“I told you, princess. We’re going to pick strawberries.”
“Where are the strawberries?”
“We have to go a little further. Why, are you tired? Shall I carry you?”
Ariante pouted his lips and slapped the bush with his branch.
“I’m not a baby!”
“I know, I know. But princess,”
“Why?”
“If you keep hitting such places, a snake will come out.”
Ariante’s face turned pale for a moment. He tossed the branch far away, as if startled, and hurriedly approached Mayana. Then, suddenly, he blushed and put on a sullen face again.
“I’m not scared of a snake or anything.”
Mayana turned her head slightly, holding back her laughter. She finally turned her head with a calm face, exhaling through her nose, her lips bitten inwards.
“I’m scared of snakes, princess. So please don’t hit the bushes like that. And hold my hand tightly.”
“Why hold hands?”
“So, if a snake comes out, you, the brave princess, can take me and run away, right? You run well, princess.”
Ariante made a troubled face for a moment, then haughtily took Mayana’s hand as if doing her a favor. Mayana, holding the child’s small hand firmly in her palm, said,
“Thank you, princess.”
“I’m really not scared of a snake. If a snake comes out, I’ll grab it like this and make it bite its tail. It can’t crawl if it’s round!”
Mayana nodded vigorously.
“Of course. Our princess will beat a hundred snakes.”
“……Are there really a hundred snakes here?”
Ariante’s fingertips twitched. Mayana made an ‘oops’ face and shook her head.
“It’s a figure of speech. But princess, can you count up to a hundred?”
“Am I stupid? I’m seven!”
“Last time, when Mr. Bimon asked if you could count, you said you didn’t know.”
“That……. That was on purpose.”
Mayana narrowed her eyes and looked down at Ariante. So, it wasn’t that she really didn’t know, but she deliberately caused trouble to upset Teacher Bimen’s plan…….
At that moment, Ariante spoke in a smug tone.
“You’re going to say I’m bad, aren’t you?”
“What? Why?”
Bright blue eyes looked at Mayana challengingly.
“You’re going to say it’s wrong to do that in front of the teacher. That it’s being a bad child.”
Mayana blinked in confusion, and then a feeling of compassion welled up within her. This child didn’t expect a positive reaction from anyone…. There was no doubt that she was firmly convinced that everyone would only react negatively to her behavior, her words.
“I wouldn’t say that, you know?”
At Mayana’s response, Ariante’s eyes widened.
She continued her speech.
“That teacher deserved some torment. I would have done the same. There are a lot of bad people in the world, but hitting a child is the worst.”
“Even though I didn’t do my homework?”
“Even then, hitting is not right. Teacher Bimen was an idiot. How can someone so stupid teach anyone?”
Ariante’s eyes shifted slightly downward, cautiously gauging Mayana’s words in her own way.
Mayana spoke.
“But, Your Highness. If the next teacher comes, and if the teacher is good, please show them what you can do, Your Highness.”
“Sitting and studying is boring….”
The child’s true feelings flowed from her mouth as she kicked a stone. Mayana said.
“In the morning, study in the afternoon, and then we can play together in the remaining time. Then studying won’t be so tiresome.”
Ariante didn’t reply, but she did stare intently at Mayana. Then Mayana pointed to the bushes in front of her.
“Look, Your Highness. Do you see those red things over there? Those are wild strawberries!”
Ariante’s eyes widened, and she let go of Mayana’s hand and ran towards the bushes. The scenery of plump and ripe wild strawberries was worth seeing.
‘It was a good idea to have plenty of strawberry jam on the shelf. I thought they were coming from somewhere in the Duke’s territory.’
Mayana thought. And there was one more important reason she had brought Ariante here.
Strangely, the wild strawberry trees here had no ostentatious thorns. The edges of the leaves looked sharp but felt no different from other soft leaves to the touch, only looking the part.
Whether it was originally that breed or a mutation was unknown, but…….
What does it matter? When it comes to having fun with an energetic child, nothing beats a farm experience!
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
