He was a diligent alchemist who didn’t give up on research despite the limitations of being human.
Gail, who had been alone all her life, fell helplessly into the warmth Fritz offered.
‘So this is love.’
She thought that perhaps she had become an alchemist not to create the golden elixir, but to meet this man.
All the failures so far weren’t due to lack of skill, but simply because it was meant to be.
It wasn’t failure, but a process to meet this man.
Thinking like that made her feel at ease.
Gail married Fritz because she wanted to be a woman in love, not a loser who failed to create the elixir.
Gail followed Fritz’s words, only attempting simple alchemy that wouldn’t fail, while assisting his research and taking charge of housework.
Gail was gradually pushed out of the laboratory, but she lived a stable life without frustration or falling, as he had taught her.
With Gail’s help, Fritz’s research progressed rapidly.
Surrounding alchemists criticized that Fritz’s research was actually Gail’s achievement, but he didn’t care at all.
And he achieved results that allowed him to challenge the golden elixir he had dreamed of all his life.
But Kuran didn’t acknowledge him and didn’t give him the Philosopher’s Stone.
So Fritz immersed himself in research. But the results were always disastrous.
Fritz’s words were closer to a demand than a request.
‘If it’s what he needs…’
Gail granted his request. It was around that time she found out about her pregnancy, and…
It was then that Fritz’s patience ran out.
With a slap, Gail’s face turned sideways.
The physical abuse that started like this got worse as time passed.
After that, when Gail revealed her pregnancy, Fritz was irritated rather than happy.
Because Gail always had to come in as an assistant for experiments with high risk.
Fritz hurled verbal abuse, but even so, Gail couldn’t think of leaving him.
On days when she was forced to conduct dangerous experiments while pregnant, Fritz would pluck a small dandelion blooming under the wall and give Gail a high score, saying her help was worth 90 points.
Gail buried her nose in the dandelion flower and smiled bitterly.
Her research had never been 100 points to him, but wasn’t it quite affectionate that the score had never fallen below 80 points?
And not long after, an accident occurred where the elixir exploded during an experiment.
Unfortunately, Gail, who was standing close to the experimental apparatus, felt pain tearing through her entire body.
‘So this is how I die. How pitiful for my unborn child.’
As her bloody vision gradually darkened, a bright white light flashed.
The ones who saved Gail were the Closet couple staying on the Island of Wisdom.
They said that when the heavily pregnant wife was in mortal danger, the husband carried her to seek the Great Sage.
The Great Sage Kuran used the only bottle of golden elixir on Mrs. Closet.
Thanks to this, Mrs. Closet, who saved her life, safely gave birth to her child on the island, and while recovering here, she happened to discover Gail.
Both eyes had lost sight and could not see ahead, and having lost the baby, her heart was broken too. Gail couldn’t find a reason to live on.
Mrs. Closet held out the small hand of the baby in her arms to Gail as if for a handshake.
Is she bragging now? In just two months, my child could have been born like this!
As someone who had lost a child, her actions only made Gail angry, so she let go of the baby’s hand abruptly and turned her head away.
At those words, Gail scoffed.
Having both a loving husband and an adorable baby, why is she saying such things? Is she planning to die an untimely death, leaving the child behind?
After saying that, Mrs. Closet left the Island of Wisdom.
After that, Gail didn’t leave her bed for a while.
At first, Fritz, who had been encouraging her, gradually became negligent. It was around that time she noticed he had dabbled in black magic.
And she also learned that another woman was frequenting his laboratory.
Colleagues who came to visit her said they looked quite affectionate, as if sharing an important secret.
Gail swallowed her devastation and locked the door from her neighbors.
What made her miserable was not Fritz’s infidelity.
She hated herself for still loving him, for yearning to be loved by him, even knowing all those terrible truths, even as he still presented her with dandelion flowers.
After staying cooped up in the house for 8 years like that, one day.
An outsider who knew her husband came to the house with serious injuries.
Gail already knew he was a black magician and a spy investigating the Island of Wisdom.
