Even after that, my brothers continued to resort to pleading, using coercion, and even crying and begging for their lives.
But I didn’t yield. They were all co-conspirators who had tried to kill Prince Karayan.
I left the dining table without any reaction to my brothers’ words. Although my brothers tried to grab me, they couldn’t reach out recklessly because Rivampel stood firm behind me.
We moved to Karayan’s palace to discuss the future.
“To be honest, I’d like to let them all die like this.”
I looked at Karayan as if asking for his opinion. In response, Karayan slowly nodded his head.
“Not yet.”
In fact, if Karayan wanted, he could have used his power to kill all the royals he disliked long ago. However, Karayan chose not to.
“Teri, I want to make the Lupion Kingdom a pleasant place for people to live.”
“I know. That’s why you personally join the investigative team for dispatch each time, right?”
As the heir to the throne, he didn’t need to involve himself in risky tasks that he didn’t have to. But he took the lead in dangerous tasks to see everything with his own eyes and understand.
“The Lupion Kingdom is rotten from the roots. It’s not something that can be solved by dealing with the royals immediately. It’s just a delusion. If the king and the brothers disappear, the substitutes will take advantage of the chaotic moment to do who knows what.”
It’s a valid point. Killing the royals won’t uproot the rotten foundation of this kingdom. The rotten roots of this kingdom are not the royals but the bureaucrats manipulating them from behind.
Even if the royals disappear immediately, there will be a lot of work to be done. Without anyone to help from the side, I can’t handle everything alone. Even if we pull out the visible roots, we don’t know if other roots will rot behind.
“I’ve tried.”
Rivampel, who listened to Karayan’s determination, clenched his fist.
“It’s reckless to ascend to the throne without any preparation. If I focus on one thing, at least three or four other problems arise behind.”
Now that I think about it, Rivampel also ascended to the throne without proper preparation. I nodded, and Jaelim, who was next to me, pretended to nod with a handkerchief tapping on her eye.
“That’s why I’ve been through a lot. Please make sure that more victims like me don’t occur.”
“See, Prince? If you ascend to the throne without any preparation, you’ll end up with pitiful souls like these.”
“Pitiful souls, Your Majesty? I’m not a pitiful soul; I’m annoying because Your Majesty is troublesome!”
Rivampel and Jaelim playfully bickered with each other.
But it’s not a wrong statement. If it weren’t for Jaelim’s help, Rivampel wouldn’t have come this far. If Jaelim hadn’t become the emperor’s closest aide, she wouldn’t have held power.
And beside Karayan, there was no one willing to risk their life and assist like Jaelim.
“Teri.”
With a sorry expression, Karayan lowered his head and held my hand.
“I’m sorry.”
“For what?”
“…Nothing has changed since I was a child.”
“…….”
“They hurt you so much, yet I said not to kill them. I apologize because it’s still too early. Karayan’s face was stained with a deep sense of guilt. Whenever he saw me, who had run away to this place when I was young, Karayan always had this squeezed expression.
I didn’t know why he did that when I was young, but now I seemed to understand.
He feels sorry for me.
“To save me, you had to step on the land of this kingdom where you never wanted to come again, and you even revealed your identity that you wanted to hide.”
“…….”
“But, but in the end… I’m still telling you to endure it again.”
Karayan clenched his fists tightly. Drops of blood formed on his tightly closed lower lip.
“Despite saying I’ll protect you with words, I can never really protect you every time. When you came to me with wounds from your childhood, and even now as an adult, I… I just tell you to endure it.”
“Oppa.”
“Yeah.”
“I saw the outside while riding the carriage from the harbor to the palace.”
“Outside?”
“I’ve always been confined to the palace, so I didn’t know what the situation outside was like. But today, I saw it for the first time. People were eating the rotten carcasses of animals, and they were chewing on weeds by the roadside.”
“…….”
“Oppa must have seen the reality continuously since you were young, right?”
Karayan couldn’t answer. He will be the one responsible for this kingdom. The people dying now will become his subjects.
I wondered how bitter he must feel watching such a situation. The young prince’s desire to protect his people was vividly portrayed.
“I’m looking forward to the Lupion Kingdom you’ll create, Oppa.”
“…Teri.”
“I hope no one else like me will be sad in the kingdom you’re going to protect. So I’m okay.”
Karayan overlapped his hand on the back of my hand. It was the way he comforted me when I was young and crying.
Karayan looked at me and smiled gently.
“Teri, you’re my truly proud sister…”
“But that’s one thing, and we still have things to settle.”
“Hmm?”
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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