“Hello. I am the Countess of Cretton, the second daughter of Count Senal, Kanarina Senal. I will appreciate your cooperation today during the Debutante.”
“Countess Senal, you have a very nice voice. It’s clear and clean, I enjoy listening to it.”
“That’s an overstatement.”
The bloodline was indeed fascinating. At a glance, the face of the young lady showed the face of the noblewoman I met yesterday, and it was not much different from the previous participants.
Even without mentioning the family name, everyone knew whose child it was just by looking at the face. The children all resembled their parents.
“But because you are too nervous, your pronunciation is blurred, and your advantage is not highlighted.”
“Ah, that’s…”
“It’s okay. The Debutante hasn’t ended yet. I’m not trying to point out mistakes, I want to help highlight your advantages, so don’t feel bad and try to relax your throat again. I don’t dislike people who try. In fact, I like them.”
“Ah, yes!”
With just a few words from me, her face brightens and darkens rapidly. She was not only nervous but also greatly influenced by the attitude of her parents.
Most aristocratic children of that age group were always stressed by their parents about the importance of the Debutante, especially if they were not the eldest son, it was even more so.
The fate of other children besides the eldest son, who were to continue the family, was usually determined.
If they were not causing trouble in the succession issue, or remaining as an unused pawn if they were not sold, it was natural to obediently marry the person arranged by the parents.
Even though they clearly knew that a marriage arranged solely on conditions, regardless of the individual’s will, rarely led to a happy ending.
It’s a regrettable reality, but there wasn’t much I could do. All I could do was refine their strengths and weaknesses so that they had a little more choice.
That was the duty of the Debutante host, and therefore, I couldn’t always be kind.
After scoring the participation form of the last participant, Kanarina, I handed it to Margaret.
“Arrange them in order according to the scores right now.”
“Right now?”
“At the beginning, I clearly told you to arrange according to the scores so that we can check immediately.”
Scoring was my job, but the maid sitting next to me couldn’t just sit idle.
Margaret was in charge of organizing the scorecards I handed over.
“But the scoring just ended.”
“If you change the position of the documents according to the score every time you score, you can see the result immediately.”
“In that case, you should have told me in advance.”
“That should be obvious, no. No, it’s okay if you didn’t know.”
I let out a short sigh and glanced at the children standing on one side of the room, oblivious to what was happening.
Margaret also glanced at the children and pulled the scorecard into her arms.
“I’ll organize it quickly. It won’t take long.”
Contrary to her confident words, Margaret’s hands were slow.
Her eyes were busy checking each face and number, and she had to check two or three times because she wasn’t sure if she had seen correctly. It was clear that she had only stacked the documents in order without properly looking at them while I was scoring.
I let out a short sigh, took the scorecard from Margaret, and handed it to the servant standing behind me.
“Call a few more servants, and you sort the scorecards according to the score.”
“I can do it.”
“Lower your voice. This is not a private place.”
When I cut her off, Margaret’s face turned red.
But I didn’t care and instructed the additional servants to arrange the seats according to the score.
Since I had scored it myself, I knew the scores of all the participants even without looking at the scorecards, so it wasn’t difficult to manage the situation.
“Now that the seating is arranged, bring in the meal.”
“Yes, I understand.”
“Hand me the scorecards as soon as you finish organizing.”
The welltrained palace servants quickly and accurately completed the arrangement, thanks to which Margaret’s face turned even redder.
But I didn’t care and handed over the scorecards.
Margaret’s incompetence wasn’t necessarily bad.
The more gaps she seemed to have, the more hunters were attracted, and more importantly, there were plenty of eyes here that would reveal all about her.
As much as how they were evaluated in the Debutante, who would take my next maid position was also a subject of interest.
I corrected my posture once again, looking at the participants who had quickly taken their seats according to the scores.
“Let me tell you in advance, don’t think that if your seat is like this today, it will be the same tomorrow. Nothing has been decided yet, and this is just the beginning. Do you understand?”
“Yes!”
“Your responses are lively and good, but that won’t do at a party. Have you ever seen a gentleman or lady respond so strongly?”
Their faces revealed that my point had taken them by surprise. They were all focused on impressing me, likely overlooking the most fundamental aspects.
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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