“Should I have just accepted it?”
I glanced to see if Sophia and Delma were nearby.
I was uneasy because I had rejected Clements’s favor in an instant.
“Uh, okay.”
Clements nonchalantly retracted the cookie he had offered.
From then on, we didn’t have any conversation until we arrived at the restaurant.
It was a slightly uncomfortable silence for me.
However, refusing the cookie Clements offered was inevitable.
The method Clements mainly used to deal with people he didn’t like was poison.
Knowing how many lives he had taken with poison in the original novel, I couldn’t easily accept it.
Is it fortunate that Clements doesn’t seem too upset?
A gentle smile still hung on Clements’s lips.
“It’s because of that expression that I can’t read him more.”
We soon found the duke, who had already arrived at the restaurant.
As I followed Clements in, one of the duke’s eyebrows slightly rose.
“Ugh, is he angry because we’re late?”
The duke’s gaze looked quite fierce. I stealthily hid behind Clements, but Clements gestured slightly to the side.
I moved back to Clements’s side cautiously, and Clements spoke first.
“Father.”
“How are you two coming together?”
“We met on the way.”
Kailius’s gaze flicked toward me. I replied with the same words that Clements had used.
“Yeah, we met on the way.”
“I see.”
Kailius gestured at us.
“Come here and sit down.”
As Clements went to the seat, looking around, his gaze returned to me. As he alternated glances between the table and me, he spoke.
“Jenbil, it would be good to bring a child’s chair for Dianei.”
“Yes, My Lord.”
It was my first time having a meal in the restaurant. There was no chair suitable for my height.
Upon Clements’s words, a waiting servant brought a high chair for a baby in front of me.
I followed the servant to the front of the tall chair and looked up.
It was an unreachable height unless someone lifted me. I looked around. There was no one suitable to ask for help.
The duke was sitting, and Clements was standing, but asking him…
I cautiously tugged on the garment of a nearby servant.
“Lift me up.”
“Kuh!”
The servant made a strange noise as our eyes met. He hesitated slightly, then suddenly reached out his hand.
“Yes, Miss! I……”
“Hold on.”
“Just a moment.”
The duke and Clements suddenly stopped him. The servant’s outstretched hands froze in midair.
‘Why are they doing that?’
I looked back and forth between the two, wondering if there was a problem. The duke’s eyes were filled with intense energy.
The servant’s face paled as he met the duke’s terrifying gaze.
“Ah, oops! I just remembered something else…….”
The servant fled the restaurant. I watched his retreating figure in disbelief.
‘He should have lifted me first!’
He seemed to have forgotten in his confusion. I subtly raised my tiptoe and reached for the chair.
‘How do I climb up here?’
Even eating was hard. Phew, I sighed, and suddenly, the duke spoke to Clements.
“Clements, you’re not tall enough yet.”
“No, look. I am.”
Clements responded sharply to the duke’s words and stood next to my chair.
He seemed tall enough to sit on his own, but slightly lacking to lift me.
He seemed to realize it, too, as his brow slightly furrowed.
“See, it seems a bit too much for you right now.”
At the duke’s words, Clements silently retreated.
Then the duke approached me.
‘Could it be?’ In that moment, the duke put his hands under my armpits and lifted me lightly.
I was gently placed on the tall chair.
I was bewildered by the sudden turn of events.
‘The duke lifted me…’
[This is a time separator.] Everyone took their seats, and as if the servants had been waiting, they began to bring out dishes that smelled sweet and savory.Yellow soup boiled with various vegetables, a dish made by stirfrying fish and vegetables together, chicken stirfried in tomato sauce and topped with cheese, potatoes mashed softly and mixed with sweet cream, and so on.
Though I didn’t know their names, a variety of captivating dishes were lined up in front of me.
‘I bet it’s delicious!’
The variety was incomparable to what I had been eating in the room.
I was politely waiting for when I could eat, when the Duke spoke.
“Diane, introduce yourself again.”
The Duke said, moving a bowl of soup in front of me.
“This is Clemens. He’s the first son I ever took in. Clemens, this is the daughter I found, Diane.”
Clemens smiled and said.
“Diane, nice to meet you.”
It was a really pretty smile, unbelievable for a villain. It was like a rose blossoming beautifully, hiding its thorns.
“Yeah, me too.”
I answered as naturally as possible.
Dinner started. I watched the Duke and Clemens eat, then picked up a fork.
I had been nervous until I entered the restaurant, but the smell of the food had melted my tension away.
So now I was terribly hungry.
‘Let’s eat first.’
I stuck my fork into a meatball that was finely chopped into a round shape.
No, I tried to.
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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