Unless the curse is lifted, she and Ophelia will also be drawn here. How many heirs of Southern Zeniths were born here but eventually died? Looking at the pitiful people too numerous to count, Rue was shocked.
The end of Carlos’s terrible atrocities could not be fathomed. Unbelievably cruel events continued to surpass imagination.”
“Maintaining the barrier with those people…, is it because the power is so concentrated in the barrier that such monsters appear?”
Rue was quick-witted. Since those who had talents useful to Carlos were here, it seemed like monsters were appearing as if their power was entangled, just like monsters appearing when mana was entangled.
“That’s one way to put it. They also serve as sentinels. I haven’t thought of giving them names.”
Hayden casually muttered as he kept the monsters in the distance from getting closer.
“Emperor Caletta must prevent the secrets he must guard from leaking out and prevent anything from coming in. Also, every time the army gathered by Dragonlord forcibly breaks through the barrier, they send their gruesome forms over them.”
Rue’s body staggered, but since she was already in his arms, she just continued to collapse into his embrace. Before her hands completely collapsed, she grabbed Hayden’s shirt.
“How, how can these people leave from here?”
The gray eyes looked at Rue without much emotion.
“…Right. I knew you would ask that.”
No, it was rather an expression with so much emotion, calmly confined.
“People usually think about releasing their curses before taking care of others.”
Rue wanted to say it wasn’t like that. It wasn’t that these people would also be able to become completely free if they went outside the barrier. She asked generally, but his large hand approached, casting a shadow over her face.
“Sleep. You’ve used your strength enough for today.”
There were too many things she wanted to ask, so she didn’t want to sleep anymore. Lately, she was tired of sleeping. Rue tried to keep her eyes open and open her mouth.
However, Rue realized, after about nine hours, when she woke up, that she had fallen asleep during that time.
She slept like a baby, oblivious. Hayden, who was making a fire a little away, casually raised her and made her drink water and eat food clearly brought from the palace.
The emperor is busy. There will be many people looking for him in the palace.
But Rue didn’t say, ‘Shouldn’t you go back?’ It was no longer her place to ask that. So, she just wanted to be with Hayden for a long time. This selfish and uneasy begging was the first in her life.
“Are you not cold?”
Rue shook her head as she looked at the fire he had made. It was warm. But was there firewood in this desolate place? No, perhaps that might be the pieces of monster corpses wailing from a distance.
In battlefields, when demons died, they usually gathered and burned them. Rue, who thought silently, laughed lightly.
‘They might not be demons but humans. People.’
Without any courtesy, they just burned it down. Brave individuals who came to reclaim the land rightfully taken from them died like that, and their bodies couldn’t even return to their families.
“Why are you like this? Did you have a bad dream?”
She lay there alone, shocked, without making a sound, but Hayden came straight to her and checked her complexion, somehow knowing.
“Why are you like this?”
Rue raised her head, covering her mouth with her still free hand. She felt nauseous.
She wanted to leave this place, which reminded her of sins she unknowingly committed, but leaving wouldn’t make this hell disappear. Just closing her eyes and pretending not to see these unfortunate people here was a cowardly evasion.
They all floated, bound by curses less sophisticated than Rue’s. Ghost-like figures with no visible expressions were sad just by their existence.
“Look at me.”
Hayden immediately noticed why she was struggling. She couldn’t avoid his gaze, and hiding her emotions was even more impossible.
He stiffened his face and lifted her, making her face him with the only free hand covering her mouth. Even facing each other, Rue couldn’t find words to say to Hayden. She just had nothing to say to him all along.
How long could they stay together? Should she be tied to Carlos helpless for her entire life? Perhaps, when she dies, her consciousness will be bound to this place. It was horrifying, but she was powerless, and she couldn’t even ask Hayden for help.
“Again, you’re having strange thoughts.”
Hayden sighed, pretending not to look at Rue, who couldn’t even meet his eyes properly.
“What are you worried about?”
“No, it’s nothing.”
She denied it for now.
“No, it’s not. It’s Rustica Genesis’s way to worry alone, think alone, and act alone. Why do you care so much?”
On the other side of her, Hayden, sitting casually in the air, leaned forward and looked at Rue, propping his chin.
“Those cursed by Carlos around here? Or you? Or me?”
As if he knew she wouldn’t answer anyway, he murmured to himself.
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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