‘This is the Duke’s mansion and I am…… who am I? Is the name Atia?’
As she touched each fuzzy memory one by one, she couldn’t close her mouth.
‘No, wait a minute. Did I come into a book?’
She knew she had entered someone else’s body, but it happened to be in a book.
‘My God!’
It was not even an ordinary novel.
It was a book called , which she read due to her friend’s persistent sales of romance fantasy novels.
was a story far from mental health or healing.
It’s a twisted story of the Crown Prince, the male lead, successfully seducing a woman who was another man’s and both falling in love.
‘It might be sweet as sugar from the male lead’s perspective.’
However, from the perspective of the supporting characters, it was a novel that resembled a battlefield.
Firstly, the woman named ‘Atia’ she had taken over.
Born as the illegitimate child of a highranking noble, she was not even a lead character, but an extra.
Not even hoping for a bed of roses.
Having a life with an expiration date, being discarded by the family, and an unwanted marriage.
It was already sad to be hit with a threecombo, but it was miserable to the end.
Atia was originally a failure discarded by her family.
In addition to being born as an illegitimate child, she had not been healthy since she was young.
She even received a terminal illness diagnosis.
Hearing from the doctor about her ‘unpredictable death’, people around her concealed the fact.
There weren’t many places Atia could go.
Atia’s stepmother pondered where to send her illegitimate daughter would be the cleanest.
The time it took to decide wasn’t very long.
It was just right to send her to the Duke of Wellington in the north, who was not in good terms with the royal family and other nobles.
The Duke of Wellington, Casus, had to reluctantly bring in a woman he did not love as his wife.
Atia, who was terminally ill, became weaker day by day in the cold north, and eventually welcomed death.
It just so happened that the Duke was in the battlefield, so she didn’t get to see her husband till the end.
Then, Casus, who was left alone without anyone by his side, suffered a severe injury in the battlefield.
That’s when he met the female lead, and the two fell in love.
The problem was that this female lead later abandoned Casus and chose the Crown Prince.
Casus, the supporting character unfortunate enough to be abandoned by his lover.
He lost direction and fought alone against the royal family, only to be removed by the Crown Prince.
It was a novel solely for the male and female leads.
The rest didn’t matter, even if they were unhappy to the core.
‘Ha…… All right. Let’s sum up the situation. So, the supporting character of fate, Casus, currently has a wife. That doomed wife is me, isn’t it?’
I couldn’t even muster a hollow laugh in my disillusionment.
There’s hardly anything I can do with a body whose expiration date is near.
Even if I wanted to live, I had no idea where to start or what to do.
“My lady?”
Only then did I come to my senses at the sound of the maid calling me.
“Are you skipping your meal again today?”
“Eh?”
“Then I will cancel the dinner.”
“Wait.”
Skipping meals?
That’s absurd.
Even if I’d landed in an unfamiliar world, skipping meals would be against my principles.
I opened my eyes wide like an angry bird.
“I want to eat quite a bit today.”
My body felt like it would collapse soon if I didn’t eat a proper meal, it was so frail.
“Really? You usually say your stomach’s not good, you hardly eat anything.”
“I did?”
The maid nodded, glancing at me.
“Ah…… did I?”
“Are you okay, my lady?”
“Yes…….”
That’s when.
A faint memory of the previous owner crossed my mind.
Most of the time was spent in the bedroom, looking like a corpse.
If she stayed locked up indoors, skipping meals on top of her weak health, she wouldn’t be healthy.
‘Did she have no will to live, being terminally ill, not eating even a meal?’
I’m definitely going to eat, even if I’m going to die tomorrow.
“I won’t skip dinner tonight.”
The maid looked puzzled at the unusual behavior of her lady, but nodded obediently.
“Understood. I’ll prepare it, my lady.”
Soon Atia was informed that the meal was fully prepared. But.
Heading to the dining room, my head was spinning.
‘How immobile must I have been to feel this dizzy from just a bit of walking?’
As the dining room door opened, the waiting servants bowed their heads.
“Welcome, my lady.”
Instead of responding, Atia just stood there, mouth agape.
‘What, what’s this? Is this my dinner?’
Just because I said I wouldn’t skip a meal.
A long dining table that could easily seat 30 was filled with countless foods, as if I’d come to a highend buffet.
From splendid food I’d never seen before to beautifully decorated cakes.
The quantity was overwhelming, too much to believe it was a meal for one person. The plating was also perfect.
‘It must be because I’m a duchess.’
In my previous life, even though I was famous for maintaining a strict diet as a Pilates star instructor.
With these brilliant foods in front of me, saliva naturally flowed.
Clatter.
Atia picked up a piece of silverware that was placed on the napkin.
‘To think I starved daily with such delicacies before me.’
She was strict with her diet in her previous life, but survival came first in her current situation.
She took a silver fork in her hand and put the meat in front of her into her mouth.
That’s when.
She hadn’t had a proper meal in a long time and her sense of taste should have been weak.
But as soon as she shoved the food into her mouth, she felt all her senses revive.
“Amazing…….”
Without realizing it, Atia let out an exclamation.
“Sorry? What did you just say…….”
“It’s delicious.”
The servants’ mouths opened slightly.
“I don’t know who made it, but it’s really tasty.”
It really was delicious.
Better than any fivestar hotel food she’d ever tasted.
The outside was crispy and the inside was moist, a harmonious mix of sweetness and saltiness. The spicy and sour unique flavor made the tip of her tongue feel good.
Every time she put a piece of food in her mouth, she felt a feeling she had never experienced in her life.
“Do the meals suit your taste, my lady?”
One of the observing maids leaned in and blinked at Atia.
“Yes, it’s not too stimulating overall and the seasoning is just right.”
Atia gave a light nod and smiled.
In the original, Atia always lived in a small room, sustaining herself with the little food that the maid brought.
Of course, there were often scenes of her sitting at the banquet table, desperately waiting for her husband, Casus, to come.
However, no matter how long she waited, her husband did not come, and Atia often ate alone, consumed by loneliness.
‘Perhaps she didn’t eat well because she disliked such loneliness?’
Though she hypothesized as much, she didn’t fully understand.
‘No… even so, if the taste is like this, I think I could eat alone for a lifetime.’
Atia, while savoring her food, discovered a huge portrait of Duke Wellington hanging on one wall.
A portrait of her own husband, Casus.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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