The woman holding the bouquet of roses looked at him with vivid blue eyes. The woman who had been carefully examining the flowers laughed brightly.
“It’s really beautiful.”
At first, he thought he had heard wrong.
In social circles, a rose, especially a flower made only with jewels, is a luxurious insult. It implies falsehood. If it is a red rose, it implies flashy falsehood.
‘Does she not know the meaning?’
Even so, Johann thought various things whether this woman knew it or not.
If she didn’t know, he would seduce the woman as planned, and if the woman recognized the meaning, he was going to comfort her as if he had brought it by mistake.
However, Estelle did not move as he wanted.
“Yes, this is the first gift you’ve ever given me.”
It didn’t seem like she was completely ignorant of its meaning. Because he saw her hand checking the flower stem pause for a moment. She even checked with Johann, holding onto the hope that she might not know.
“Is that a compliment?”
Despite the blatant insult, she seemed genuinely happy and smiled.
“Then I’m happy too.”
The woman who stuck the red rose in her ear was dazzlingly beautiful.
“If I’ve fulfilled what you want in some way.”
This woman who knew nothing, or perhaps could only pretend not to know something, for some reason, Johann felt sorry for her.
‘This woman is a target of revenge.’
Thinking the daughter of Libertan was pitiful was a betrayal to his family who died unfairly.
Estelle, who was rolling her bright blue eyes, suddenly took out a pile of cookies from the room and put them in his hand. He was startled by the sudden appearance of the cookies.
“It’s nothing special, but would you like to have some cookies?”
“Cookies?”
“I’ve finished a longplanned thing.”
Estelle congratulated him without having any idea what it was.
“Congratulations, I will pray that everything you do will go well.”
Why is this woman so naive?
Why doesn’t she doubt him at all, a stranger she’s seeing for the first time? Why doesn’t she seem like a loved and raised daughter on such a subject?
“Madam.”
Johann impulsively reached out to Estelle’s cheeks, which were shining white as if sugar coated. The soft touch tickled his palm.
Estelle blushed her cheeks obediently as if she liked his touch, and smiled with her eyes.
‘This is……’
It was a habit her sister did whenever she did something wrong to her family.
As soon as he felt that fact, he should have been repulsed, but absurdly, it didn’t feel uncomfortable at all. He just felt good about the soft cheeks of the woman, which made him feel bad.
‘Was I this weak?’
The more naive Estelle is, the more perfect his plan would be.
Johann began to feel a strange repulsion to his revenge plan as he felt the loveliness of Estelle. He shouldn’t be.
Johann, who ate the cookie, smiled at Estelle.
“Feed me one more.”
“O, one more?”
“I’m not satisfied with just one.”
Estelle rolled her bright blue eyes naively. The sight of her holding the cookie bag and worrying looked tense like a rabbit in front of an enemy.
‘She’s probably embarrassed?’
She always reveals her inner feelings.
“Quickly.”
Johann asked, tapping his lips. The woman who saw his red lips dyed her cheeks red and carefully put another cookie in his mouth.
Johann teased by pretending to eat up to Estelle’s fingertips.
“It’s delicious because it’s from the madam.”
Estelle, shocked when her fingers barely touched his tongue, hid her hand. He stared at the woman’s hidden hand with his red eyes and smiled mischievously.
“Is it because the madam’s hand touched it?”
“My hand is not for eating.”
“Why not?”
Estelle, who had been seriously contemplating, cautiously opened her mouth.
“Can’t I eat humans?”
“But madam is mine. Is there a problem with me eating what is mine?”
“But in terms of social conventions….”
Johan unconsciously smiled at the innocent woman’s gaze and kissed her hair.
“Fine. I will behave until the Madam wants me.”
When he whispered in her ear with a soft voice, Estelle responded sensitively. He twisted his mouth looking at her.
‘Johan Blanchet, think of your deceased family.’
This concern wasn’t because of this woman. It’s just that there were suspicious parts different from what he first conceived.
It’s to perfect the revenge for his family.
“Instead, there’s a dinner with the nobles at the Blanchet Duke’s residence tomorrow night.”
“It will be a very important occasion.”
Estelle nodded her head without knowing anything.
“As a Duchess, I will try my best to show a good impression.”
“No, the opposite.”
Johan gently opened his mouth, looking at Estelle’s trembling blue eyes.
“Madam, don’t come to that place.”
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Honestly, Johan’s words were somewhat shocking.
‘Why is he telling me not to come?’
It wasn’t that I had to go to that dinner. But the dinner was an event that came out in the original, unlike what had happened so far.
‘I should not be missed.’
The event of inviting me under the pretext of lightly celebrating the nobles who had helped the Duchy of Blanchet after Libertan was overthrown for treason, and insulting me.
Depressed by people’s indifference, I become more dependent on Johan.
“Why?”
I widened my eyes as if I was very surprised at his words.
“Is there a reason why I can’t attend?”
“It’s hard for the Madam, who just came from Libertan, to attend.”
Johan smiled lazily, swirling his cool eyes.
“Of course, I also want to monopolize the Madam alone.”
He slowly grabbed my hand. Johan, who lifted the grabbed hand and kissed the back of my hand, looked at me gently. But his gaze had a strange pressure that made people suffocate.
“My wife only needs to look at me.”
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]The next morning, Erich arrived at the office at Johan’s call.
Johan was opening a jewelry box and examining the jewels. He was unconsciously paying attention to jewelry for accessories that women would like.
‘Didn’t the master have an interest in women’s jewelry?’
Of course, it wasn’t that Johan was ignorant about women’s gifts. Johan originally knew well about items suitable for purposes.
But on the other hand, it meant that he didn’t have things like looking at unnecessary items for the purpose.
‘I haven’t had to look at women’s jewelry recently.’
Especially, Johan didn’t like women’s jewelry. Erich carefully asked Johan.
“Do you plan to gift it to that woman?”
“That woman?”
“……The fake one.”
Johan, who briefly looked into the women’s jewelry in the jewelry box, closed the box.
“No. I have no interest in the Madam.”
A clean move without any regrets. But Erich felt a subtle change in Johan. Even if he couldn’t explain it clearly, it was true that there was a change in Johan’s attitude.
Johan, who was looking at the jewelry box again, slowly opened his mouth.
“The reason I called you today is because the Madam won’t attend the banquet.”
“……Yes?”
Erich asked back with a face that he couldn’t believe.
“Did that woman say she didn’t want to attend? A woman who knows herself as a duchess….”
It’s a mustdo for a hostess to have a dinner with nobles. Yet she refused to do that. Erich was absurd at the woman’s ignorance.
“No. I told her not to attend.”
“Are you, sir?”
“That’s right. She’s a woman who’s still unstable because she just came from Libertan.”
Johan, who spoke plainly, calmly opened his mouth with an unshaken face.
“There could be a problem if she meets hostile nobles.”
“……I see.”
Certainly, it’s an instruction for a more perfect plan.
It was a command that could be sufficiently done by a perfectionist like Johan. But Erich heard his words like this.
‘He seems to be trying to prevent her from getting unnecessarily hurt by the nobles.’
Suddenly, Estelle’s face that he met in the library came up in Erich’s head. A pure woman who seemed to melt and disappear into the sunlit air at any moment.
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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