Deon woke up not long after returning to the mansion.
“Reflect on your actions.”
Having been scolded by Blake, Deon was confined to a room in the annex for a week.
He had no intention of leaving anyway, so being trapped didn’t bother him.
He did worry about the little one who resembled a puppy.
“What do you think you’re doing, taking a civilian into the forest of monsters? She’s only seven.”
“Quiet.”
This morning. Under the pretext of a sick call, Zed came to scratch Deon’s nerves.
Perhaps because Blake had personally picked him up and raised him since he was young, Zed was the only one in the Ludwig house who treated the head of the house and Deon comfortably.
This was possible because he knew precisely the line he should not cross.
“Eek. Our young master is angry. I must be going.”
“……How is she?”
Though he tried to act nonchalant, Zed grinned, seeing Deon clearly worried about Riche. Only inwardly, of course.
‘The doctor said she would wake up soon.’
Zed was not without concern for Riche either, but not to the extent of losing sleep like Anna or Blake.
Of course, he was not as persistent as Deon, who inquired about Riche’s condition every time Zed came to visit.
Zed shrugged in response to Deon’s question.
“She hasn’t woken up yet.”
Though it was noon, all the curtains in the room were drawn, making it as dark as night.
Deon lay on the sofa, repeatedly tossing and catching a fountain pen.
‘Has she not awakened in two days?’
That fearless, cheeky little girl.
Deon realized that, no matter how hard he tried to frighten her, he couldn’t drive Riche out of the Ludwig house.
The child had never been afraid of him in the first place. She had only pretended to be scared.
‘Damn.’
Deon furrowed his brow.
He was bothered.
Riche’s failure to wake up bothered him, as did what had happened when he lost consciousness.
‘I don’t remember anything.’
He had overused his power against the sudden onslaught of monsters.
He collapsed from the aftereffects and found himself back in the mansion when he opened his eyes again.
‘What happened? And why don’t I hurt?’
He wasn’t talking about the side effects of the power he used in the forest.
Deon touched the area near his heart.
The constant pain was gone. The sharp, cutting pain as if slashed by a sword, as if his heart was being squeezed.
It had been caused by the energy that had built up in his body since he was young. The Ludwig family’s power users called that energy ‘Om.’
Deon had a constitution that built up Om easily because of his high potential.
That’s why Blake had told Deon not to use his powers as much as possible until he became an adult.
But now,
‘I don’t feel the Om at all.’
He had never felt so light.
What had happened in the forest that he was now in such good condition, and the child still hadn’t awakened?
‘……I should apologize.’
Deon tossed the fountain pen into the air again.
He had thought they were doomed to die in the forest.
So, he hadn’t even managed to say he was sorry. He had hoped that she would abandon him.
“Isn’t she stupid?”
Why didn’t she leave him and run away?
If something so dangerous had happened that it made him lose consciousness, she should have left him and escaped.
“Do you know how cute she was in the forest? The young lady was, well, holding your hand tightly?”
Deon opened and closed his right hand that Riche had supposedly been holding.
An image of a small, silverhaired girl popped into his mind.
She held his hand? She’s genuinely stupid.
Thump.
That’s when he heard it. Something tapped against the glass near Deon’s ear.
Whoosh, the fountain pen that had slipped from Deon’s hand stuck in the curtain next to the window.
Deon’s flushed face had turned expressionless.
‘It didn’t come inside the room.’
The room where Deon was confined was on the first floor of the rarely visited annex.
On the other side of the window where the noise had come from was a garden, not a path frequented by people.
‘They hired new knights recently. Has another fearless rat snuck in?’
Ludwig had an unusually large number of enemies.
Therefore, it was common for other nobles or royals to send spies disguised as servants or knights.
‘I need an example.’
This time, he was unsure if it might be better to use his abilities to send a warning to his enemies.
Because that brat was in the mansion.
‘At least she won’t be touched[—].’
Killing his presence, Zed walked over to the window and opened the curtain.
“Aah!”
“……?”
Someone was startled and screamed from beyond the window.
What kind of careless spy is this?
Deon jumped to the window sill and looked down.
“Ouch…….”
“You……!”
There was Liche, who had fallen on her bottom in the flowerbed.
Didn’t she say that Zed was still asleep this morning? Had he awakened since then?
Deon tried to open the window, but it was locked and wouldn’t open.
“Hey, did you fall?”
She’s tiny and even clumsy. How does one fall in a flowerbed? It’s not like she’s a monthold puppy.
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.
