“I made it so. This wound wouldn’t mean anything otherwise.”
It was a word thrown without expecting any response.
Anyway, even he himself couldn’t explain why he had done that. Estelle wouldn’t understand his heart.
“That’s wrong.”
A cool summer breeze blew in the garden. Estelle’s platinum hair shone faintly.
“A wound doesn’t give meaning. So even if it disappears, it doesn’t mean it becomes meaningless if you don’t forget. Even if it’s invisible, the meaning will remain.”
“……My lady. What do you know and say?”
“I don’t know. I just wanted to say that to Baron Blonu.”
In the silence, her bluish eyes shone dreamily.
“Because even if the wound disappears, you still know. So as long as you don’t forget, the meaning will still be there even if you can’t see it.”
Her pale face filled Erich’s gray eyes.
For a moment, Estelle blossomed inside Erich’s body like a blooming flower.
His burnt and withered life was filled with incomprehensible flowers.
“…….”
Erich’s eyelids turned red.
This was it.
‘The words I wanted to hear.’
At that moment, Erich realized that he was attributing too much meaning to his burn scar.
He had treated it as if it were his very life.
‘Why did you say that? Why you of all people?’
He was moved by Estelle, whom he had so scorned and belittled.
“……I apologize.”
A tear of remorse flowed from Erich’s eyes.
“For all the rudeness I committed against my lady.”
In truth, Estelle might have been the woman Erich suspected her to be.
Knowing of Libertan’s wickedness, the vile villainess feigned ignorance.
“I want to apologize for all that I rashly accused and pushed upon you, ma’am.”
Estelle’s eyes widened. Suddenly, blue roses sprouted and bloomed over the bush behind her.
‘Eden Rose?’
The blue rose, the symbol of the Blanchet Ducal House.
A flower that had become completely extinct from the world with the Blanchet’s fall.
“Ah.”
Erich cried tears without realizing it, kneeling before Estelle.
Among the blue roses, Estelle was nobler than anyone. To the point where Erich’s questioning of her eligibility felt strange.
Estelle was indeed the true mistress of the Blanchet Ducal House.
No one else fit that position.
(This is a time separator.)
Johann stood in front of the altar beneath the basement.
“Come forth.”
Kicking the altar, a black hand suddenly burst forth from the space above it. Then, slowly, a black demon, taking on a human shape, appeared.
The demon was the being he had contracted after capturing the shadow dragon.
The demon’s purple eyes flashed.
“How did you lose all your protective magic? You can’t even use dark magic properly….”
“That’s enough; just tell me the necessary sacrifice.”
Johann, having lost the ring of protection, had many restrictions in using black magic.
He might be consumed by his own dark power while using black magic.
“Fine. I will demand payment according to your wish.”
But it wasn’t as if there were no way to recover. With an appropriate sacrifice, he could regain his power through a deal with the demon.
‘The problem is not knowing what the sacrifice will be.’
Sometimes, the demon demanded an unsatisfiable sacrifice.
“Your cookies.”
“……Cookies?”
“Give me your teddy bear cookies.”
The cookies Estelle had gifted to Johann.
The demon’s mouth twisted into a smile.
“A very good sacrifice, isn’t it?”
“No.”
Johann turned pale.
“I can’t give you those cookies.”
Then the demon fell silent for a moment.
“……You say it can’t be done?”
“Yes, it can’t.”
“Then I’ll take just one.”
“No.”
Johann was resolute.
“It’s mine.”
My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
