However, as the horse began to accelerate, the people standing nearby withdrew, screaming in short shrieks.
Ines immediately identified the person riding the horse and began to run frantically. Pushing through the crowd, she caught eyes with Lena, who was riding the horse. A strange light flickered in her eyes for a moment, but she soon began to charge towards the same goal as Ines.
‘I must save her.’
Even if her body was torn apart and she could never walk again, Ines had to save this child.
Saving her sibling was the only way she could repay, even slightly, the savior who had reached out to her. For this, Ines even thought that she had come back 12 years in time.
But it wasn’t easy to break through the gap tightly filled with people.
At first, Susan, startled by Ines’s action, did nothing, but soon came to her senses and followed her. Then Susan, who was shorter than Ines, began to force her way through the crowd first, yelling.
“Make way, make way!”
With Susan’s help, Ines cleared everyone out of the way and saw the face of the little girl, who was smiling brightly at her Lord Orabi. And Lena’s face, charging like a mad bull, was right behind her.
At the moment when the maid who had been guarding the child beside her shrieked and moved aside, Ines threw herself towards the child.
She thought she had caught the small shoulders in her hand, but at that moment, an enormous pain overcame Ines’s body. But without hesitation, she embraced the child’s head with her whole body.
The horse ridden by Lena raised its legs high in the air and trampled straight on her body. And once more, it stomped heavily on her ankle.
Familiar with the pain, Ines was so terrified that she couldn’t even breathe, but she never loosened her grip on the child.
The guards standing nearby must have pricked the furious horse, as it fell straight to the ground, unable to bend its legs. Lena also fell from the horse and was soon tied up by the guards.
Ines gasped for breath and immediately began to assess the situation. She first checked the safety of the little girl in her arms.
“Are you all right, Your Highness the Princess?”
When Ines asked the child with dignity, the child who had been crouching like a fetus and tightly grabbing her coat raised her face. Her body was trembling, but the child who met Ines’s green eyes nodded faintly.
“It’s fine now. Don’t worry.”
Once Ines confirmed that the child was safe, she looked around. Although it looked as chaotic as a battlefield, she felt safe and got up from the spot, holding the child.
A little too big for a 20yearold woman to pick up, Ines lifted the child.
Hardened by arduous labor, Ines’s spirit felt that lifting the child was nothing at all in this extreme situation. As she stood up, the child instinctively clung tighter to Ines’s neck.
“Shh, it’s okay. Don’t worry. It’s really fine now. Now you need to go to His Highness the Prince.”
Comforted by Ines’s words, the child nodded, but the princess still couldn’t lift her face. Completely standing up, the red hair tie that was neatly tied to the child’s head fell to the ground.
Ines bent down to pick up the tie. Holding it as if losing it would mean losing the child, she turned her head towards Carson.
Carson was dealing with enemies that had appeared from somewhere. A wagon, laden with goods, was hit by arrows, and pushed to the ground by the force of the men, it lay down completely. The dust on the ground flared up like a trail of flames.
Watching them, Ines, feeling the intense pain in her ankle, began to move slowly towards him.
The fleeting thought that she had lost her ankle just like her previous life didn’t matter.
That mere ankle.
Originally, Ines’s heart was already too shattered to covet what was never hers.
After about three steps, she felt blood oozing from her head as it hit the floor, followed by an empty laugh. Was she going to die again like this? But since she had saved Carson’s bloodline, perhaps this time it might be a death worth dying.
Feeling the blood draining from her body, she began to recite the holy scripture that was as dear to her as life.
“He who desires too much…… will eventually return emptyhanded. He who desires too much will eventually…… eventually……”
Intertwining the scripture with deep sighs, Ines took a step toward him, step by step.
As everything began to fade away, only his image remained, etched into her eyes as if carved with a knife.
His strong arm swinging a sword, his gaze constantly faltering as he worried about his sibling, his relieved eyes after confirming his sibling was alive, his figure lifting his foot towards the last enemy, panting heavily.
And unmistakably, the aura solely of Prince Carson von Raymond, following him everywhere, illuminating only him.
That white light seemed just like a path leading to heaven, involuntarily bringing a smile to Ines’s lips.
“Eventually…… you will return emptyhanded.”
Feeling dizzy, Ines shook her head to steady her vision and again cradled the child and walked on.
Why She Is Still Unmoved (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He uses various methods to seek her affection, but she remains unmoved.
Synopsis:
Si Qingyu is a doctor who has saved countless lives and enjoys tranquility.
Luo Shaoxuan is ruthless, deeply scheming, and the top young master in the capital. He admires Si Qingyu.
Luo Shaoxuan: I want to be the only one in your eyes and heart.
Features a cold and calm female lead vs A noble and scheming male lead.
There will be both sweetness and torture towards the male after their marriage.
