The look in her eyes was one of great curiosity, and Reneb thought with her eyelashes down.
When the answer didn’t come right away, Icar came closer, raising one eyebrow anxiously.
“Or haven’t you heard anything like the rumors about the foreign emperor?”
Reneb took a deep breath before she slowly opened her mouth.
“I know that the Emperor of Basheker is very ‘faithful’ and ‘wise.'”
“What?”
One of Icar’s eyebrows shot up.
Though it looked somewhat wicked, Icar’s handsome appearance made it all the more charming.
“As a Duke, you who have received direct orders should know the Emperor well.”
“If you’re trying to pry, just stop. I’m not going to let it go.”
“…….”
This time, one of Reneb’s eyebrows tilted.
Why the sudden curiosity about her reputation?
She couldn’t understand why he changed the subject so suddenly.
Reneb was about to voice a slight complaint, licking her lips.
Suddenly Icar raised his voice.
“Stop the carriage!”
The rapidly moving carriage came to a sudden halt, and Reneb’s body tilted to one side.
“Ah!”
A scream escaped from Reneb’s mouth as her head hit the carriage wall. Icar looked at her with pitiful eyes for a moment.
But it was only for a brief moment, and he soon jumped out of the carriage without concern.
“What’s happening, all of a sudden? Ah, ah, it hurts…….”
It was when Reneb was holding her head and groaning.
“…….”
Outside the carriage, the growling sound of a beast was heard.
Reneb checked whether the carriage door was tightly closed and looked out the window.
Large black creatures, too big to be wolves, surrounded the carriage.
Then one of the beasts lunged at Icar. Icar swung his sword at the charging beast.
Each object was as large as an adult male, but as he swung his sword, the creatures fell to the ground.
Icar swung his sword again at a beast charging from the side.
The bright red blood splashed on the carriage window, and the severed head of the creature rolled on the ground.
“…..!”
The scene acted as a trigger for Reneb.
She saw Patrick, who had been beheaded on the guillotine, and the creature overlaid. Reneb lost consciousness.
Icar quickly took care of the pack of wolves and climbed into the carriage.
And his eyes fell on the slumped Reneb.
“Hey, hey! Wake up!”
Icar, who was slapping Reneb’s cheek, shouted at the coachman.
“Change course to the nearby village!”
“Yes, yes!”
The coachman began to drive the horses quickly.
Inside the rocking carriage, Icar looked down at Reneb and murmured softly, wiping the bloodstains from her cheek.
“If the young lady wakes up and sees this state, she will faint again…….”
(This is a time divider.)
When Reneb came to, she was inside the jolting carriage.
“Hey, are you awake?”
Icar’s frowning face came into her narrow, cloudy vision.
“Seems like it……”
As she tried to get up, Icar gently pressed her shoulder.
“Stay down.”
“I’m fine now.”
As Reneb tried to sit up again, Icar spat out in annoyance.
“You always faint like this and still say you’re okay?”
Reneb really wanted to get up. After all, Icar’s thigh, where the back of her head rested, was as hard as a rock.
Add to that the rocking of the speeding carriage, and her head was now aching.
“Duke, I appreciate your concern, but I’m really fine.”
Reneb expressed her determination and stood up firmly.
“That’s not ordinary stubbornness.”
Shaking his head, Icar helped Reneb up.
‘How much further do we have to go?’
As Reneb inadvertently turned her head towards the carriage window, she froze. The memory before fainting briefly flashed in her mind.
But soon, she steeled her heart.
“I can’t hear any more about fainting at the sight of blood.”
Icar didn’t want to be perceived as an annoying woman anymore. Reneb, who had turned her head towards the window, blinked rapidly.
The window was clean.
“Did Sir Dohan clean the carriage window?”
“Wasn’t it fainting at the sight of blood?”
“Perhaps…… yes.”
Reneb turned her gaze out the window as if to avoid an unpleasant memory.
“It doesn’t look like we’ve passed the western border yet.”
“I turned the carriage. What would we do in Bashuker with Her Grace fainting?”
It sounded like a complaint at a glance, but Reneb thought that Icar might be quite a kind person.
‘Come to think of it…….’
It had happened before.
In the past, Reneb, pregnant with Cael, had suffered from severe anemia. The founding emperor had advised her to rest on the day of the founding ceremony.
But Lucius did not allow the absence of the empress.
He had said that if the empress did not appear at the important event, the nobles would doubt the relationship between the emperor and empress.
In the end, Reneb had to smile like a stuffed doll in front of many people who participated in the founding ceremony, carrying her swollen belly.
It was a time when she was barely enduring, seemingly crushed by the dress and heavy jewelry that pressed on her body.
She felt dizzy.
It was not unreasonable, as she had walked around the spacious imperial palace for a long time.
‘Are you all right?’
Why She Is Still Unmoved (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He uses various methods to seek her affection, but she remains unmoved.
Synopsis:
Si Qingyu is a doctor who has saved countless lives and enjoys tranquility.
Luo Shaoxuan is ruthless, deeply scheming, and the top young master in the capital. He admires Si Qingyu.
Luo Shaoxuan: I want to be the only one in your eyes and heart.
Features a cold and calm female lead vs A noble and scheming male lead.
There will be both sweetness and torture towards the male after their marriage.
