Lu momentarily covered her face with her palm and was silent.
“I chop wood well and work well. I’m useful.”
He said and didn’t leave Lu’s side, adjusting the furnace fire, clearing up the scattered things, preparing meals, and taking care of the laundry.
“Why are you doing this? You’re not healed yet.”
“I’m fine now. Give it to me. It’s hard for you to carry heavy things.”
“That’s my line.”
She tried to speak calmly, but Hayden had already snatched the heavy mortar for grinding herbs from Lu’s hands and placed it back in the cabinet.
“Don’t you use your hands……!”
“Arm’s not broken. Which one do you want to get, this?”
Hayden, who was still reaching into the cabinet behind her, asked.
“Oh, that……”
The solid muscles brushing against her back, the huge and fatfree body enveloping her, the smell identical to hers from the freshly washed clothes. All of this made Lu unnecessarily tense.
Having spent an incredible night together, it was impossible not to be conscious of it.
The man who suddenly dropped into an ordinary life was too suspicious, and as suspicious as he was, he was incredibly affectionate.
“Here.”
“Thank you.”
He smiled broadly when thanked. Handsomely made, when he smiled, it seemed like the sunlight coming through the kitchen window was all drawn to his face.
Lu was slightly proud that her judgment was not clouded even when she was drunk. Her choice was not wrong.
“Still, be careful. Never use the broken part.”
Hayden smiled again and nodded his head gently.
Although it could not be said that it was not uncomfortable for an outsider to enter the place where she lived alone, there was no friction with this suspicious man.
He always followed her around with a smiling face and made it clear that he had no intention of leaving.
What to do?
‘Living alone, one day I decided to live with a handsome man who dropped by, and that’s it?’
It didn’t seem like it would end with ‘They lived happily ever after.’ Moreover, Hayden was a person with quite a few suspicious aspects that couldn’t be passed over just like that.
“The resilience is of the ace among aces level, so if it were that much, they would have taken her immediately in the Empire. But she crossed the barrier, the Knights would have finally advanced beyond the barrier…, but there’s no way, right?”
Would Emperor Kaleta allow that? There’s no way he would have allowed it when he cut off his treasured genius Knight for insisting on advancing beyond the barrier.
Her mind was complicated, but when Hayden came closer and smiled, those thoughts were swiftly swept away.
“Ah, the soup will boil…!”
“I made it.”
Turning around, she saw the steaming soup being ladled out, the laundry collected and hung, and the table wiped clean.
“It’s not the skill of someone who’s done it once or twice. Living alone?”
“No. Living with two in Lu.”
He smiled a little. It was peaceful and pleasant somehow.
She thought she was living well alone, but despite being a suspicious man, she felt ‘good’ just because someone was with her. Lu realized that she was actually very lonely.
“No. Still, I must come to my senses.”
She shook her head.
“Oh, someone’s here.”
As soon as Hayden’s words fell, there was a sound of knocking on the hut door. Lu wiped her hands with a towel and went outside.
“Ah. You’re here?”
He’s a person working in the castle. When Lu got something valuable, she met him and traded. After all, it was for the lord’s use.
“Yes, the butcher said the bear’s skin is very good. It would have been perfect if it was less damaged.”
“It was a bit hard to catch.”
“Anyway, I’ve decided to give you a good price. Fifty florins each. If it had been better, I would have given you eighty each.”
The servant from the castle made a disappointed expression.
“Anyway, follow me. The lord will pay.”
“Yes. I’ll go right away.”
Trade with the castle always went like this. Lu, who had been in the Knights, knew the value of things, what would sell, and exactly who had the wealth to buy her goods.
“Hayden, I’ll be right back.”
She hurriedly went inside to whisper, put on her coat, and followed the servant again.
Fifty florins each, a total of one hundred florins, is quite generous. Buy good ingredients and feed Hayden well until he recovers, then send him off with enough travel money.
She can keep a little for herself as medical expenses. Yes, it is fine to be just a passing person in his life.
Squeak!
Lu looked up. A white hawk was flying and crying in the sky.
“Oh my, what a hawk? It’s the first time I’m seeing it.”
“Really?”
“I’ve never seen that color before. Is someone raising a precious hawk? I’ve never seen it in the lord’s birdcage.”
“The lord has a birdcage?”
The servant chuckled at Lu’s words.
“There’s an old black hawk dominating the top, and below that, there’s a chicken coop.”
[Star icon]The owner of the old hawk and chickens faced Lu in the cold lord’s office.
“Here’s the money for the bear skins.”
The lord extended a wrinkled hand holding a money pouch.
“Count it.”
“Thank you.”
The lord, who provided the place to count the gold coins right away, was quite casual in this respect.
“You’ve lived here quite long.”
“Eh, you should live at least 10 years to hear that. It’s still far.”
Lu responded affably, diligently counting the gold coins. There’s nothing wrong with looking good to the powerful.
“From Kaleta originally, haven’t you heard the news?”
“What news?”
“They say the barrier was broken.”
“…You’re joking?”
The lord shook his head.
“You don’t know anything.”
“I don’t meet people or have places to hear from. Is it true?”
“They say it’s true…”
“Then, is war breaking out?”
Lu calmly chose her question. The only way for her to hear official information was from the lord.
“That’s what’s strange… The rumors say that the king of the demons that was outside the barrier has appeared. Black hair, and a man as beautiful as an angel.”
A man as beautiful as an angel with black hair.
Lu already knew one such man.
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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