Then I met Liche.
“……. ”
Meeting Liche after six years, Liche had grown much taller and more beautiful than before. However, she was still Liche. Ian wanted to keep looking at her, wanted to stay by her side.
Liche, it’s me. I’m Ian.
Conflicting feelings of wanting to confess his true identity and the realization that he shouldn’t swirled inside Ian.
But which one was the right thing to do. Ian knew.
The end of his predetermined lifespan that Hekanka had told him. Spring at the age of 16.
The head of Udik Academy told Ian, “Go out to Crecellphon. Win there. Repay the value I’ve cultivated.”
From then on, death began to threaten Ian.
It was a resolve he had made since he was 11. He became strong to live and overcame countless hardships. As a result, he became outstanding.
Ian Dwayne Gerweir at the age of 17, outwardly Morgan Dayle at the age of 16.
The tough years had even made Ian’s atmosphere different from that of an ordinary person. No one would think of Morgan and 11-year-old Ian Dwayne as the same person now.
‘Liche didn’t recognize me either.’
Ian touched the decorations of the scabbard.
The glass of the decoration was one of the shattered mirror pieces that Marquis Gerweir had broken in the Gerweir mansion.
It connected Ian and Liche in the days when they didn’t even know each other’s faces.
“I will make everything in the Gerweir estate disappear. If you need time to organize before that, let me know.”
“Can you wait about a week?”
“Possible.”
After asking Hekanka for time, Ian fired all his employees. The housekeeper pleaded with Ian not to kick him out, saying he had nowhere to go, without even paying severance. In the past, he was the one who handed a pill to young Ian every day.
Her inner thoughts reflected in Ian’s gold were greed. A desire to aim for the frozen wealth of the frozen Marquis.
“Then I’ll stay at the mansion.”
“T-Thank you! Master…!”
After that, Ian spent three days and nights locked in the room, piecing together the broken mirror. It wasn’t entirely complete, but it became enough to honor memories.
Ian took the mirror and went up to the Yellow Tower.
Leaving the frozen Marquis and the housekeeper in the mansion. Not knowing the fate of disappearing, the housekeeper laughed happily, intoxicated by the dream of a summer night.
The day Ian left for the Pan Continent.
In Ian’s arms, who had abandoned everything, there were two small pieces of the mirror. Ian occasionally took it out.
During tough training, when he wanted to give up, when loneliness lingered in the dark night air, when living felt harder than dying…
He endured like that. The pieces wore out and the gold got worn.
‘Just endure for another three years.’
As Ian looked at the mirror pieces, warmth, as always, filled his eyes.
He smiled slightly.
I will live for you, Liche.
⭐⭐⭐
That afternoon.
Three academies entering the city gathered at the tournament venue.
The qualification assessment was done based on the tasks received by each department. After completing the tasks, if they received a passing score in a combat test with an examination officer, they would pass.
“Tari Che Rodwick. Passed the assignment.”
The exam proctor, looking at a pile of ashes 50m away, said. It had been a scarecrow made of wood, but it lost its form due to Liche’s fire magic.
Awkwardly standing near the torso target were other scarecrows, with only burn marks remaining on the sides. They were also students who had passed the assignment.
‘Genius, indeed. The praise for exceptional skills echoed in the mind of the exam proctor. A fire magic of such power and size that could burn a scarecrow in an instant.
Meanwhile, Liche secretly clenched her fist and called out to Python.
‘Good!’
[Have you grown a lot? If it were in the past, you would have burned up all the space. Your skills aren’t bad. Contractor.]Python, hidden in Liche’s pocket, felt proud of his contractor.
He used to be a contractor who could only destroy, unable to control his strength properly. When did he grow this much?
‘What if I hadn’t found the star fragments in the library? I would have broken everything and ended up sitting on the street.’
It’s all thanks to me being great.
Python, humming a little, touched the ring next to him in the pocket.
‘It’s good that it’s a fragment of a strong star, but what exactly is its characteristic? That’s why black is a headache.’
Python recalled the unique characteristics of stars that had turned into fragments among the stars he knew.
Soul summoning, curses, stealth… Nothing useful, just gloomy.
“People who passed the assignment, go to the judging hall and wait.”
While Python was contemplating, Liche moved to the designated place.
It was a two-story building with a low and wide structure.
On the first floor, there was a wide and low platform for combat, and on the second floor, there were protruding observation seats on three sides.
“Tari Che!”
Someone from the second floor called out to Liche, who was standing on the first floor after passing the assignment.
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
