Stella spoke with wideopen eyes in defense.
“I can’t stand to see your pain….”
“Who asked you to care about that?”
Erich did not care about his wound at all and extended his bleeding hand to the saint.
“Why are you, the saint, interfering with my scar? It’s my scar!”
Erich emanated a strange force.
His sensitive and irritable appearance seemed more radiant today.
‘Do more, do more.’
To be honest, it felt good since I didn’t like the saint.
‘I know because I’ve suffered too.’
Of course, Erich’s harsh words did not hurt me. Rather, it was more annoying that he kept talking.
But it would be different for Saint Stella, who had heard only good words all her life.
Especially after she had treated the wound.
“I, I’m sorry.”
Stella choked with a shockstricken face.
Then the priests who had been startled by Erich’s force stepped forward. They stood in front of Stella, protecting her.
“Baron Blonew! What’s this rudeness to the saint?”
“Rudeness?”
Erich turned his head and questioned the priest.
“Is it rude that I have a little blood on my hand?”
The priests blinked, stunned by Erich’s snappy response.
Erich smirked at them and Stella.
“It seems the temple has changed its laws these days. It would be perfect if the news called me a scoundrel for scratching a wound that the saint went to the trouble of healing.”
Wow, he’s really nasty.
‘He was a bit off when fighting with me….’
It was reassuring to see him doing that to the temple people.
The priests shouted at Erich, their faces flushed red.
“Didn’t you scream at our saint!”
Erich bowed his head insincerely.
“Ah, yes. That’s right. I was rude to scream at the frail saint. Of course, it was all because the saint acted arbitrarily.”
“[Dash]Baron Blonew!”
“Then why are you rude to shout at me?”
Erich adjusted his glasses and asked them.
“I may have to inform you, but the Blanchet Duchy is not an easy place.”
Krrr[Dash]
Erich pointed to the leash dropped from his hand.
“We will not even guarantee the safety of guests who ignore even our words.”
The black panther beast broke the leash with its claws. The priests turned pale.
“Even so, we are official guests of the Blanchet Duchy….”
“That doesn’t include the guests’ mistakes, does it? Especially a guest who dared to bite the owner at the Duke’s house.”
As the black panther beast, larger than a person, took a step closer, the priests became more agitated.
They hesitated and retreated, but as the beast moved with them, they pleaded with Erich.
“Ah, we understand. We were wrong, so….”
“Do you have time to be like that? You have to survive on your own before everyone gets eaten.”
The black panther beast roared loudly.
At that sound, the priests grabbed Stella and ran away.
Of course, the black panther beast did not chase them. Although its golden eyes sparkled as if it would pursue, it was just whetting its appetite.
“Despicable ones.”
Erich frowned, loosening his bloodstained hair with his hand. Long gray hair flowed down.
“My lady, the guests have all left, so how about coming out?”
I awkwardly emerged from the bushes.
“Kyaaung!”
“Yeah, I’m also glad to see you again.”
The black panther beast came running to me in excitement.
I stroked the head of the black panther beast, wagging its tail, and asked Erich.
“Did you know I was there?”
“I knew from the beginning. Anyone but those blockheads could have known.”
Then a strange guilt flickered in Erich’s grayblue eyes.
“More importantly, are you okay, my lady?”
What’s okay?
‘Your hand seems the least okay, with the blood still flowing.’
(It is a time separator.)
Erich received the black panther beast as commanded by Johan.
The black panther beast, which sometimes ignored even its master Johan, was unusually wellbehaved for some reason.
Just as she was about to cross the garden, the black leopard beast lowered its body and growled, showing its displeasure.
Erich, sensitive to movements, also heard the voices in the garden.
“Indeed, her demeanor is so different from that impostor.”
“The Duke of Blanchett is still a Duke, but what on earth made that impostor look down on the saint?”
“What did the saint do so wrong? Rather, did she not personally come to treat a small wound that would heal after a few days of rest?”
Impostor.
A derogatory term referring to Estelle, the adopted orphan not of noble birth.
‘I said the same thing before…’
Strangely, the word “impostor” stuck in Erich’s heart like a thorn.
The priests distorted the situation, and it was not enough that they belittled Estelle.
If left alone, the arrogance of the priests grew without limit.
“How dare the impostor command the saint, and not only that, but manipulate the Duke? She deserves the punishment of the gods[dash]”
Kwaang[dash]!
The black leopard beast could no longer hold back and roared.
Erich had a control device that could easily restrain the beast, but he chose not to use it.
‘How dare.’
Estelle is an impostor who will disappear someday. But that didn’t mean he could let them chatter.
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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