A small drop of blood stuck to the tip of the large, curved sword flew around them according to centrifugal force.
With his sword drawn, Aiden growled and stepped on the area between Jax’s chest and neck, pinning him to the ground.
Jax’s head was smashed against the ground, breathing heavily.
He looked up at Aiden with a twisted expression.
“You people, really rough. Even in such times, a noble should maintain dignity……”
Aiden had no intention of playing along with that blabbering mouth.
Aiden brought the sword tip to Jax’s lips.
The cold and sharp sword tip that smelled of blood seemed to pierce Jax with the slightest movement.
“Explain.”
“Move this sword and……”
Jax tried to defuse the situation with a cunning expression.
Then, the sword tip pressed in further, stopping between Jax’s teeth.
“Explain. Or I’ll make death seem preferable.”
Jax wanted to grit his teeth in anger, but he couldn’t move his mouth properly due to the sharp sword in the middle of it.
“Uh oigh an uh oigh exlain ike ih.”
Aiden frowned.
Jax’s pronunciation was slurred because he couldn’t close his lips, so Aiden couldn’t understand what he was saying.
Jax’s face turned red with embarrassment, seemingly unable to believe the sound coming from his own mouth.
“Tsk.”
Aiden turned the sword slightly to his throat.
“Speak clearly.”
Finally closing his mouth, Jax bit his lip and growled, then spoke as if chewing his words.
“Brody and I are connected.”
Aiden scowled and motioned with his chin. A gesture that demanded further explanation.
Jax added, moaning in pain,
“If you kill me in a connected state, Brody will die too. Since it responds to the caster’s mind, they will experience the same death. Oh, yes. We can say that we share the same fate.”
When Jax tried to return to his verbose, selfabsorbed manner of speaking, Aiden threatened him by moving the sword slightly.
Jax’s mouth snapped shut again.
He can’t kill this fellow.
Then, must he imprison and watch him, and also accompany him?
Aiden’s eyebrows wriggled and moved with dissatisfaction.
“Release.”
“Hmph, such a jest. The moment I solve it, my life will be sent back to God because of you, will it not?”
At those words, Aidan’s eyes narrowed.
Seeing that he did not say he could not solve it, it seemed that there was a way to cut off this connected state.
With his sword pressed to Jacks’s throat, he only moved his eyes, observing him closely.
As a result, Aidan found a bracelet that did not match Jacks’s complexion on his wrist.
“Extend your right arm this way.”
Startled. At those words, Jacks’s eyes widened. His expression showed a surprised look.
“Why the arm, no……”
As Jacks hesitated, power entered Aidan’s feet.
Jacks, who had been under his foot, coughed and exhaled, biting his lips.
He slowly raised his arm, trembling as if furious.
“Take off the bracelet and put it on the floor.”
“No, Your Grace. I’ll do as you command with a knife to my throat, but what will you do with someone else’s jewelry? This is expensive, but……”
Jacks grumbled, trying to move his left arm.
It was natural to move since he needed his left hand to remove the bracelet on his right arm.
But the movement was unusual.
Squeezing, Jacks grabbed a handful of soil from the ground and scattered it at Aidan.
‘Just as expected.’
The soil was moist from the southern humidity, so it didn’t scatter, and the effect was null.
Aidan seemed to have anticipated this, and he moved his body slightly back, dodging the soil, and swung his sword.
After all, he just needed to retrieve the bracelet.
If he stumbled, he was prepared to cut off Jacks’s arm as well.
“Heh.”
Aidan’s swinging sword was blocked by Jacks’s arm.
The sword struck the bracelet that Jacks was wearing, and with a screeching sound, the bracelet shattered.
The bracelet was quite thick, so Jacks could save his arm. But blocked by the bracelet, the trajectory changed, and Aidan’s sword grazed Jacks’s arm.
Hearing the sound of the bracelet breaking, Aidan was about to heave a sigh of relief.
But at the same time as the cracking sound of the bracelet, Jacks’s sharp voice cut through the air.
“Brody! Stop the Duke and protect me!”
“……!”
Aidan’s eyes widened, and the hairs on his neck stood up.
‘Was it not the bracelet?!’
As Jacks, who had shouted the command, tried to pull back and escape, Aidan reflexively swung his sword and cut Jacks again.
“Argh!”
A scream echoed through the forest.
He had aimed for the mouth, but Jacks quickly dodged, leaving only a deep wound from under his chin to his chest.
“You brat! My face!”
Jacks screamed, clutching his jaw.
Aidan, as if telling him to be quiet, stepped on Jacks, turning his body.
‘Damn it.’
As he turned his head, dense plant stems were already threateningly reaching out to Aidan’s nose.
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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