There wasn’t anything particularly impressive. To scrutinize such a place… She probably had some thoughts. And that didn’t seem like a good thing for me at all.
‘Whatever. She’ll probably make various rumors, seeing this place where no one is watching, and spread them.’
The words she spews, the rumors she creates might actually be helpful to me.
I look forward to it. People who will view this place lightly because of the words she said.
“Is the author okay?”
“Even if something happens, it’s okay. This place… is a place where others can’t come in recklessly.”
“I will protect.”
“Yes. I understand.”
Cheruti didn’t ask about other things. She must have been curious about that day, but she didn’t ask, a consideration in its own way. Even in the midst of the children going crazy.
I didn’t say anything either. Ain also did the same for everyone. They showed such consideration for me.
I patted her shoulder and moved toward the place where the children were.
As the end approached, there was no tension or worry. Only the thought of wanting to quickly find the cause of all the trouble.
And that wish was finally fulfilled not long afterward.
“You wanted to see me, right?”
It was a day after exactly three more days. Today, fortunately, it was the return of Ken. And along with Ken, an uninvited guest also came. Fortunately, the point to mention is that there was quite a distance between the tea table where the children and I were.
The children could play without worry, and I could have a conversation on this side without worrying that it would be heard by the children.
You could tell who she was at a glance. A beautiful appearance to the point where the phrase ‘perfect beauty’ would involuntarily come out, with her flawless white face.
A smooth facial line with no flaws, a rounded nose, and even her eyebrows were expressing beauty. If I were a man, no, even as a woman, it was an otherworldly beauty that would catch the eye at least once. Whoever saw her would know that she was Beatrice. She looked exactly like Duke Evan, and she was glaring at me as if looking at something below her.
If it weren’t for her, there was no one else who would act like that. So, irritation welled up.
‘If you’re going to let me be reborn, let me be born with such a pretty and good-looking face. She really uses that face so unnecessarily.’
In a moment, my surprise was evident, and I awkwardly shook my head.
“Isn’t that so?”
Whether she thought my actions were questioning her words or not, she showed discomfort.
“I was contemplating what to say to someone who came without introducing themselves.”
“But you should know who I am.”
“I understand you’re an uninvited guest. Lately, the palace security has become lax, and all sorts of riffraff are coming in. Well, it’s not everyone’s love nest.”
“… Riffraff… I don’t know who I am?”
Still, she quickly dropped her formal tone, better than calling her brother Duke. Even her lips twisted slightly. It looked even more beautiful. So, it annoyed me even more.
Oh, it’s absolutely right to be annoyed by beauty. Beautiful things always are more annoying. She even tormented Lianne with that face.
“Well.”
“If I say this, would you understand? Did you receive the gift I gave? Isabella Yeonga?”
“What should I do with this? It’s not like I received gifts in just one or two places. I remember…”
“…You shouldn’t forget the gift I gave you.”
“Ah, could it be a pink diamond?”
I clapped my hands in surprise.
Feeling good about the fact that she remembered what she gave, she nodded slowly at the right timing. I smiled at that timing.
“But what should I do? Haven’t you heard the rumors about that?”
“What rumors?”
“I heard that you sold it.”
“Why did you sell it?”
“Why not? If you received a gift, isn’t it the recipient’s heart? Isabella Yeonga?”
In bewilderment, she shook as if her mouth couldn’t stop trembling.
“Huh… Ha.”
“Moreover, the recipient was undoubtedly me, so I thought it was okay to sell it. Beatrice Yeonga.”
“Did you let go of talking to me, knowing who I am? You?”
At that fact, she trembled like flames bursting forth.
“You, saying you… Speak properly, Beatrice Yeonga. Ah, after being missing for so long, you suddenly appeared. Maybe you don’t know the etiquette well? Or you don’t understand the situation. Looking at the marriage gift I gave you, you should know I’m the empress, right?”
“That mere empress’s position!”
“Yeonga can never have the empress’s position forever.”
“Ha… Substitute, but still, so audacious.”
“Substitute. Now that you’ve come as a substitute, you only have such words for me. But what should we do, Yeonga? Even if you came as a substitute, now, I’m the owner of this position. Although you came as a substitute, you can’t be the owner of this position, Yeonga.”
She remained silent for a moment.
“I was hoping you came as a substitute for Duke Evan. I thought you would do something significant. But all you do is get angry. What do you want here? Do you want me to hope that it’s the one who gave me the pink diamond and say, ‘It’s an honor to meet you’? I didn’t know I would meet such a precious person. Or did you hope I would express gratitude and say, ‘Thanks for leaving. Thanks to you, I could become the empress.’ Did you want me to do such nonsense?”
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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