Jessie, initially, showed dresses and accessories to Irene, giving her the choice. However, everything looked beautiful in Irene’s eyes, and lacking a sense of fashion, she didn’t know which dress and accessories complemented each other. So, she repeatedly handed the choice over to Jessie. With this pattern repeating several times, it became a routine for Jessie to pick after Irene and ask if it was okay.
That was the case today as well. Irene, wearing the dress chosen by Jessie, suddenly looked at her reflection in the mirror. “Simple.” Compared to the dazzling clothes she wore when living with her parents, it felt plain and ordinary. Having dinner with Carlos after a long time, wouldn’t it be proper to dress up nicely? Yesterday, due to a sudden tea time in the late evening, she went out without properly dressing up. “…” Irene didn’t particularly want to receive special attention for her appearance from Carlos, nor did she want to show a lukewarm appearance. …She just wanted to look a bit prettier. It wasn’t because it was Carlos; it was just the heart of someone who wanted to appear beautiful to others. Irene looked at herself in the mirror, fiddling with the navy blue hem without any pattern, and asked Jessie, “Can I change my clothes?” “Change your clothes? Is something uncomfortable?” “Oh, it’s not uncomfortable, but I want to wear a prettier dress.”
Irene, while looking at the mirror, touched the navy blue hem without any pattern and asked Jessie, “Can I change my clothes?”
“Clothes? Where is it uncomfortable?”
“Oh, it’s not uncomfortable, but I want to wear a prettier dress.”
Oh my. Finally, Irene has taken an interest in dresses!
“Of course! I’ll bring it right away!”
Jessie was very pleased and rushed to the dressing room.
At the end of a long journey, Jeurdine returned to the palace without washing or tidying up and went straight to the emperor. It was because of a letter that Carlos had secretly requested to be delivered to the emperor as soon as possible.
“Master asked me to deliver it to the Emperor.”
Curious about what was written inside, he handed the letter to the emperor. Looking at his son, who appeared without washing and dusted off the dust without any manners, the emperor frowned. However, when he heard that Carlos had sent the letter, his expression changed.
Seeing the Esper family crest stamped on the red wax, he felt his heart pounding for no reason. The emperor took a deep breath and opened the envelope with Carlos’s family crest.
Reading Carlos’s stern writing style without missing a single punctuation mark, deep wrinkles of concern were engraved on the emperor’s forehead.
Judging by the expression, it seemed like there was serious content in the letter. Jeurdine tried to test his luck, thinking that he might not teach him the content if he asked directly.
“What is written in the letter?”
Thinking that discretion is the better part of valor, he slyly tried his luck, but unexpectedly, the emperor willingly revealed the content.
“Master asks to create a culprit who led the riot by releasing demons during the recent Poyeon Festival.”
“What?”
Create a culprit to catch? It means not to catch the real culprit but to create a fake one?
“What nonsense is this?”
“It’s true. We can’t catch the real culprit, and even if we catch him, it’s someone we can’t announce to the world. So, they say we need a fake culprit.”
In other words, Carlos knows who the real culprit is. Moreover, calling him someone who cannot be caught means that the culprit is not a human but an underground resident.
“If I were to guess, is the culprit… the one who bound the Master to this land?”
“I don’t know.”
The emperor neatly folded the letter.
“I don’t know who the real culprit is, but if it’s someone we can never catch, we have to create a fake culprit. It’s too big of an incident to just let it go. Since the Temple side sent an investigation team directly to the Esper territory, they need to catch the culprit to solve the incident.”
That makes sense. Jeurdine nodded in agreement.
The culprit behind this recent Poyeon Festival incident will probably receive a heavy punishment. Even if he manages to overcome the punishment, it was clear that he would live a life that was no better than death.
However, it was unavoidable to make an innocent person the culprit to cover up this incident.
However, making an innocent person the culprit was against Jeurdine’s principles, but there was no choice but to do so to cover up this incident.
Is this what they call sacrificing a pawn for the sake of the dynasty?
Jeurdine, bitter-smiling at his unwilling motto, said, “So, who are you thinking of making the culprit?”
“I’m also troubled by that.”
The emperor sighed deeply and rubbed his wrinkled forehead.
“To reverse all the crimes without leaving any traces, and even the Temple side needs to accept the person we set as the culprit…”
Indeed, who could that person be?
Just when the rich were pondering together for once, a beautiful voice, reminiscent of a scheming fox, was heard.
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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