Mother-in-Law Refuses to Regress! (7 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 36
William was walking toward the reception room, timing his arrival to coincide with the end of Larisa’s lesson. In one hand, he held an advanced alchemy textbook—he intended to ask Siod about a passage that had been giving him trouble.
Through the open crack of the reception room door, he heard Larisa’s voice.
“Teacher, take a look at this!”
“A contract?”
William halted without realizing it.
“Larisa gets half the income in exchange for lending her house. A monthly rent of two reeds? What is this?”
Siod burst out laughing. Embarrassed, William stepped into the reception room and spoke.
“Why are you showing him that?”
“William!”
Larisa ran straight toward him and threw her arms around William. William lifted her with one arm and extended his other hand toward Siod, who was still laughing with his hand on his stomach.
“Give it here.”
“Paying expensive rent and giving up half your income? William, this is practically a slave contract, isn’t it?”
“Just hand it over.”
William snatched the contract firmly from Siod’s hand and sighed.
“This was just a joke between me and Lara.”
“It’s not a joke….”
Larisa muttered quietly.
“Why did you show this to Professor Siod?”
“I wanted him to check it.”
“Check it?”
“To see if I wrote it properly….”
Larisa pouted and turned her head away sharply—clearly sulking. After laughing for a while, Siod tried to cheer her up.
“Wow! You really wrote it well. Our Lara is so capable, isn’t she?”
“Did I write it well?”
Larisa’s face brightened again.
“Well then, Lara wrote it well, but William didn’t.”
“Hehe. William, you have to keep your promise!”
“Lara, do you want to know a way to make sure William can’t possibly break this?”
William’s expression hardened. While the word “marriage” circled in the boy’s mind, a completely different word slipped out of Siod’s mouth.
“You need to get it notarized.”
“Huh?”
“If you get it notarized at the courthouse, it gains legal force.”
“Oh….”
Not understanding much, Larisa nodded vaguely.
“If I have a free day during the week, shall we go together to get it notarized?”
“Really?”
At Larisa’s sparkling eyes, Siod began laughing loudly again. William sighed and set Larisa down.
“How can a minor get something notarized?”
“If you have a legal guardian, it’s possible. If Lara asks, Bera might even come along, wouldn’t she?”
“Mother wouldn’t have that kind of free time.”
Even as he said this, William couldn’t help but think that Guinevere might actually set aside time for Larisa—he’d seen her yield to Larisa more than once.
“This contract absolutely must be notarized. It’ll go down in history.”
“Stop teasing.”
“But what kind of store is it? It just says ‘store’ here. Huh? Lara?”
“It’s going to be an alchemy sundries shop!”
Larisa exclaimed excitedly.
“An alchemy sundries shop?”
At Siod’s puzzled question, Larisa eagerly explained with a bright, cheerful expression.
“Yes! William can make ointments that heal wounds quickly using alchemy, medicine for stomachaches, and even paper birds that find lost items!”
“…Really?”
“Yes! And also—he made a lamp that lights itself when you open the lid, and a doll that gets warm when you hug it, and also, also….”
“Lara, that’s enough.”
William interrupted, embarrassed. These items seemed far too trivial to boast about in front of someone like Siod—a professor at the Academy, no less.
But Siod’s reaction was unexpected.
“Really? That’s impressive!”
Rubbing his chin thoughtfully, Siod asked,
“Can you show me too?”
“Huh?”
“Come on, William! Let’s go show him off!”
“What?”
Larisa grabbed William with her left hand and Siod with her right, tugging them both forward.
“Let’s go to William’s room, okay? Teacher, there are so many amazing things!”
“Really? I can’t wait to see them!”
“Wait, there’s nothing that impressive….”
William was nearly dragged along by the two enthusiastic ones. Siod, entering William’s room for the first time, looked around curiously.
William’s room, filled with various experimental tools along one entire wall, resembled a laboratory more than a bedroom. Truly the son of Guinevere…
“Teacher! Look at this! Isn’t it cute? Try hugging it!”
Lara immediately ran over with her doll and handed it to Siod. Sure enough, it gradually grew warm in his arms. Siod pressed the soft bear doll’s belly and asked,
“Is there water inside?”
When Siod asked seriously, William found himself explaining unconsciously.
“Yes. I put a stone inscribed with a heat-retention spell inside a water pouch to make it.”
He’d made the doll because Larisa kept trying to cuddle up to him whenever they slept together. Though it was the clumsiest item he’d ever created, Siod examined it with genuine interest.
“Would it be okay to open it?”
