Deborah rushed forward, rolling and stood before Bianca.
“You can’t run, Deborah.”
“That’s not what’s important right now.”
“It’s important, Deborah. When will you stop panting? You’ll get in big trouble.”
Deborah, lost in Bianca’s calm voice, snapped to attention with a tiny addition, “I don’t even have it now,” and yelled.
“Your Highness!”
To make matters worse, Deborah even pulled Princess Bianca.
“The Duke has come! It’s not too late yet. Let’s run away, okay?”
“No.”
“Sister!”
When she refused to listen, Deborah yelled as a ‘cousin’, not a maid.
Bianca sighed softly and spoke to Deborah in a stern voice.
“You must say ‘Your Highness’, Deborah.”
“I don’t know about that! Hurry, just come with me.”
“You know that’s impossible.”
“Impossible! Father has prepared everything. You just have to pretend not to know and get on the ship. Right?”
“Deborah Elian. I remember rejecting that proposal.”
“Why! Why do you reject it! What did I become a maid for!”
Despite her sharp voice, Deborah’s eyes were already red, and she was sobbing.
“I’m not going. If I disappear, the Elian family will surely be blamed for spiriting me away.”
“They can’t punish our Duke’s family without evidence!”
At Deborah’s naive words, Bianca felt a momentary suffocation.
You still don’t know this royal family.
“Was there evidence of rebellion?”
“What?”
Deborah’s tearfilled eyes tremble.
“Did the dragon of Termina, who has been collared since the founding of the nation, have a sin?”
“That……that is.”
“That dragon was cast aside, let alone a Duke’s family. Be sensible, Deborah Elian.”
At Bianca’s cold warning, Deborah finally held back her tears.
“Then, then. You know you’re going to die, and you want me to stand by and watch?”
“Deborah. Watch your words. I’m advising you for the last time.”
Bending slightly at the waist, Bianca matched her eyes to the shorter Deborah.
Her stern blue eyes, deep like the ocean, emitted a stubborn and dark light.
“The Emperor will arrange my marriage with the Duke. To forget past misunderstandings and unfortunate events, and foster harmony.”
Though her tongue felt bitter and stiff, Bianca managed to finish her words calmly.
“This marriage will wash away the empire’s disgrace. To be the companion of the dragon that protects Termina. How glorious is this.”
“You’re a liar! A liar!”
Deborah sobbed loudly.
“You’re a sacrifice, what glory is there in this! Aren’t you wronged, Sister? Aren’t you scared?”
Thick tears fell drop by drop, like raindrops.
Bianca, watching Deborah sob until her face was soaked, slowly opened her arms.
Struggling for what couldn’t be, Deborah looked foolish, but her sobbing for herself was so lovely that it couldn’t be ignored.
“Come here. Give me a hug. That’s all you need.”
“Don’t go, Sister Bianca. Don’t go.”
Although Deborah, held in her arms, sobbed and pleaded, Bianca did nothing more than increase the strength of her embracing hands and did not say anything else.
Until it was time for the courtier to come to fetch her at the Emperor’s command.
Not a single word.
“Sister! Sister! Don’t go!”
Tearing away from the sobbing Deborah and following the courtier, Bianca’s heart was not at ease either.
But it couldn’t be helped.
What she said to Deborah was not just an empty threat.
It was a vivid threat she had heard from the Emperor the night before.
‘Duke Elian seems to have taken up a new hobby, eh? He’s launched a ship in the Beriel Sea.’
‘You have to be careful with ships. The sea is capricious, and in a moment of distraction, it could swallow a ship.’
Deborah was confident that she had prepared a way to escape, but the Emperor already knew everything.
Sparks must not fly as far as her Uncle Elian, who had treated her like a daughter.
There was no salvation.
If she had to die, she alone would be enough.
So Bianca had planned to finalize the marriage with the Duke today.
Without choosing the means or the method.
With her roiling heart calmed, Bianca gave a nod to the courtier with a pallid face.
“Have His Majesty open the door.”
Between the wideopen doors of the audience room, there was a man whose sight captured one’s attention at first glance.
He was not only tall enough that one had to crane one’s neck to look up at him but was also unbelievably beautiful.
Elegantly shining golden eyes, a nose that stretched out like a drawn bow, and a slender jawline.
Soft silver hair that flowed gently over his forehead.
He was more beautiful than a carefully sculpted statue.
But was it because of the long eye tails that slightly reached for the sky, or was it the slightly lowered eyebrows?
Though his posture was upright, it gave off a peculiarly decadent feeling.
A man with cold golden eyes, radiating a doubleedged feeling.
There was no need to ask who he was.
Bianca knew someone else who had exactly the same atmosphere.
“Duke Barlock?”
“I greet Your Highness.”
But after exchanging greetings, she realized that no one else was in the audience room besides him.
Had she come too early?
“Could it be……”
Before she could ask where the Emperor was, the thick door closed.
Boom.
Along with a heavy sound that resonated behind her back, Deborah’s scream rang in her head.
‘What honor is there in being such a sacrificial lamb!’
“……!”
At that moment, Bianca realized.
She was a sacrifice.
Not metaphorically but literally, a sacrifice to appease the Termina Dragon.
“Princess Bianca?”
Lifting her head, Bianca let out a small moan.
“Ah……”
The smile of a man who might tear her apart was maddeningly sweet.
It made her mind faint for a moment.
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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