“Usually, when two identical people appear, everyone gets confused, they can’t be so certain to label one as a fake.”
Yet all the courtiers who saw Latil naturally sided with the fake, as if they had been preparing for this situation. There had to be a reason.
[This is the time separator]After a couple of hours, as expected, the imperial knight who had visited Karisen with her appeared.
“Your Majesty!”
Upon seeing Latil, the imperial knight called out, then, startled, lowered his voice and quickly closed the door.
“What the hell is going on?”
Latil shook her head.
“I don’t know. I went to my room and there was someone who looked just like me, imitating me. Everyone was treating him like an emperor. And you?”
“I went to report after finishing my vacation, but Your Majesty wasn’t there. They say you went down to the territory.”
“I’m not here?”
“Yes. So I was waiting to tell the deputy commander, then another colleague came and said there was a commotion in my absence……”
The knight couldn’t continue.
“It’s okay.”
Having just experienced it firsthand. As Latil sighed, the knight continued with a look as if he was about to cry.
“They say that the black magician really appeared as Prince Lean warned in advance, that his actions, speech, and face were exactly the same as yours, so we should be careful…….”
Latil was comforting the knight by patting his shoulder, but stopped abruptly at the mention of the name ‘Lean’.
“Who? Lean?”
As Latil quietly asked again, the knight who was telling the story he had heard, closed his mouth and looked at Latil. His face said ‘Oops’.
“Say it again. Who warned?”
But Latil no longer had the strength to comfort the knight.
It was strange enough when someone who looked exactly like her appeared and she was chased out by her subordinates as if she was the fake, but the story she had just heard literally took her breath away.
Why is my brother’s name mentioned here?
“Well…….”
“Speak. Is my brother involved in this?”
“I don’t know exactly, Your Majesty. I just heard that.”
“So. I’m asking how you heard it.”
As Latil asked again in a lower voice, the knight swallowed dryly. Then he explained the story he had heard in detail.
“Everyone knew that you were unwell after you left the palace that day. But when an urgent matter came up that they had to see you, the next day, Prince Lean went into your room to speak with you privately. Afterwards, he came out and said that the reason you’re unwell is because of a black magician…… He said that the black magician is stealing your appearance, and that’s why you’re sick.”
Latil sat on the bed, clenching her fists and mulling over the knight’s words one by one.
She cursed spontaneously. It was unbearable that her brother was involved in this. And it wasn’t that the fake appeared and said ‘I’m the real one’, but my brother was the one who first mentioned the fake……?
“Did people believe that? Out of nowhere, he’s talking about a black magician?”
“There were also cursed corpses that had appeared before, and also…….”
Latil bit her lip. Her orders to arrest the false Hyacinth, the fake confessors, and the black magicians, the grand vizier who became her harem, the knights who volunteered to escort her after her coronation. From the moment she took the throne, there had been a lot of issues related to black magic.
Of course, these were stories that almost no one knew except her close aides. The problem was whether these aides would believe the story about the fake black magician told by Leanne.
“No, no matter what, do they actually think it’s real?”
When Latil laughed out of exasperation, the knight carefully added,
“In fact, a few knights and the white of the white magic technique went down to a village, and that village seemed to have changed strangely.”
“Change?”
“There was no one alive, and the corpses were all eaten…”
“!”
“Didn’t I tell you earlier that Prince Leanne went into your room saying that he had to see you? This is the story. The white came to report it at the time Prince Leanne was talking about the fake emperor, so people seemed to believe the prince’s words right away.”
“……”
“Two days later, the fake, pretending to be you, appeared, and they warned everyone to be careful because a fake resembling you may appear. They said it was a trick of the black magician.”
Latil covered her face with both hands.
“How could my brother…”
It was hard to believe that her brother had stabbed her in the back, more than the fact that a fake was imitating her.
“Your Majesty……”
“The one who stopped me from forming a diplomatic delegation and going to Karisen was my brother.”
“Then from the beginning……?”
“Yeah. It seems so.”
Latil gritted her teeth and clenched her fists. The knight watched her in sympathy, then hastily suggested,
“Your Majesty, shall I be your witness? If I let people know that I was with you all the time.”
“What about the witness? You’re in danger too.”
“Huh?”
“My brother, no, not even my brother. Leanne seems to have prepared well for this. Do you think my brother would leave you alone? He knows you’ve been to Karisen with me.”
“Ah, I see.”
The knight, who seemed to have not thought that far, shuddered.
“Since he got the report that you went to hear the situation, he’ll probably try to catch you as well as me. He must think you’re the only witness.”
“!”
Latil clenched her two hands tightly and glared at the palace outside the window in rage.
“But my brother didn’t know. That Hyacinth secretly came to the palace and went back to Karisen with me.”
“Ah! Then you can ask for help from Emperor Hyacinth!”
“Yes. But you have to be careful. If you make a mistake, it may seem like the ‘fake black magician’ is joining hands with the emperor of Karisen to eat up Tarium.”
Latil got up and paced the room in a fit of anger. Her anger seemed to burst from the tips of her hair, and her eyes were red.
It was hard to bear the unexpected betrayal of her brother.
Secondly, how he got such a similar fake, where his scheme started from, and why he did this, there was no guess, which made it even harder.
“My brother couldn’t have joined hands with Hyacinth. My brother didn’t like Hyacinth either. No. No. If I go like this, it doesn’t make sense that my brother betrayed me first. I shouldn’t be sure of anything now.”
Latil thought for a moment and then instructed the knight.
“You go to the Melrosi territory and meet Sonnaught.”
“Alone?”
“Now that he knows I’ve returned, he’ll either kill you, catch you, or shut you up. He may even let you go, thinking you’re in league with the black magician, so leave quickly. Right now.”
“But what about you, Your Majesty……”
“Looking at the fact that he sent Sonnaught somewhere else and plotted, it doesn’t seem like Sonnaught is involved in this. But just in case, I have to beat him to it. Since he knows I’ve returned from Karisen, he’ll try to meet Sonnaught. I have to meet Sonnaught before the fake or my brother finds him. Absolutely.”
“Shouldn’t we go together, Your Majesty?”
“I have something else to do.”
The mask hidden in the bosom. It was time to use this mask. With this mask, Lean or the impostor could find Latil without getting caught even if they fooled people.
“Depart. Hurry up. Hurry!”
‘I have to find out what’s going on by meeting my damned brother.’
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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