Teishar said something a little different from others.
He begged that he would give up his heart if only he could be allowed to live without ever loving for the rest of his life.
He showed that his heart was more important than his life.
It was foolish yet beautiful.
“You’re only saying things you’ll regret after death.”
[Nahash.] [What?] [Wouldn’t it be nice if death wasn’t completely final?] [I’m not sure, but when you die, it’s over, isn’t it? What more should there be?] [The elixir of life that Saraf chose has now perfectly blended with this world and become beautiful. So I thought it would be nice if death wasn’t the end.] [We don’t experience death, we just watch it. Death is not beautiful.]All the words Ella had said to him suddenly fell into place.
[The reason flowers bloom again even after withering is because their seeds are scattered. That’s why we can see beautiful flowers all our lives. So the flowers of this world have never truly died.]“That’s right. Flowers keep blooming. So they haven’t died?”
He finally realized.
That all the flowers, plants, and living things in this world Ella created have never died even once. It’s the contract of immortality called ‘birth’ applied not only to flowers and trees but to all living things.
As long as flower seeds spread and life continues from one living being to another, it’s an endless cycle and eternity.
“You created a world where flowers never wither, Ella.”
The black snake, for the first time since its birth, curled up the corners of its mouth and opened it to laugh loudly.
“Since Ella kept her promise to me, I should keep mine too.”
Now, even when looking at flower buds, he no longer feels sad or regretful. Now he has realized that even when flower buds bloom, they wither and bloom again.
[This is the timeline separator]Teishar, arriving at the back gate leading into the capital of Foloide, first dismounted from his horse and carefully lifted Lorencia into his arms.
“Ter. You can put me down, it’s fine.”
“You might feel dizzy, so shouldn’t I carry you?”
“My body is fine now, and more importantly, there are many eyes watching.”
Teishar briefly made a sullen expression before relaxing it and carefully setting Lorencia down.
Lorencia stretched out her hand to summon the amethyst orb, and the fairy Koa appeared.
“Lady Koa.”
“The branch?”
Lorencia took out the branch and placed it on her hand.
“So that’s why Queen Titania gave me the branch.”
Titania had said that while the branch itself had purifying power, there was another reason for giving it to her.
Lorencia closed her eyes and began to focus her power in her palm. She felt something like a bright light spreading out like waves.
Slowly, she lifted her eyelids. The amethyst crystal orb and the branch on her hand rose into the air.
The purple light of the amethyst orb gradually spread. The branch also emitted a golden light before merging with the amethyst orb. That light gradually grew larger.
People looked up at the sky with a mix of awe and curiosity. As the pillar of light spread wider and grew larger, everyone’s gaze was fixed on the sky.
The growing light soon became a pillar of light soaring high into the sky.
“It’s Goddess Ella.”
“It’s the pillar of light we saw not long ago.”
Lorencia and Teishar were captivated by the pillar of light they were seeing for the first time. Since they had been in the Fairy Forest, they couldn’t see the pillar of light before. So they had only heard about it from others. The pillar of light, which they had only heard about, was even more magnificent when seen in person.
“The pillar is getting bigger and bigger.”
“Thank you, Koa.”
Lorencia smiled.
“Ter. Let’s go.”
Teishar extended his hand to Lorencia.
“I’ll escort you.”
At his smooth action, Lorencia burst into a small laugh and gently placed her hand on his.
Behind Lorencia as she walked out, the knights and the fairies, including the invisible Koa, followed with solemn expressions.
As the pillar of light spread, the monsters disappeared.
“Mark. Are you alright?”
“Elder sister Lorencia. I’m fine.”
“I’m sorry for coming late. You must have had a hard time protecting.”
“Not at all, elder sister.”
As Mark was about to hug Lorencia with reddened eyes, Teishar stepped in front of him.
“Brother-in-law. The battle is not over yet.”
“Young lord Teishar. It seems too early to call me brother-in-law.”
“Whether I call you that now or later, the fact that you’ll be my brother-in-law won’t change, so it seems better to get used to it from now.”
“I have no intention of marrying off my elder sister yet.”
“After engagement comes marriage.”
“Both of you, stop it.”
The conversation stopped when Lorencia mediated between the two.
