Lakrahan raised one eyebrow.
Jeffrey picked up the bottle again, pouring a drink and said,
“On the battlefield. It was only the Duke who went around saving others’ lives while it was hard enough just to keep my own.”
In his hand that set down the liquor bottle, three fingers were missing.
He raised that hand to show Lakrahan.
“Fingers exchanged for lives. Not regretted at all.”
Had it not been for Lakrahan, Jeffrey would have had to give his neck, not just fingers.
“When will you ever stop talking about the enemy?”
Lakrahan too picked up the glass of liquor set before him.
He was the king of the North, but he didn’t seek formality or authority like others.
He still ate meals and trained with his people as if this place was still a battlefield.
When something happened in the village, he rolled up his sleeves and went to help.
“So what I’m saying is,”
Jeffrey brought his head closer as if frustrated.
“That woman and the Duke are the same.”
“……What?”
“Someone who steps forward to save those who no one saves. That’s the Duke and that woman. To me, the two look alike.”
Jeffrey, with a face as if asking if he didn’t even know that, flicked the liquor into his mouth with a whoosh.
[Star Icon]In a darkened room, Bercheria was alone, looking down at her hands.
As she clenched and unclenched her fists, tiny droplets appeared on them.
“My strength is slowly returning.”
First, she could speak, then she was able to handle water to some extent.
And now, her selfrecovery ability had returned.
“Ha…….”
Why, indeed.
She didn’t know why all this was happening, but one thing was certain.
Lakrahan.
Every time she was entangled with that man, the power she thought was gone forever was returning.
What was he?
“Could he be someone with an ice attribute?”
She cocked her head.
“I knew the Northern Lords had an ice attribute. Was I mistaken?”
There was no confidence in her murmuring voice.
By rights, Bercheria should have all the information that previous Awakeners had seen and heard.
Their lives were engraved in the power of the Weather Goddess.
But she had forgotten not only her abilities but also her memories while trapped in the tower.
The sharply cut memories never returned as time passed.
“More information would be nice.”
The one who had taken all this from her was her mother.
To Bercheria, her mother was everything and the only human she could contact.
She knew that her mother was ruining her, but there was no other way but to endure it.
That’s why, when a chance to escape came, she didn’t look back at anything.
Even though what was most precious to her was in the tower, she didn’t even have the courage to take it.
She didn’t want to spend the rest of her life trapped in the tower anymore.
The mere fact that she could breathe fresh air and step on soft grass was enough to leave everything behind.
She was planning to live alone, unnoticed by anyone.
But the moment she saw the children trapped in the flames, she instinctively knew.
That she was born to protect the people and enrich them, and she could never escape from that instinct.
That she must return to the tower and retrieve what’s hers in the end.
Even if it means being caught and trapped by her mother again.
Bercheria remembered the moment she first met Tatiana.
‘Are you an adult, sister? What adult hides in a tree?’
‘Did your mom die too, sister?’
Yes.
“I wish Mother would disappear from the world.”
Bercheria buried her head in her knees.
“It doesn’t matter who you are. Help me, Lakrahan.”
Her forehead, touching her dry skin, was hot.
Knock, knock.
“Ah!”
Startled by the sudden knock, Bercheria lifted her head.
Her heart pounded as if it would burst, wondering if her mother had come to look for her.
“Ah.”
A faint breath escaped from her face, which had turned pale white.
[Star Icon]“May I come in for a moment?”
Lakrahan’s voice echoed in the quiet corridor.
The faint sound of a dress hem brushing against the floor came through, with only a door between them.
“Hu.”
Lakrahan lightly exhaled.
He had wasted quite a bit of time in front of the door before knocking.
‘Bercheria.’
No matter how many times he thought it over, repeating it, it did not make sense or was understandable.
The Goddess of Weather, who had gone missing half a century ago, appeared before him of her own accord.
There was a time when everyone living in the north had earnestly longed for Bercheria.
Lakrahan, too, had hoped she would return and restore this chaotic period to normal.
Even when the people were dying of drought, when war broke out and anyone who had the strength to wield a sword was dragged into hell.
Watching his own knight brigade’s brilliant lives being cut off right before his eyes.
He had prayed fervently.
Only she.
She alone could have stopped the war.
It was a wellknown fact to everyone living on this land that even if a being called a god simply set foot in the Periat Empire, the ability to protect would be exerted.
“……?”
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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