“……Mother?”
Mariella’s hand, which was holding a towel to Elishia’s forehead, stopped in midair.
“Elishia.”
Elishia’s eyes were open.
“Mother.”
A complex emotion flashed in Elishia’s eyes as she looked up at Mariella. Seeing this, Mariella asked her daughter in a trembling voice.
“Child. Elishia. Do you…… do you know who I am?”
“Mother.”
Elishia’s eyes scanned the unfamiliar room and ceiling.
“Where is this?”
“It’s a villa the Grand Duke has near the capital. We have shaken off all pursuit. It’s safe here.”
Elishia let out a long sigh as if she had been holding her breath all this time.
“I need to go to the bathroom. My throat is dry.”
Mariella quickly helped Elishia up. She assisted her weakened daughter, who hadn’t eaten or drunk properly, to the bathroom and gave her lukewarm water to drink. Then Elishia returned with a much clearer look in her eyes than before.
Elishia now seemed quite different from what Mariella remembered from not long ago.
‘Could it be…….’
Mariella called her daughter with a nervous heart.
“Elishia. Do you remember what happened?”
She nodded.
“I was ambushed on my way to Glerosa.”
Tears of sorrow filled her violet eyes.
“Everyone was killed. ……Baron, Ahel, all of them.”
“You remember…… it?”
“Yes. Unfortunately.”
A sarcastic smile crossed Elishia’s lips and then disappeared.
“How many days have passed? How did you bring me here? Honestly, I didn’t think I would live.”
Elishia looked at Mariella for a moment as she said this.
“They threw me into a ravine in a barrel. Perhaps…… it was the Lorel Lake at the bottom of the ravine. I was trapped on a boat there. I jumped into the lake to escape, but it was night and the lake was too wide, so I quickly became exhausted.”
“Elishia.”
Mariella called her, tears welling up.
“Mother…… Are you okay?”
“Sob.”
“You were very worried, weren’t you?”
“Sniff. Elishia.”
Then, there was a light knock, and the door opened, and Elleon entered.
Seeing Elishia standing, his eyes widened.
“Elishia.”
Elleon exclaimed and quickly approached the bed.
“You’re awake.”
He knelt by the bed and took Elishia’s hand.
“How are you feeling? Not too weak?”
Elishia looked confused for a moment and then nodded.
“I’m fine. But…… who are you?”
(This is a time separator.)
The imperial palace was turned upside down by the untimely uproar.
“What if something happens to the precious Crown Prince!”
Empress Seraphina screamed in an agitated voice.
“You can’t even catch whoever is responsible? Your Majesty!”
“Enough. Enough. Empress.”
“Your Majesty. You’ve gone too far. He is your only son.”
Crown Prince Saviel was attacked a few days ago at an ambitious hour.
The palace physician who examined Saviel shook his head.
「This looks like…… a mark from a sword strike.」
The only mark left on Saviel, who had been hit hard by the assassins and fainted, was a long one that looked like a sword strike, stretching across his right arm and the edge of his back.
But the fact that he had fainted from a blow to the back, and not the head, implied an enormous strength, and since Saviel was found lying crumpled on the floor, Empress Seraphina’s rage grew even more.
“Taking the Crown Prince’s safety lightly.”
Dignified as she was, she felt insulted.
“Assassins in the palace! What were the palace guards doing!”
“Stop talking. I understand your anger. Empress.”
“How can I live in fear?”
Then leave the palace. Emperor Marksis barely suppressed his rising anger.
“I will increase the security and catch the perpetrator. Calm down.”
“You need to calm down to be calm.”
Empress Seraphina, unable to contain her spreading heat, fanned herself.
“We need to proceed with the Crown Prince’s marriage as soon as possible.”
“I didn’t intend to.”
“No, when I asked the Crown Prince a while ago, he seemed not to care, perhaps because he had become a successor.”
“Ho.”
“If it’s the grace of the Duke of Uter, you seem to have the intention to marry.”
“You mean Lady Elicia.”
As soon as the desired lady’s name popped out of the Emperor’s mouth, Empress Seraphina was pleased.
“That’s right.”
She lowered her voice.
“Didn’t the divine agent also tell you clearly?”
“Hmm.”
A while ago, the divine agent had come. Their existence was the royal secret that only came down to the Emperor and Empress of the Constance Empire. A being that tells of the changes or future disasters of the Constance Empire. Sometimes, they also tell what’s needed as the will of God.
‘He told you to nominate Lady Elicia as the Crown Princess candidate.’
It had already been bothering him that the palace had been chaotic since the Crown Prince had been attacked, and he couldn’t follow the will of God right away.
The fact that the talk of the Duke’s house came first from the mouth of the bustling Empress Seraphina was a welcome thing to Emperor Marksis. The Empress was the type to never turn her eyes elsewhere and to be longwinded until her anger was released once she was hooked on something.
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
