At Alfonso’s groan, Ariadne, who was right next to him, snatched the paper. Alfonso tightened his hand, thinking that Ariadne would be very surprised if she learned the contents, but Ariadne wanted to know. She grabbed the paper and read the contents.
“Please kill or harm Ariadne de Mare…. Lariessa de Balloa….”
Like Alfonso, Ariadne’s eyes widened in shock. She never dreamed that she could read such intense malice towards her from just three lines of writing.
The seal of the Duke of Mireille, from whose belongings the letter of Princess Lariessa emerged, also came out. It was a gold ring with a clear bear and cross, the emblem of the Mireille ducal family, which he had momentarily taken off his finger to hide his identity and put inside his belongings.
The body lying before their eyes was undoubtedly the Duke of Mireille.
Alfonso suddenly hugged Ariadne.
“…Ari, I’m sorry.”
He whispered into her ear as he held her in his arms.
“It’s all because of me… Because of me, you…”
Princess Lariessa, unable to control her feelings for Prince Alfonso, ran wild and tried to do something unforgivable to Ariadne. In the end, it was all his fault.
Tears of regret ran down Alfonso’s agonizing eyes.
“I can’t even protect my woman… What is this…”
He stroked Ariadne’s hair while shedding tears of regret, again and again.
“I didn’t know that the Duchess of Gallic could be so vicious. I didn’t know they would act so quickly, and I really didn’t dream that the Gallic delegation would do such a thing. I…”
He was about to say ‘I was careless’ but changed his words. Carelessness refers to the act of acting casually when one normally should have been prepared.
Alfonso had to admit. Even if he went back to yesterday, he would have done the same. He could not even imagine that Princess Lariessa could do such a thing.
“…I was incompetent. It’s all my fault.”
Alfonso stroked Ariadne’s head over and over while hugging her.
Ariadne herself, however, couldn’t come to terms with all of this. Rather than being sad, she was in a state of shock, or more accurately, her emotions were in a state of stop as she understood the situation.
‘When the news of the death of the Duke of Mireille is known, His Majesty Leo III will close the gates and try to identify the party.’
The note from Princess Lariessa will be revealed in the process.
‘No, His Majesty Leo III might even try to quietly bury Princess Lariessa’s note. Anyway, the gunpowder of Gallic is intact. He might try to cover up the fact that the Duke of Mireille died in Etruscan territory in return for keeping the security of the Princess’s note. It’s me who’s in trouble, not Lariessa.’
The Duke of Mireille was killed by Prince Alfonso.
If he were to clarify ‘why’ he died, in the process of properly identifying the trivial things, it is inevitable that the intentions of Duke Mireille, who was not a madman slaughtering the envoy from the neighboring country, had to come out.
Prince Alfonso had to wield the hammer of justice to save the pitiful maiden because the Duke was about to commit a terrible act.
“Surely my name will come up.”
The interest in the event was too high to lightly pass over by making up a story that the passing Prince Alfonso happened to discover Duke Mireille who was about to do something wrong to a passing palace maid.
The discussions would be sharp, and if even a bit of plausibility error is discovered, the Kingdom of Gallico will never accept the explanation of the Etruscan Kingdom.
From the standpoint of King Leo III, revealing all the facts without lies is the best strategy. If a fake maid can be set up to obtain a solid fake statement, it could be different, but King Leo III was absolutely not a man to take risks out of sympathy for Ariadne.
“Father won’t be of any help.”
It was not a problem that could be solved even if Cardinal de Mare exerted his power. Would a father, who did not even save Isabella’s reputation in the Campa Duke incident, make allout efforts to help Ariadne, whom he cares less for?
Moreover, even if the Cardinal de Mare had the will, he lacks the capacity. King Leo III was obsessed with the gunpowder of the Gallico Kingdom. No matter what trick Cardinal de Mare shows, he could not surpass Gallico’s gunpowder, or the threat of war declaration.
“Can’t I just throw him into the Tiber River…?”
Taking after the motto of the De Mare family, ‘If no one knows about it, it didn’t happen,’ Ariadne pondered for a moment.
“The whole of San Carlo would be turned upside down.”
If Duke Mireille disappeared, the Gallico Kingdom would protest sternly, and King Leo III would panic and scour not only the palace but the entire city. If a bloated corpse surfaced in the Tiber River, it would cause another commotion.
The prince’s power, even in the eyes of someone who knew nothing, was never enough to kill a character and clean up the aftermath without the eyes of his father catching him.
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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