‘Her identity is unknown.’
Last night. Upon hearing Lawrence’s report about a woman named Jane, Duke Valige fell deep into thought. A woman whose name and age were both lies.
He had clearly seen her with his own eyes, but she vanished like bubbles. As if she had never existed.
Silver hair with purple eyes.
That was certainly an uncommon color. He thought that finding her would only be a matter of time because of it.
‘In the end, I didn’t find her.’
Valige clicked his tongue briefly to himself. Ever since that day, a sense of frustration had lodged in his heart like a stone protruding from flat ground.
‘Why do I feel so uneasy?’
He had clearly seen Lina lying in the room with his own eyes.
Yet, despite that, he felt pathetic to the point that he was bothered all day just because her body had not felt warm.
As he swept his hand through his hair in frustration, Lina, who was sitting in front of him, asked cautiously,
“Duke, is something wrong?”
Awakened from his reverie by her voice, Valige looked at Lina blankly.
Blinking her eyes and facing him, her face looked so innocent as if she knew nothing.
‘Yes, what am I worrying about.’
Next week was his engagement ceremony with Lina.
Although he did not know clearly about her past, she had promised to stay by his side…….
‘Wait.’
Valige’s thought suddenly halted as he was reassuring himself that his worries were baseless.
‘Did she promise?’
Valige ransacked his mind to find fragments of memory.
She had only said she liked him. Not even once did Lina say she would stay by his side.
He felt a heavy thud in his head as if something had struck him, followed by a familiar chill running up his spine.
‘If Lina leaves…….’
The anxiety that Lina might disappear while he was away in Festivius and the dreadful suspicion that she might betray him began to sprout.
And as if she had sensed Valige’s feelings, Lina asked in a small voice,
“Will it bother you if I go to Festivius with you?”
“What?”
Stunned by her question as if she had read his mind, Valige asked with a blank face,
“To Festivius together?”
“Yes, I’m worried about you going alone.”
“What?”
After a moment’s hesitation, Lina continued with determination,
“Because of your curse, Duke. If I’m not there, you’ll keep having nightmares. If you go to Festivius, it’ll take over a month… I’m worried. I think it would be less painful for you if I went along. And, I also don’t like being apart for so long…….”
Looking at Lina, her cheeks turning red as if she was shy, Valige felt overwhelmed.
“……It might be dangerous.”
“It doesn’t matter, you’ll be there with me.”
Lina spoke with a pure smile like a child. Those eyes, as if they trusted him more than anyone else.
Valige brushed his hair back, looking at Lina who was willing to follow him to Festivius at once.
‘What was I thinking?’
He felt pathetic.
‘Why didn’t I trust Lina more?’
Loving her, but fearing that she might leave him. How shallow his trust was.
Laughing at his own foolishness, Valige replied,
“Yes, let’s go together, Lina.”
A smile blossoming like a flower bud in spring.
Eyes curving like the moon.
Even though she was following him to a place that might be dangerous, Lina’s bright smile made Valige’s lips curl into a grin as well.
Yes, Lina.
You won’t leave me.
(This is a time separator.)
The Empress’s palace, Rose Palace, was a place where no man could enter without permission.
Because of this, Lina parted with Valige at the palace gate and entered the Rose Palace alone.
High pillars made of ivorycolored marble and precious works of art.
True to its reputation as the most beautiful palace in the empire, the place overflowed with elegance and dignity.
“Why is it that I see no one…?”
She had already entered the palace a few minutes ago, but she saw neither anyone coming to meet her nor even anyone passing by.
It seemed as though they had vacated the place to match the time of her arrival.
“I didn’t expect a maid to come to meet me in the first place.”
Although they were referred to as maids, they were all highranking nobles. Who would want to greet a noble young lady of commoner origin?
Still, at the very least, even a servant working in the castle should guide her to where the empress was. Lina let out a quiet sigh at the empress’s attitude of not even offering hospitality.
“Something will come up if I keep going.”
Thinking so, Lina arbitrarily entered the palace. But,
“I really don’t know where it is.”
Apparently, she had underestimated the size of the palace. She had already been wandering around for thirty minutes.
Not even encountering a passing person, let alone meeting the empress.
“How can there not be a single person working in this vast palace?”
She felt like she was trapped in a maze, wandering around the same places. Around the time her unfamiliar shoes and corset began to feel stifling,
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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