“Crows, have you finished all the preparations?”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
“Thoroughly burn down the White Villa. Burn all the evidence.”
“And what should we do with Lady Yuria?”
“Do you really have to ask that? Can’t you think for yourself?”
“I apologize for my short-sightedness.”
Ruans clicked his tongue.
“Of course, you have to kill Lady Yuria, don’t you?”
“Understood.”
“After the Emperor and Empress leave for the White Villa, I will pretend to collapse after eating the poisoned food prepared by Lady Yuria.”
The Crown Prince collapsed from poison. The culprit who used the poison will be Yuria.
After Yuria, who has become the assassin of the Crown Prince, follows the Emperor and Empress to the White Villa, if it is announced that Ines and Adolf have been murdered, it will be done.
Now, there will be no power left in the Isuter Empire to stop him.
“The one who killed the Emperor and Empress of the Isuter Empire is also Lady Yuria. Haha. And Lady Yuria can’t raise a rebellion alone. So, after arresting all the rebels who cooperated… Kuk-kuk.”
Ruans laughed, clenching his fists and pounding on the table.
The money confiscated from the rebel families. The position of Emperor will soon be his.
“Now I just need to get my monster back.”
Lorencia. My monster.
[This is the timeline separator]Lorencia checked the future once again. After the White Villa was burned down, Ruans definitely ascended to the throne as Emperor. And he framed the Emperor’s faction who followed Adrian with the crime of rebellion, executed them one by one in the square, and confiscated their property.
But there was something else that bothered her more.
Lorencia went to find Teishar.
“There is one more person to save at the White Villa besides His Majesty the Emperor and Her Majesty the Empress, Ter.”
“Who is it?”
“The hair length was down to the shoulders and was a dark brown. It’s a young man. The eye color is a deep green.”
Lorencia closed her eyes. In the slightly changed future, there was another third person.
The third person threw himself to protect Adolf and Ines and was hit by a poisoned arrowhead.
Lorencia, who raised her eyelids, stared into Teishar’s red eyes.
“His Majesty the Emperor called him Sir Yuria.”
“If it’s Sir Yuria, he is a person from the House of Count Simon.”
Teishar had also seen the person a few times. He is one of the aides Adrian cherishes.
“He is one of His Highness Adrian’s aides. Loa.”
Lorencia realized that even a minor change could have a huge impact on the future. But because she kept checking the future, she was able to respond to the changed future.
That’s why the white snake that descended from the sky also tried to catch and eat the seventh child of Goddess Ella, who looked into the future and avoided it, first.
“We must also save Sir Yuria. And when we go to save His Majesty the Emperor and Her Majesty the Empress, I will also participate.”
“That is too dangerous.”
“The dangerous work has already begun, Ter.”
The swords, arrows, and daggers used by the assassins were definitely coated with poison. And there was someone who was injured by those poisoned weapons.
And the only one who could cure that poison was…
“I have to go. Only then can I save them.”
Teishar looked at Lorencia with sorrowful eyes. Whatever future she saw, she is saying that she must go to a dangerous place. Could he stop her?
“I know what Ter is worried about. But only if I go can everyone live.”
“Can you tell me who gets hurt?”
“I can’t say it now.”
She couldn’t say who got hurt. Even a small change could change the future again.
“I’ll stick close to Ter.”
“If Loa has no choice but to walk a thorny path knowing it, I decided to carry Loa on my back and walk the thorny path instead. This is absolutely not a thought I have because it’s the duty of a snake.”
Lorencia reached out a hand and gently stroked the contours of Teishar’s face.
Every time she looked at him, it seemed like her whole mind was completely taken away by Teishar. His heart rushed in like a raging wave. You can’t stop the rushing waves with both hands. No, she didn’t even think of stopping it.
Lorencia wrapped her arms around Teishar’s neck. Even though she knew she would be swept away by the raging waves in an instant, she suddenly wanted to entrust herself entirely to him.
“Loa once said this to me.”
Teishar whispered softly in Lorencia’s ear as he embraced her.
“What did I say?”
“That the path Loa wants could be a cliff.”
“I remember. That’s what I said in response when Ter said he would make the path I want.”
Lorencia recalled what Teishar had said to her then.
“You swore that you would never just watch me fall off the cliff alone.”
“Does that mean you will be with me even unto death?”
“If it means losing Loa in this world, yes. I can accept even death.”
Lorencia couldn’t hold back her tears at the welling emotions. Hearing her sobbing, Teishar let go of Lorencia from his embrace and checked her face. She was crying heartbreakingly.
“Loa. Don’t cry. I didn’t say it to make you cry.”
