At her words, Jacks’s hand trembled slightly.
Initially, he had approached Brody to insult her, but the moment he pressed her lips, lust ignited within him unknowingly.
But Jacks did not want to admit it. He did not admit it.
‘Me? With the likes of you?’
Brody saw the change in Jacks’s eyes and gleefully drove the point home.
“If you want, I can do it for you. But I will confess the truth to Her Highness, so do as you will.”
Sure enough, Jacks pushed Brody away roughly.
“Insolent thing. You think you can match me just because I teased you a bit? Do you think Her Highness will believe your words? She’ll dismiss it as your deranged delusion.”
Brody was pushed back and laughed inwardly.
‘Jacks, you’re so easy. I can see right through you.’
Having released Brody, Jacks felt somewhat nauseous.
‘What? Do it for you? When did you want to throw yourself at me like that?’
No matter what he did, his nauseating feeling would not subside.
He looked at Brody, who was sitting nonchalantly, and soon took off his outer garment.
‘What’s going on? Why is he acting like that?’
Brody was frozen, not understanding the meaning or context.
Jacks looked at the rigid Brody, and then, finally wearing a pleasant smile, slowly approached her.
‘What? That can’t be? Jacks tries to approach Brody?’
A malicious face came close enough to Brody for its heat to be felt. He reached out both hands to Brody. His posture was like he was embracing her.
Brody bit her lip in anxiety.
He was not known for a lascivious style as far as she knew. He had been wholeheartedly devoted to the princess.
As his breath was felt on her neck, she felt goosebumps from the disgust. A breath that should not be so different in temperature and also exhaled carbon dioxide. How could it feel so different from Aidan’s?
Feeling nauseous, she closed her eyes tightly.
At that moment, Brody felt her wrist loosen.
Jacks had untied the rope.
He stepped back and said,
“Heal.”
“Excuse me?”
Ugh. Was it a hallucination?
An orange light seemed to envelop Jacks and Brody for a moment.
The next moment, Brody’s body stiffened.
It was the same state as in the daytime.
“Heal, Brody.”
Again, Brody’s body moved on its own, along with a terrible feeling of bugs crawling.
“It’s because of you I’m injured. Especially my face. Make sure to heal properly so that no scars are left.”
The wound that extended from the jaw to the torso, and the wound that had burned the arm.
He could only see his back because he was lying on the dirt floor, but it was undoubtedly a wound inflicted by Aidan.
“Do you want to take the side of that barbarian rather than Orabi, who you’ve grown up with all your life?”
Of course, you brat. What else have you done for Brody other than slap her?
‘Aidan, he… how much he cherished me…’
Although her heart seemed to catch fire with resentment, Brody’s body only moved quietly, unable to speak her mind.
Although she was already weak, Brody gathered herbs and, using sophisticated medical knowledge, carefully treated Jacks.
Even though she had no choice because of the command, boiling with anger that she had to treat this loathsome guy.
Once she thought about it, Aidan’s face flickered even more in her mind.
For some reason, she had faith. Faith that Aidan would come to rescue her.
Whether he could rescue her, whether there was a way, he would come anyway.
After the treatment, Jacks neatly dressed himself.
He tied Brody’s hands again to the tree and went into his sleeping bag alone.
‘What? You’re leaving me like this and going to sleep? What’s with that insolent guy?’
But she couldn’t say a word, couldn’t even move, just sat still like a doll.
Before entering his sleeping bag, Jacks glanced at Brody and said.
Of course, it was a command.
“Don’t sleep, but keep watch. Reflect on yourself while you’re at it. Then you’ll feel something.”
“What? What?! You’re giving such a command and going to sleep? Are you completely insane? You selfish bastard!”
Brody cursed him in her mind.
Fortunately, the command to ‘keep watch without sleeping’ was physical, so she obeyed, but she didn’t obey the mental command to ‘reflect.’
But to say it was ‘fortunate’…
Her body was tired and about to collapse but couldn’t move, her mind wanted to sink into darkness but her eyes wouldn’t close.
Brody watched the morning come, trembling in agony.
But hope came with the dawn.
Something flickered in Brody’s tired eyes.
At first, she was tense, thinking it was a wild animal, but it didn’t look like a fourlegged creature.
Black hair shook in the bushes.
‘Is it possible? Really? He’s already tracking us? We rode straight from there, and Aidan had to go to the village to find his horse, how could he be here already?’
She thought it might not be Aidan for that reason, but the more she looked, the more she was sure it was him.
Tears welled up with joy.
But the next moment, Brody regretted it.
She regretted recognizing the presence as Aidan.
‘Don’t sleep, but keep watch.’
Her body faithfully obeyed the command to watch, and so her lips were opening to wake up Jacks.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
