“My ownership stake. I can’t stand seeing only Rohan grumbling about it!”
Sesenia, who had been serious all along, chuckled.
Lizbet’s greedy voice seemed sincere rather than a joke. It was even cuter.
“Really… you’re adorable.”
“If 50 is too much, make it 40. I want to try saying, ‘Please give me everything from here to there’ at a cake shop!! I want to be rich!”
“Okay. I’ll make sure to take care of it.”
A nameless wildflower blooming along the path to hell. Lizbet was like that wildflower.
When you turn your head, a wildflower that is everywhere, not too excessive or flashy but proudly showing itself.
And a few people who make her laugh.
“Thank you, Lizbet.”
“Yes?”
“No.”
Lizbet, who didn’t understand why Sesenia was grateful, smirked, but Sesenia didn’t say anything else.
Afterwards, Sesenia, who had been gazing out the window, stood up as if something had occurred to her and sat next to Teddy.
As if losing Sesenia from his sight would mean losing her forever, Teddy, who had been continuously watching her, widened his eyes.
“Madam?”
“Teddy.”
“Yes.”
“Let’s untie it now.”
Sesenia showed him her ring. It was the ring she had taken with her today.
The only ring that could unlock the restraint on his neck.
“A necklace…?”
“Yeah. I’m going to prove you today. But if you go with that necklace, it wouldn’t be suitable.”
“…This was something connecting you and me…”
But Teddy’s opposition was quite strong, as it had been before.
“What connects us isn’t just that. Sillian and I have a contractual relationship, Rohan and I have a boss-employee relationship. With Lizbet, it’s a master and servant relationship. But we’re going to move forward together, right? It’s a different relationship from others.”
That moment shook Teddy’s heart, but that was all.
He wanted it to be more special. He wanted something to prove it. So Teddy nodded.
“If it won’t cause harm to you, if it only brings harm to me, I won’t untie it. I don’t want to untie it. Madam.”
Like a dog caught in the rain, Teddy looked at Sesenia with a sulky expression.
As if already expecting it, Sesenia quietly took Teddy’s hands, which were folded on his knees.
Her hands slowly traced the hand with Teddy’s ring.
“And maybe this will connect us too.”
“Oh.”
Only then did Teddy, who noticed the ring that Sesenia had put on his hand, make a small sound.
“So let’s remove the restraint.”
“But what if I suddenly change again?”
“You’ve been fine without it. I’ve never put on the ring to bind you since I met you.”
“But… But…”
“We know the reluctance to untie it because it was our beginning. But we have to move forward.”
If you stay, you can’t move forward. The restraint was the same for him.
“I have no intention of hiding how you lived. But having no intention to hide and living as a slave are different. If you keep wearing the restraint, Teddy, you’re no different from a slave who just rescued a slave from the top of a slave hierarchy.”
Only then did Teddy awkwardly smile as if regaining his composure.
“I was too childish…”
“No. It’s not that you were childish; you are a child. Just out in the world. It’s natural to have a lot of things you don’t know and want things you’ve never had. So, don’t keep pushing yourself into a corner.”
“Yes. Then, please untie it.”
Teddy lifted his head, looking at Sesenia.
“Yeah. Today, you’re being born again.”
Sesenia placed her ring around his neck.
Although Teddy had grown, and so had the collar around his neck, there were numerous scratched wounds on Teddy’s neck, as if it had been tightening.
“It must have hurt.”
As her hand touched Teddy’s neck, he flinched.
“This is too provocative. Madam. It feels like your hand is touching my insides.”
A small breath escaped Teddy’s mouth. Sesenia, who had approached him closely to unlock the restraint, blushed when her cheek touched Teddy’s.
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.”
