Arianthe, who pretended not to hear Chrony’s crying, blinked and asked Sailoruss with a twinkle in her eyes. When Sailoruss proudly nodded his head, Swan suddenly raised his hand.
“I’m good at catching grasshoppers. I’ve caught them a few times in the past.”
Then Sailoruss looked at him with a strange expression, and there was a strange atmosphere between the two boys for a while. Lucian and Umbrose, who had a bit of sense, were puzzled as to why the two ten-year-old boys were staring at each other.
Arianthe held the tin can above her head and said, “I want to catch grasshoppers too! I’ll leave this to Mayana and come back in a moment!”
While Arianthe, tightly holding the tin can to prevent it from shaking, ran towards Mayana, Sailoruss chuckled and looked at Swan.
“Do you really catch grasshoppers well?”
“Of course. It’s not a lie.”
“Hmm, okay. I didn’t say you were lying.”
Swan blushed slightly with a somewhat irritated expression. Although Luzian, who had some insight, knew that the two boys were competing over something unknown, he still didn’t know the cause of the competition.
At that moment, a loud scream was heard from afar.
“Ah, Lady Mayana! Oh my goodness! It’s just flowing out! Oh my goodness!”
Surprisingly, Mayana seems to faint before Vainty. Swan thought again.
The children were strictly warned by Cediloy not to go into the forest under any circumstances. If they break the promise this time, they could face not just a ban on going out but a more severe punishment than writing lines.
Instead, they were given permission to go anywhere within the Duke’s garden, so Arianthe, excited, led the boys wandering through the bushes.
The low shrubs and bushes carefully cultivated by gardeners looked like they would wilt tomorrow, with branches drooping and some even breaking. It seemed clear that they would end up like a farmer exhausted from sowing.
“Do you think they really didn’t come?”
Lucian turned around and said with a dissatisfied expression, but envy was clearly evident in his tone.
Since they received permission to go anywhere within the Duke’s garden, Arianthe was thrilled, leading the boys to roam through the bushes. The low shrubs and carefully cultivated bushes looked like they would wilt tomorrow, with branches drooping and some even breaking. It seemed clear that they would end up like a farmer exhausted from sowing.
“Do you think they really didn’t come?”
Lucian turned around and said with a dissatisfied expression, but envy was clearly evident in his tone.
Cici and Chrony firmly refused to catch grasshoppers as they roamed through the bushes, and Umbrose, whose world turned upside down at the sight of worms, joined in.
Thus, the three kids chatted elegantly while sipping on the cake and tea prepared by Mayana.
Leading the way confidently, Arianthe said, “It’s okay! Adventures are for brave people. Oh, be careful!”
The footsteps of Swan, Sailoruss, and Luzian, who followed her, suddenly came to a stop.
“What’s wrong? Why? What is it?”
Luzian, grabbing his glasses, hunched his shoulders in shock. Arianthe’s expression, as she quickly turned her head, was intense.
“There’s a venomous snake ahead.”
Luzian panicked, “What? What? A snake? Where? Where?”
He moved his head around to look ahead, but Sailoruss and Swan were too tall. Luzian exclaimed again, “Hey, why are you just standing there! I’m leaving! If a poisonous snake bites me, I have to cut off my leg!”
Then Arianthe whispered again with an intense voice, “It’s okay. It’s sleeping, so you can jump over it. We all need to be quiet. And you have to jump well, understand?”
Luzian’s face turned pale. At that moment, Arianthe, after crouching down, jumped over something. Next, Swan, more easily than Arianthe, spread his legs and jumped to the other side.
“No! It’s not allowed! It can’t be! I’m going!”
Luzian grabbed Sailoruss’s shirt and pulled him back, stumbling backward. Then Sailoruss, chuckling, turned to look at Luzian.
“It’s okay, Luzian. It’s really asleep. If you jump over it well, nothing will happen.”
“What are you talking about! Hey, Sailoruss! Agh!”
Luzian pushed Sailoruss’s hand away and also jumped over to the other side where Arianthe and Swan were. For a moment, a scene flashed through Luzian’s mind where a venomous snake, awakened from sleep, fiercely bit Sailoruss’s ankle, but…
Such a thing didn’t happen. As Luzian, prepared for Sailoruss’s terrible scream, tightly closed his eyes, suddenly the three kids burst into cheerful laughter.
“Luzian! What are you doing there! Come over quickly!”
“Yeah, you should jump over before the snake wakes up.”
It was Sailoruss and Swan’s voices. Darn it, Luzian thought. You may be safe, but what if I wake up when I jump over…
“What’s this!”
Finally opening his eyes, Luzian shouted in an angry voice.
“Hey, what is this! Arianthe! What kind of venomous snake is this! It’s just a rope!”
It did resemble a snake twisting its tail, but no matter how you looked at it, it was just a plain rope. Probably, the gardeners forgot about it while tidying up the shrubs… Furious, Luzian’s face turned bright red.
“No, that’s a real snake! So be careful and jump this way. Quickly!”
Arianthe gestured while speaking. Luzian muttered another short curse to himself—a word he would have been scolded for if his father had heard it—shaking his fist with pursed lips.
“This is why kids… This is why children!”
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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