Attila’s coronation began by adorning the imperial palace of Corb with brilliant flowers and waves of green. Feeling the strong vitality of early summer, Attila made a proud face.
“Why does the Duke look so displeased? Has he been rejected by a woman?”
“……Speak with discretion.”
Attila looked at Cassard with admiration, who strictly followed the noble etiquette unless they were alone. Even when it was just Attila, Cassard, and Iriel, Cassard never revealed his true nature in front of Iriel.
“That young lady of Agnoman still doesn’t know? The Duke is just pretending.”
“Your Majesty, please don’t compare the Duke with yourself.”
Iriel laughed as she parried Attila’s joke.
“Young lady of Agnoman, whose side are you on now? You’d make a terrible Empress.”
“I’m not the future Empress. I can’t live with a man who publicly declares he will take a concubine.”
She knows. How much Iriel de Agnoman, the woman, dislikes the existence of a concubine, because of her father, Count Agnoman’s favoritism toward women. But Attila was not a man who would make a promise he could not keep, ensnared by love.
“It’s not out of the question to have one for political reasons.”
“That’s fine. Who’s opposing it? If Your Majesty isn’t my husband, it’s not a problem at all.”
“Young lady of Agnoman is overly romantic. How can an empress see the Emperor as a husband? She should see him as a political partner.”
“Yes. Please remember to say that when you greet the Empress.”
In the midst of the suffocating battle of nerves between Iriel and Attila, Cassard politely lifted Iriel’s hand that he had been escorting and handed it to Attila.
“Continue your conversation, both of you. I will take my leave.”
“No.”
“No.”
Attila’s and Iriel’s eyes collided in midair as they responded simultaneously.
“Fine, I surrender. I’ve lost. But it seems the Duke needs this conversation now.”
Although he spoke in jest, Cassard’s expression was genuinely displeased, throughout the coronation. If asked how that’s different from his usual expressionless face, he couldn’t explain.
Iriel excused herself, leaving them alone in the lounge.
Attila and Cassard spent a long time in silence, lighting cigars.
“So. What is it?”
“What is it?”
The slow movement of Cassard’s hand rolling his cigar on the ashtray stopped. Despite the somber look on his face as he replied, Attila, having grown up with him since childhood, couldn’t fail to notice.
It might be because his father had not been gone for long. Unlike Attila, the previous Duke Blahnath was a respectable father.
“There’s no soul in your eyes, no soul.”
“Nothing much.”
Cassard smirked as if dismissing all his worries. To Attila’s eyes, there was no other forced smile like it.
“You know? You’ve never deceived me.”
“I had no intention of deceiving you.”
“So tell me. Why are you so sullen?”
Attila was astute and quickwitted. Considering he noticed Cassard had been forcing smiles all throughout the coronation because of an annoying, lingering headache, it was evident.
Cassard’s mood, usually not subject to great fluctuation, had hit rock bottom, continuously so since he realized he could no longer keep the soft and warm woman who used to snuggle into his arms when she slept.
“If you’re curious…….”
His head was throbbing, and words tangled at the tip of his tongue. The aftermath of not having slept a wink last night seemed to be hitting him now.
But he couldn’t honestly say that he was going mad over a woman suspected of having an affair with his father, even if it was Attila.
“Why did you remove the security officers?”
“Sorry, sorry. When Duke Blahnath goes to investigate personally, wouldn’t such security be a hindrance? We kept them detained for fear of escape.”
He vaguely skirted around the reason for his displeasure, but thankfully Attila accepted it. It was an important conversation between them.
The security officers might be dumb, but his own organization was equally unable to locate the informant. Whether hidden intentionally or not, it was unclear.
“What have you found out?”
“Nothing much. Just that the person who effectively crowned me was your father.”
Blahnath’s ancestral duke had a hand in something for Emperor Pobvegen. Attila also pinpointed exactly what Cassard had noticed.
“Is there anyone else you know?”
“There is, but……”
Derga, Emperor Pobvegen’s personal physician. He had cooperated in assassinating the Emperor, and he thought it might be better to eliminate him altogether to silence him, but he was, after all, someone who wanted Attila to become Emperor.
‘I have done my part to see that His Highness the Crown Prince ascends the throne safely. How much longer can an old man beg pitifully for his life? If Your Highness judges that this scum must die, then so be it. I will gladly obey.’
Attila was not so merciless as to cut the throat of an old man who, even with a sword before him, did not beg for his life but spoke calmly.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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