Regina, who had been lazily complaining with half-closed eyes, giggled at her brother’s words.
Yuan, who had been gasping for breath and burying her face in Frederick’s chest, was suddenly thrown into the room.
It wasn’t even onto a bed.
Yuan, thrown onto the bare wooden floor like a piece of luggage, tried to get up, scraping the ground. Frederick ostentatiously shook off his hand.
His contemptuous eyes scanned the shabby room.
Dirty, smelly, and cold. A room not even fit for a maid. A fitting room for Peliesse’s crow.
“Brother, let’s leave quickly. You promised to look at my debutante ball shoe designs.”
Regina’s voice, laced with laughter, and Frederick’s annoyed footsteps faded beyond the loudly shut wooden door.
Only then did Yuan release the pain she had been holding in.
The pain she had absorbed and suppressed all day burst out as soon as she relaxed.
Yuan’s limbs started trembling as if struck hard in the solar plexus.
As her anguished screams leaked into the hallway, Regina covered her ears.
“That crazy b***h, she’s starting again.”
“A wretched crow.”
“Being so lenient, taking in a girl fit for Saint Yolona’s and even giving her work. Both father and mother are too soft.”
In the silent third floor, only Yuan’s agonized screams echoed like an echo.
A year ago.
Yuan’s sister, Louise Peliesse, suddenly packed her bags and said goodbye.
“Can’t you not go? Where are you going? Did uncle give you another task?”
“Wait for me for just a year. I’ll find a way to call for you within a year. I will come for you.”
“Not now? Can’t we go together now? Don’t leave me here alone….”
“Yuan.”
Louise put down her two suitcases and gently cradled Yuan’s face.
Delicate fingers moved as if stroking every corner of the fluff.
Moisture welled up in Louise’s black eyes.
“This is for the best.”
Louise’s voice was firm.
Only a strong resolve, not tears, clung to her tender chin.
Yuan could only stammer in response to that strange determination, unable to say anything.
“I’ll be back soon. Maybe next winter we’ll spend it in a warm place.”
That’s how her sister left.
In a small hired carriage.
Without a farewell from anyone in the family.
Without any explanation.
Along with a man she had never seen before, with a mustache and a high hat.
That was a year ago.
Louise got married.
Nobody told Yuan who her sister married, where the wedding took place, or anything about it.
Ever since the winter Louise left, another year passed into winter again.
Yuan only inferred it from snippets of conversations she overheard from the laundry maids and an old newspaper she found in the estate’s incinerator.
[The notorious womanizing of ex-Prince Clad Euphris]It wasn’t proper wedding news.
The names of numerous women who had been with ex-Prince Clad Euphris.
Among them was a brief article mentioning ‘the recently married young lady of the Peliesse count’s family’.
Clad Euphris.
Even Yuan, who had never seen high society, knew that man’s name clearly.
A monster with a hideously twisted face.
A womanizer who changed wives numerous times.
Staring into his eyes for too long was rumored to bring a curse that rotted the body and withered the limbs… Yuan trembled as she touched the newspaper that didn’t even show the ex-prince’s portrait.
Ex-Prince.
Even if she was sheltered from the outside world, she knew what that title implied.
Louise had become the bride of this monstrous ex-prince.
In other words, the ex-princess.
Sounds of galloping horse hooves and a lot of movement were heard outside the large window.
The Peliesse mansion, located on the outskirts of the capital Cielo, rarely had visitors, except for secret patients.
With the unusual commotion, Yuan, who was reliving the day she parted from Louise and enduring the pain, weakly lifted her eyes.
“Louise?”
She became anxious.
It was like that day.
The snowy morning when Louise left.
The busy horse hooves and the chaotic atmosphere.
“It must be Louise. It has to be.”
Yuan struggled to crawl to the door.
It took her a long time to grasp the doorknob and open the door, but she felt certain.
It was Louise.
Louise always kept her promises. And the promised one year hadn’t passed yet.
Yuan gritted her teeth and staggered down to the first floor, leaning on the walls.
Despite the excruciating pain, she didn’t fall.
As if to reward her expectations, all the family, except her uncle, were gathered on the first floor.
Frederick, who first spotted her, widened his eyes in shock.
“How can you… You’re still…”
“Get that filthy girl out of here!”
Her aunt’s shrill voice whizzed past Yuan like a sharp arrow.
Yuan, overcome by a sense of foreboding, blocked her approaching aunt’s arm without realizing it.
Her aunt’s eyes widened in shock.
On the first floor of the mansion.
On the once bright but now only clean marble floor.
Lay a dark wooden coffin.
Inside the open lid.
“Louise?”
Her sister.
Louise Peliesse lay there.
Still so beautiful that it tore Yuan’s heart into pieces.
Her sister, who said she would return in a year to take her away, had come back.
“Lou… ise.”
As a cold corpse.
Yuan’s strength in her legs gave out all at once.
Despite the pain, Louise had boldly walked out on her own two feet.
Yuan’s gaze moved past her aunt, who was nervously biting her nails, worried Yuan’s shabby appearance might offend the guests, and settled on the man who had first taken her sister away.
The neatly flared mustache on both sides.
A man tall and lean, yet ostentatiously dressed.
She had seen him from a distance through a window a year ago, but remembered him clearly.
Even the smooth texture of the tall hat he wore.
As soon as the man’s eyes met Yuan’s, they sparkled.
“The real one is here.”
Leaving the frightened aunt behind, the man sat down in front of Yuan, who was crouched in front of the coffin.
His long shadow completely covered her body.
“I pay my respects to the next ex-Princess.”
Her sister had kept her promise.
The promise to come for Yuan herself.
In such a miserable and revolting way.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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