“Michel!”
Benjamin shouted.
“What happened?”
Kali, who had just finished dealing with the thugs from behind, asked.
“Si-eon Kyung? Where is Ivan now?”
In response to her question, Benjamin grimaced and firmly gestured towards the closed door. It meant that the two of them were inside.
“What are you doing? Hurry up and open the door…!”
As Kali approached the door, Benjamin urgently grabbed her shoulders and pulled her towards him.
“No.”
Benjamin glared at the closed door with a pained expression.
Although the door seemed like an ordinary wooden door, when Benjamin threw the dagger he had picked up from the floor.
Kwaang!
With a sudden explosion, the dagger shattered into pieces. Kali gasped.
“This… It’s quite advanced magic.”
“When Mitchell held the doorknob, it was nothing.”
“…It was a trap.”
Kyi-ing
Around the recognized door, a fluorescent pink magic circle and ancient characters with shimmering light appeared. Ordinary people might not know, but the two who were former Elonia residents and lived in the temple could recognize it.
“Heben Sect…”
This magic was not just ordinary magic but dark magic.
Benjamin, not a regular magician and even a holy magician, was about to dismantle it recklessly. No one knew what would happen to the magic or dark magic placed in the room where Mitchell and Ivan were trapped.
Kyi-ing, Kyi-ii
The magic circle sneered. It seemed that there was no other way to think, even though it was not like that. It seemed to be teasing as if regretful that it could not catch one more living thing. Kali clenched her fist.
“From the beginning, the target was Si-eon Kyung.”
“Whether they saw Ivan at Everium Marquisate or lured him in by using the corpse of a infiltrated Coporado Guild member as a maid… I don’t know, but… It’s for sure that they played with us.”
Je-gi-ral, Benjamin cursed, chewing on the swear words.
“What about the guild mages? Will they be here soon?”
“They’ll be here within 5 minutes.”
“Even if they come right now…”
Benjamin glared at the door blocked by the fluorescent magic circle as if he were going to kill it. Then he wished earnestly.
“Please hold on for just five more minutes.”
Meanwhile, in the dark room where Mitchell and Ivan were trapped.
“Are you crazy?! Where is this!!”
“You’re the crazy one! How can you push me like that!”
They were growling at each other while receiving blows. Although Ivan had pushed Mitchell hard, Mitchell grabbed the doorframe and resisted, pushing back into the room.
In the darkness where nothing could be seen, the two leaned on each other. Pwack! The sound of the wind splitting accompanied by the flying shadow, Mitchell reached out with one hand and groped Ivan’s lower back.
“Hey, what are you touching…!”
Although surprised, Ivan blushed, but there was no one to see anyway.
“Stay still.”
Mitchell cast a spell on Ivan. It was healing and recovery magic. Ivan, who had been trapped here without even having a meal for the past few days, was worried.
“Don’t just stand there without strength.”
“I’m only doing this because you’ll be a burden.”
While Ivan made a somewhat relieved expression as Mitchell’s magic flowed through his body, Mitchell also nervously received it. There seemed to be lingering anger from the previous quarrel.
Pwack!
The invisible darkness turned into thorns and stabbed, and Mitchell swung it back again.
“Ugh!”
However, whether it was learned in the meantime or not, this time it ran on a different trajectory, and the wind rushing through the gap interrupted the magic that was being injected into Ivan.
“Mitchell! Are you okay?!”
Ivan hurriedly supported Mitchell. Fortunately, she wasn’t hurt, but her posture was messed up. Moreover, Ivan was now facing Mitchell!
“Darn it! What if you turn your back to the enemy!”
Mitchell pushed Ivan away and swung her sword towards the darkness lurking behind him. No sound could be heard, but there was a definite sensation of something being sliced. Fortunately, Ivan was unharmed.
“You could have been hurt!”
But Ivan was solely concerned about Mitchell. Even knowing that I almost got hurt again! In the end, Mitchell couldn’t contain the anger that had built up and shouted.
“You fool! What are you doing? Every time! This is why I can’t see you as a man!”
Mitchell once again aimed the dagger at Ivan’s back. Since Mitchell’s back was also exposed, Ivan also swung the dagger he received from Mitchell. Thanks to Benjamin’s energy flowing through, it seemed to cut better than other swords.
“Don’t lie, you scaredy-cat!”
“What did you say? Why am I a scaredy-cat!”
While both were glaring at each other, they pressed their backs together again. Perhaps because the blood had stopped, Ivan’s movements were much faster than before.
“You’re scary. You already like me. Honestly, you feel like a man to me!”
The more Ivan shouted, the more Mitchell ignored him. There was not a single thing wrong with what he said.
“You might end up being swayed by a kid like me, and I might ruin you and go to someone else!”
“That’s not it!”
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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