The Prince’s Rebellion that occurred in the Marcus Kingdom. At that time, the great achievements of nine Heun tribe hunters became a legend on the Arkan continent.
The Marcus Kingdom was a powerful kingdom that even the war-crazed Kazan did not dare to invade. Three princes tightly gathered soldiers and plotted to seize power.
When the 2nd prince joined forces with the crown prince and gained the upper hand, the 3rd prince reached out to the Heun tribe hunter Bark and staged a coup. The crown prince’s side requested support from Emperor Tane.
The war-crazed Kazan led his soldiers to the Marcus Kingdom. To the right behind Emperor Kazan, the crown prince in silver armor took his place.
Heavy rain poured down so fiercely that the blade of the sword in his hand was not visible. The tide of battle favored the 3rd prince’s side, which had the Heun tribe hunters on their side.
Crown Prince of Tane! Bark chased after Emperor Kazan and the silver armor. When the distance narrowed and came into sight, he shot a poisoned arrow at the silver armor’s warhorse.
Bark aimed and pulled the bowstring, intending to shoot a second arrow at Kazan, who was tending to his fallen son.
He was excited at the thought of cutting off the source of the dirty bloodline with his own hands.
However, Emperor Kazan was ruthless. He spurred his warhorse and rode over the body of his fallen son. With his helmet off, the crown prince rolled in a muddy puddle of blood and rainwater.
‘How… could he do that!’
Bark witnessed it with his own eyes but couldn’t believe it.
The silver armor that always guarded Emperor Kazan’s back on the battlefields of the Arkan continent, the Crown Prince of Tane. When the helmet came off, golden hair identical to the emperor’s rippled like a golden sun. At some point, he became jealous of him.
*
“Your father is a bird freely flying in the sky, your mother is a red flower blooming towards the sky.”
Young Bark did not believe his grandfather’s words. Raised by his grandfather’s hands, as white and delicate as plant stems, Bark grew tall in stature and strong in grip.
Without anyone teaching him, he cut poles to make wooden swords and provoked fights with preemptive attacks. After putting his peers under his feet, he picked fights with youths taller than himself and got involved in bigger fights.
Old man Chen wanted the child to grow up with gentle hands that touched herbs. He coaxed and scolded, and sometimes yelled. But as his joints grew thicker, his bloodline became more prominent.
He was rough and aggressive. Even if his own body was injured, be it beast or human, only when he butchered his target would his boiling blood calm down. It was in his nature to feel relieved only when he had the world under him.
Chen could not hide the bloodline.
“Your mother is Amir of the Heun tribe who cannot bear children, and the one who sowed the seed is Emperor Kazan, the war-crazed one of Tane.”
When Bark heard about his bloodline from old man Chen, he cut his arm with a dagger and jumped into the river. He wanted to drain all the dirty blood from his body. He drifted downstream along the river flowing with red blood.
Just as colorless water turns red when blood mixes in, the blood of the bad lineage became even more potent and powerful.
When he came back to life, he entered deep into the forests of the Roche Mountains on his own and became a Heun tribe hunter.
Was it the pull of blood? He wanted to meet him just once. The crown prince in silver armor who always guarded Emperor Kazan’s back.
Finding him was easy. He was always guarding Emperor Kazan’s back on any battlefield of the Arkan continent.
Then one day, he saw the crown prince’s golden hair shining like the midday sun when his helmet came off. When he confirmed the same golden blonde hair and blue eyes as Emperor Kazan, he felt jealous and resentful.
So he took the hand offered by the 3rd prince of Marcus. Because he could rightfully eliminate his own blood kin.
*
“The Crown Prince of Tane has fallen!”
However, Bark could not shoot an arrow at his blood kin lying face down in blood.
“Crown Pri… Pat, Your Highness!”
A platinum-haired knight jumped off his horse faster than an arrow and went to the fallen crown prince. He knocked down the approaching soldiers of Marcus’s 3rd prince one by one.
Bark noticed a soldier of the 3rd prince approaching the crown prince who couldn’t move due to an injured leg. Without realizing it, he shot an arrow into the arm of the soldier who was charging with his sword raised.
Instead of jealousy, he felt pity for his blood kin who had such a heartless father who abandoned his son in the muddy mix of blood and rain.
Only after confirming that the platinum-haired knight supported his lord, barely mounting a horse and arriving at the camp through the downpour, did he whistle.
He roamed the battlefield with birds wet from the rain. He couldn’t understand Emperor Kazan. The dirty feeling made him want to spill blood.
That day, instead of his own blood kin, Bark shot poisoned arrows into the center of the necks of two of the 3rd prince’s blood kin. Amidst the downpour, the rebellion ended, and the coup succeeded. The 3rd prince Adonis became the king of the Marcus Kingdom.
And on the night when the heavily pouring rain briefly entered a lull.
He met two people arguing by the river. Bark had first washed his rain-soaked body in the river and was lying on a thick-branched cherry tree. He picked a few cherries drained of sweetness by the downpour and popped them into his mouth.
“Eden. What are you keeping watch for? Just go already.”
“Princess, it’s for precaution. I’ll stand here.”
“Are your eyes just for decoration? I want to bathe comfortably, please go.”
“Then, I’ll be down there.”
“If you don’t go quickly, I’m just going to strip.”
At those words, the knight named Eden made a gesture of covering his eyes with both hands and moved far away.
‘What kind of conversation is this? Why is he calling her princess?’
