“Wow, it seems even better than my bedroom when I was a noble.”
While Charlotte looked around and chatted happily, Ines, for some reason, nodded with a familiar feeling. This room reminded her of her bedroom in Sweden.
Especially, the large balcony compared to the size of the room caught her attention.
“Yeah, it’s really nice.”
“Unbelievable that there’s even a place to bathe.”
Just like in Romfield, Charlotte adapted well wherever she went. Among the four people staying together, she received the least harassment from the guards.
She spoke as if she had never lived as a noble. It wasn’t hard to understand. In the temple, there was only one place to bathe on each floor.
“Ines, aren’t you going to bathe?”
Charlotte’s voice echoed as if she had entered the bathroom. After a long journey, Ines was tired, but she didn’t feel like resting. It was late at night, making it difficult to ask Carson for a separate meeting, so she pondered on what to do for a moment.
“You go first.”
“Okay, I’ll bathe first and quickly go to sleep. If I don’t want to be hated by the maids here, I have to wake up early and help with some work.”
Although both of them were assigned tasks related to Louis, Charlotte and Ines had no intention of passing their time comfortably.
When Charlotte entered, Ines hardened her resolve. It seemed appropriate to convey the situation as quickly as possible. As Ines stood in front of the mirror, arranging her appearance and preparing to leave, a familiar voice echoed.
“It’s me.”
From outside the door, a familiar voice reached her ears. She was surprised and rushed to open the door. Carson was standing there with the hand he raised to knock still in the air.
“My lord!”
He put on a graceful smile.
“Where are the other maids?”
“Charlotte? She’s inside bathing right now.”
“Then can I take a quick look?”
“Yeah, I was just about to come and find you.”
“Really? Then I should have waited a bit.”
“What?”
“Nothing, let’s go.”
Carson wanted to walk side by side with Ines, but she slightly bowed and followed behind him. While he was paying attention to the distance between them, Ines reminisced about what happened in the temple.
On the morning her roommate died, there was another person found dead inside the temple, just as she expected. He was a lower-ranking priest who also complained of symptoms similar to the dead maid for several days.
People simply dismissed it as exhaustion, but Ines knew. Soon, the shadow of death would cover the temple.
“Ness, Ines.”
“Yes?”
“Why are you calling me if you don’t know what I’m thinking?”
“Oh, I’m sorry. I was thinking about what happened at the temple.”
Without realizing it, the two of them found themselves in a beautifully decorated garden. Ines looked around with new eyes.
Whether they knew about the place with an abundance of moonlight or decorated the flower garden even at night, various colored flowers harmonized beautifully despite it being nighttime.
Among them, there was a hard-to-find plumbago, Ines’s favorite flower. Medium-sized trees adorned the surroundings, and the beautiful magnolia trees that surrounded the entire garden were also beautiful.
Sometimes there was a mansion where the backyard was more beautifully decorated than the front garden. While Ines was admiring the garden, Carson was watching her.
“Do you like the room?”
“Yes, I liked it because the balcony is spacious.”
“And the garden?”
“There are so many flowers that I really like. It’s amazing.”
Carson chuckled and waved his hand around.
“There’s no one here right now.”
Then, he slightly opened his arms, creating a space for Ines to slip her hand in.
“How about returning to Sweden for a moment since it’s good even for a short time?”
Ines hesitated for a moment, but there was no reason to refuse. This was not Edmont but Landhill, and Louis was right in front of her. Come to think of it, he was still dressed in ceremonial attire. Everything was perfect enough to think that it might be good to dream for a moment.
As they agreed to his escort, it felt as if the sound of music was coming from somewhere. At this moment, the momentum of the epidemic that would soon sweep through the empire and the fate that awaited them due to it were not important.
Under the gently shining moonlight, there were only two people walking in the beautiful garden. They strolled through every corner of the garden for quite a while.
“Ines, aren’t you tired?”
Using formal language as before, Carson finally couldn’t stand it and closed his eyes. It was fortunate that she didn’t roll her feet in the awkward feeling. She straightened her neck and answered as casually as possible.
“I’m okay.”
“Wasn’t the way here uncomfortable?”
“No, there was nothing difficult. Priest Hansen took care of the troublesome matters.”
Carson briefly thought of the handsome man with silver hair. The ashen eyes were not common in Kains. He had only seen them once in another country. Although he only exchanged greetings with Hansen for a moment, he was a memorable man who left a strong impression.
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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