Claude habitually patted the adjacent seat.
As his fingers touched the slightly damp sheet, a few strands of black hair, and a particularly disheveled spot, his eyes opened when he felt the sensation of sunlight on his long, stretched eyelashes.
“…What are you doing?”
Upon waking up, he was the one surprised, not alone. The small back that was sitting on the floor, seemingly engaged in some nonsense, unexpectedly jolted upward.
Claude’s slightly furrowed eyebrows were met with the sight of Yuan, whose black hair was modestly tousled over a green dress, revealing a bit of pale skin through a slightly sunken back.
Claude frowned as he scrutinized the things in Yuan’s small hands due to the pouring sunlight.
He was holding something like a strange, oily brush.
“What are you doing in someone else’s room?”
Yuan, like a guilty child, flinched at first, then turned his back again, busily playing with his hands.
Claude’s eyebrows twitched.
A slender leg emerged from the pulled-back blanket, heading toward her.
Yuan, acting like someone on a secret mission, quickly fled to the door like a startled squirrel.
Claude headed towards the spot where Yuan had crouched.
“That rocking chair creaks too much.”
“…….”
“Actually, I sat on it quietly in the morning, and the sound turned out louder than I thought. I was surprised; I didn’t want to wake you up. So…”
Yuan oiled Claude’s rocking chair.
It was also influenced by the butler Gustaf.
Due to Claude, who didn’t like others touching his things, Gustaf never dared to even think about touching them in the bedroom.
So Yuan did it secretly.
He didn’t scold him or praise him for doing well. Claude, with his blushing ears covered again with both hands, sat down awkwardly, releasing strange emotions.
Every time he scrubbed, the accumulated black dirt became clean.
‘I hope the sun sets quickly.’
He didn’t know why.
He just wanted the sun to set so that the time Claud needed him would come, and Yuan could cross the threshold of that bedroom without the excuse of fetching meals.
Suppressing the tense feelings and forcing a smile, Claude’s hand approached her.
“!”
Instinctively, she shrunk her shoulders and tightly closed her eyes. Gradually, without any malice, his forehead lightly touched hers, and she opened her eyes as if trying to hold onto the disappearing warmth.
Yuan held her forehead, where the warmth had vanished, with both hands. His gaze naturally touched her forehead, and following the white fingers that had moved away, it flowed.
Although his hand touched her forehead, her cheeks heated up as if it were her cheeks that had been touched.
For a moment, her body stiffened as if struck by lightning.
“You can handle that on your own. You don’t need permission for every little thing.”
At the indifferent response, her heart pounded visibly.
Probably because she was nervous. Because she was nervous.
Yuan casually went to the rocking chair and watched Claude, who was slouching.
The tingling sensation from the spine to the tip of the ear was unbearable.
She wanted to say something.
So, she wanted to be sure that he didn’t hate Yuan.
If only he could confirm that Yuan had a place here, it made her feel nauseous like vomiting.
“There is a dog in the west wing that looks like a wolf.”
“…….?”
“It’s called Oliver. It’s the dog you used to raise when you were young.”
“……Hey.”
The peaceful and tingling air suddenly cooled down.
Yuan, who was about to continue the chattering conversation, stopped breathing with a question.
Claude, without opening her closed eyes, spoke.
“Don’t cross the line.”
His voice had no intense emotions, nor did it blame her excessively.
“…….But.”
However, that colorless, almost emotionless, low voice pricked Yuan’s tear ducts deeply.
It seemed like they had become a bit closer.
As soon as she felt that, it felt like that moment had passed, and they were distant again.
“……Yes.”
Yuan swallowed her tears and barely replied.
Fortunately, Claude’s eyes were closed.
He didn’t see the foolish face of the foolish person who had hoped alone and became sulky.
Only after a long time, Yuan left Claude’s room quietly.
The rocking chair, which had been crying and weeping for a long time, slowly began to move.
The chair, which had been crying and crying for a long time, was no longer crying.
Escaping, Yuan left Claude’s room and spent the whole day in her own “small laboratory.”
She collected herbs that grew like weeds in every corner of the garden and occasionally obtained various things near the edge of the white forest, with Claude’s permission. Henna was undoubtedly the regular customer of this small laboratory.
“I’ll get my salary tomorrow! Tomorrow, I’ll pay back all the money I’ve earned for medicine.”
“It’s okay, Henna. How much can it be?”
“Roxenhart is so remote that even cough medicine costs several times more than in other territories, madam.”
“My heart. If you give me money, I’ll be upset.”
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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