Sophia explained that Yan would escort me only when I left the room.
In other words, as long as I didn’t leave the room, I wouldn’t have to face him again.
My face kept burning, and I wanted to avoid Yan as much as a chimney wanted to smoke.
‘But I’ll have to see him sooner or later.’
Avoiding him wouldn’t make what happened in the morning disappear.
I sighed deeply and grabbed my bag to go outside. But I immediately made eye contact with Yan.
Unlike me, who was frozen, he smiled and gave a slight bow.
I bit my lip and moved my feet. Yan didn’t walk beside me, but followed behind me.
He slowed down when I did, and stopped at a certain distance when I stopped.
It was more annoying than I thought.
I glanced back. Yan’s lips relaxed at the corners as our eyes met.
“Does it bother you?”
Yan noticed my feelings right away. He explained kindly.
“You may walk around as usual, Miss. If it bothers you, I’ll follow a little further behind.”
I appreciated his concern, but what was really on my mind was something else.
‘If I knew it would be like this, I would have gone to bed early yesterday.’
The morning’s events kept coming to mind. I sighed heavily. That’s when Yan spoke first.
“I’m a mess in the morning too.”
When I stopped and looked back, Yan added jokingly.
“Especially because I love to sleep. On holidays, there are times when I can’t get up even when the sun is in the middle of the sky.”
“……”
“So you don’t need to worry about it.”
Yan ended softly. I just stared at his smile, then turned my head sharply.
Uhhuh, I got it. A tiny voice echoed at the edge of my lips.
[This is a time marker.]Having passed the entrance, I headed for the garden at a brisk pace.
I pretended to be interested in the flowers as I headed to the garden. I needed time to think to myself.
There had already been two assassination attempts in the mansion. At first, I thought a wicked duke had arbitrarily killed someone, but that wasn’t it.
‘This was an event that happened in the original work, too.’
In the original, there were three major incidents where the duke’s life was threatened, and one of them was when the duke drank tea laced with poison.
But who is the duke? He’s the one who tightly controls this vast northern land of Hesera.
Though he drank the poison in this incident, he had some resistance to it, so he recovered his health quickly without any significant injury.
And soon, the culprit who had tried to harm the duke was also caught.
‘The culprit was a vassal of the ducal family.’
Two people were most suspicious in the investigation of the culprit.
One was a vassal who, because of his too upright character, constantly interfered with the duke’s wrongdoings, and the other was another vassal who opposed the adoption of Clemens as the successor.
And that’s all I remember. I groaned and clutched my head.
‘I can’t remember the name.’
Perhaps because he was a passing extra, I had no memory at all.
‘He was a count, and what else?’
Nevertheless, I stubbornly tried to remember. I had to remember; I had to.
‘They said they’ll introduce me to the vassals soon.’
In a few days, all the vassals would gather at the ducal house to be introduced to me.
The duke was poisoned on the very day all the vassals gathered.
‘If the duke falls from drinking the poison, I could be in danger too.’
Since he was just a passing character, I couldn’t think of anything other than the fact that he was a count.
‘If I could remember the name, that would be nice.’
I trotted along, deeply engrossed in my thoughts.
“At this rate, we’ll all end up like cows watching chickens. It’s not enough to have adopted an orphan, but a successor too.”
“Miss, just a moment…!”
Suddenly, I heard Yan’s voice. But, deeply lost in thought, I didn’t hear it and kept walking.
“Master! You must restrain your words…! I’m already distressed that we’ve come this far!”
“My goodness, do I need permission to speak with my own mouth now? Stop nagging and find the place where that ledger I mentioned might be hidden!”
“Oh my, Master! Please lower your voice…!”
It was only later that I realized a dark shadow had loomed in front of me.
“Miss!”
Yan urgently grabbed me from behind.
“Ouch!”
With Yan’s help, I stopped just before colliding with the person in front of me. I was shocked to the core when I finally looked ahead.
‘I would have been hit by that foot if I’d been a bit later!’
Whether it was intentional or not, I would have stumbled backward if I had been hit by that foot.
“Are you all right?”
Yan looked down at me with a worried face. Startled, I stared straight ahead, feeling my heart pound.
A middleaged man with a short mustache and plump chin was staring intently at me.
“It seems to be the child the Duke has been looking for recently.”
An old servant standing behind him whispered to the middleaged man. However, his voice wasn’t quiet enough, and I heard it all.
“Aha, I understand.”
The Earl wrapped his paunchy belly with both hands and went, “Hmm!”
My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