“Look ahead, Ter.”
Through the broken castle gate, they could see soldiers clearing away the debris, knights wearing Goddess Ella’s temple armor, and Daniel commanding them.
Daniel looked very flustered when the monsters disappeared due to the pillar of light, but he raised his sharpened sword and shouted to the people behind him.
“Kill the child of Goddess Ella.”
Mark tightly gripped the staff he was holding.
“You may call me brother-in-law. So please protect our elder sister.”
“I swear on my name that I will protect my fiancée.”
Teishar stepped forward. He felt reassured just knowing he had the power given by the black snake.
He thought it was a war they could win, but he calmly suppressed his confidence. Too much confidence leads to carelessness.
Many knights stood in front of Teishar to prevent him from getting close to Daniel, but true to his reputation as a war hero, enemies fell with each swing of his sword.
The sound of arrows flying and people falling could be heard here and there. But the tip of Teishar’s sword was pointed at Daniel and getting closer.
“Daniel Graykan.”
The sound of swords clashing rang out. Tension immediately filled the air.
“Teishar Spencer.”
Daniel’s face was stained with resentment and anger as he looked at Teishar with eyes full of madness.
Teishar swung his sword upward with all his might. Daniel groaned and stepped back.
“How does it feel? To see the crumbling Foloide Empire? The reason your empire is falling is all because of you, Teishar Spencer.”
“Because of me?”
Teishar couldn’t help but laugh at Daniel’s absurd words.
“Yes. If you hadn’t taken that monster away, the Foloide Empire wouldn’t have ended up like this. The current situation is all created by you, Teishar.”
“I created it?”
“Yes. You created it. Blame your foolishness for not looking around while only protecting Lorencia.”
Daniel’s way of speaking erodes one’s self-belief and lowers confidence. But conversely, if one’s faith in oneself is firm, it doesn’t work.
“Clearly, the current situation is because of you, Daniel, who was Duke Graykan.”
Teishar slowly pointed the tip of his sword at Daniel’s face. He was just dumbfounded by Daniel’s unreasonable insistence that he was right and Teishar was wrong, so Teishar must unconditionally listen to him.
To counter Daniel’s brainwashing rhetoric, one must argue with precise points.
“The reason why the white snake Saraf was rumored to be an evil witch is because the Graykan duchy failed to manage it properly, and the reason I was able to take Lorencia away is also because Daniel neglected to manage Prince Ruans and the Pol Heredian estate.”
Indeed, people don’t change easily.
“Don’t talk nonsense! Teishar Spencer.”
“Thanks to you, Daniel, who failed to properly carry out the tasks ordered by the white snake and couldn’t even manage one person properly, we were able to achieve victory.”
Teishar sneered at Daniel, raising one corner of his mouth crookedly.
“Aaaaargh!”
Daniel, having lost his reason, swung his blade at Teishar with a scream. Teishar easily dodged his sword.
“I’ll kill you. Die! Di… e.”
Daniel’s movement stopped as he was swinging his sword. The sword fell. Teishar frowned as he watched Daniel’s face turn bright red and then blue.
“Ugh.”
Daniel hurriedly covered his mouth with his hands, but blood flowed between his fingers.
He began to shake as he vomited black blood while retching.
And then, with another bout of nausea, something fell from his mouth.
Teishar looked at what he had vomited. Although obscured by the black blood, it was a navy blue crystal orb.
Daniel tried to swallow the crystal orb he had vomited, but he couldn’t swallow it as he kept spewing black blood.
He reached out to grab the navy blue crystal orb, but the round crystal orb rolled away.
“No.”
The navy blue crystal orb rolled up to Teishar’s feet. Teishar carefully picked up the crystal orb that had rolled in front of him.
He remembered the words of his father Magus and what Lorencia had said.
That the crystal orb he was now holding was the one Daniel had swallowed 20 years ago.
“Teishar… Spencer… give that… back.”
Daniel, unable to move his body as he wished, suppressed his anxiety and became angry. And suddenly, why did he vomit the crystal orb he had eaten? What was happening to his body?
“I decided to become the hands and feet of Saraf, who should be in the place of the original god of this world…”
As he watched Teishar approaching him, Daniel continued to vomit black blood.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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