She was angry.
“I’ll be by your side.”
Those words that she spat out as if pitying herself, like a declaration of war.
And then.
I, who was shaken by the servant’s cheap pity.
“You look pathetic.”
Valige scanned her up and down, mocking her.
“Did you invoke the Empress’s name just to be treated like this? Yes. What command did the Empress give? To uncover the curse of our family? Or perhaps, to seduce me?”
Lina, whose mind had gone blank, suddenly snapped to attention at the man’s accusation of her being a spy.
“No! I never entered the mansion under anyone’s command!”
The misunderstanding that she was the Empress’s spy. The situation was getting worse and worse.
Everyone in the world knew that the Empress disliked the Permance Duke’s family and the first prince. She must have been horribly tormented by the Empress until now.
“And my real name is Lina. The past… I can’t tell you everything, but anyway, I didn’t enter the mansion on someone’s command to play the spy, nor to steal something and run away.”
It was best not to tell lies that might be discovered someday. But she couldn’t say that she had lived for 400 years without dying either.
“I originally planned to return to the mansion after only one day, but…”
“Then why?”
He interrupted her.
“Why didn’t you return?”
“That’s…”
Lina fell into thought at that question. Was she really hiding because she was afraid of the arrest warrant? Or was she.
“Answer me.”
Afraid?
‘Of what?’
Unanswerable questions followed one after another. Valige simply watched Lina, biting her lips in silence, and sneered.
“That’s fine. You don’t have to answer. It doesn’t matter now.”
Only then did Lina, who had been dazed, dumbly ask.
“…Yes?”
“Who you were in the past, what your purpose was, it doesn’t matter.”
“What does that mean…”
Lina looked at the Duke, unable to understand, and he lifted her chin, running his thumb across her cheek.
The hot touch contrasting with her cold body brushed her face.
“I’ll turn a blind eye to everything.”
And at that heat, as if fainting, a moan unknowingly escaped Lina’s lips.
But the Duke continued speaking as if he didn’t care.
“I won’t punish you.”
He didn’t know what he was talking about. All Lina could do was look at Valige in confusion.
“But you can’t leave my side from now on.”
Lina blurted out without even thinking to clear her cracked voice.
“Why… are you doing all this?”
[Why are you doing all this?]At the overlapping memories, Valige let out a soft laugh.
“Asking the same question.”
The maid who asked the same question as Alex was amusing.
A mere tool to sustain life.
Yes. This woman was neither more nor less than that to him.
Valige quietly smiled at her.
“Lina.”
And then he recited the answer he hadn’t been able to give before.
“It seems I can’t live without you.”
[This is the time separator]Lina, who had returned to the mansion with Valige, looked at Cullen, who had come out to meet them. And when their eyes met, Cullen flinched, as if surprised.
No wonder, for her torn clothes and dusty appearance made her look like a runaway slave who had been caught.
Lina lowered her head, avoiding Cullen’s seemingly reproachful gaze.
“Follow me.”
Was he going to drag her to the mansion’s underground dungeon? Lina’s future felt utterly dark.
And all she could do now was quietly do as the Duke commanded.
‘If only I could wash.’
Lina, unable to utter the words she wanted to say, swallowed them down and followed the man up the stairs.
And the place she arrived at was the 3rd floor of the main building, a space only the direct family of the Permanence House could use.
“Duke Valige. Why are we here……”
But Valige didn’t answer her, leading her to the room next to the Duke’s bedroom.
“You will stay in this room from now on.”
“……Pardon?”
Stay here? Lina’s mouth fell open at the Duke’s unexpected words as she looked around the room.
And it made sense. The room he led her to was the one that the Duchesses had been using for generations.
Moreover, the room that had been empty for a long time seemed to know a new owner was coming; it was spotlessly clean.
Should she be relieved that she was brought here instead of the mansion’s underground dungeon?
Lina swallowed her dread of the storm that would follow her stay in this room.
She wanted to ask the Duke why he was making her stay here at once, but in front of his grim aura, she couldn’t open her mouth.
‘That’s right. I had to get the ring anyway. For now, I’ll just do as told, and when his guard is down, I’ll go to the room and find the ring. Then I’ll leave the mansion right away……’
Leaning against the wall, head down, Valige who had been watching Lina, spoke.
“Ah. And you shouldn’t think about leaving the mansion on your own.”
“……Pardon?”
Startled, Lina looked at the Duke. His words seemed to penetrate her inner thoughts, making her heart pound.
“Try running away if you want.”
Valige said with an emotionless face and a chilling tone.
“You won’t get far……”
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
