Meanwhile, the man, gazing forlornly at the spot where Yuri Hsien’s carriage had departed, was unperturbed by the approach of someone close by.
“You’ve called?”
The person who spoke gently was surprisingly the old woman who had led Yuri Hsien to Ulgen a little while ago.
“I didn’t expect you to send her off like this.”
She was standing upright, as if her back had never been hunched, leaning on a cane. Despite this astonishing situation, the man was unshaken. Instead, he calmly opened his mouth as if it was a natural occurrence.
“It’s not time yet.”
A deep regret was read in the man’s eyes as he spoke. The carriage, long gone, was beyond the mountains, with the sound of hooves no longer audible, yet he could not leave the spot.
“When exactly is the time for the ceremony? You said it wasn’t time when the Duke of Windsor had a carriage accident. Not even when the princess almost suffered at the hands of the 2nd prince….”
The old woman, who glanced up at the man, transformed in an instant into a woman in her forties. As the woman washed her face, even the deep wrinkles disappeared. The woman, now a completely different person from the old woman Yuri Hsien had seen, shook her head.
“The office that the guild master destroyed then still hasn’t been restored. Instead of sending Edward as master, it would have been better to go yourself to rescue the princess….”
The woman stopped talking, feeling a cold gaze looking down on her. She changed her subject.
“I thought you were going to the princess with your fatherinlaw when you ordered the Copelador to find the Duke of Windsor. But that was not the case.”
“Ha, I can’t do such a wasteful thing.”
The man laughed shortly, arms folded.
“Then the focus of joy would be on the Duke of Windsor, not me.”
“Yes, I thought so. But because of that, I don’t understand at all.”
The woman turned her shoulder, and there was a thud. She continued speaking.
“When you bribed the villagers to spread rumors about the shack, disguised me as this old woman to take care of the Duke of Windsor, I thought the Duke of Windsor would at least be a hostage.”
No, it might have been better if he was a hostage. The woman muttered.
“When the princess was trapped in Windsor and the villagers spread the rumor, ‘A witch protecting an unknown blackhaired, redeyed man,’ and you even exposed the guild when she didn’t hear it, the loss is no small matter.”
“I’m not unaware of that, Michel. But what can I do? The princess started snooping around the guild.”
The man looked at the fallen leaves tumbling over the carriage tracks as the wind blew, speaking.
“Really, I don’t know how she thought to entrust the guild with finding people.”
The man’s lips were touched with a quite frequent smile. A strong satisfaction was glimpsed from his thick arms, folded and fingers snapping.
‘Really, she’s a clever woman without any changes.’
Why such a clever woman couldn’t recognize me, I don’t know.
A bitter smile hung on the man’s lips.
Although it had been as long as 15 years, Yuri Hsien in the man’s memory hadn’t faded at all. The smart little princess had grown up through many experiences and had become the great Windsor.
‘Not just the great Windsor, but a wickedly clever great Windsor at that.’
Not that it wasn’t, but he never dreamed she would scoop out the inside of bread to use as an envelope. Was that all? Without a doubt, she had prepared a way to secretly escape from her stepmother and stepbrother, expecting that one day she would find Ulgen, whatever guild it had become.
Some might say she wasted effort on an impossible task, but preparing for every possibility was never a foolish act.
‘Thanks to that, I was able to find and bring the Duke of Windsor today.’
Even today’s events were the same. He knew that Yuri Hsien’s physical abilities were excellent, but he didn’t know that she had reached the point of assassinating bandits.
‘With such abilities, why, with that idiotic boy….’
The man who recalled what had happened in the wine bar cringed his face in disgust. He was indeed furious that he could be here today without losing his sanity at that time; it was a miracle.
“Sigh…”
Thanks to Yuri Hsien, who was doing well on her own today, the man gave less help than he originally planned.
‘Tongue is bitter, very much.’
The muttering man suddenly fumbled in his pocket. The nearby Mitchel glanced as if to ask what he was doing, but he didn’t care. What the man pulled out of his pocket was nothing but a small candy.
He looked down at the round candy wrapped in pretty paper and his head dropped down.
“I forgot to give the candy.”
“Excuse me? Candy?”
“Yes. I said my mouth was bitter. It’s not really bitter, but I wanted to give it anyway.”
Tsk, there’s nothing to be done about it.
The man put the candy back in his pocket. It was not a great disappointment.
“We’ll meet again soon.”
The man, massaging his drooping neck, raised his head again.
His golden hair fluttered in the wind blowing from the front.
(This is a time separator.)
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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