The spy, just before breathing his last, handed Gail an important document. He judged that Gail wouldn’t be able to read the contents of the letter since she couldn’t see.
‘Something’s suspicious.’
Gail immediately took out a wooden box hidden under the desk and felt for small glass bottles.
Then she took one out and dropped it on the letter. It was an elixir that temporarily swelled the ink.
The letters on the letter bulged out like braille, and Gail began to read them by feeling with her fingertips.
The contents of the letter were somewhat shocking.
‘The Closet family… was massacred?’
The first thing that came to mind was the small hand of the newborn baby she had touched 8 years ago.
Was Rukna, who would now be 8 years old, dead too?
‘Why did Fritz participate in such a terrible thing!’
She had only thought he had dabbled in irregular black magic when his golden elixir research hit a wall, but Fritz was doing much worse things than expected.
‘I, I need to get a grip.’
According to the letter, Rukna’s body had not yet been found.
There were signs that Count Golden had secretly helped, so the core of the letter was to search all the girls in the count’s family immediately and dispose of Rukna.
‘I want to save that child.’
The small hand of the newborn baby, the warmth it conveyed, moved her who had been curled up for 8 years.
Gail left the room, leaning on a cane. After packing simple luggage, she sprinkled experimental oil all over the house.
Then she set fire to the letter handed by the black magician and threw it towards where the old sofa would be.
The flames that burst up in an instant spread rapidly, burning the spy’s corpse and furniture without a trace.
Gail’s past and the helplessness that had been choking her all disappeared into the hot flames.
All that remained were ashes and bricks.
Fritz, who finally appeared, grabbed Gail standing desolately and shouted.
And Gail smiled brightly for the first time in years.
Those around thought she had gone mad because of the dead baby and didn’t stop her. Fritz was the same.
So Gail left the Island of Wisdom and headed for the Golden Count’s house.
It wasn’t an easy journey for a blind person, but she didn’t give up.
Having barely met Count Golden, Gail held out one of the elixirs she had developed in the past.
It was an elixir whose recipe had already been released and was circulating in the black market, but since Gail had produced it herself, its effect was exceptional.
Gail said that the black magicians’ goal was the extermination of the Closet family, and advised that they would keep watching the Golden family, so the child should hide her gender well until she grew up, then left.
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My Clingy Little Husband (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
Introduction:
One day, Lu Yuner’s soul transmigrates into a female-dominant world. She enters the Imperial Academy and takes up the position of a doctoral instructor, teaching classes and grading schoolwork.
One day, she encounters the young prince Su Qingwan secretly skipping class from the male academy.
As a result, Su Qingwan is punished.
From then on, Su Qingwan sees Lu Yuner as a “thorn in his side”.
But before long, this “thorn” becomes the person he cherishes most, and he goes to great lengths to win Lu Yuner’s affection.
Mini scene 1:
One day, the sun is high in the sky but Su Qingwan still hasn’t gotten up for class.
Servant Xiaoyuan: “Young prince, it’s time for class. You’ll be late otherwise.”
Su Qingwan says arrogantly: “I’m not going. I am the esteemed prince, my status is so noble, why should I suffer this hardship? Besides, isn’t learning all this just to please women? Hmph, they’re not worthy!”
Mini scene 2:
After Su Qingwan falls for someone, he completely changes. He no longer skips class and diligently learns how to be a good husband and father. But he discovers that Sister Yuner is always surrounded by admirers.
Drunk and overcome with jealousy one day, he clings to Lu Yuner, crying beautifully like a pear blossom in the rain.
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan likes Sister Yuner.”
Lu Yuner: “Young prince, you’re drunk.”
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan isn’t drunk. Qingwan likes Sister Yuner, likes you so much, likes you to bits…” Before he can finish, Lu Yuner’s eyes flash with emotion and she leans in closer.
[Reading Guide]
1. The female lead is gentle, gracious, humble and polite but not weak. The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
2. 1v1, a bit torturous in the beginning but definitely sweet later on.
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