Summer Must Die (16 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 13
“Stop it!”
At the same time, someone grabbed her waist and yanked her sharply inward.
All those moments flowed slowly. As her body turned, she saw the person holding her waist.
Jet-black hair resembling the night sky, and beneath it, revealed silver-gray eyes.
“……Duke Lancaster?”
“What is this supposed to be?”
Ian Lancaster. The protagonist of this vast world. He glared piercingly at Summer with a fierce momentum.
“As you can see.”
Summer blinked her eyes as if asking what the problem was.
Ah. To Summer herself, this act was a way to return to the original world, but to others, it would just look like a crazy person jumping to their death. A belated realization washed over her.
No, more than that.
“Why is Your Grace here?”
Clearly, at the banquet, she couldn’t even approach the protagonists because of a transparent barrier blocking her.
Moreover, the male protagonist should be talking with Julian on the terrace right now, shouldn’t he?
“I’d like to ask why a young lady who was sweeping up all the food in the banquet hall until just now is trying to do something insane.”
“I have some business. I really wasn’t trying to die.”
“No one has ever survived falling from a spire, Lady Lindsey.”
The duke retorted coldly and pulled Summer farther away from the window.
When her plan went awry, Summer anxiously shook off the duke’s hand roughly.
“This isn’t something Your Grace needs to concern yourself with.”
“Why here of all places?”
“Pardon?”
The duke’s voice sank low. Summer also grew flustered at his darkened expression.
“I asked why here, out of all the many places to die.”
“The entire imperial palace is visible, and there are hardly any people around.”
“……”
The duke said nothing. He simply watched Summer for a long while with cool gray eyes.
In the end, it was Summer who couldn’t stand the silence and spoke first.
“If we’re done talking, please go back.”
“Well, it is a famous story, after all.”
At the duke’s words, Summer’s face crumpled fiercely. It felt like they were talking about completely different things.
“Suddenly? Sorry, but I’m not particularly interested in outside stories.”
Since she possessed and doesn’t even know them.
But Duke Ian Lancaster didn’t seem to believe her at all. He let out a cold, hollow laugh with an almost convinced expression.
“If your goal was to attract attention, you’ve succeeded.”
“How arrogant.”
“Arrogant? Tell me why you’re here, then.”
“……”
Summer couldn’t answer. To explain, she’d have to talk about possession and the witch.
Misinterpreting Summer’s attitude, Ian Lancaster’s face twisted fiercely.
“Do you want attention so badly that you’d poke at someone’s wounds? Even if I despise and loathe you?”
His gaze truly looked like he was seeing something disgusting.
At this point, Summer also felt something strange and racked her brain. Wounds. Attention. Loathing. The fragmented words embedded in her mind.
One thing was clear: her actions had torn open his wounds.
Summer immediately bowed deeply and spoke sincerely.
“If my actions have torn open Your Grace’s wounds, I’m truly sorry. But that really wasn’t my intention. This is the first time I’ve seen Your Grace at this banquet, and I haven’t fallen for you.”
However, even with Summer’s apology, Ian Lancaster’s expression didn’t soften.
“That trick has already been used by another young lady. I’m not an idiot who repeats the same mistake twice.”
“Ha, you’re not even listening.”
“You’ve attracted enough attention, so go down, Lady Lindsey.”
A sigh escaped from Summer’s lips.
It was frustrating. There’s nothing more infuriating and stifling than being misunderstood.
“The delusion that everyone in the world likes Your Grace. Haha, how absurd. Your Grace and I have no relation at all, so please just go down those stairs. Okay?”
Unable to hold back, Summer snapped irritably.
Since the banquet started and Summer’s soul appeared, all that was left was to quickly return to the original world.
Yet the male protagonist, whom she couldn’t even touch until now, was interfering.
Summer spun her body sharply and placed her knee on the window sill again. This time too, Duke Lancaster’s firm hand grabbed her wrist.
