“Wha……t……?”
Idel still had a dazed look in her eyes. She barely turned her body to identify the person facing her.
“Oh……!”
As soon as she lost her balance, Caeron quickly wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her close.
Idel clung onto his arm tightly. His loosely worn robe fell open from the sides, revealing a chiseled, perfectly defined chest.
Their bodies were pressed together without even an inch of space. The swell of her upper chest met directly with his bare chest.
At the intense feeling of skin against skin, the smile disappeared from Caeron’s face.
Her body was tantalizingly warm and soft. Due to her elevated body temperature, the alluring scent from her became even stronger.
An overwhelming desire to be closer to her rose in Caeron, making him grit his teeth. His hand tightened on Idel’s slender waist.
“It’s you……”
Having recognized Caeron, Idel smiled faintly without realizing his intentions.
Her hand touched Caeron’s cheek. With halflidded eyes, she gingerly traced his faint face.
“Your Grace……”
Perhaps it was the alcohol, but Idel felt bolder than usual.
She had regretted merely looking at him in a previous dream, closing her eyes.
‘It’s just a dream, after all……’
She had merely looked at him back then… But today, she wanted to express what she had only kept in her heart.
“……What are you doing?”
Caeron, already agitated by her actions, looked puzzled by her sudden behavior.
The woman, who usually wouldn’t even maintain eye contact, began boldly tracing from his forehead down to his chin.
“How…… did you turn out like this……”
Her gaze, as she muttered to herself, was reminiscent of a scholar engrossed in research, or an artist studying a piece.
Her fingers drew soft lines, moving from his face downwards, passing over the throbbing vein in his neck and moving to his firm collarbone.
“It’s like a sculpture……”
With a soft sigh, her fingers wandered over his welldefined chest.
“……You……”
The touch was not sticky, but it felt different because it was Idel touching him.
Just making slight eye contact with her was enough to set his heart on fire… Every spot she touched felt burning hot.
‘I’m going mad……’
He smirked. Caeron truly felt he was losing his mind in this unexpected situation.
The woman who was exploring his body with a dreamy look in her eyes was clearly not in her right mind.
Upon entering the room connected to the Duke’s, Caeron spotted Idel, leaning against a table by the window.
Seeing the halfempty wine bottle and Idel’s unusual posture, one of Caeron’s eyebrows raised.
As he approached, she, seemingly unaware of his presence, suddenly stood up and slowly started walking towards the bed.
Her staggering movements looked worrisome. When he caught her in his arms, just as she seemed to be losing her direction, he realized she was drunk.
‘I thought she’d be a bit sober……’
On closer inspection, she wasn’t just lightly tipsy like before. Moreover, the heavily drunk Idel began to act in unimaginable ways.
If her actions were meant to seduce him, he would have carried her to the bed without a second thought…
But her eyes, innocent like a child’s, looked at him with pure wonder. On the other hand, her alluring appearance in the bold negligee created a contradictory allure, driving the onlooker mad.
For the first time in his life, Caeron gnashed his teeth, feeling helpless. He was enduring her torture, unable to react.
As the naive torturer’s fingers moved past his chiseled chest and headed downward, he couldn’t hold back any longer and seized her wrist.
The shrewd negotiator thought of a suitable plan to restrain this unsuspecting woman in a split second, fixing her with a meaningful gaze.
“Do you want to touch more?”
Idel responded to the subtly suggestive question with a light chuckle, nodding her head.
At first, she wanted to trace the face of the man she could never dare touch usually. But then, her gaze slowly moved downward, naturally letting out an admiring sigh.
The man’s body, finely crafted like a masterpiece of a sculpture, was delicate and beautiful. It felt entirely different from the anatomical drawings she had seen in books.
This unfamiliar curiosity drew her in. She wanted to know more, to feel it firsthand.
“Just behave then.”
Getting the response he wanted, Caeron, with a deep smile, lifted Idel into his arms. He headed straight for the bed and laid her down on its sheets, then climbed up after her.
The woman, dressed in a seethrough negligee, provided a substantial visual stimulus just by lying there.
The desire to scan every inch of her beautiful form was overwhelming, but… Looking into her dazed eyes, Caeron barely managed to hold onto his sanity.
“Listen closely. If you touch me, I will do the same.”
Idel’s eyes widened slightly as he whispered softly into her ear.
“It’s only fair. Right, Idel?”
After a moment of contemplation, Idel, recalling the economic principle of equivalent exchange, nodded lightly.
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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