“Those people are fools.”
“Oh my. Isn’t it better to lift others up than to belittle them?”
“It’s my way.”
Talking to the boy made Deborah happy. She found herself looking forward to that short time every day.
She wished for tomorrow to come quickly before going to sleep and hoped for the time to meet the boy to arrive as soon as she woke up.
Deborah found this side of herself a bit unfamiliar and strange.
Deborah had been getting along well with everyone in the Header family, except Sage. So, why was she waiting for the boy?
‘Well, being with that child makes me feel at peace.’
Then why do I feel a strange calmness when talking to this prickly boy?
‘Is it because our relationship isn’t tangled up in things?’
Around the time Deborah had such doubts, Sage spotted Deborah, who was giving bread to the children.
“If those kids keep coming to the mansion, causing trouble, I’ll tell everyone it’s all because of you. Then, no matter how much the lady admires you, she’ll have no choice but to reject you!”
With that, Sage shouted and swiftly turned to return to the mansion.
Deborah, looking embarrassed, sighed deeply and shrugged her shoulders.
Dispelling her worries with a sigh, Deborah gestured towards the alley.
Then, from a seemingly deserted corner, the sound of crunching leaves echoed.
Deborah took out cookies wrapped in a handkerchief from her pocket. Smiling brightly into the darkness, she said,
“Hurry, I left these for you to give.”
The boy, with a contorted expression, approached and said,
“Are you stupid? Why are you just standing there listening to those words?”
Deborah, thinking, ‘I guess he heard everything,’ smiled playfully and said,
“I wasn’t just standing there, you know? I answered every time.”
“Do I look like I’m saying such things right now?”
The boy, looking angrily at Deborah with innocent, round eyes, said,
“You should get angry too. Just letting him shout and lecture like that, are you going to endure it?”
The boy was strutting, unable to contain his anger. Deborah blinked.
‘Why am I so angry?’
While Deborah, deeply immersed in thought, felt frustrated, the boy shouted,
“If I see this kind of situation again, I won’t stand it!”
Surprised, Deborah looked at the boy’s face. So, the meaning of those words…
“You endured it today?”
Deborah leaned towards the boy, asking.
The boy’s face quickly turned red due to Deborah’s sudden closeness and her words.
“Is that important right now?”
The boy didn’t understand, but it was important to Deborah.
‘I feel comfortable spending time with this child. Maybe I also wanted to have my own person like other colleagues.’
While Deborah always smiled when colleagues talked about family or hometown friends, or when Mrs. Header boasted about her husband, she felt a bit envious.
Sometimes, Deborah had such thoughts.
If Deborah were to be disliked by those working in the mansion, who would take her side?
‘I thought there would be no one.’
So, there were times when she felt sad. Even though she knew her colleagues were all good people, she sometimes thought…
‘Maybe I was a bit lonely.’
No, perhaps she was quite lonely. Seeing a younger boy getting angry and making her laugh helped her forget about it.
“What are you thinking so deeply about?”
Jen asked Deborah, who held the candy can as if it were a jewelry box and stared at it for a long time.
Deborah focused on Jen, who was staring at her seriously beyond the can.
“Seeing this, good memories from the past come to mind.”
Jen wrinkled her forehead. It was because memories of her ex-husband immediately surfaced.
‘His name was Charles.’
Did that man give her something like this as a gift? Yes, even if he was poor, he might have occasionally given her something like this.
‘He couldn’t afford anything better.’
Even if Deborah had received a cheaper candy than the one Jen gave her, she would have smiled prettily.
‘Jen.’
Jen firmly closed her mouth to avoid uttering unnecessary nonsense due to discomfort.
At that moment, Deborah glanced down.
Was it because of the fireplace light or Jen’s misconception? Her eyes, more vivid and rich than usual, shone beneath her thick eyelashes.
“When I see yellow candies, I think of someone precious.”
Jen was convinced that the person she missed was her husband. Who else could it be? However, at that moment, she said,
“Like Mr. Baker, he had golden eyes when he was a child.”
Jen’s eyes widened. Deborah wiggled her head and said,
“Oh, he’s not a child anymore, of course. It’s been ten years……”
Deborah never knew how old the boy was.
So, she didn’t know how old he would be this year, but she could infer that he had become an adult.
“Oh my. Already a grown-up……”
Muttering like that, Deborah imagined the boy’s appearance.
How much had he grown? Was his personality still the same? Since he was so handsome, he must be a handsome man now.
‘No, I should say he’s a handsome young man.’
Smiling, Deborah looked at Jen and said,
“Maybe he grew up as wonderfully as Mr. Baker. That child really……”
Deborah couldn’t finish her sentence. Her laughter disappeared. She couldn’t continue speaking because she momentarily saw the boy’s figure in the man who was now staring at her with narrowed eyes.
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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