Duke Lancaster’s eyes wavered.
“If you fall from this spire, you absolutely cannot survive.”
“I know. That’s why I’m trying to fall! Without pain! In one go!”
She really wanted to end her last moments in this world smiling nicely, no matter what. But that duke with only a shiny face ruined everything.
Once her nerves flared, emotions surged uncontrollably.
Summer shed tears drop by drop and yelled fiercely.
“Please! Please just leave me alone? You can just ignore me. Since I really have no interest in Your Grace, go to the banquet hall and smile at those poor young ladies who would hang themselves for you.”
However, Duke Lancaster instead pulled Summer down with more force. His eyes were filled with confusion.
“Why on earth are you trying to die? And from this spire.”
“Why are you really interfering!”
“……What?”
“Do you know how relieved I felt climbing up this tower? How! How happy I was looking down from up here! I thought it was all over now, so why appear now and interfere!”
She knew. In Duke Lancaster’s eyes, Summer Lindsey was just a crazy young lady.
Still, now that they were face to face, she couldn’t bear it without speaking her mind.
While Summer grumbled and breathed heavily, Duke Lancaster stood there a bit dazed.
After a long while, a low and firm voice flowed from his mouth.
“As long as you’re not an enemy, I cannot let you die. Summer Lindsey. Go back.”
“……You know my name?”
In that instant, a tingling sensation like being electrocuted ran through her entire body.
The original protagonist knows Summer Lindsey. The moment her name came from the protagonist’s lips, Summer saw the transparent wall blocking her shake.
This was bad. The protagonist had more immense power in this world than she thought.
The author gets dragged by the character. Suddenly, such words came to mind.
“You’ll need this to go down first.”
Duke Lancaster took off his blue jacket and draped it over Summer’s shoulders. Summer stared at him blankly.
Ruined. Completely ruined, with nothing to say. The more the protagonist recognizes her, the more she seems to blend into this book.
That means returning to the original world will become increasingly difficult.
Especially since she can’t even recall her real name anymore.
Fear crept up from her feet once again. After losing her name? Might she lose her soul too.
“Summer Lindsey? Snap out of it.”
“……Ah.”
Summer belatedly blinked her eyes.
Duke Lancaster awkwardly placed Summer’s hand on his arm and explained.
“It might be unpleasant, but this will be better. There will be many who find it suspicious that a young lady has taken off her dress.”
“Your Grace.”
Summer’s voice was so clear it felt innocently pure.
“Why?”
“Do you think I, who was trying to jump from the spire, would care about reputation?”
Duke Lancaster had met all sorts of people. Nobles were truly varied and filthy in their ways.
He himself wasn’t much different.
He had been covered in the blood of enemies and allies on the battlefield. He eliminated forces trying to assassinate him. He even took the lives of brothers he had seen since childhood.
Duke Lancaster faced Summer again, who was looking up at him with clear, pure blue eyes.
In his life, this was the first madman with such clear eyes.
“Truly, how peculiar.”
It was his own softened way of saying she’s properly insane.
“Then, if you’ll excuse me.”
Summer flicked off the jacket on her shoulders with her fingertips. The gold tassels swirled in the air before falling limply to the floor.
Summer immediately thought of her next plan and walked down the stairs.
Her descending steps were heavy. She wanted to end it all today. That handsome-faced male lead ruined everything.
“Your Grace. You really have a peculiar hobby?”
Having come down from the spire and walking, thinking to stroll in a secluded garden, Summer suddenly stopped and spun around.
Even after coming down the spire, the duke was persistently following behind Summer.
“Because I don’t know what you’ll do next.”
“Wow. Treating me completely like a mad person.”
Summer openly sneered. Duke Lancaster narrowed his brows and raised an eyebrow.
“As long as I’m a witness, I can’t just leave you be. Cooperate quietly.”
“Is this a threat?”
“I thought this would work better on you.”
