Ariadne was sitting inside a carriage heading towards Campo de Spezia, her lips tightly sealed and cloaked in a thick robe.
They were nearly at their destination. Sancha was next to Ariadne, and Giada was restlessly watching her from the opposite side.
“Miss, must I really accompany you inside? Even without me…”
“How are you going to recognize the evil sorcerer without Mrs. Giada?”
Sancha snorted irritably. These masterservant pairs always got irritated at the same points.
“He’s not a sorcerer, he’s an astrologer…”
Giada, now treated like a lowerranking servant, deflated under Sancha’s scrutiny.
Hehehe!
“Have we arrived? Would you like to get off here?”
Coachman Giuseppe, wearing a hat, asked. Ariadne looked around and nodded her head.
“Giada. Lead the way. Sancha, stay in the carriage with Giuseppe.”
Stepping off the carriage, Ariadne sent Giada ahead into an old singlefamily home.
Squeak.
The aged wooden floor screamed with an eerie noise. Giada flinched, shrinking back. Ariadne, unsure where to go, looked at Giada. Receiving Ariadne’s gaze, Giada reluctantly answered.
“It’s the room at the very end…”
Thud, thud.
Ariadne walked quickly down the corridor, unperturbed by the creaking of the wooden floor.
Squeak.
In the midst of this, a sound that Ariadne hadn’t made echoed through the old house. It was the noise from the rusted hinges as the door opened.
Ariadne swiftly focused on the source of the sound, clutching the dagger in her bosom.
A Gypsy woman was standing at the door of the room at the end. She had packed all her belongings, carrying a sack on her back and holding a crystal ball. She seemed ready to leave. Giada yelled out from the side.
“It’s her, Miss!”
Ariadne strode forward, cornering the Gypsy woman in the narrow corridor. The woman was startled and stepped back.
“What is this…!”
Ariadne, blocking the woman with her body, asked sternly.
“Are you the astrologer Moore, who served the Countess Rubina?”
The Gypsy woman, backed up against the end of the corridor, tried to shake Ariadne off and run away. But Ariadne tripped her up without hesitation.
Thud!
“Ahh!”
The Gypsy woman, burdened by the sack on her back and the crystal ball in her arms, lost her balance and fell. Ariadne, seeing her hold on to the crystal ball even in the midst of this, realized that it was a bargaining chip.
“Giada, take it.”
“….!”
“Hurry!”
Frozen in fear of the sorcerer, Giada sprang into action at Ariadne’s order.
While she was afraid of the sorcerer, the petite Miss who held her leash was even more terrifying than a sorcerer whose actions were unpredictable.
The Gypsy woman resisted fiercely. Seeing Giada’s struggle, Ariadne also joined the scuffle, pinning the Gypsy woman’s arms down. The woman couldn’t hold out any longer and let Giada snatch the crystal ball.
Ariadne, with her cold voice, asked the Gypsy woman, who was pinned to the floor.
“Did you introduce Cardinal de Mare’s maidservant to some special dark magic?”
Upon hearing this, the Gypsy woman realized what kind of disaster the robed girl and the aged maidservant before her were. The Gypsy woman struggled and denied.
“I… I am not a sorcerer! You are Cardinal de Mare’s servant, aren’t you?”
The Gypsy woman, who had belatedly recognized Giada’s face, tried to plead.
“I’m just a fraud who can read tarot cards.”
Being embarrassed as a harmless fraud is better than being marked as a wicked witch who uses black magic and being chased forever. The Gypsy woman pleaded with Ariadne.
“I know why you came. That lady’s party from back then. Toads’ blood, all that was just a scam. I was just trying to make some money. I’m just an astrologer who knows how to read love tarot cards.”
She twisted her body to get a little more comfortable.
“I’ll pay you back as much as I can. I used some of it, but I’ll give you what’s left. Give me back my crystal ball. That’s my bread and butter.”
“A scam?”
Ariadne stared directly at the fortune teller.
‘I’ve been by the side of Countess Rubina for 20 years, there’s no way it’s a scam! I need to know about regression!’
As Ariadne, who was upset, lowered her head, the robe hat she wore on her head slipped off, revealing her face.
Under the shadow of the robe, a vivid red spot was visible under her left eye.
“EEK!”
The fortune teller, who saw the spot under Ariadne’s eye, shivered like she had seen something she shouldn’t have, and screamed.
“It’s you! So, that’s why the crystal ball shattered!”
The fortune teller poured out her words in despair. She seemed extremely flustered herself.
“But why is the spot only half there? What are you, walking around the Etruscan lands while carrying the curse of darkness? Who put you on the ‘judgment seat’?”
At the word ‘judgment seat’, the fortune teller shivered as if in pain. At the same time, Jiada also blocked her ears and convulsed.
Thud!
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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