Aidan recalled the day he first met her.
It hadn’t been that long, but it felt like a distant past.
[This is a time separator.]River began to push the woman into his hut.
Already the fourteenth time.
‘I told you it’s pointless.’
Perhaps River saw himself as too precarious, or he was just trying to do something in his way.
Arguing with him was tiresome, so Aidan simply accepted it.
‘Embracing a woman will make things better? What a foolish thought.’
Just roughly leaving her be and letting her go would do.
But ‘roughly’ was not as easy as he thought.
Suddenly, he sees the woman standing in the doorway.
Seeing this trembling, fragile creature made his mood sink even more.
Why can’t this war, which troubles everyone, be ended?
Fourteen days. He had neither lain down nor slept for himself.
He could not fall asleep carelessly since the woman was in there. So he planned to stay up all night.
Contrary to River’s intention, Aidan’s nerves only became sharper.
The woman in the doorway stood stiffly, perhaps exerting herself, and finally crouched in a corner.
He wanted to tell her to rest comfortably, but he couldn’t give her his bed.
If the soldiers saw him treating a prisoner kindly, it could affect their morale.
It’s just one night of hardship. Isn’t it tolerable for a prisoner?
Aidan made an effort to ignore his discomfort.
So the meaningless standoff continued into the fifteenth night.
Aidan, tonight is the last night, he decided to order River to stop this foolish act tomorrow morning.
A woman came in.
‘Is it starting again tonight?’
Aidan looked at the doorway with deep fatigue that night.
Then he turned his eyes away to look at the documents, but…
Something felt strange. He felt discomfort.
‘Why?’
He tried to find the cause of this discomfort and found it.
The woman was calm.
Lush milkbrown hair and green eyes.
She was looking around the room with a languid, calm expression.
No, she was looking at him.
Intensely, piercingly.
He wasn’t looking at her directly, but as an owner of keen senses, he could feel her gaze.
Unconsciously, his body tensed up.
His eyes kept slipping away from the documents.
For some reason, he began to be curious about that woman.
As if knowing his heart, the woman suddenly started to move.
His nerves were on edge, but deliberately not paying attention to her, he worked as usual.
A moment later, she brought him tea with steam rising from it.
‘Am I… not scary?’
He looked at her. Unconsciously, he was frowning as usual.
When he looked at them, ordinary women were usually startled and eventually took a step back.
Even women from the north were like that, so a prisoner woman would be even more so, right? Especially from him, who even made his own soldiers tremble, known as the “Ice Wall General.”
But this woman simply handed him the tea indifferently.
Suddenly, a strange scent overwhelmed his sense of smell. Was it the tea? Or was it coming from her?
“Leave it and go.”
He spoke stiffly, trying to hide his confusion. Even without intention, it would feel intimidating. His voice rang out even colder.
But the woman seemed undisturbed, calmly leaving the tea and returning to the doorway.
After the woman had gone, the scent was gone, confirming that it must have come from her.
He brought the tea to his lips.
It was strange. As he drank the tea, sleepiness suddenly washed over him.
‘Damn, I can’t fall asleep.’
At least he didn’t want to fall asleep while that woman was watching him blankly.
He got up from his seat, determined not to sleep.
Staggering ungracefully, the woman quickly came to support him.
Once again, that scent clung to him, confusing Aidan’s mind.
He wasn’t sure when, but from that moment, it was clear.
That he wanted her.
[This is a time delimiter.]
Aidan looked at Brody, who was lying next to him.
From that day to now.
Every day was new.
Instead of the sticky despair, he felt a small hope sprouting in the north.
‘If I win in the war, I must give her everything that can be enjoyed as a grand duke’s wife.’
Even so, she might not really hate him.
If she had found it terribly repulsive, she would have refused to lie next to him……. But she had never been afraid of him, neither then nor now.
He thought that he would like it if she felt a little pleased to have him by her side, and Aidan harbored a small hope.
A week quickly passed in this way.
The grand duke and his soldiers were ready to march.
When the fourth star that tells the time rises today, they will execute the plan.
Meanwhile, Brody was busy in her own way.
Brody was alone in the field around ten o’clock when everyone had gone to sleep.
‘What I must do…… is cheat.’
Since she needed to achieve results in a short period of time, Brody was making the crops grow a little faster as she looked at them.
“You’re working hard.”
“Uwah!”
At the sudden voice, Brody’s heart almost dropped.
She looked toward where the voice came from.
“Ah, I apologize. I didn’t mean to startle you…….”
“Yo……Your Highness, the Grand Duke.”
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
