Deon meant that Ian could sleep in his room.
In contrast to the confused Ian, Liche, who immediately understood Deon’s words, brightened up and shook Deon’s hand.
“Really? Thank you! Brother!”
It was better to sleep in Deon’s room in the same building than to sneak into the women’s dormitory.
After smiling broadly at Ian, Liche whispered to Deon.
“Don’t use your abilities on Ian, okay?”
Deon bluntly responded.
“I don’t know.”
A moment later.
Deon and Ian stood in front of the bedroom door.
“……”
Considering he was indebted at this hour, he should not be a bother anymore.
As Ian tried to quietly enter the vacant room across from him, Deon stopped him.
“My sister told me to keep an eye on you.”
Deon tied a long string around his own wrist, and the other end was tied to Ian’s wrist.
“What is this……?”
“Don’t move if you’re sleepwalking or whatever it is. I don’t like being disturbed in my sleep.”
With a stern warning, Deon walked to his bed.
Ian hurriedly entered the room, sensing tension from the tight wrist string. Judging by the pillow and blanket thrown next to the sofa, that seemed to be his spot.
Ian carefully lay down on the sofa.
There were terrifying rumors about Derkedyon Lodwik, one of which was that if you offended him, you’d be found as a cold corpse the next morning.
‘Ruthless rumors, must be because they’re a family of assassins.’
Ian tensed his right arm tied to the string.
His determination was clear: not to wake Deon. Out of courtesy to Deon who had given him a place to sleep, he must not disturb the sleep.
His eyes were closed, but his mind was sharp, so sleep was unlikely.
‘Liche.’
He finally knew her name.
Repeating Liche’s name several times in his mind, Ian smiled. So, your name is Liche.
“Please wait here for a moment. I will go and bring Lord Deron immediately.”
Even though Philip went to fetch Deon and left Liche alone with him, they could not have much of a conversation in the awkward atmosphere.
Talking through a mirror and talking face-to-face felt entirely different.
Despite the awkwardness, Ian managed to say what he had been wanting to say all along.
“I’m alive.”
“Yes, I’m really glad.”
They didn’t say much, but they understood each other perfectly.
When Liche responded with a smile, Ian truly felt that he was alive.
He wanted to have the same conversation in the future. To do that, he had to survive, so he could not easily refuse Liche’s offer to watch out for his sleepwalking.
‘I heard Derkedyon doesn’t like people.’
Even if it was at his sister’s request, Derkedyon wouldn’t like the current situation.
Ian quietly glanced at Derkedyon’s profile as he lay on the bed.
Naturally, he didn’t look like Liche. Maybe the high nose bridge. Derkedyon’s face while asleep seemed strange. He was someone Ian had never imagined being in the same space with.
Derkedyon Lodwik. Despite his frightening reputation, he had high grades, a distinguished family, and superior looks. Many in the school quietly admired him, although he himself didn’t seem to care.
“Gehrwer.”
Deon, whom he thought was asleep, spoke. It seemed he had sensed his presence.
“If you date my sister, you know you’re dead, right?”
“What……?”
It seemed Deon couldn’t sleep either.
It was when he even heard the hallucination of his sister holding hands with Gehrwer and saying, “I want to marry Ian…….”
That’s out of the question.
‘Abilities are not allowed.’
So, if Gehrwer and Liche start dating, I will intervene.
Whenever it happens, my sister and an ability user are absolutely not to be together.
Deon was on guard against Ian, worry-free on behalf of his nonchalant sister.
“Don’t even dream about it, Gehrwer.”
Humans do not possess a core that produces magical energy. However, the magical stones distributed among you are a mysterious substance capable of independently creating magical power, thanks to the cores within them. Humans can use magic by utilizing the power of these magical stones.
In the training ground, a magic practical class was well underway.
Liche listened to Professor Rumbla’s explanation and stared at the magical stone in his hand.
Unlike fragments of stars the size of pearls, the distributed magical stones were as big as fists.
‘Not sure about anything other than the size. Do magical stones have no relation to the unique characteristics of stars?’
He wanted to compare it to the star fragment in his pocket, but since he couldn’t, he examined the magical stone in his hand very closely.
Some students around Liche sneaked glances at him.
Among them was Izra Kent, who had previously taken Liche’s magic affinity test paper.
She looked at her own magical stone confidently after noticing Liche.
‘I’m confident in using magical stones. I practiced at home.’
While having a magical affinity is a sure talent, it wasn’t a guarantee for proficiency in magic.
Practicing the flow of magical energy, understanding formulas, and all other required knowledge.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
