“I! I can cook… and do laundry! I’m confident with chores! I’ve done a lot while imprisoned…”
An excited Hari stammered as she tried to make her case.
Atia looked at her with a pleased face.
As if saying such things were unnecessary.
“Just be my companion.”
“What?”
“All you have to do is keep me company and have some fun. What do you think?”
“…?”
Hari blinked her large eyes at the Duchess.
She was prepared to do even menial tasks to stay close to the Duchess.
To be granted permission so readily.
Hari couldn’t quite read the Duchess’s intentions.
“I was bored for lack of companions anyway.”
“Ah, really?”
“Yes, really.”
Just then, a shadow cast by the setting sun darkened Atia’s face, creating a somber atmosphere.
“However… it looks like there are some issues with your body. May I take care of them?”
“Yes…?”
Hari felt an inexplicable sense of dread as she looked at the Duchess whose face was obscured by the shadow.
She sensed the Duchess moving closer.
“Ah…”
But there seemed to be nowhere for Hari to escape.
(Time separator.)
“Hoo.”
The night Atia became certain that the inexplicable disease was caused by black magic, Casus went to Atia’s room.
Knock, knock, knock.
Upon opening the door, Casus saw Atia sitting on a large bed in her negligee.
But she wasn’t alone.
“Hm?”
Atia’s blonde maid, Kesha.
And…
“Uh? Hello, Duke!”
Hari cheerfully greeted him, dashing to the door.
One of Casus’s eyebrows rose.
The blonde before him was the woman nearly sold at the slave market.
Though Kesha being here was understandable.
Why was this woman also in Atia’s room?
“What’s this? I distinctly remember giving her a new place to stay.”
Seemingly pleased by Casus’s charming and deep voice, Hari grinned.
“I’m Hari! I’m staying here starting today.”
“What? Why?”
Casus looked at Atia with an inquisitive expression.
“I’ve become the Duchess’s companion.”
Hari responded with a smile.
“Companion?”
“Yes, I’ll help her with makeup, conversation, you know, stuff like that.”
Upon hearing Hari’s words, Casus furrowed his brow.
Atia blinked her large eyes at Casus.
“It’s better to have more companions, right? Both Kesha and Hari.”
Casus pushed back his hair.
The scene slowly played in slow motion, deeply imprinting itself in Atia’s mind as Casus’s eyes sparkled once more.
‘How can he be so cool?’
Casus was truly a perfect creation.
“Yes.”
Casus answered briefly.
Honestly, it didn’t matter much.
The problem was simply that more people were interrupting his time alone with Atia.
“I have something to say.”
“Yes?”
Atia briefly sent Hary and Kesha out of the room.
Remaining alone, Casus approached her and sat down next to her on the bed.
Then he laid Atia on the bed and covered her with a thick blanket.
“Is the door locked?”
“……What are you trying to do?”
“Nothing.”
Casus chuckled with a cough.
But Atia’s heart raced as his face got closer.
It was hard to get used to Casus’s face, no matter how much she looked at him.
Especially at such close range.
His red lips curved seductively.
Atia felt a strong attraction, as if honey had been smeared on her lips.
‘No, Hary is here.’
Atia turned her head and coughed softly.
Casus licked his lips, seemingly disappointed.
“What do you want to say?”
Atia asked, pulling the thick blanket up to her neck that Casus had covered her with.
“I intend to go to the capital.”
“Yes?”
“I want to find out something in the capital.”
“What is it?”
“I suspect that you may be under the influence of dark magic.”
“……Yes?”
At the words ‘dark magic,’ Atia felt as though her brain had stalled.
“Uh, dark magic? Please elaborate. Make it understandable.”
Casus conveyed the details and information of what he suspected to Atia.
“So… are you saying the reason I can’t escape my weak physique despite exercising is… dark magic?”
“Perhaps.”
Atia felt like her heart was dropping.
‘So it was all because of a curse of dark magic.’
The wicked dark magic had swallowed up Atia’s immense efforts in an instant.
So that’s why there had been no change in her body despite all the exercise.
“Yes, I knew it! This can’t be right. I thought my body was just flawed, but now…”
Atia felt a sense of liberation.
It felt like she had finally found the answer to a longstanding homework problem.
Casus stroked Atia’s head as she lay on the white pillow.
“We’ll have to find out more details in the capital. And you have to come with me. It’s dangerous, but… I need to see your immediate reaction to the dark magic.”
“Okay, I’m just too emotional right now. I feel like my heart’s going to burst…”
Right now, Atia wanted to march into the capital and drop a nuclear bomb.
Regardless of who had put dark magic on her, all she wanted was to bulk up as quickly as possible.
She wanted to escape from this annoying weak physique as soon as possible.
“Let’s declare war. Just like that.”
Casus said, laying the overly excited Atia back on the bed.
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