Lorencia shook her head and smiled brightly. She felt like her heart was filled with twinkling stars. She wanted to show Teishar her overflowing heart that sparkled, was so beautiful just to look at, and made her want to give him everything in the world.
“Being able to smile when you’re happy is an emotion you taught me, Ter. And I also learned that when you feel love, you can be so happy that you cry.”
Lorencia took a deep breath. Then she sighed and smiled.
“Ter keeps overflowing in my heart.”
“Me too.”
“I must love Ter a lot.”
“Loa.”
“Can I love Ter until the wind of this world disappears?”
Teishar blinked once. Tears flowed down his cheeks with each blink.
The wind of this world will never disappear. That’s what Lorencia meant when she said that to him. How did the dying young tree grow like this and become a big tree that knows how to speak of love? Teishar recalled all the days he had been with Lorencia since their first meeting, smiling.
“Ter. Don’t cry. I didn’t confess to make you cry.”
Lorencia carefully wiped away the tears flowing down Teishar’s cheeks with her fingers.
“Loa. My Lorencia.”
My jacaranda.
“Yes.”
“Please love me a lot until the wind disappears.”
Teishar managed to say with trembling lips, choked up with tears. Lorencia’s lips curled up with all her might.
[This is the timeline separator]A cold sweat broke out on Yuria’s back. As soon as he arrived at the White Villa, he prepared for the assassination. And the assassins revealed themselves much faster than he thought.
The servants in the White Villa were all killed at the hands of the assassins who appeared. Yuria grabbed a sword to protect Adolf and Ines behind him.
“Sir Yuria. It would be better for you to put down your sword.”
“You bastards. In front of whom do you think you’ve drawn your swords!”
Yuria adjusted his grip on the sword he was holding to desperately protect Empress Ines and Emperor Adolf behind him.
“Sir Yuria. Disobeying orders. You’ll have to pay for it with your death.”
“I was never once on Crown Prince Ruans’ side.”
Yuria swung his sword at the assassin.
The poison Ruans gave him was in his bosom. It was to obtain an antidote just in case.
Yuria took out the poison, applied it to the tableware, and dragged it to the room where the Emperor and Empress were. And he deliberately gave a hint to Adolf and Ines.
But as soon as he saw Adolf holding the tableware, he shouted that it was not right, and the assassins and knights rushed into the room, leading to the current situation.
“It was Prince Ruans who ordered you to kill me and the Empress.”
“Your Majesty.”
“Sir Yuria. I knew.”
Adolf couldn’t hide his miserable heart.
He forcibly took Pelena, who was the daughter of Duke Graykan, as a concubine. On the first night, honestly, he couldn’t spend it in his right mind, so he drank a lot of alcohol and spent the first night.
Although he did not love Pelena, Ruans was born that night anyway. He thought he should give love because Ruans was his own flesh and blood, but as Ruans grew up to look just like Daniel, whom he disliked, he couldn’t feel affection for him. Ruans must have felt that too.
“It’s all my fault.”
As a father, he did not give love, and as a son, he did not acknowledge him. If he had acknowledged and loved him as a son, this situation might not have happened.
“Your Majesty.”
The purpose of Daniel, the Duke of Graykan, was clear. It is to make Ruans the Crown Prince and raise him as Emperor. So he also knew that Daniel kept trying to kill Adrian. And when Adrian died at the hunting tournament held on the day of the engagement ceremony…
Adolf had anticipated this situation, but on the other hand, he believed in Ruans. He believed in blood ties.
But he came down fully prepared. Because of the thought that it might not be…
“Sir Yuria.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“I will be grateful for all the words you said out of concern for me.”
“No. I just said what was natural as a subject.”
“Humble.”
Adolf took something out from his waist. It was a whip. Gripping the whip tightly, Adolf stretched out his arm and struck with all his might.
With a ‘twang’ sound, the sword fell from the hand of the knight who was pointing a blade at Ines.
“Argh.”
The knight clutched his hand that had been holding the sword and sat down, screaming in pain.
“Everyone be careful! It’s a whip.”
“How dare you point a sword at my Empress?”
Adolf’s blue eyes began to be dyed with madness. He struck the floor with the whip again. The knights holding swords flinched at the mere sound of the whip hitting the ground.
Laughing at the frightened knights, Adolf burst into laughter. Soon after, he stopped laughing and began to overwhelm the assassins with his aura.
“To think such things are holding swords and calling themselves knights. Tsk tsk.”
The frightened knights slowly approached, trying to kill Adolf and Ines somehow, but unknowingly retreated at the fear of the fast-moving whip.
One. Two. Knights and assassins injured by the whip fell.
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.”
