“Your Majesty, do you usually have lunch at this late hour?”
“Today, the morning work ran a bit late.”
“Ah…….”
Upon reflection, Icar’s face indeed looked a little tired today. Of course, it was intensified by the slightly languid eyes that added to his decadence.
“Come in.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Reneb was still a little surprised, looking at the food laid out on the table, enough to break its legs.
The last time she dined with Icar was when she first came to Basheker.
She thought it was because they were preparing a lot since it was their first time hosting.
“But Your Majesty.”
“What is it?”
Icar, who was cutting a thick steak with elegant finesse, looked up at Reneb.
“Do you always eat this much?”
Icar, who shrugged his head as if there was a problem, shoved a large piece of meat into his mouth.
He chewed well, his thick lips tightly closed. After completely chewing and swallowing the meat, Icar said,
“You eat as little as a sparrow.”
Reneb, poking the grilled salmon with her fork, responded,
“I think it’s a normal amount of food.”
“Do people in Paradium eat so little?”
Reneb thought about the people of Paradium’s eating habits.
The first thing that came to mind was the dining table with her exhusband.
Lucius was a gourmet.
Although the aristocrats generally had particular tastes, Lucius was certainly at the top among them.
During the ten years of marriage and living together, dozens of chefs were replaced, and in most cases, there was no way to eat satisfactorily.
The food is salty, sweet, bland; it always brought down Reneb’s taste, who ate well.
“Young lady? What are you thinking about?”
Even though it was a fleeting moment, Icar quickly noticed that Reneb’s consciousness had drifted elsewhere.
“I’m not sure about the other people in Paradium, but the food here seems to suit my taste quite well.”
“That’s fortunate. If the food didn’t suit your taste, it would be troublesome in many ways.”
Icar said, placing a plate of roast beef in front of Reneb.
Reneb, looking down at the appearance of the deliciouslooking meat piece, cooked crispy on the outside and slightly on the inside, briefly reflected on the past that she was momentarily overcome by.
‘Your Majesty, the Emperor wants to have dinner together, what will you do?’
Then, Reneb had headed to the private dining room, harboring a little expectation, thinking he might offer a word of comfort to her during a miscarriage and tough time.
But expectation soon turned to despair.
In the private dining room was the unmarried young lady, introduced to Reneb as the new governess.
Lucius had said in a dry voice,
‘You must have heard already. You, the Empress, should know at least how delicate international relations are now.’
Without a hint of an apologetic look.
‘We need a successor more than ever. She will bear my child, so I hope you treat her well.’
With trembling lips from betrayal, the two talked intimately in front of Reneb.
‘Esika, what’s wrong? Does the food not suit your taste?’
‘Um……. It seems a little smelly from the meat. I’m sorry. My stomach is a bit weak.’
Pointing to the roast beef that Reneb had barely managed to put a piece of in her mouth.
‘Come to think of it, it’s true. Steward. Remove this food from the table right now. Fire the chef who made this.’
As the past was recalled, unpleasant memories began to haunt her mind.
Reneb focused on chewing the roast beef in her mouth.
The tender texture and the rich meat juice that flowed as she chewed.
It was when Reneb aggressively chewed and swallowed the meat.
Icar let out a small laugh.
“……Your Majesty?”
Reneb looked at Icar with wide eyes.
“You eat quite well, like a squirrel.”
With a languid smile, Icar looked intently at Reneb and continued his words.
“Since this food seems to suit your taste well, I’ll bring more.”
르네브는 이미 배가 부르다고 말하려 했지만 결국 하지 못했다.
반달처럼 눈을 접어 웃는 이카르의 얼굴을 처음 봤기 때문일까?
어쩐지 거절하기가 어려웠다.
“That being said, the dress you will wear at the palace ball has been arranged to be prepared here. A seamstress will visit you in the afternoon.”
“Thank you for your consideration, Your Highness.”
“The answer?”
Reneb, who had just put roast beef in her mouth, tilted her head.
A faint frown crossed Icar’s handsome forehead.
“I asked you to be my partner, you haven’t forgotten already, have you?”
Seeing Icar a little anxious, Reneb slowly chewed and swallowed the food in her mouth.
Then, seeing Icar’s forehead deeply furrowed in real time, she quickly replied.
“I certainly remember. Alright. Please be my partner at this ball, Your Highness.”
Reneb overlaid a new memory on top of a painful one.
From now on, when eating roast beef, she thought she could recall Icar’s smile.
Not the affectionate image of her exhusband and his government.
“Alright. I accept your request.”
Only then did Icar’s lips trace a smooth curve.
(This is a time separator.)
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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