The air was so still it felt heavy. I rigidly stared at Johan.
‘Where did you hear it from?’
Johan’s red eyes were staring intently, as if I was the only one in the world.
He walked toward me with large strides.
Betty naturally withdrew her hand and stepped back. Then Johan took her place. Johan sat on my bed.
“Madam, are you feeling alright?”
“Yes. After a good sleep, I feel better.”
“Is that so?”
A cold shadow fell on Johan’s eyes.
Whether it was due to the shadow or he had really been worried and stayed up many nights, Johan’s face seemed more tired than before.
From his perfectly maintained appearance, the slightly disheveled parts added a decadent atmosphere.
He slowly looked down at my swollen wrist. I was about to speak, but Johan was faster.
“It’s still swollen.”
“This is……”
“You have a fever, too. How much pain do you think it takes for the madam to feel not okay?”
Johan examined my forehead and murmured in a cold voice filled with complaint.
“I’m really fine. I can’t say it hurts when it doesn’t.”
“If you’re okay, why didn’t you tell me?”
The tone of his voice wasn’t much different from usual, but somehow, I felt that Johan was upset.
‘Because he found out the person he should be revenging on was sick?’
Thinking about it, it was enough to annoy him from his point of view.
He planned carefully for revenge, but the person he should be revenging on looked like they were going to die of illness. It would definitely feel empty.
“I made a mistake. It’s not a serious illness, I didn’t want to worry you.”
“So you can faint for a week even if it’s not a serious illness. Has the Empire’s medicine been so generous?”
I just woke up from sleep and was a little looser than usual, I asked Henry.
“I could have been better in a week. Isn’t that right, Mr. Henry?”
Johan looked at Henry with a subtle smile. Henry, who had to choose sides between the two, started to sweat profusely.
“It could be…… Madam. But the possibility is small. Although it’s a symptom that ordinary people would get up and get better lightly, you’ve been fainting for a week.”
Hearing the word ‘faint’, it seems that my condition was really serious. But it felt like a distant story to me.
‘I’ve been fainting often anyway……’
I wasn’t sick right now, so it didn’t feel serious.
Johan asked as he lightly grabbed Henry’s shoulder. His low voice naturally pressured the other person.
“So what was the cause of my wife’s collapse?”
“At…… At the moment, all I can say is that she has a weak constitution.”
“After making me wait for a week, is that all you have to say?”
Johan’s attitude didn’t change much, but I didn’t know why it felt so scary. I stepped in because I was afraid that unnecessary sparks would fly at Mr. Henry.
“What the doctor said is right. I’ve been sick often since I was young. This kind of thing happened often.”
The corners of Johan’s mouth twisted a bit more.
“Why didn’t you tell me earlier?”
“I didn’t see the need to say it. You didn’t ask me, and it’s not a chronic illness.”
“……What about the Duke of Libertan?”
“They couldn’t do anything exactly.”
The Duke of Libertan was trash that abused me. But that doesn’t mean I think that all the reasons I was sick were because of the Duke of Libertan.
‘I’ve been sick often since the orphanage.’
It got worse when I went to Libertan, but that was probably because of stress.
“Diseases can’t be cured by effort alone. What can a doctor do if he can’t cure it even if he examines it?”
The best example of that was his own daughter, Estelle.
‘Estelle died of an incurable disease.’
Unlike me, the real princess of the Duke of Libertan, loved by everyone.
If Estelle hadn’t died in the first place, I wouldn’t have been adopted by the Duke of Libertan or had to go through this hardship.
Because the Duke of Libertan, who lost his daughter to an incurable disease, had no reason to adopt an orphan girl.
‘Was the name of the disease the Sleeping Princess?’
The name of the disease was coined because it made the patient fall asleep forever like the princess in the fairy tale. Of course, contrary to the name, it was a pretty nasty disease. The patient’s body gradually deteriorated without their knowledge, and in the end, they faced death as if they were sleeping.
‘If it were just a long sleep, it would have been fine.’
But it was not.
The patient, upon falling asleep, ceased all bodily functions and thus ended their life.
‘I’m not even afflicted with such a disease, so what.’
Sleeping Beauty Syndrome is a rare disease. How saddened the Libertan Duke’s family must have been when, of all people, Estelle was diagnosed with this rare disease.
Listening to my words in silence, Johann’s eyes fell heavily.
“So, you’re saying that I should pretend to know nothing and not worry about it?”
“I didn’t go that far.”
I tried to come up with a response that Johann would likely accept.
“Just that it’s not worth wasting emotions over it unnecessarily.”
Johann’s smile seemed to have slightly cracked.
“Why?”
Johann slowly moved his face closer.
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
