“Capital for going to the city? Edith, surely you’re not still obsessing about becoming a doctor like your mother?”
“…….”
“Don’t waste your time preparing for the academy entrance exam or anything like that. Just make good use of your pretty face and get married well.”
Edith laughed inwardly.
The uncle had failed the imperial academy medical entrance exam for seven years despite receiving all sorts of support from his relatives, while she had passed it in just one try last year.
And marriage?
Edith had never even thought about marriage, except for a brief crush on a boy who had stayed at her home.
She knew all too well that dreams of a comfortable family life would be poison in her impoverished circumstances.
‘I planned to start studying right after saving money this year….’
A duke she had never met before arrived at her house with his knights just a few minutes later.
When he grabbed her, attempting to flee, and looked her over as if inspecting the quality of a purchased item, she felt sick.
Her parents, Lord and Lady Lowell, who had become no better than commoners after their downfall, had taught her about the minimum dignity that a human being should maintain.
But Nicholas had no interest in the thoughts or narrative of the woman he had bought.
“What to do with you. Rebelling or enduring won’t change the situation.”
He smirked and reached out to her. His thick hand began to tear the clothing wrapped around her body.
“Let go of this!”
“Go ahead. Rebel, Edith.”
As Nicholas lunged, the thin necklace she had been wearing all along fell to the floor.
Thud, upon hearing the sound, Edith’s gaze turned to the floor.
Nicholas, who could read people’s expressions incredibly well, judged it in an instant.
“Edith. This shabby necklace seems to be your treasure.”
“…….”
“If you want to protect your precious thing, don’t rebel and follow my will. I could crush this cheap jewelry with my foot at any moment.”
Edith bit the inside of her lip to swallow her tears. The shame was unbearable, and her body trembled, but she didn’t want to show submission to him.
The duke smiled at her attitude.
“Yes, that’s the way. I’ll slowly tell you how much I’ve been looking for you after I make you my wife.”
“……!”
Edith twisted her body fiercely to prevent his hands from touching her.
She felt like she was being hit on the head every second.
The current duke had been rumored not to touch women since his predecessor was killed by his wife during intercourse. He was only interested in voyeurism, or so she had heard.
But the monster in front of her seemed to have no minimum dignity to maintain, unlike the rumors, and his eyes sparkled with desire.
Any decent nobleman would not do vulgar things on a moving carriage to maintain his dignity, but he seemed to have none.
“Let go of this!”
The man infamous throughout the territory as a pervert and sexual psychopath. That’s why she had run away more desperately.
Every time his wrinkled hand touched her, she felt a chill as if bugs were crawling all over her body.
Despite shivering at that sensation, she struggled not to cry. He was the kind of person who would delight in her tears.
Ah, mother. Father. If you are watching from the sky, please kill this doglike man.
She was desperately wishing for this, glaring at Nicholas Portrion with reddened eyes.
Thump!
A loud noise struck near the carriage’s ceiling.
Startled by the unexpected situation, Nicholas shrank back, shouting.
“What’s happening?”
“My lord! It seems you need to dodge! Assassins are…!”
Whoosh
Before the escort could finish speaking, there was the sound of something sharp cutting through flesh, and the carriage’s decorative curtain was quickly stained with blood.
“Cough…!”
The lord’s body staggered as if fatally wounded.
Edith quickly rolled to the side, causing him to hit his head on the hard wooden chair instead of falling on top of her.
Thump.
With a dull noise as she wished, the lord’s body curled up on the carriage floor.
(This is a time separator.)
After the lord fell, bleeding, it was chaos.
The horses, startled, jerked the carriage, shaking it as much as a boat meeting a storm.
The two knights that were restraining her had been run through by swords and died.
Edith, her hands and feet bound, fainted as the carriage was about to tip over. She didn’t remember anything after that.
“Uh….”
Edith groaned softly as she tried to raise her body. It seemed her head was unhurt.
She cautiously opened her eyes to look around.
Long enough time seemed to have passed, moonlight was seeping through the gaps in the brick walls, but sadly, her ankles were still bound with layers of cloth.
‘Where am I? The lord wouldn’t have ordered me moved, would he?’
If the mind is hit hard enough to cause blood to gush out like a fountain, it will surely cause brain damage.
Nicholas Portrion was, at best, in a vegetative state, and likely dead.
‘The lord being in a coma means I, bought with his money, will become useless.’
It seemed he had brought her to comfort himself, so all the more likely.
Can she escape this absurd situation and return to normal life?
She began to harbor hope at that moment.
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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