“This is all because of the purple crystal orb. The scenes shown by the crystal orb shattered the heart that was blocked by distrust. I wanted to trust Teishar and rely on him. Even though I thought I shouldn’t, a part of me felt relieved.
While feeling relieved, Lorencia began to cry sorrowfully in Teishar’s arms, gasping for breath. His clothes became damp with her tears. In the present, and in the future where she thought he had died, Teishar saved her.
“Don’t be nice to me.”
Lorencia raised her head. Teishar brushed away her tear-soaked hair. Seeing her red, watery eyes from the continuous flow of tears made his heart ache as if it would tear apart. Teishar cupped Lorencia’s chin with the hand that was stroking her.
“Then what should I do for you? I will act as Lady Lorencia desires.”
Teishar looked down at Lorencia’s face persistently and pleaded.
“I will become the person Lady Lorencia wants…”
“Why are you being so nice to me? What am I to you?”
“I just wish for Lady Lorencia to be alright now.”
Teishar caressed Lorencia’s white cheek.
“If your anxious and painful heart can disappear, you can hate me and hit me to your heart’s content. If you want revenge on Prince Ruans, you can use me, and it’s alright to take everything I have.”
Even as his large hand stroked her cheek at will, Lorencia gazed into Teishar’s red eyes without moving an inch.
“So please be alright now.”
As Teishar said with a gentle smile, tears welled up in Lorencia’s eyes again. Teishar pulled her into his arms with an affectionate touch.
“To be honest, I am being nice to Lady Lorencia because I am just as anxious.”
At the unexpected confession, Lorencia raised her head again to look at Teishar.
“Even if Lady Lorencia leaves my side, I want to remain in your memories, make you think it’s fortunate to meet a good person, and instill in you the feeling that while there are bad people in the world, there are also good people…”
“Can I leave?”
“If Lady Lorencia desires freedom, you can leave my side.”
“Is that really okay?”
“Of course. However, please don’t leave secretly. And it would be nice if you could occasionally send letters to let me know how you are doing.”
Teishar quietly whispered with a face that looked like he would cry at any moment.
Only silence filled the quiet room. Teishar lowered his gaze and smiled sweetly. His large hand carefully and slowly stroked Lorencia’s head.
“I’m really going to leave.”
“Yes. As Lady Lorencia wishes.”
He knew that she was always pushing him away with the occasional thorny words she spat out. He understood that. And he felt that it wasn’t her true intention.
Even if she expressed with her whole body that she wanted to be alone, the violet gaze looking at him seemed to be desperately asking him to hold onto her, making him feel precarious every time he saw it.
Eventually, a faint red glow of the sunset came through the terrace window, and it became as dark as pitch black.
[This is the timeline separator]Magus paced the room anxiously. But there was no sign of Teishar coming.
“No! Why isn’t Teishar coming!”
“He is guarding Lady Lorencia’s side.”
“What?”
“Rather than being by her side, he is attending to the young lady.”
“Then it can’t be helped. I need to let Teishar know this news quickly.”
“You’ll have to wait. Sir Teishar attends to Lady Lorencia’s meals and snacks…”
“And then?”
“He reads a book by her side until she falls asleep.”
Amelin said with a beaming smile.
“Teishar is doing well.”
“You have no idea, Sir Magus. You’ll be surprised to see how dedicatedly he takes care of the young lady.”
Magus, who was pacing anxiously in the drawing room, sighed and sat down on the sofa. Evan looked at the black jewelry box on the table. That jewelry box was one of the items Magus cherished greatly. Honestly, he had never seen what was inside the jewelry box, but he often saw Magus gazing at it with a face full of sadness and longing.
“I need to show it to him quickly.”
Magus deliberately brought the amethyst fragments. Perhaps the amethyst fragments that met Lorencia would return to the original crystal orb, he thought.
“Phew.”
Just as good fertilizer makes trees grow healthily, the crystal orb is a medium that helps Ella’s child grow and awaken. If Ella’s child doesn’t have a crystal orb, they cannot control the vast power they possess, and their body will gradually weaken, collapse, or suffer immense pain, as he heard from Musilla.
So it was strange. Even though Musilla clearly knew that fact, for some reason, she shattered the crystal orb of the child to be born. It’s one of the unsolved mysteries so far.
Looking down at the jewelry box, Magus recalled the conversation he had with Baello, the current head of the di Gloucester family, before leaving for the Isuter Empire.
Baello asked coldly.
As if Magus had anticipated his question, he presented the broken amethyst fragments.
Magus further explained about the crystal orb and the “red eyes” of the Spencer family and also mentioned the amethyst fragments that were in Musilla’s residence. Baello nodded his head in understanding at the explanation.
And now. The thought of meeting Lorencia made him nervous and happy at the same time.
“Sir Magus, shall I go and see Sir Teishar for a moment?”
Seeing Magus getting up from the sofa and anxiously pacing the room again, Evan asked. Magus, who took a deep sigh, nodded.
[This is the timeline separator]When Lorencia cried herself to sleep in his arms, Teishar also fell asleep with the comfort he felt. If Evan hadn’t sneaked in and woken him up, he would have slept through.
“I unknowingly fell asleep while putting Lady Lorencia to sleep.”
“Teishar. No matter what, you shouldn’t fall asleep tightly embracing an unmarried young lady. You have to be careful in the future.”
Magus fake coughed.
“This isn’t the first time I’ve fallen asleep while putting Lady Lorencia to sleep, Father.”
From Teishar’s perspective, it was beyond his control. Strangely, whenever Lorencia cries or laughs in distress, he finds himself reaching out his hands involuntarily. He keeps hugging and comforting her like a baby. Above all, she also seemed to like leaning against his chest. Whenever that happened, if he read her a book, she would fall sound asleep in his arms.
“Don’t do things you can’t take responsibility for.”
“I want to take responsibility, but Lady Lorencia…”
At Lorencia’s words that she would freely leave, the unknown anxiety in Teishar’s heart grew bigger and bigger. Although he said with a smile that “it’s okay to leave,” he thought about how to hold onto her.
Can he really send her off with a smile when the time comes for her to leave? Is there really no way to keep her by his side? What’s certain is that this feeling of his is possessiveness.
“Why are you cutting off your words?”
“No, Father. What brings you late to the Isuter Empire?”
“Changing the subject… You heard from Evan about Lady Lorencia’s birth, right?”
“Yes, I heard. Speaking of which, I’m already angry that Count Pol Heredian keeps telling me to hand over his daughter.”
Remembering Brant saying that Lorencia was his precious daughter, Teishar emitted a gloomy atmosphere, unable to find any trace of the gentle mood he had shown to Lorencia.
“The reason I was late was because I met with Baello, the head of the di Gloucester ducal family.”
“If it’s di Gloucester…”
It’s the name of the ducal family Lorencia’s biological father, Cain, belongs to. Evan approached and placed a frame on the table between the two.
“Teishar. Take a close look at the portrait in the frame.”
Teishar looked at the portrait of a man with a serious expression and a clean and gentle impression in the frame. Dark purple hair and navy blue eyes. Small and plump lips. It was a familiar face.
“Could it be?”
“Yes. As you can see, it’s a portrait of Cain, Lorencia’s biological father.”
At Magus’ words, Teishar realized that the familiar face of the man in the portrait closely resembled Lorencia. Come to think of it, Brant and Lorencia didn’t resemble each other at all. Even looking at the half-sisters Illina and Lorencia, their hair color, eye color, and features were different enough to be considered strangers.
“I would believe it if you said they were siblings.”
Teishar’s admiring silence filled the drawing room. A brief silence followed. The first to break the silence was Teishar.
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Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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