What was that scratching the floor?
It seemed to be scratching with a fingernail.
Something seemed to be crawling up from below.
Something was scratching the dirt floor with its nails.
It was something both familiar and unfamiliar.
“It felt like something was unpleasantly scratching below….”
Charlotte tapped the table.
“It seems the Emperor is late.”
The chamberlain whispered, looking at the bed.
“Would you like to go to bed first?”
“Just wait a little longer. If it’s too late, I’ll sleep alone, so just leave.”
The chamberlain left a candle by her side and withdrew. The flames flickered and the candle flared up.
“Call me if you need me.”
Charlotte felt uneasy.
“What did I miss….”
It felt like something was grabbing her ankle.
Death is abstract.
It was a difficult area to explain in a few words.
The death she had experienced was darkness.
Charlotte struggled beneath death.
Everything was ruined.
In a distorted and trampled life, Charlotte clung to the fringes and struggled.
How meaningless the end was.
What had she endured for?
What had she survived for? Then, why had she died?
“Are you awake?”
Charlotte opened her eyes.
“Sleep more. You looked uncomfortable sleeping on your stomach, so I thought about moving you, but I woke you up.”
Charlotte finally focused her blurred vision.
“Did you wait?”
“Yes. A little.”
“Don’t wait even if I say so. Don’t wait here next time. Even if I’m late, go to sleep first.”
Benjamin pulled up the blanket and laid Charlotte inside.
Charlotte gave a faint smile.
“Did you finish your work well?”
“Yeah. If you catch the poison in time, it’ll be over soon.”
“Did you personally deal with this kind of thing before?”
“I told you. This country is still a country, and someone has to hold on to it and keep it alive.”
Because the process of ascending the throne was messy.
The labels following him were largely negative.
“…You may have felt a bit wronged.”
Had Charlotte heard the mumbling story?
“What did you just say?”
“No.”
“You’re being silly. Sleep more.”
Her consciousness gradually dimmed.
(This is a time separator.)
Last night’s incident had settled.
“The messy scene has all been tidied up. No one saw the monster.”
“That’s a relief.”
Benjamin put down his quill. New flesh sprouted on the hand that had been ruined by the poison.
“Did you investigate that guy?”
The intelligence officer reported on their investigation so far.
“We tracked him down, but he didn’t know anything.”
“The possibility of forgetting after drinking?”
“We haven’t ruled that out. However, he was too small to handle a highlevel monster. Originally, he was poisoned by the poison he used. He didn’t seem to expect that.”
The guy writhed in pain, and the priests burned the poison and interrogated him.
‘Damn! It hurts! It hurts! Ahh! Aaaaah……! Do something! Save, save me. Priest……. I did wrong, so save me!’
‘Handling such a poison, and not even protecting your body, there was such a fool here.’
‘I, I didn’t know it was so dangerous! No, I intended to call out a parasitic monster. I, I didn’t even hear this explanation! That, that old man! Bring that damned old man! Ugh……. Urgh!’
He didn’t seem to be lying.
“He seems to have handled the poison for the first time. He said he bought it cheaply from some old man……. I don’t know who. We dug for days, but expecting more seems difficult.”
“Is that the limit?”
“Yes. The poison consumes the caster. For a normal person to handle that poison, even if it’s lowlevel, it’s fatal. If it’s lowlevel, sacrificing one arm would do, but wanting to keep oneself safe after handling that much poison is greedy.”
He used it without knowing.
“You may go.”
Benjamin dismissed him with his arm. The intelligence officer ended his report and left.
(This is a time separator.)
Aaron took off his hood.
“I thought it wouldn’t take long, but it took a long time.”
Aaron looked up at the imperial palace gate with clouded eyes.
I’ve returned to this place once more. The imperial palace that I fled after the death of the previous empress.
“There.”
The guard narrowed his eyes and asked.
“Who are you?”
Aron finally realized how haggard his appearance was.
“Ah, I don’t mean to chase you away.”
The guard examined Aron with a complex expression.
“I’m this person.”
Aron took out the entrance badge that he had kept in his pocket.
“The imperial palace?”
Aron nodded.
“I have been summoned by the royal family and have returned to the imperial palace.”
(This is a time divider.)
Charlotte brushed her hair aside.
“What about the inlaws?”
“Yes. I was on my way after sending them to the carriage.”
I came from Windsor.
The inlaws were fine, only leaving after being reassured two or three times.
“They seem to have been very worried at Windsor.”
“Even though I say I’m fine, they can’t rest until they see it for themselves.”
“People’s hearts are like that. As fragile as petals. Knowing how fragile they are, they watch and watch, don’t they?”
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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