Dark Tavern.
A large man, hooded deeply, sat in a corner drinking alcohol.
‘Already a week has passed.’
The man drank slowly, trying not to show his impatience.
Yet, nothing happened as the night deepened.
His slight expectation turned into a predictable disappointment, weighing heavily on him.
In the end, he left money for his drink on the table, got up, and left the tavern.
Outside the noisy hustle and warm heat of the tavern, the quietly buzzing street greeted him.
The atmosphere was peaceful, to the point it was hard to believe it had been a battlefield not long ago.
Complaints were heard about life becoming harder, but at least their land had not been trampled on.
Looking at Medician, the affluent capital that still provided grain, Aiden, who had now become the master of the North, felt disgusted.
He had done all he could in a week, but all he had gained was bitterness.
He went outside the castle before the gates were closed. It was ridiculous how lax the imperial city was.
The place he came out from was not the plains where a battle had been fought recently, but the west gate of the castle.
[This is a time separator.]The day Brody disappeared.
A few hours after falling off his horse due to a headache, Aiden regained consciousness.
He took out a bead from the halfempty medicine bottle and swallowed it. Although not as effective as when she was around, the headache subsided.
He knew that he couldn’t neglect his responsibility. He couldn’t leave his position at such an important time.
The next day, the North received food from the empress safely and returned Duke Jax.
After cleaning the camp, reorganizing the ranks, and completing all plans to head North,
He handed over command to River and left Dao.
Of course, River didn’t let him go easily.
He used the same method as Brody. He left a note.
He expected a fuss, but his mind was more focused on something else, surprisingly.
A mysterious woman with the color of a thin wheat field in her hair.
Everything else was blurred and pushed out of his mind.
‘Bri……. No, was it Brody…….’
He frowned and pulled out a small medicine bottle hung around his neck.
He didn’t know why he wanted to find her.
He didn’t know what he wanted to do once he found her.
He had given her freedom with his oath. She took that freedom and ran away from him.
‘I cared for her. And I thought she didn’t dislike me.’
He thought it would be hard for her to forget her homeland at once. But if they spent time together like now, she would grow fond of him too. He thought if he made her live luxuriously as the duke’s wife without suffering, she would be satisfied.
But it seems it was a terrible arrogance.
‘Luxury. What luxury can I provide in the North now.’
Looking back at the capital, he felt it more clearly. If she was the ‘Brody’ the duke was looking for, she would have received much more than the luxury he could promise.
He recalled Bri. The bright smile under the moonlight the night before the war, the worried expression for him, the determined look when risking her life for the prisoners.
‘Was all that just an act to survive as a prisoner?’
He sat down on a nearby rock without moving.
He asked the ice spirit, but it remained silent. Understandable, as there was no ice to even look at in this place where winter had not yet come.
Aiden, the duke of the ice wall with the ‘blessing of the ice spirit,’ could easily gather information anywhere ice touched, and could also use the spirit’s ability.
When Brody had escaped before, he could easily find and catch her thanks to the ‘blessing of the ice spirit.’
‘If this were the North, I could easily find her. Then I could at least hear her out and try to persuade her.’
In despair that he could not even find a trace of her, he hung his head.
That’s when it happened.
“Hey.”
Someone approached and tapped Aiden’s shoulder.
The hooded Aidan carefully turned his head and looked at the person who had spoken to him.
Aidan’s eyes widened.
It was the very person Aidan had been looking for but had not met, despite having laid many traps.
“You were looking for someone?”
“…….”
The man, Jax, who boasted thick muscles and glittering golden hair, spoke with a confident posture.
Aidan answered with his head bowed.
“Yes, sir. I’m looking for a lady cherished by Duke Mackacy, with soft brown hair and green eyes.”
He replied, closely examining Jax. Honestly, he didn’t know about those around him, but he didn’t know that he was the bait. Moreover, why did he bother to chase Aidan outside the walls?
Jax asked.
“Why are you looking for her?”
“I’m on an errand. I cannot say anything more.”
Jax tilted his head, seeming puzzled.
“You’re on an errand, yet you don’t know where she is?”
“That’s why I’m looking for her, isn’t it? Judging by the fact that you’ve chased me out of the city to find me, it seems like you have some useful information. Tell me, I will pay later.”
Jax exaggeratedly tilted his head the other way.
“That’s strange. You’re asking what I should be asking. Isn’t that right, Duke Aidan?”
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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