“Princess Lilibeth may have her aunt’s beauty, but she’s hot-tempered and not as smart. Grace, cold and intelligent, will easily outmatch her. A little provocation, and Lilibeth will implode. However,” Bridget continued, straightening her maid uniform, “Arabell, the eleventh candidate, is different. She was personally chosen by the emperor himself. She could pose the greatest threat to Grace. Even the most rational and intelligent person can make mistakes when driven by jealousy.”
Bridget knew Grace had adored the emperor since childhood and had restrained herself as he showed no interest in her or any other woman.
Now the emperor was returning with a woman. Bridget speculated that Grace, always maintaining a poker face, might become blinded by jealousy and self-destruct.
Moreover, it was certain that the woman personally chosen by Emperor Maxwell would have ambitions as grand as the emperor himself. Perhaps she might be more capricious than Lilibeth and even more cunning than Grace.
Yet, being chosen by him implied that she was likely superior to them. To the emperor, personal character was not of great importance. What mattered was whether the person could aid in his aim to hold the entire continent in his grasp.
If she became empress and allied herself with the empress dowager for her ambitions, it was certain that the cause of Empress Catherine’s death would never be reinvestigated. A woman with no blood ties to the forgotten empress would have no interest in her.
Therefore, eliminating the eleventh candidate was most urgent. The housekeeper did not doubt that Emperor Maxwell would become the greatest emperor in the history of Helterd, perhaps even the entire continent.
However, she also knew the emperor, who had never seen his deceased grandmother, lacked the affection or interest to reinvestigate her death. He would rather use his time to expand the empire’s territories with his brilliant mind.
Having concluded her thoughts, Bridget, as always, gracefully clasped her hands and stepped out of the bedroom. Watching the housekeeper’s back, always ten steps ahead in planning, Loren murmured softly to herself, “All this time, it wasn’t that the housekeeper didn’t know cunning, she just chose not to use it.”
“It was the year I turned twenty-two,” the emperor began, perched on the ledge of the marble fountain, facing Arabell.
“Two years after I became emperor. At that time, I was waging wars across the eastern territories against three allied nations.”
“On the day we won the last battle, I received a report of a black panther sighting in the Meggines Mountains. Believing it to be the monster that killed my father and kidnapped my mother, I led my soldiers to the mountains.”
As Arabell’s clear eyes met his, Maxwell calmly recounted his first transformation into a monster as if it were so
When he opened his eyes, he saw Jacob and Sir Peter standing in front of him, bows aimed. He commanded them loudly with a frozen expression,
‘Capture the black panther, it’s nearby!’
However, the sound that came from the emperor’s throat was not human, but rather,
‘Roaaarrr!’
It was the massive roar of a wild beast.
It was the beginning of the curse.
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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