While chaos erupted in Sophia’s office, the viscount’s second wife, Elizabeth, seemed uninterested in such matters, taking a leisurely rest in her room.
“Why are the servants so noisy?”
She asked, brushing her tempting red hair. Despite the sun not having set yet, a halffilled glass of wine was on the tea table in her room.
The answer came from the terrace connected to her room.
“The butler has embezzled the mansion’s money. Isabel found out and dismissed him.”
“Isabel? What’s going on?”
Elizabeth turned her gaze to the terrace, surprised by the unexpected news.
There, a lean man was seated. If someone tried to barge into Elizabeth’s room, he could hide his presence at any moment.
‘I’m a spy too, but that guy is too cautious.’
Elizabeth sipped her wine and laughed.
“Isabel unwittingly fooled Sophia. That child is naive and doesn’t know that the butler and the first lady are burning with infidelity.”
“New information.”
“I can tell just by looking. What’s real love and what’s just a formal relationship.”
As Elizabeth made a sentimental face, the man, Aizen, approached with an envelope.
“Your husband also makes the same expression as he thinks of you, Elizabeth, every time the sun sets.”
“Really? Gilbert doesn’t seem like that though……”
Though she denied Aizen’s words, Elizabeth couldn’t hide her delight. She smiled as she opened the handed envelope.
[To my love, Elizabeth.]There was nothing that made Elizabeth flutter like the elegant handwriting over the paper marked with the crest of Count Geoturk.
Since she was very young, Elizabeth’s affection was for Gilbert, the youngest son of the renowned Count Geoturk family in the capital.
The fact that the youngest son of a Count fell in love passionately with the illegitimate child of a mere family with a mansion in the capital was famous gossip.
Only Nicholas Portrion, who bought Elizabeth with money when he briefly traveled from his domain to the capital, did not know this.
“Elizabeth. You finally contribute to the household.”
Elizabeth’s biological father took all the gold he got from selling his daughter to the viscount and didn’t share a penny. She had even considered running away in the middle of the night if it were not for Gilbert’s secret request.
“Elizabeth. It seems the Viscount Portrion kidnapped the illegitimate child of a major noble house a few years ago. He is planning to sell the child at a high price.”
“And?”
“My brother said he would be pleased if you could check while you have caught the viscount’s eye. Whether the child’s lineage is dangerous or not.”
“You want me to go to that backcountry and spy?”
But in the end, Elizabeth accepted the viscount’s proposal and became a doll in the Portrion mansion.
Not just to help Gilbert, who wouldn’t inherit any title or anything as the youngest.
“If you finish the job well, my brother will grant me a suitable title, and I will formally propose to you. He knows your efforts well, so he will reward you.”
Elizabeth knew that she was no more than an insignificant illegitimate child in a Viscount’s family. Moreover.
“Don’t worry, we will raise our Elize well at the Count’s mansion. We have to deceive people and say she’s my distant cousin.”
Though it was an unspoken affair, she and Gilbert had a daughter born out of a onenight mistake.
Concerned about the stares she would receive as an unmarried woman with a child, she stayed in a mansion prepared by Gilbert for a year and barely gave birth to the child.
Elizabeth smiled slightly as she looked at the portrait of her daughter, Elize, enclosed in Gilbert’s letter.
It had been five years since she came to the Viscount Portrion’s mansion, and the spy’s role seemed to be slowly coming to an end.
“Aizen, how’s the confession extracting going?”
“I’m continually threatening and coaxing the knights kidnapped during the carriage ambush, but since they are the viscount’s closest people, they still aren’t talking
The knights who accompanied the Count on his outings were orphans picked up and raised for their fighting abilities. They were said to be the few who would even give their lives for the Count.
“Well, I’m investigating where their families live. Once they see their families suffering, they’ll talk.”
“……Leave the child out of it.”
Sophia looked at Eisen, who nonchalantly considered killing people, and clicked her tongue.
It didn’t take long to figure out that the mysterious boy kidnapped by the Count was Walter. He had been given special treatment.
The problem was that the Count had hidden Walter’s lineage so well that no one knew whose bloodline he had. His obsession was such that he had cast a strong binding spell that prevented Walter from being taken outside the mansion.
So the House of Geoturk was in the midst of kidnapping and torturing two of the Count’s closest aides while ambushing his carriage.
“But…… what if he’s of a noble bloodline?”
Elizabeth was well aware of the political situation in the capital.
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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