“No!”
Larisa clung to Siod’s leg and protested. Siod gently patted her head and returned the doll.
“Fascinating. And what’s this?”
In one corner of the desk, a stack of colored paper lay, most of it oddly drawn—as if someone had started sketching magic circles but gave up halfway. Larisa quickly scampered over and began folding paper.
“If you do it like this…”
With her tiny hands, Larisa folded a paper bird. As soon as it was complete, a blue glow enveloped it, and it began to fly. Siod let out an involuntary gasp.
“So the magic circle completes itself when folded?”
“Yes.”
It was an idea no one had ever considered before. Having wandered among humans for a thousand years, Siod had never seen anything like this. He was genuinely amazed.
As Larisa continued folding, paper birds began fluttering around the room.
“You use these to find lost things?”
“Yes. But you have to assign a code beforehand. And since the stored magic is weak, it can only locate things nearby.”
William scratched the back of his head as he spoke. Compared to standard tracking magic, this was embarrassingly crude. The birds flew around the room before all landing together in the same spot—on the advanced alchemy book William had been holding.
“Where’s the code?”
Siod looked down at the book in William’s hand. Upon closer inspection, initials were engraved in the corner—apparently serving as the code. When he unfolded one of the paper birds, the same mark appeared.
“The ink—did you make it yourself?”
“Yes.”
Infusing ink with magic was an old alchemical technique. Nowadays, even mages used it without realizing it was alchemy.
The only drawback was its high cost—it required powdered gemstones that held magic well.
“Must’ve cost you a fair bit of pocket money, huh?”
Something smelled odd. As Siod picked up the ink bottle to sniff it, William spoke.
“Oh, that’s… made from my blood.”
Siod flinched and quickly set the bottle down.
“It didn’t cost much money.”
No wonder Guinevere disliked it. Siod frowned. He himself wasn’t fond of alchemy either—after all, the discipline had originated from researching methods to extract magic from dragon carcasses.
Yet here was William, a dragon-blooded hybrid, making efficient use of his own blood—leaving Siod, who had given William that very blood, with complicated feelings.
“You’re wealthy—why not just use ordinary powdered gems instead of your blood?”
“It’s easier to get. Sometimes you can’t find gem powder when you actually need to buy it…”
“Just buy a mine, then.”
It was a brilliant solution William had never considered. While William quietly savored his newfound realization, Larisa was struck by a shocking discovery.
“This… this is blood…?”
“Huh? Yeah.”
Since William had never explained it to her, Larisa turned pale. All this time, she’d used his blood-based ink for doodling and writing letters without knowing.
“What’s wrong, Lara?”
“William, you’re mean….”
Larisa’s voice trembled.
“Why didn’t you tell me it was blood?”
“Why would I need to tell you?”
“You should have! I used it all the time without even knowing….”
As Larisa began to cry, William panicked. Was this really something to cry about?
“Lara, it’s fine. It didn’t hurt at all. Remember when I drew blood with a syringe?”
“It hurt me!”
“Oh… right. It hurt you….”
William ran out of words. Siod spoke in a scolding tone.
“If you’d told people it’s made of blood, who’d buy it? You need to develop something marketable.”
‘But I didn’t make it to sell…’
Still, William couldn’t argue back. For some reason, he felt like he was gaining Siod’s approval—Siod was examining his creations with careful attention.
Other mages had never shown interest in William’s alchemy. Instead, they accused him of stealing research materials simply for living as a guest in someone else’s house.
Suddenly, William felt bitter. Living in a mansion filled with rare medicinal herbs, poisonous plants, and all sorts of materials underfoot—yet getting scolded just for picking a leaf or two felt deeply unfair.
‘Now that I think about it, Mother did say she did a big cleaning because of Professor Siod, didn’t she?’
William saw Siod in a new light. It was Siod who had transformed the terrifying Demon King’s mansion into a noble estate and brought in servants to staff the dining hall.
Among everyone William knew, Siod was the most aristocratic—yet here he was, showing genuine curiosity toward these crude trinkets.
“This would sell well.”
The self-igniting lamp was simple to make and seemed like it would have strong demand. Flattered by Siod’s praise, William’s ears quietly turned red.
‘I only made it for myself…’
Though he’d never intended to sell anything, Siod’s earnest belief that all these playful ideas between him and Larisa were real possibilities left William feeling strangely moved.
The alchemy sundries shop no longer felt like a joke—it now seemed genuinely feasible.
And from that day on, William truly began dreaming seriously of opening an alchemy shop.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
*
At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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