else stealing me made sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if I know it would never happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She’s gone, don’t worry,\" I added. \"Back to the academy. I won’t train her here anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That earned me a sideways glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...You won’t?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No,\" I said honestly. \"I didn’t think you’d like it; her training was already complete anyway.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hesitated, but was also a bit irritated at my mention of her training being complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, quietly, she spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence settled between us, no longer heavy, just... charged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And more importantly, she had just realized the commotion she had made in front of all my servants, who were watching from the sidelines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can’t believe that just happened...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her face started to turn red, her emotions switching from one to another in a near instant, like a switch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she glared at the servants who were watching, both those who were visible and those who thought they could hide their presence from her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t even need to say anything; her presence alone was enough to shut them all up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll make sure they don’t speak about this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As you should.\" She crossed her arms.\u003C\u002Fp>",1210,"2026-06-03T05:52:53.768Z",1,"novelbin.me","524bfed6e21b77b1f13a555880d0355a5fa2fecad82e5c63577202c3b57d20bb","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-68","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-66",324,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-cover.jpg"]