Looking around with an indifferent gaze, Levanfell opened his mouth as if talking to himself.
“You usually live here?”
“Yes.”
Clint answered nonchalantly, sweeping away the remaining liquor bottles with his foot and slumping on the window sill.
“I’m sorry there’s no tea for guests, nor sofas, nor chairs.”
“Where do you sleep?”
“I sit on the window sill.”
“What about meals?”
“I drink alcohol.”
Levanfell’s questions were earnestly answered by Clint. Levanfell had heard previously that Clint only drank alcohol after losing his wife and daughter, but…
It was severe.
‘Can this be called human living?’
No. Even if it’s not human, can this life be named living?
“If I fall asleep without alcohol, I have nightmares. So I need alcohol. Once I drink it, I can’t tell where I am, so there’s no need to worry.”
Clint answered in a flat, monotone voice. At Clint’s reply, Jaelim expressed a pitiful sigh.
After all, if Clint was young Levanfell’s swordsmanship teacher, he must have been close to Jaelim as well.
“Earl, how… how could it come to this…”
“Clint.”
Levanfell cut off Jaelim’s lamentation and, with a determined and grim expression, clenched his fist and spoke.
“I won’t say it twice. I sent a letter ahead of time, so you know why I came here.”
“……”
“Move your residence to the palace.”
Clint slowly turned his head, expression unchanged, as if letting it in one ear and out the other.
“It’s not a proposal for you. It’s an order from the emperor.”
“I will refuse.”
“Clint.”
“I cannot go.”
“I must have written it clearly. Even if it takes force, I will take you.”
“Your Majesty.”
Clint muttered in a voice tinged with regret.
“I have put down my sword. There will be no day when I take it up again. If I were to ever hold a sword again, then that would…”
“……”
“That would be the day I take my own life.”
His eyes, speaking so casually of his death, held no emotion.
He soaks himself in alcohol all day. He spends his days with alcohol and looks for it when it runs out.
Does he think that nightmares go away when he drinks?
I turned my head. Right in front of the window sill where he usually leans to sleep, there was a portrait of his smiling family.
What is he seeing in the neverending hellish long days?
“I cannot leave this place, Your Majesty.”
“Clint.”
“Furthermore, seeing Your Majesty brings back my foolish past self, and it’s unbearable.”
Clint turned his head weakly.
“The idiotic me, intoxicated with joy over fame and honor. That fame and honor killed my family.”
“……”
“My wife died, and while my young daughter was brutally trampled, I was intoxicated by the cheers aimed at me and thrilled by the history I made, not even knowing it was killing my family.”
Clint’s voice held a deep sorrow from the past. He slowly shook his head.
“The palace is hell to me. You should know that best, Your Majesty.”
“……”
“Please leave, Your Majesty. I don’t want my misguided anger to be aimed at you for no reason.”
“I told you clearly. If you don’t comply, I will take you by force.”
“Then kill me instead.”
A bitter smile crept onto Clint’s lips. At the same time, Levanfell’s face became rigid.
“Can’t you see? How is this a way for a person to live? It’s a life worse than death. Even beasts wouldn’t live like this.”
“So……!”
“I wish I could just let everything go, but I’m tied here, and I don’t even have the courage to do so, Your Majesty.”
“So you’re not ordering me to follow you, Clint!”
Clint weakly shook his head.
“I won’t see you off, Your Majesty. Please return with the Empress.”
“…….”
“When I see you, Your Majesty… When I see you, Your Majesty, I think of your mother.”
A heavy air settled in the office, dense like soaked cotton. After staring at each other for a while, Clint was the first to turn away.
Once, a beast that dominated all wars across the continent, making the enemy tremble.
On the shoulders of the turned beast lay the heavy regrets and wounds of the past.
“I will give you time to think today.”
“I will have the same answer no matter how many days you come, Your Majesty.”
“I’ll come back tomorrow, Clint.”
Levanfell turned his head abruptly, as if he disliked Clint’s powerless appearance. He then clenched his teeth and left the office.
Jaerim, who had been about to follow Levanfell, hesitated, then looked back at the turned Clint.
“Count.”
“…….”
“I missed you.”
Clint’s shoulders tensed.
“I, too, and His Majesty, have missed you very much, Count. Because to us, you are like a father.”
At Jaerim’s words filled with longing, Clint clenched his fist.
“That’s why His Majesty kept sending letters with no response. Even coming here took a lot of courage…….”
“Jaerim.”
Clint mumbled, cutting off Jaerim’s words.
“Go and guard His Majesty.”
In a murmur so soft that it could not be heard without listening closely, there was affection for Levanfell.
Jaerim clenched his fist, bowed his head to Clint, whom he had not seen in a long time, and left.
In the office, left alone, Clint threw his gaze beyond the window. Then he found a bottle of liquor lying on the floor with some liquor left.
“His Majesty said so.”
“……Empress.”
“There’s no one in this empire who can beat you. It’s hard to believe anyone, but I can believe you.”
“…….”
“That’s why I came to find you, General Tennen.”
I left those words and turned my body in the office.
Whizz.
A chilly north wind blew through the broken windows.
This place was so dark and cold. The shade without sunlight was all the more lonely.
I walked slowly through the darkness and left the mansion. Then, from the seemingly uninhabited mansion, Clint’s laughter spread as terrifyingly loud as thunder.
As I stopped, I saw him sitting on the windowsill, sitting like a bound ghost, unable to leave his place.
Male lead is a clingy little husband
One-line summary: The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
Introduction:
One day, Lu Yuner’s soul transmigrates into a female-dominant world. She enters the Imperial Academy and takes up the position of a doctoral instructor, teaching classes and grading schoolwork.
One day, she encounters the young prince Su Qingwan secretly skipping class from the male academy.
As a result, Su Qingwan is punished.
From then on, Su Qingwan sees Lu Yuner as a “thorn in his side”.
But before long, this “thorn” becomes the person he cherishes most, and he goes to great lengths to win Lu Yuner’s affection.
Mini scene 1:
One day, the sun is high in the sky but Su Qingwan still hasn’t gotten up for class.
Servant Xiaoyuan: “Young prince, it’s time for class. You’ll be late otherwise.”
Su Qingwan says arrogantly: “I’m not going. I am the esteemed prince, my status is so noble, why should I suffer this hardship? Besides, isn’t learning all this just to please women? Hmph, they’re not worthy!”
Mini scene 2:
After Su Qingwan falls for someone, he completely changes. He no longer skips class and diligently learns how to be a good husband and father. But he discovers that Sister Yuner is always surrounded by admirers.
Drunk and overcome with jealousy one day, he clings to Lu Yuner, crying beautifully like a pear blossom in the rain.
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan likes Sister Yuner.”
Lu Yuner: “Young prince, you’re drunk.”
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan isn’t drunk. Qingwan likes Sister Yuner, likes you so much, likes you to bits…” Before he can finish, Lu Yuner’s eyes flash with emotion and she leans in closer.
[Reading Guide]
1. The female lead is gentle, gracious, humble and polite but not weak. The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
2. 1v1, a bit torturous in the beginning but definitely sweet later on.
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