“Hmm. Well. Dying by Your Grace’s hand might be a bit unpleasant.”
Summer readily agreed and waved her arm. It was a gesture to lead the way quickly.
Duke Lancaster let out a laugh mixed with absurdity and lightly picked Summer up.
“Why are you doing this!”
Summer fluttered and resisted. But Ian Lancaster hid her face with his outer coat and headed toward the main gate.
[This is the timeline separator]Duke Lancaster called for his carriage as is.
Thus, Summer ended up riding in the same carriage as the male protagonist.
Duke Lancaster opened the window and looked outside, and Summer watched this.
His side profile, lost in thought, certainly carried the protagonist’s aura.
“A shiny but rotten apple.”
“Are you perhaps talking about me?”
“If I say yes, will you kill me?”
Duke Lancaster’s expression crumpled fiercely.
In the sharp atmosphere, only Summer, the cause of all this, blinked calmly.
“I don’t…… kill people recklessly.”
For some reason, Duke Lancaster felt like a wolf caught in the rain.
“I know. Just, usually, extras die quickly.”
“Extras?”
“Yes. Beings that are no more than a speck of dust in the world.”
Summer self-mockingly turned her gaze out the window.
Extras die easily. And the audience doesn’t think much of it.
That fact strangely felt a bit sad.
“Seeing you even self-deprecate, I really need to keep an eye on you.”
“I told you, I really wasn’t trying to die earlier!”
At Duke Lancaster’s words, Summer energetically yelled again. The male protagonist had an incredible talent for getting on people’s nerves.
Fortunately, the carriage soon stopped in front of the Lindsey earldom.
“Young lady.”
“Yes?”
Summer, hopping down from the carriage, turned back at the call.
Moonlight shattered on his dazzling blond hair.
His chillingly blue eyes held no emotion, making him seem almost innocently pure.
Duke Lancaster insistently draped his jacket, which Summer had taken off, over her again. This time, he even firmly pinned it in place.
Lowering his gaze slightly and removing the heavy decoration on the jacket over Summer’s shoulders, Duke Lancaster spoke.
“Try loving someone.”
Male lead is a clingy little husband
One-line summary: The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
Introduction:
One day, Lu Yuner’s soul transmigrates into a female-dominant world. She enters the Imperial Academy and takes up the position of a doctoral instructor, teaching classes and grading schoolwork.
One day, she encounters the young prince Su Qingwan secretly skipping class from the male academy.
As a result, Su Qingwan is punished.
From then on, Su Qingwan sees Lu Yuner as a “thorn in his side”.
But before long, this “thorn” becomes the person he cherishes most, and he goes to great lengths to win Lu Yuner’s affection.
Mini scene 1:
One day, the sun is high in the sky but Su Qingwan still hasn’t gotten up for class.
Servant Xiaoyuan: “Young prince, it’s time for class. You’ll be late otherwise.”
Su Qingwan says arrogantly: “I’m not going. I am the esteemed prince, my status is so noble, why should I suffer this hardship? Besides, isn’t learning all this just to please women? Hmph, they’re not worthy!”
Mini scene 2:
After Su Qingwan falls for someone, he completely changes. He no longer skips class and diligently learns how to be a good husband and father. But he discovers that Sister Yuner is always surrounded by admirers.
Drunk and overcome with jealousy one day, he clings to Lu Yuner, crying beautifully like a pear blossom in the rain.
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan likes Sister Yuner.”
Lu Yuner: “Young prince, you’re drunk.”
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan isn’t drunk. Qingwan likes Sister Yuner, likes you so much, likes you to bits…” Before he can finish, Lu Yuner’s eyes flash with emotion and she leans in closer.
[Reading Guide]
1. The female lead is gentle, gracious, humble and polite but not weak. The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
2. 1v1, a bit torturous in the beginning but definitely sweet later on.
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Hahaha what a stubborn male lead, leave her alone.
They’re always like this, thay think it is always about the male lead.