The sender of the note was not named, but I recognized them immediately. There was only one person who would send me such a note.
[My lady, stay awake tonight. We must sleep together.]Without realizing, I blushed while reading the short sentence repeatedly.
‘Why, why, why, what is he trying to do.’
It wasn’t the first time Johan came to my room, but for some reason, I was extremely nervous.
‘It’s not that I’m strange.’
We haven’t spent our wedding night yet. Neither Johan nor I have talked about it.
‘It’s probably because I’m a fake wife.’
Unless we are truly married on paper, there is no need to spend the wedding night. But strangely, I thought that the wedding night could actually happen.
‘Let’s stop thinking about it.’
I held my flushed cheeks and shook my head. Anyway. Johan would have been joking, as he always did.
I left the note aside and fell flat on the bed.
‘The room has completely changed.’
I had not been able to think about it as many things had been happening in succession.
‘The room is completely different from the previous dull one. It’s very classic.’
I felt that the room itself exuded a sense of elegance. I should have asked Betty what kind of room this was when I let her go.
‘I’ll ask tomorrow.’
I turned off my interest in the unresolved parts and focused on the book.
The magic book was all written in ancient language.
The ancient language was the hardest language in the empire, as it was an extinct language. Probably because of that, Johan let me read this book.
‘Just because you can read ancient language doesn’t mean you can use magic.’
My skills in the ancient language weren’t bad, so I could read the magic book quickly. Then my gaze stopped at one point.
‘Dark magic.’
[Magic is a power that changes the laws of the world through magic power.] [Dark magic can break the principles of the world through sacrifices and curses.] [The price paid by each dark wizard is different. Because each dark wizard has different desires.]‘Does it take a toll in the future?’
My heart began to thump strangely the moment I read that sentence.
In the original story, Johan offered himself as a sacrifice to become a dark wizard. But according to the book, a dark magic sacrifice was not that simple.
‘Come to think of it, it didn’t come out what it means to offer oneself as a sacrifice.’
[However, dark magic can take a future that the wizard himself could not predict as a price. In a way that even the dark wizard himself cannot know.]As I was ruminizing over the ominous passage about dark magic, a shadow covered over my head. A big hand elegantly picked up and took out my book.
“The basics of magic.”
I saw Johan in a robe in front of me.
“It’s a book I’ve seen a lot before.”
Johan’s beautiful muscles were elegantly exposed between the blue robes. I had seen them once before, but it was hard to take my eyes off the sleekly split man’s body.
‘It feels completely different from a suit.’
Unconsciously, I swallowed my saliva.
Unlike a suit that showed restraint, a robe was a garment that revealed the body as it was. So I could clearly feel his perfectly admirable physique.
A thick chest, wide shoulders that dropped exactly, and a slim waistline that stimulated a strange atmosphere.
‘I, I shouldn’t look so blatantly……’
But my gaze very honestly swept over Johan’s body.
Johan, seemingly oblivious to my gaze, nonchalantly sat down next to me and asked. My heart fluttered strangely every time the loosely tied robe moved.
Johan tilted his head and asked kindly.
“Was the ancient language not difficult? There are many difficult words in ancient languages.”
“I skipped parts I didn’t know and read, so it was fine. Anyway, I wasn’t reading to study seriously……”
“Hmm.”
Johan, who quickly skimmed the book, looked at me again.
“My lady. Do you want to study properly?”
“Study?”
“It’s a book that’s usually hard to borrow. I can teach you when I have time.”
“By the Duke?”
“Of course, me.”
He shrugged his broad shoulders.
“Is there anyone else you want to study with?”
It was a question with a light laugh as if it was a halfjoke, but it was a sound that made a corner of my heart twitch. I shook my head wildly and answered.
“Who would I be asking such a thing?”
“Exactly.”
Yohan, who casually shook his head, chuckled.
“If such a person exists, they won’t be left alone.”
I had a feeling that it would be problematic to continue to bring up this magic as a topic. I showed Johan a note that I had left next to my bed and asked.
“But this note, why did we have to stay awake?”
“Ah, that.”
Yohan took the note from my hand and dropped it on the floor.
“Because it’s our first night sharing a marital bedroom.”
“……Pardon?”
“Until now, we slept in the lady’s room, but now we’ve moved to the marital bedroom. So, as per tradition, the couple should share a room.”
So this spacious and luxurious room was the Duke’s marital bedroom?!
The oldfashioned atmosphere that permeated the entire room began to make sense.
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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