But Latil shook her head.
“I understand your words are true. That doesn’t mean I believe all your words.”
As if questioning where such illogical reasoning existed, Tasir slightly furrowed his brows. Latil, having examined all the documents, handed them back to Tasir.
“Just because my father allowed the existence of the Black Forest, it doesn’t mean that the Black Forest didn’t betray my father.”
Isn’t that right? As Latil sought agreement with a smile, Tasir accepted the documents, his eyes narrowing. It seemed he didn’t agree.
“So, Your Majesty, you’re still suspecting that the Black Forest assassinated the previous emperor?”
“Not necessarily that.”
“?”
“I’m not just suspecting you, I’m suspecting everyone. All of them, overall.”
“!”
“Even I, who was his most beloved child and the official successor, became a suspect. So, I must suspect everyone else who didn’t receive my father’s trust as much as I did. Isn’t that right?”
Tasir’s expression became strange. His face was filled with complex emotions, too complex to be described accurately.
Instead of clearly stating whom she suspected the most, Latil took out a letter from her drawer and handed it over.
“This. Check it.”
“What is it?”
“Just check it.”
Tasir cautiously took the letter. His eyes moved quickly, and his eyebrows shot up.
What Latil had handed to Tasir was the letter found at her father’s tomb. The letter claiming that Latil killed the previous emperor.
“What’s this…?”
“Did you leave this? Or did the Black Forest leave it?”
“Did you show me this to ask that?”
“You and the person who wrote that letter are the only ones who have spoken to me like that.”
“It’s not a letter left by the Black Forest.”
With a furrowed brow, Tasir replied and returned the letter to Latil. Latil, who put the letter back into her drawer, observed Tasir carefully.
It didn’t look like he was just beating around the bush, Tasir also seemed to find the contents of the letter surprising.
“The certainty is that someone wants to cover ‘everything’ with us.”
“Everything?”
“Assassinating the previous emperor, desecrating the tomb, and even pointing out you as the criminal.”
“Any suspicions about who did it?”
“I have many enemies.”
Tasir shrugged his shoulders.
“Since I’ve acted under the secret orders of the previous emperor, I have many enemies in common with the royal family.”
“I see.”
Latil let out a sigh.
She had to worry about how to strengthen the country, how to provide the people with a better quality of life, etc. Since ascending to the throne, she had been wrapped up in these matters and it was making her head hurt.
As she was lost in thought, pressing her temples, she felt Tasir’s gaze on her.
Latil lowered her hand and lifted her head. Tasir was quietly looking at her with his mouth tightly shut.
“Why? Do you have something to say?”
Latil asked, wondering if something had come to his mind. Instead of replying, Tasir approached her desk, crouched down, and rested his arms on it.
It was a disrespectful behavior for a subordinate. As Latil looked at him, wondering why he was doing so, Tasir quietly protested.
“Don’t you only see me as a subordinate?”
“What?”
“After all, I am also your man.”
“!”
“Since I told you that I’m part of the Black Forest……”
Tasir’s eyes narrowed as he stared intently.
“You keep treating me like your subjects.”
“Do I need to do so at this time?”
“If not at this time, you might just extract information and send the affection to other guys.”
When Latil looked at him with bafflement, Tasir suddenly laughed, his eyes crinkling, and stretched out his curled up legs.
“No matter how I was treated by the late Emperor, this time, I didn’t make a contract as the leader of the Black Forest, but as your man.”
Latil blinked, then chuckled and leaned back in her chair.
“So, what would you have liked me to do? What do you mean by ‘treat you like a man’?”
Tasir’s face, as he bent over, came right up to Latil’s nose. She looked into his dark eyes.
She always thought they looked drugged. But up close, they didn’t seem to be, there was no murkiness in his eyes.
“A kiss? A caress? Something more if you want?”
Latil sighed, and reached out to ruffle Tasir’s dark hair. The coarse strands stuck to her fingers.
“…… There’s no affection in it. Is my hair a scrub brush?”
“You asked for a caress.”
Tasir laughed with a deflated sound and straightened his bent back.
[This is the time separator]Unable to sleep easily due to various things on her mind, Latil went out for a slow walk in the garden in the early morning. Only Sonnaught followed her.
Walking silently, Latil glanced at Sonnaught. As always, Sonnaught was following her with his mouth closed.
When their eyes met, Sonnaught finally asked with a smile in his eyes, “Why are you looking at me like that?”
“I just realized. You, Sonnaught, usually don’t speak first before I do?”
“It’s not always the case.”
“So, it’s not always, but often.”
Why is that? As Latil tilted her head, Sonnaught naturally moved from behind her to her side with a smile.
“I’m always with you, if I talk to you all the time, I thought you might get annoyed.”
“I’m not annoyed.”
“You haven’t tried talking to me constantly. You would get annoyed if I kept talking.”
“Would I?”
“Then, may I keep talking from now on?”
“Um …… no.”
As Latil suddenly changed her words and laughed mischievously, Sonnaught burst into a chuckle.
“It’s mean to play with someone’s heart like that.”
“Do you, Sonnaught, get that excited?”
“You might not know, but I have a very light heart.”
Latil laughed again. Was it because of the silly joke with Sonnaught? Her complicated mood had been greatly relieved.
Latil deliberately stepped on the white gravel to make a crunching sound and asked.
“Why hasn’t a person with such a light heart like you gotten married yet?”
“……”
But the moment she asked that question, the atmosphere suddenly became heavy. Latil stopped walking and looked back.
Sonnaught was following slowly from behind with a forced smile on his heavy face.
‘He was by my side, why did he suddenly move back?’
“Sonnaught?”
Did I say something wrong? As she called him curiously, Sonnaught finally changed his expression and answered as if nothing had happened.
“I’m still hurting from my first love.”
First love? Latil tilted her head. Did Sonnaught have a first love? She had never heard of it.
The Sonnaught she remembered was always following his father or spending his free time with Lean or visiting her.
Sonnaught and first love……
“Who was your first love?”
“That person. Already married.”
Hearing Sonnaught’s bland answer to her question asked out of curiosity, Latil raised her eyebrows and exclaimed, “Ah”. They were married.
There were many nobles who didn’t care whether their partners were unmarried or married, and even more who were more fired up by their partners being married.
But the Sonnaught she knew was not that type. Latil nodded her head.
She would have usually passed it off as a joke. But Sonnaught’s expression right now was very serious.
He also seemed a bit hurt. It didn’t seem appropriate to make light of his painful love at this moment.
“Um. I hope a better person appears.”
Even though Latil hesitated as she spoke sincerely, Sonnaught once again laughed painfully.
“There’s no such person.”
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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