It was too risqué for a conversation between the crown prince and his knight. So Bark watched with eyes shining in the moonlight as the crown prince undressed and leisurely entered the river.
The white body revealed under the moonlight was… even from afar, clearly a woman’s body with soft and flexible curves.
‘Haa… am I seeing things?’
The body that had been rippling white in the moonlight gradually walked towards the riverbank. Carefully, as if learning to walk for the first time.
Bark was so surprised that he lost his center and balance. He fell from the cherry tree branch like a falling leaf.
To think that this Bark fell from a tree.
Fortunately, he hid his body in the riverside thicket. He didn’t know why his heart was pounding so loudly. It felt like a wet stone from the riverbed was firmly lodged in his chest.
Silence surrounded everything.
In the moonlight, she revealed herself even more nakedly. She gathered her hair, as thin as flowing moonlight water, and braided it.
She put on men’s pants and tightly wrapped a long white cloth from her waist to her entire ribcage.
As she tucked in the end of the cloth habitually and picked up her shirt, she seemed to sense a presence and calmly said,
“Sir Eden, do you want to die? I know you’re hiding there, come out.”
Thump thump thump. His heart was beating, and the increasingly fierce pulse seemed to cut through the silence and resound everywhere.
Bark slowly raised his body and walked towards her.
“Hello, silver armor.”
“Gasp. Wh-who are you?”
She bent down and then straightened up, pulling out a sword from her clothes. In an instant, she drew the sword from its scabbard and placed it under his neck.
“I was here first, you know.”
“Tell me, who are you?”
“I’m a hunter. And… you won’t believe me if I tell you. Nice to meet you.”
Bark pushed away her sword blade with the back of his hand and swiftly grabbed a tree branch, climbing over the tree.
The moonlight was white, and she shone brighter than the moonlight.
The stone that had always been lodged in his chest, pricking and aching, seemed to have turned into a fluffy cloud washed by rainwater. His chest felt ticklish and clean.
“Haha, hahaha.”
He laughed, jumping through the air until the dawn light poured down. The wet white bird feathers flying around his shoulders and head dried and shone white.
Bark found the wandering blind lyutist. He learned the secret of the twins born from the oracle received from her, who was an Amir and his mother.
He abandoned all jealousy, hatred, and curiosity about his blood kin and lived in Roche.
But now, she had appeared before him again, all covered in wounds.
‘My blood kin, my silver armor.’
*
“I wonder if she pretended to lose her memory. I have a favor to ask.”
“See, you’re already starting with one favor.”
“One is enough. I need to go to the Kaosan scene then.”
“The reason?”
“I need to find the necklace.”
“Haa, the blue-green diamond necklace?”
“Mmhmm.”
“If it’s that one, the maid already found it as soon as she woke up, cleaned it well, and put it in her possession.”
“Oh, I see, that’s what happened.”
“Now, you’ll have to make a second request.”
“I have no more favors to ask. Get out.”
“Huh. I wasn’t going to say this because it’s not polite.”
“Then, don’t.”
“How cute.”
“Call Sir Bern from outside the door.”
“Not that way. Come out this way with me.”
Bark gestured towards the full-length glass window outside.
“Go alone.”
“An eagle was flying regularly in the sky. I thought it might be looking for you.”
“Really? Where?”
“Are you asking a favor?”
“…”
“You should learn to ask favors better.”
Patricia felt a bit strange. They were speaking informally to each other, but it felt natural. Also, his voice wasn’t unpleasant to hear, rather, it was something…
“Call Sir Bern.”
“Perhaps, do you feel any attraction, any emotion… towards me?”
“What are you saying? You’re making me uncomfortable.”
“Huh. You’re so cute, I’ll grant your favor.”
“I didn’t ask for any favor.”
Bark swiftly lifted the blanket and put his hands under her body, lifting her up.
“What, what are you doing? Put me down.”
“We need to go call the eagle, don’t we?”
What an incredibly rude person.
Patricia thought so, but didn’t say it out loud. She cried out in pain as it cut through her back. Above all, Briga was said to be flying around.
Bark held her lightly. She was small and light like a white bird.
For the first time, he slightly forgave the heartless Emperor Kazan who had brought this small and pretty her into existence, even though he had considered it a bad bloodline.
He went out to the terrace through the window and sat on a wisteria chair. He was careful not to touch her back and shoulder wounds as she was held in his arms.
She frowned and bit her lower lip with her teeth, as if even moving a few steps caused her pain.
Eagles trained for messaging fly in regular patterns searching for their master. They use their sense of direction, smell, and hearing to gradually widen and dominate the space as they fly.
Knowing this pattern, Patricia looked up at the sky while in Bark’s arms. Then suddenly feeling a gaze on her, she looked at him.
The same deep blue eyes as Patrick’s were looking down at her in an arc. As she had felt earlier, it was strangely trustworthy eyes.
“Have you fallen for me? But I think that’s your eagle over there.”
Why She Is Still Unmoved (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He uses various methods to seek her affection, but she remains unmoved.
Synopsis:
Si Qingyu is a doctor who has saved countless lives and enjoys tranquility.
Luo Shaoxuan is ruthless, deeply scheming, and the top young master in the capital. He admires Si Qingyu.
Luo Shaoxuan: I want to be the only one in your eyes and heart.
Features a cold and calm female lead vs A noble and scheming male lead.
There will be both sweetness and torture towards the male after their marriage.