“Haha… What kind of talk is that?”
However, the stiffness was only momentary.
Bentley immediately burst into a friendly laugh, waving his hands as if signaling not to say unreasonable things.
“I really like playing board games. Why would I pretend to have fun?”
“But you’re thinking it’s boring.”
Bonita countered.
“Other kids, when they really find something fun, they laugh much wider.”
“Bonita… that’s different for everyone.”
He raised his eyebrows as if to say she wouldn’t understand since she was still young.
“You may not know since you’re still young, but as you get older, even if something is fun, you don’t laugh or act foolishly like a fool.”
“…But you’re only ten years old too.”
“Seven and ten are tremendously different.”
He made a fist and raised his eyebrows as if to say, ‘Don’t you know that?’
“How many times do you eat a day?”
“Three times.”
“Then how many times in a month?”
“Um…”
Bonita, who hadn’t learned counting, stuttered.
Then Bentley kindly explained, knowing that Bonita wouldn’t answer this time either.
“There are thirty days in a month, so it’s thirty times three, which is ninety.”
“Yeah.”
“How many times in a year then?”
Bentley, expecting that Bonita wouldn’t answer this time either, immediately provided the answer.
“The correct answer is 80 times. Moreover, in three years, I’ve eaten 3,240 times more than you! Now do you understand this enormous difference?”
“Yeah…”
She didn’t understand what he was talking about.
Bonita nodded slightly with a somewhat blank expression.
Seeing her dazed look, Bentley shrugged his shoulders as if triumphant.
“That’s why I’m right. Do you agree?”
Bonita stared at him for a moment, then nodded slightly.
Bentley clicked his tongue inwardly.
‘Looks can be deceiving; he’s more stubborn than I thought.’
This is going to be troublesome.
He touched his face. No matter how you looked at it, his facial expression seemed perfect.
The boy squinted his eyes.
‘How on earth did he figure it out?’
Certainly, Bentley wouldn’t have wanted to get close to Bonita if it weren’t for his father’s instructions.
It’s not like he disliked the kid. On the contrary, considering the age difference between him and Bonita, the ten-year-old boy felt like a little brother.
‘And he seems a bit slow.’
Sometimes, he seemed to be as slow as his younger brother, Morgan, who was seven but had already memorized the multiplication table. He could read fluently.
Zzzz.
Their eyes met.
It seemed as if they were observing each other.
After a brief awkward standoff, Bonita was the first to speak.
“Bentley. Do you dislike me?”
“No.”
The boy answered promptly.
“I don’t particularly dislike you.”
It was a clear expression of intent, but instead of his words, Bonita relied on his facial expressions and gestures. She had already lost trust in his words.
‘It seems real this time.’
The effect of throwing a fastball once seemed to have worked, as Bentley appeared much more relaxed than when he was exaggerating his acting.
Having dispelled the act, he no longer seemed like a lively boy but rather appeared bothered by everything.
He raised his arm with a sluggish expression.
“But you catch on quickly. Adults usually look pleased when you do this.”
“Well…”
Bonita spoke with her neck slightly tucked in.
“I can see everything.”
“Really?”
After saying that, Bentley’s eyes showed a slight interest.
“So, can you tell what others are thinking by looking at their expressions?”
“I don’t really know. I’m not a magician.”
“They say even magicians can’t read people’s thoughts. The only thing the Grand Magician in the Empire can’t do is bring back the dead and peek into other people’s minds.”
“Why only two?”
It was a sharp question.
With a sound of annoyance, Bentley bluntly replied.
“Just say there aren’t many. Adults are usually like that.”
“Bentley, your idea of adults seems a bit strange.”
“…”
Bentley broke into a cold sweat.
‘Is it not stupid?’
Honestly, considering his actions, he thought he was slow and stupid, but he unexpectedly hit the nail on the head in unexpected areas.
Bonita’s mouth opened again.
“So, why did you act like that on purpose earlier?”
“What did I do?”
“You acted like a five-year-old, not a ten-year-old.”
“What…”
Bentley, who was treated like a five-year-old by his three-year-younger brother, choked up.
To think about it again, it wasn’t a wrong statement.
His acting was imitating his two-year-old brother, Morgan, and Morgan’s mental age hadn’t improved beyond five.
So, this was all his fault for having a baby-like brother.
A sigh came out of his mouth.
“Just… you wouldn’t understand.”
Since he couldn’t spill the beans about his father’s orders, Bentley just said that.
‘He seems smarter than I thought.’
It would be a big problem if he somehow figured out his father’s intentions through those animal-like instincts.
Even though he was young, Bentley knew.
If his father made a mistake in front of the Duke, the eldest son himself wouldn’t be safe.
‘Grandfather, he looked really intimidating…’
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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