After a long time, Stella gathered with the Verudura family for dinner. Stella looked at the people who had become familiar and felt even more longing for Ludina.
She worried about where Ludina was and who she was with. If she only knew where Ludina was, she could send news even through a letter, but now she couldn’t even do that.
“Princess, are you very tired?”
The dining table was filled with food that Stella enjoyed. Lian had put effort into preparing the food for Stella, who had returned after a long time.
Awakening from her thoughts at Brin’s question, Stella realized that everyone around the dining table was looking at her with concern, making her uneasy.
“Yeah, I guess so.”
Stella smiled and tore a piece of carrot bread made by Lian, dipping it into the soup. The warm and savory cream soup and carrot bread went very well together.
“Oh, by the way, Daelon, did you go to the market during that time?”
“Yes, I went with Mrs. Lian and sold all the
Quick-witted Stella hit the nail on the head. Daelon, after sighing quietly while looking at Lian, put down his spoon, politely folded his hands under the dining table. He seemed like a child preparing to be scolded by his parents.
“To be honest, a person named Ian wanted to purchase all the remaining carrots.”
“All of them?”
“Yes.”
“So? Did you sell them all to him?”
Daelon bit his lip as if guilty, nodding his head. Simultaneously, Lian also politely folded her hands, glancing at Stella.
“Did he deceive you? Has he not paid the price?”
Observing the uneasy expressions of the two, Stella sensed that something was amiss.
“No! It’s not like that. He actually paid a generous amount.”
Daelon raised his head and shook it vigorously while extending his hands, denying any wrongdoing.
“But why are you making such faces?”
“It seems like you, Princess, have an unfavorable opinion about him. I realized it belatedly after receiving the money. I’m sorry.”
Daelon bowed his head, apologizing.
While Stella was relieved that it wasn’t as serious as she had thought, she felt grateful to Daelon. Throughout her nearly twenty years of life, the only consideration she had received was from Ludina.
Neither the parents who shared their blood nor the half-sister with mixed blood had ever thought of her this way.
Maybe receiving a b
Another force that enabled her to live in a distant foreign country was these people.
“So how much did you get?”
When Stella didn’t seem to inquire, Daelon’s gloomy expression brightened slightly.
“I received 10 florins.”
“What? Ten gold coins?”
“Yes! After bringing all the remaining carrots, he willingly paid that large sum.”
Seeing Stella’s surprise, Daelon wiped away the guilty look and began explaining.
Lian nodded vigorously as if she were a witness, while Brin and Mila, who had been silently listening, were so surprised that they almost dropped their spoons.
For merely selling about a dozen carrots, the amount of money was excessively large.
No matter how much she thought about it, it seemed strange. Stella asked again with a darkened expression.
“Have you not met him since then? Maybe he seemed to have other
“Ah…”
If it came to the ecology of nobles, Stella was well aware of it. There was logic in what he said. The farming work didn’t start with a sense of duty to let everyone taste delicious crops. She hadn’t completely believed in being able to earn a large sum of money in a much shorter time using the man named Ian since there was still much she didn’t know about him.
Maybe when all the crops she was currently growing fully matured, she would have to go to the market herself and meet that man again. It might be the second opportunity that came to her.
While Ste
In a short moment, thoughts spread rapidly in all directions. However, none of them seemed to be “this is it.”
The first thing Kai did upon returning from the hunting trip was to have dinner with his master, Will. In three days, Will would leave the Credion Empire.
Kai wanted to spend as much time as possible with Will before his departure. Will was not only an excellent mentor to Kai but also an old friend and almost like a father to him.
“Is your work here finished?”
Pouring Will’s favorite wine into his glass, Kai asked. The rich aroma of wine filled the din
“How is Your Majesty? Are you still tormented by that voice?”
This was a phrase Will had uttered only once when he comforted a young Kai, holding him in his arms.
It was about how the unseen demons, much more frightening than monsters rushing with terrifying sharp teeth, were the voices coming from an unknown source. They expressed that these invisible creatures were more fearsome.
“Do you remember that?”
Since Will had not mentioned it afterward, Kai had thought that like any other young child, he might have dreamed and gotten confused. However, that was not the case.
“Your Majesty doesn’t lie. Not when I was young, and not even after becoming a hideous man like now.”
“If you look closely, there are still cute aspects.”
After Kai had finished the wine given by Will, he smiled and spoke. Will, attentively observing Kai, took out a small box from his pocket and presented it to Kai.
Only after draining his glass did Kai notice the box on the dining table, raising his
Inside the box was an unidentified piece of metal. It could be seen as a simple, rectangular piece, but Kai quickly realized that what was inside the box was not an ordinary item.
Kai was about to take out the contents of the box when Will’s hand preemptively covered the entrance, blocking him.
“You shouldn’t touch it.”
Instead of Kai, Will took out the metal piece from the box and gently touched it with his fingertips. Kai didn’t realize it when it was in the box, but once taken out, it felt familiar.
However, there was something unsettling about it, so Kai stared intently at the object in Will’s hand and asked, “Why?”
Kai looked at Will with a puzzled expression. Will, after glancing at the object in his hand for a moment, turned his head.
“Because things you don’t need to see might become visible.”
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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