A few days passed.
During this time, Raven identified those who followed the will of his father, Marquis Liranepf, and found out who they were. He discovered their past sins and imprisoned them to prevent further wrongdoing.
Raven tried to pass on Marquis Liranepf’s position to one of his family members, but it didn’t seem easy. It appeared challenging to find someone among his blood relatives who would defy Marquis Liranepf’s will.
After confining the Marquis for a few days, we went to visit him.
“I never knew there was such a place in the palace.”
Raven murmured with fascination as he entered the annex and walked towards the bedroom where the Marquis was confined.
“It’s natural for those outside the imperial family not to know. This place is for confining nobles who have committed crimes.”
Revampel replied casually, opening the lock on the door to the room where the Marquis was trapped. Upon doing so, Clint and Raven stepped forward to open the heavy door.
The grand door slowly creaked open with a heavy sound.
“Marquis.”
Revampel called him as we entered. Looking up at the voice, he seemed out of his senses after being confined alone in this place for several days.
When the Marquis, who had been lying weakly on the ground, heard Raven’s voice, he opened his eyes wide.
Meeting eyes with Raven, he smiled brightly and shook hands as if the sun was shining.
“Father, have you been well?”
Surprised to see Raven, Marquis Liranepf’s face, initially filled with astonishment, quickly turned into uncontrollable anger. After rising feebly from the ground, he rushed towards Raven.
“Raven!!!”
A loud sound echoed in the bedroom. If Clint hadn’t hurriedly restrained him, he might have struck Raven even after charging at him.
“You!!! You!!! Betrayed me!!!”
The Marquis, forced onto his knees by Clint, exerted all his remaining strength in anger.
His bloodshot eyes didn’t leave Raven.
‘Is Raven… okay?’
I sneakily turned my head to check Raven’s expression. Raven seemed emotionless, as if he had no feelings.
“How could you do this to me!!! Raven!!”
The Marquis continued to shout endlessly. Raven looked down at him as if he were a person without any sound, devoid of emotion.
“I’m your father!!! I’m your parent!! How could you treat me like this!!! Raven!!”
Ignoring the Marquis’s endless cries, Raven’s eyes twitched for the first time. His long eyelashes trembled.
Raven took a deep breath, exhaled heavily, and closed his eyes tightly.
“…How could you do this to your father?”
Raven’s icy gaze turned towards the kneeling Marquis. As indifferent as ever, the Marquis continued to shout loudly.
“I’m your son!!! I’m your father!! What have I done to you!!! I taught you everything without lacking anything!! When the Liranepf family flourishes, it means your prosperity too!! Why don’t you understand that!!”
“So, did you kill my brother?”
“What?”
The quacking sound from Marquis Liranepf ceased. As if time had frozen, he seemed to forget even to breathe.
Raven’s face, observing the stunned Marquis, was as cold as a midwinter snow peak. Realizing that something was amiss, the color drained from the Marquis’s face.
He began to tremble as if facing a fierce snowstorm with his bare body.
“So, did you kill my brother, Father?”
It wasn’t a question but a certainty. In Raven’s icy expression, the Marquis’s voice trembled like a fluctuating wave.
“You… You… How could you… sure… I thought you had lost your memory…”
“Did you get surprised because you thought I had lost my memory, but in reality, I remember everything?”
“You… You…”
The Marquis tightly clenched his trembling hands as if facing the wind. Gasping for breath, he clenched his teeth in frustration.
“You pretended to forget everything.”
“I pretended to forget everything?”
Raven’s eyes flickered at the words “pretended to forget everything.” Like shattered glass, his sharp gaze pierced through the Marquis.
“Are you saying I pretended to forget everything just to survive?”
“…Survive?”
At the mention of surviving, Raven’s eyes blinked. His cold gaze, filled with disdain, stabbed the Marquis.
“Do you know that I pretended to lose my memory just to survive? Not because I was afraid of you, not because I didn’t want to die, but because if I died, there would be no one to avenge my brother, no one to reveal the real reason why my brother died.”
Raven slowly crouched down in his place, facing the Marquis, and locked eyes with him. With an expression of intense loathing, he questioned the Marquis.
“Why did you kill my brother?”
“This bastard.”
“…Is it too difficult for a disguised beast to understand the same question? Because to you, a human life is as light as paper burning in the fire.”
“Raven!”
“Exactly. Why is someone like you, who cleverly finds a way to survive, doing something like this now?!”
“…Finding a way to survive?”
At the mention of finding a way to survive, Raven’s eyes twitched. With a look of disgust as if seeing a filthy insect, he turned to the Marquis.
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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