“What is it, exactly?”
Immediately after receiving Su Yeon’s response, In Ho began to recall the things he had done just before the body switch.
“It’s what I’ve made and put in the largest glass bottle. There should be plenty left to burn for a while.”
It was something the old man had said.
He mused on these words as he walked into the bedroom and started searching for the glass bottle haphazardly.
It was said to be the largest glass bottle, but without knowing exactly how large it was, he laid out all the objects that could be considered glass bottles on top of the dressing table.
Then, he picked out those objects from among them that could be described as having been burnt.
“An incense candle!”
“A incense candle?”
Su Yeon tilted her head, seemingly not understanding In Ho’s words.
In Ho looked at Su Yeon for a moment, then abruptly rose from his seat.
He headed toward the couple’s bedroom with a hasty stride.
Su Yeon, who had been clueless, also scurried behind In Ho.
As soon as they turned on the light in the dark bedroom, the cluttered dressing table full of glass bottles immediately came into view.
In Ho stood in front of it, gripping the incense candle he had lit before going to sleep.
“It’s this.”
“Huh? That is….”
The incense candle In Ho extended was a familiar object to Su Yeon’s eyes.
“That was given to us by an old lady a while ago.”
“An old lady?”
“Yes. She said if you light the incense candle on a sleepless night and sleep, you’ll fall asleep as if by magic….”
With a dazed face, Su Yeon mumbled and suddenly stared at In Ho with widened eyes.
“In Ho, was the old lady you mentioned earlier by any chance wearing her hair up like this?”
Su Yeon twisted her own hair to mimic the hairup style.
At this, In Ho nodded and answered.
“Yeah, that’s right.”
“And her clothes? She was wearing a thick sweater cardigan, either pink or purple, something like that!”
“Oh…. I don’t remember that much. My head was hurting, so I was on my way to buy some medicine.”
What seemed like a clue suddenly left only a nagging feeling and returned to square one.
Su Yeon let out a deep sigh.
In Ho was also frustrated.
In Ho put down the incense candle he had been holding and pushed aside the items around it with his hand.
As far as he could think, the only thing different from the other days was this incense candle.
Just as the old man said, he had lit the incense candle, and then as if afraid, he had fallen asleep as if he had never had a headache.
“Could this really be the problem?”
“What do you mean?”
“The only thing different from the other days was this incense candle.”
“You slept after lighting this incense candle?”
“Yeah.”
“Come to think of it….”
Su Yeon, who had been thinking hard, lowered her eyebrows in a Vshape and said.
“…I did the same thing.”
“What?”
“When our bodies first switched. That time, I also fell asleep after lighting this incense candle.”
While talking, Su Yeon’s body shivered.
Goosebumps rose.
Come to think of it, it really was so.
The day their bodies first switched, the only thing different from other days was that she had slept after lighting the incense candle.
“….Could this really be the problem?”
In Ho mumbled, taking a step back from the incense candle.
Following suit, Su Yeon also stepped back.
There was no clear evidence to conclude that the incense candle was the cause of all these occurrences, but all their senses were telling them so.
It was certain that the incense candle, which the old man had given them, was suspicious, whether they knew it or not.
“Did our bodies really switch because of that incense candle?”
“I, I don’t know. But since it could be, should we put it somewhere else for now?”
While saying that, Su Yeon hid behind In Ho with a frightened face.
In Ho glanced at Su Yeon and rather grabbed the incense candle.
“No. If it’s because of this, we should keep it close and check.”
“Check? What are you going to do? What if something strange happens….”
“What could be stranger than this? You and I have switched bodies. The soul change that we only see in movies.”
“Well, that’s true….”
Unable to refute In Ho’s words, Su Yeon tightly closed her mouth.
However, she couldn’t easily shake off her anxiety.
In Ho was closely examining the incense candle, which made her heart pound with fear.
“What are you doing? Hmm? It’s dangerous, so don’t keep it so close and look….”
“I have to check.”
“What, what?”
“Whether we really switched bodies because of this.”
“How do we verify that?”
“We’ll light a fire.”
At In Ho’s bombshell statement, Su Yeon leaped from her seat.
“No, we can’t! What do you think is going to happen if you recklessly light a fire? Let’s think a bit more about it, alright?”
Desperate, Su Yeon clung to In Ho’s arm.
It seemed irrational to light the incense recklessly.
What if an irreversible event occurred?
Though it was hard to believe that something worse than this could happen, it was not completely out of the question.
However, In Ho’s thoughts seemed to be vastly different from hers.
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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