“Good grief, you brat! So thousands of people have tried for thousands of years, who has succeeded!”
“But there is the Greek Prometheus! The messenger of fire, the prophet, the one who sees first!”
The old woman shook her head.
“So, was that Prometheus happy?”
Faced with his grandmother’s point, the boy had no choice but to lower his head.
“No.”
But his naive enthusiasm couldn’t be hidden.
“But he brought fire to mankind! He is praised to this day! His name remains in history as a hero!”
The old woman couldn’t hold back here and slapped the back of the boy’s head.
“This old lady is going to give up everything and take you to the land of the Western barbarians, you brat!”
With her grandson in front of her, holding the back of his head, the old woman’s nagging had no end.
“Let’s give it to him, let’s say Prometheus succeeded. Don’t you think about the countless ‘judged ones’ who couldn’t even achieve what they aimed for? Logically, out of thousands of people, will you be one of the successful ones or will you belong to the rest?”
The old woman’s voice was getting louder.
“Changing the past is not easy. Is it easy to break causality? How many ‘species’ hanging on a thread do you think there are? Most of them are entangled and twisted like spider webs, so you can’t even touch them. Just because you prevent one event doesn’t mean the ‘species’ that is destined to happen won’t happen!”
She was unable to relax and earnestly warned the boy.
“You, keep your eyes tightly shut. We saw nothing. Even if you see a ‘judged one’ walking around with two dots under each eye in the land of Etruscan, keep your mouth shut and ears closed. I don’t want you to be a hero. I just hope you live well, eat well, enjoy your life, and then pass away.”
There was clearly a price to pay to step out of the private realm and become a public figure.
The old woman had lived long enough to make her own value judgments about whether it was worth sacrificing individuals for the law of cause and effect in the world.
But the old woman also knew very well that young children tend to make different judgments from the elderly.
“I hope you feel the worth of going to a land where the causality surrounding us is thin, leaving everything behind and taking you.”
In the face of her grandmother’s unusually pleading tone, the boy, although reluctant, looked down at the floor and had to agree.
“Yes.”
[This is the time separator]Arabella, who decided to apply to the music college, was excitedly composing. Arabella already had a couple of lute solos and a string quartet, in addition to the Missa Brevis, which is recorded as a joint composition with Isabella.
Nevertheless, Arabella wanted to put more into her portfolio. Recently, what Arabella has been working on additionally is a soprano solo aria she decided to put in someday when she writes an opera.
Ariadne had no knowledge of composition, so she could only cheer on her sister’s efforts. However, she knew very well who needed to be persuaded for her to enter the conventaffiliated music college.
‘In the end, the key is the recommendation letter that Cardinal de Mare will send to the abbess.’
She encouraged Arabella’s work and drafted a letter that Cardinal de Mare would send to the abbess.
Those who seal were usually lazy. If there were no prewritten drafts, Cardinal de Mare could put off until the deadline was missed.
Ariadne finished the bishop’s letter while sitting next to Arabella struggling with the music staff and the instruments. It was a recommendation letter that could be sent immediately as soon as Cardinal de Mare’s signature was there.
Ariadne spent a lot of time in Arabella’s and the girls’ reception room.
Naturally, Ariadne’s library had long empty hours. Since then, Ariadne felt a strange sense of incongruity every time she sat in the library.
“Sancha, how did the ink bottle end up on the floor?”
“I’m not sure… I’m sure I put it away properly. There’s hardly anyone visiting the library.”
Once she had a strange feeling, everything seemed suspicious afterwards. Under Ariadne’s instructions, her personal maids began to guard her room 24 hours a day in turns.
‘It shouldn’t be like this…!’
The person who was most distressed about this measure was Lucrezia. Lucrezia had initially sent the head maid Giada to find out where Ariadne kept the ‘Heart of the Blue Deep’.
Giada, who had searched Ariadne’s room thoroughly, had reached a fairly correct conclusion that the necklace would be in Ariadne’s safe in the library.
However, she had dropped the ink bottle in the process, which had heightened Ariadne’s vigilance. Since then, there had been no progress.
‘Oh, it’s frustrating. Frustrating!’
Lucrezia had intended to send someone to find out the password to Ariadne’s safe, but now she couldn’t even approach the room, so there was no way.
Bribing Ariadne’s maid was one option, but Anna disliked starting unnecessary trouble, and Bisenta was young and gullible.
In addition, neither of them had access to the safe. The only one who could get that close was Sancha.
But damn Sancha didn’t have a single gap to get a knife in. Giada, who approached with an awkward smile, was repulsed before she could even start talking.
“Do you need something in our lady’s room?”
“Uh, what?”
“Seeing you come all the way here, I can tell who ransacked the room in the first place!”
Sancha went away, triumphantly even turning up her nose.
Giada couldn’t dare to tell Lucrezia that it was her who dropped the ink bottle and caused this trouble.
In such cases, it is best to emphasize the strength of the enemy. So she only reported that the maid Sancha was very quickwitted and loyal, and that it looked impossible.
“There must be a way!”
Lucrezia burst into anger at Giada.
Lucrezia had initially gone alone to meet the astrologer for caution. But she was naturally talkative.
Lucrezia, wanting to share the astonishing situation she had witnessed, ended up spilling everything to Giada, making the secret trip pointless.
Giada, who had become an accomplice in an unwanted case, found it difficult. She cautiously made a suggestion.
“The young lady is very careful and there is no gap in her command, ma’am.”
“So, should I just suck on my fingers?”
“No, no, not at all, ma’am! Instead of targeting the young lady, how about visiting the astrologer again? He is so skilled, he should be able to perform a purification ritual even without the actual item?”
Well, that made sense.
“You’re right. He’s an astrologer whose fame has spread far and wide in the capital, there must be a way.”
Lucrezia, donning the black robe again, headed for the alley of San Carlo on Cardinal de Mare’s carriage, this time with Giada.
What Lucrezia didn’t know was that Ariadne was watching Lucrezia’s black carriage leave from behind the curtain of her suite room on the second floor.
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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