It was important to know Daisy’s fate, but of course, he had to go when he heard that Mother had fallen and hurt herself on the stairs.
“Really?”
“Yeah, let’s stop talking about that. Fortunately, the Duchess is fine, and it’s over now anyway…….”
“Huh? What’s over? Explain it to me, Rose.”
At first, when Edwin disappeared, she thought she couldn’t change the original work. However, when Daisy was in danger, Ian didn’t show up.
Eventually, revealing himself in the square seemed to be a hint…….
Could there be room for the original work to flow as it should, even if she intervened and messed something up?
“It’s just nothing special…….”
Just then, some junior knights passed by, chattering. When she heard the word “fight” in their passing conversation, she suddenly grabbed one of their arms.
“A fight?”
“Ah, Senior. It seems there was a fight in front of the training ground…….”
Before the junior knight finished speaking, Edwin was already running towards the training ground.
“Yeah, thanks for letting me know.”
The sight in front of the training ground was literally dreadful. Two new knights with smudged faces were confronting each other half undressed, surrounded by the members.
“Lucas, where’s the captain?”
Lucas, who was standing there with a troubled expression, answered.
“He went to the palace today. I don’t think the vicecaptain is around either.”
Should that be considered fortunate?
In the relief, Edwin’s figure was seen approaching the new knights through the crowd.
Seeing his tightly closed mouth, it seemed he was quite angry. Should they leave him like this?
“You two, what are you doing?”
Derrick immediately answered Edwin’s question.
“Jayce started it.”
“You started it? You were the one who hit my shoulder first.”
Jayce, bursting into a hollow laugh, growled at Derrick, ready to confront him again. They had been bickering since last time and finally seemed to have come to blows.
“Both of you stop. Fighting amongst yourselves, don’t you feel ashamed?”
Edwin’s rebuke silenced both new knights, who were about to argue back.
“Why don’t you have a formal duel instead of this?”
“Edwin! If the vicecaptain finds out…….”
“Lucas, I think Edwin’s idea is good, isn’t it? It’s a formal duel.”
Vanessa, who had been quietly watching with her arms crossed, interjected. She was a senior knight who occasionally participated in the subjugation of magical beasts, one of the top performers in the knight order.
Yeah, a formal duel might be better.
About to nod thoughtlessly, she caught Vanessa’s eye. Vanessa seemed to send a wink, then opened her mouth again.
“Rosebelia, what do you think?”
“I agree with your opinion, Senior. How about the loser leaves the knight order?”
“What?”
“The knight order?”
Derrick and Jayce looked at each other in astonishment. I barely held back a bursting laugh and spoke in an exceedingly gentle voice.
“If you’re causing such a commotion without that much confidence, it’s even more incomprehensible.”
“Rose is right. We are considered one of the most elite knight orders within the empire. Only our White Knight Order has participated without being caught in monster subjugation, and always organize the largest number of members for the subjugation team. Do you know what that means?”
“The White Knight Order is strong…….”
Vanessa waved her hand as if she knew what the rest of the statement meant without hearing it.
“Yes, they’re strong. That’s why the honor follows. But that’s not all. There hasn’t been a war lately, but members of our knight order can lose a comrade they were with just yesterday overnight. Of course, you could lose your own life as well.”
At Vanessa’s words, the faces of some of the members who went on monster subjugation last year, including Edwin, darkened.
At that time, Gabriel’s deputy left the knight order with severe injuries, and the deputy’s position has been vacant ever since.
“How about you join the Guardian Knight Order instead? Their main duty is to guard the palace, so even if the members fight amongst themselves, it seems they do it out of boredom, right?”
Edwin’s halfjoking, halfserious words caused Jason and Derrick’s faces to turn pale.
The imperial royal knight orders were divided into the elite White Knight Order and the Guardian Knight Order, responsible for the royal family’s security. The two knight orders were longtime rivals, and their relationship was not good.
The White Knight Order ridiculed the Guardian Knight Order as knights concerned only with appearances, and the Guardian Knight Order ridiculed the White Knight Order as strong but stupid knights.
Moreover, the two knight orders had polar opposite internal atmospheres. The Guardian Knight Order still strictly allowed only noble males to join, while the White Knight Order allowed anyone to join if they proved their skills.
The White Knight Order was also the first to admit a female member. As female knights only recently appeared, Rosebelia was the only case of a female knight with noble status.
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.”
