“Do you have anything else to say?”
Instead, she asked him back. Terran, observing the overly polite Grace, fixed his gaze on a notebook she tried to conceal.
‘What’s this, making one so curious?’
Terran shook his head as if it was nothing and left the room.
Every time he interacted with the changed Grace, he felt a small sandstorm in the desert of his dry life.
Early in the morning, Leah headed to Bern with Terran. The journey by carriage would take about three hours.
Pauline had packed several bottles of whiskey, Aidan’s favorite drink.
The carriage ride was silent. Occasionally, they discussed the scenery visible outside the window. About an hour into the journey, Leah spoke.
“It’s raining.”
Leah, observing the rain on her hand extended outside the window, mentioned it.
“We’re in trouble if it gets heavier.”
Terran also seemed concerned about the rainy weather, constantly looking outside.
Suddenly, the carriage stopped, and the coachman approached.
“Lord Terran, there’s heavy rain in Basel. It’s impossible to continue on this road. With your permission, I’ll take a different route.”
Another coach had stopped to inform them. Basel was drenched in heavy rain, turning roads into muddy traps. Continuing could lead to the carriage wheels getting stuck in the mud.
“Do that.”
“Understood.”
The coachman turned the horses and took a secluded forest road. The path was also wet, but not so severely to hinder the carriage’s progress.
“The meadow looks beautiful. You can see a shepherd’s hut over there.”
Leah commented, seemingly lost in the view. However, Terran did not respond.
Instead, he intensely observed Grace.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
Leah felt tense under Terran’s penetrating gaze.
“When you look into my eyes, any pretense or hypocrisy seems pointless.”
“You’ve changed a lot, Grace.”
“Human beings are social animals, aren’t they? They can change significantly based on the situations and events they face.”
“There’s a saying that humans are social animals. They can change a lot due to the situations and events they encounter.”
‘Ha! To think I’d hear such words from Grace. Did her soul change after suffering the flu?’
Terran couldn’t help but entertain a ridiculous notion.
Yet her words were true. Even he wasn’t always this desolate and pessimistic. He changed from enduring familial trials since childhood and fighting in the brutal war.
Then, the smoothly running carriage began to shake violently, and loud noises erupted from outside.
“Lord Terran! A band of robbers has appeared!”
The coachman shouted desperately. Taking the secluded forest road had made them a target for the robbers.
Bang Bang! Gunshots rang out, and bullets hit the carriage.
“The coachman!”
Leah witnessed a coachman being shot and falling off the carriage.
Terran quickly rose and pulled the handle of the seat. Surprisingly, the seat’s top opened, revealing a large compartment.
‘The seat was a box?’
With a stern face, Terran instructed Leah.
“Get in, Grace.”
“Just me?”
As she looked on in confusion, Terran pushed her into the long box.
“Don’t come out until I open it.”
Before she could respond, he shut the seat lid firmly.
Terran then opened the opposite seat, pulling out a rifle.
Bang Bang! The robbers kept firing as the horses and carriage detached.
Expertly, he reloaded and fired at the attackers, covering all sides. Fortunately, the carriage slowed down on flat ground. A fall off a cliff would have been disastrous.
He had to quickly deal with the robbers before the carriage stopped completely and they were surrounded.
Sensing the bullets’ vibrations, he peeked through the window, estimating the robbers’ location, and returned fire with sharp reflexes.
The carriage filled with gunshots and tension, but his body moved instinctively.
“Aargh!”
Finally, the robbers began to fall, one by one. However, their numbers were not small.
Thankfully, he had plenty of bullets, always prepared with rifles and ammunition due to his military habits.
Once again, the robbers fired, forcing the carriage to a halt. The remaining coachman had already fled into the woods.
The carriage was riddled with bullets, its roof nearly blown off.
“It’s been a while since I’ve had some action.”
Terran burst through the roof, shooting rapidly in a 360-degree spin.
His war-honed shooting skills didn’t need eyes to sense the enemy’s presence. In minutes, the robbers were annihilated.
Suddenly, sensing a presence behind, he turned and fired.
Bang Bang, two shots and screams. His bullets pierced a robber’s head, but a bullet also went through Terran’s shoulder.
“Ugh…!”
He collapsed onto the carriage floor.
“Lord Courtois!”
Leah, who had been listening silently from inside the chair, rushed out at Terran’s groan and saw him wounded in the shoulder.
“I’ll help you.”
She quickly grabbed what was needed and helped Terran out of the carriage.
“More robbers will come. We need to escape.”
The forest was likely the robbers’ base. Leah walked towards the meadow they had passed earlier.
“Huff…!”
Terran staggered, his shoulder bleeding profusely.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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