The first young lady of Count Flache, who had gone out for a moment to get some fresh air, returned with a tall woman carrying a common backpack.
No, more precisely, the woman had stuck to the young lady.
“Please! Please listen to my explanation once! Please, I beg you!”
As soon as the woman learned that she was the daughter of Count Flache, who sells monster parts, she repeatedly bowed and pleaded with a lowered waist.
Every time she did, the huge backpack would rustle and tilt downwards, and the papers rolled up inside would spill out. Despite hastily picking up the items, her expression as she continuously clung on showed how desperate she was. Lugh picked up the papers along with her.
“What’s going on that you’re so desperate?”
“I’m Anita Tevid, working at the ‘Dragon’s Breath’ shipyard in Turington! The owner of the shipyard is my mentor!”
As she passionately introduced herself, the first young lady of Count Flache, with wide eyes, looked at the stranger, then suddenly burst into laughter.
Blushing, Anita Tevid, who seemed to be in her mid-20s at most, burned deeply from prolonged exposure to the sun, and her hair was so burnt that it was starting to become messy.
“I came up from the eastern sea over there!”
“Oh, I see…”
“I want to make a ship with monster parts! Please help me!”
When she bent over again, the papers stuck in her backpack once again spilled out.
All of them were ship blueprints and perspectives. Blueprints full of incredible ideas made from wyvern bones, sails made from the leather of a cambaeo, and other thoughts that ordinary people would think were insane. Lugh unfolded the blueprints at her feet.
“I also sold my house for this! I’ll buy all the parts! Please, just sell me a little!”
The escort knights of Count Flache watched as the first young lady’s eyes widened and she looked at the stranger, then suddenly burst into laughter.
Anita Tevid, with her face flushed, looked at Lugh with bright eyes. Lugh smiled, bent down, and picked up the blueprints.
“For now, it’s better to pick these up quickly. They shouldn’t get damaged.”
“Oh, yes!”
Anita’s backpack, which clearly showed signs of a long journey, was filled with sketches and blueprints drawn with care. She nervously pushed the scattered blueprints back into her backpack and followed Lugh.
On the other side of the corner, Francis Gray and the people from the headquarters seemed to have either heard Anita’s determined voice or disappeared.
“Now, sit over here. Since the backpack is heavy, put it down.”
In front of the monster parts list presented by Count Flache, the merchants chatted among themselves. The escort knights of the count were guarding sternly, and there was also an Imperial Alethi in a black uniform.
Anita, with a tense expression, followed Lugh and sat in the chair she recommended.
“Thank you.”
“Would you like some tea?”
“Oh, no, it’s okay because it’s hot!”
Although it wasn’t a very hot day, Anita was so tense that her face was sweaty all along.
“Then I’ll ask for cold water and juice.”
“Thank you!”
Her voice also gained strength. Oh no, this isn’t right. Anita felt awkward about her voice being as loud as her pounding heart, but she couldn’t stop her voice from coming out loudly. Sweat poured into her hands, and tension made her whole body stiff.
“You want to build a ship with monster parts?”
The person with such a pretty face is also very kind. Anita felt like tears were about to come out. Smiling, Lugh asked again, and she pulled out the blueprints she had prepared for several days, trembling.
“Yes, please take a look at this. Please.”
Lugh took the blueprint and examined it. Although it was undoubtedly a blueprint made with great care, the materials used were absurd.
“If you build a ship like this, the unit cost will be quite high.”
In fact, it wouldn’t be just ‘quite high,’ but incredibly high.
“Yes, that’s right, isn’t it? That’s why I sold my house….”
“And these kinds of parts are not yet released to the public. Especially important parts like leather and bones cannot be exported privately because the country uses them first.”
“I’m okay with even something very small!”
Anita clenched her calloused hands tightly.
“I don’t know well, and these are just materials I’ve heard about, so even if it costs a lot, I want to buy them and try handling them myself!”
At that moment, drinks arrived quietly. Lugh had no interest in whether it was juice or anything else; he simply looked attentively at Anita, who was desperate to explain everything to him.
“My blueprints lack realism. There may be better materials, but I still don’t know. So, I want to study what materials are better, complete even a tiny piece of the ship, and please sell me just a little!”
Anita, who had spoken without taking a breath, gasped.
“Drink some water.”
“Yes!”
Smiling, Lugh looked at the blueprints again. Meanwhile, Anita, who quickly drank the water, neatly raised her hands on her knees and stared at Lugh intently. It was a very polite attitude.
“Um, Miss Anita Tevid.”
“Yes!”
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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