A woman with a wrist so fragile it seemed like it would snap at any moment.
“I thought you were an innocent princess. But you won’t be tricked and will live your life without getting fooled, I see.”
Herdin thought that way as he reviewed the contract once more.
“There are additional clauses.”
Blair pointed to a clause in the contract with her slender finger.
“When this contract ends, please write a letter of recommendation for Lena so that she can find a good job.”
“Are you talking about the girl you brought from the palace?”
“Yes. She’s sociable and good at her job, so she’ll do well anywhere.”
Herdin’s gaze at Blair sharpened.
“She plans to leave even the only personal servant behind?”
Was she trying to have an affair with her hidden lover, Javan?
Twenty years ago, there was a case where a princess fell in love with a knight, refused the marriage arranged by the king, and fled. The knight was executed, and the princess, who lost her lover, died by fasting.
Scandals involving marriages between high-ranking women and low-ranking men weren’t common, but they weren’t extremely rare either.
Blair could be a protagonist of such a scandal. However, considering that last night was her first night with a man, it might not be the case.
“…Either way, it doesn’t matter to me.”
As long as he could achieve the purpose of this contract marriage, he didn’t really care.
Herdin signed the two copies of the contract and handed one back to Blair.
“It seems quite late now. If you’re done with your business, please rest.”
It was a polite farewell.
But it seemed that Blair still had some business left.
“You must already know, but there’s a lunch at the palace tomorrow.”
On the first day of the wedding, there was a meal with the groom’s family, and on the second day, there was a meal with the bride’s family. It was a custom, and Herdin knew the fact.
“I remember.”
“You don’t have to attend other banquets or appointments if you don’t want to. But I would appreciate it if you could join me for any appointments related to my grandfather or the royal family.”
It was a request based on her memories from her past life.
In her previous life, after distancing herself from him, she rarely attended banquets or meals with the royal family.
Herdin agreed to her request.
“None of your husband’s mistakes should exist, as by the end of this contract, even His Majesty will have no choice but to agree to a divorce.”
Herdin Delmarc was once a war hero, but in the end, he became an imperial subject.
Without the emperor’s permission, he dared not remove the emperor’s one and only younger sister from the position of a duchess.
So the final outcome of this marriage had to be tied to Blair’s complete fault. For that, Herdin had to show no signs of any small flaws.
He added one more impression to Blair besides the ones she was pretty, small, innocent, stubborn.
A tenacious woman.
“It’s a reasonable story. Please keep that in mind too.”
After finishing her business, Blair hesitated, as if she had been waiting. She remembered his polite farewell from earlier.
“Well… Good night, Herdin.”
Blair held her contract dear and quietly left the study.
Herdin chuckled as he looked at the contract left behind by his fake wife.
“Ha.”
After coming to the study to clear his mind of guilt that had been tormenting him all day, the perpetrator of that guilt had come to him.
The perpetrator was none other than Blair.
Throughout the day, his mind had been occupied by his fake wife.
Her pure white, delicate skin, her tearful face and voice, her slender body that didn’t match her plump chest, and…
The sweet ecstasy she provided as if drowning him.
Seeing the woman who had come at this hour without any hesitation, as if she had forgotten what happened last night, he was dumbfounded. She was dressed in nightclothes that revealed her body.
But at the same time, a dirty desire to defile her face and sully her again welled up in him.
What a… horny bastard he was.
He thought that by savoring, sucking, and embracing the woman to his heart’s content throughout the night, his thirst for her would be quenched. But it was a mistake.
What he had swallowed was not water but seawater. The more he drank, the more he thirsted for it.
It had been the same last night.
At first, it was curiosity. He was curious about what kind of expression that doll-like woman would make on the bed.
But the moment he embraced the woman, curiosity disappeared, and only desire for pleasure remained.
So he had recklessly tormented the woman all night and only regained his senses when he saw the dawn breaking. He had left the room as if running away, stunned by his own appearance, still lusting after the woman who was asleep as if unconscious.
She was a woman he should hate. She was the daughter of an enemy he should despise. He must never forget that. However, even at this moment when he was reminding himself of that fact, the heat in his body that remembered last night on its own wouldn’t cool down.
“…Am I going crazy?”
Herdin exhaled a painful breath and got up. Then, he headed to the bathroom once again.
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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