The strength flowed into the hand wrapped around her waist, and her tilted head nearly swallowed her lips. A woman, her face taken aback, and her eyes wide open, covered Cassard’s feverclouded eyes with both hands.
“St Stop for a moment, Duke.”
“……?”
“I think it’s because of the fever… it might be best for both of us if we stop… If you can’t bear it, shall I go to another room?”
Ha.
Cassard felt a small and soft hand covering his eyes and chuckled. He felt like a beast no different from those who had teased the woman, except that he hadn’t bitten her ear.
Thanks to the woman who had pinpointed him for pouncing like a heated, crazed creature, he realized he hadn’t made a mistake. Still, he found himself amused at his excitement to be in contact with her.
“You don’t need to go to another room. As you said, it seems to be the fever.”
“I’ll sleep on the sofa tonight. Since you’re the patient, ah……!”
Before she could finish, her sight whirled around, and she felt a soft mattress touching her back and blinked in surprise. In the corner of her vision, the Duke’s calm, red eyes appeared.
“Don’t treat me like a patient. I won’t touch you anymore, so sleep here.”
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]The Duke kept his promise not to touch her. It was natural since he had not even been available after leaving the bedroom like dawn.
It was a good thing. Nearly kissing the head of the Blahnath family was shocking enough for her to lose sleep all night.
The objective fact that the Duke was breathtakingly handsome and the fact that her heart had fluttered at that moment were not important.
If their lips had met, she would not have been able to deny the servants’ accusations that she had played the role of his wife.
Left alone in the bedroom, she saw a new bouquet of flowers on the bed today. She couldn’t smile like yesterday, though.
She avoided the noisy bedroom cleaning that didn’t consider her wife, and took refuge in the bathroom. It felt more comfortable alone, even after a shower.
She took a deep breath and picked up the questionnaire and fountain pen on the table. The questionnaire said to be written by Deputy Rakhan contained more questions than she thought.
Questions like the duration of her hospital employment, the date she went to the villa, the clocking in and out on the day of the incident were answered without hesitation. Just writing the truth. But…
While diligently recording her answers, her eyes widened at the last question, written in elegant handwriting, unlike the others.
[Did you really lose your memory?]…No.
I remember everything.
The Duke shot a fragment that injured me, even the day he shared his blood with me. But that day, that day I fled because I felt like my insides would turn if I looked at you, the heir to the Blahnath family.
The day I ran away was when my parents were executed and hung on the walls of the Teshia Empire.
She erased the honest answer that came to mind and recorded a short reply with a mischievous fountain pen.
[A very little bit. Enough not to affect my life.]It seemed quite plausible once written. She hoped he wouldn’t probe further, even out of pride.
After writing all the answers on the questionnaire and still locked in the bedroom waiting for the Duke, she asked a butler who came to prepare a meal for some scrap fabric and a sewing kit.
Thus, she spent the whole evening fiddling with her hands and sewing. After a hot bath and massaging the stiff back of her neck from sewing, she wore a neatly designed chemise dress prepared by the butler.
As she returned to the bedroom, passing through the hallway of the bathroom and dressing room, she encountered the presence of a man filling the space and swallowed hard.
“Yo, you’re back?”
“…….”
Cassard, reading the reply, looked up at the woman with red eyes.
You’re back, she said, as if she had been waiting for him, which seemed strange, and he stared at her for a moment before answering.
The woman twitched her lips in some discomfort. It was incredible to feel awkward when she had just seen him last night and again after just one day. Especially when last night she had clung to him like a cuddly doll.
“Um… Yo, you seem very busy today.”
“I went to inspect the territory.”
“Oh…….”
“Why.”
The light seemed to dim for a moment, and the woman, as though nothing had happened, smiled frighteningly. As if nothing was wrong.
“Just…… Since you were not around all day, I was curious and asked.”
“……It seems that the answer is all written.”
Cassard put the document he was reading on the table for a moment and chuckled at the small, colorful rabbit dolls piled neatly in the rattan basket.
“What’s this? Did you make it?”
“I had some spare time…….”
She had made ones that looked just like that. He picked up a rabbit with a light ash color from the basket. The woman’s subtle hair color resembled it, which was quite amusing.
“Thinking of selling them?”
“No, not at all……. When children come to the hospital, I used to give them one…….”
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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