Dowana closed her eyes, and a creeping dark energy began to gather towards her.
The seawater, which boasted a bluer color than sapphires, had gradually turned into a bloody hue.
The pleasantly splashing water became diluted.
Unaware of the changing scenery, Dowana played the water drum in the blood-red sea.
Initially, she swam lightly, but somehow the sensation against her body felt disgustingly slimy.
“What’s this? Why is it so sticky?”
Dowana peeked open her eyes and looked around.
The crystal-clear seawater, like sapphire, had disappeared, replaced by a sticky red liquid.
“What, what is this?”
Dowana looked around with round eyes. Even the once white sandy beach had turned black.
“I feel sick…!”
Her feet couldn’t touch the bottom. Dowana vigorously played the water drum and tried to move towards the sandy shore.
However, she couldn’t move forward as much as she thought.
Strangely, her body was gradually sinking.
The body, submerged up to the shoulders, had suddenly sunk up to the tip of her chin.
Dowana struggled with all her might to escape.
Then, from somewhere, the sound of a child crying began to be heard.
“Waaah!”
It was faint but clearly audible.
The sound, which had been coming from afar, gradually became closer and suddenly spread from Dowana’s toes.
“What is this?”
An itchy feeling rose from her right leg.
Squelch!
“Kyaaah!”
Something grabbed Dowana’s ankle.
Dowana bowed her head and peered into the dark water.
It was a blurry figure, but it was a person. A child with a physique that seemed to be just three or four years old was crying and holding onto Dowana’s ankle.
“What, what is this? Let go!”
Despite being small, the child fiercely pulled Dowana’s leg.
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t release the child underwater. Instead, she was being pulled in.
An eerie feeling made her body hair stand on end. She moved her legs with all her might, but it was futile.
“Save me! Help! Someone, please help!”
Dowana’s voice echoed loudly in the vast, empty sea.
There was no one here to save Dowana.
As her lonely cries weakened, she was exhausted by the time she struggled.
“Ugh, help!”
She was pulled weakly. Into the deep sea…
Just as she was about to lose consciousness, a creepy voice reached her ears.
“Mom, let’s be together now.”
“Huah! Huah, huah.”
At the strange voice, she woke up abruptly.
She hastily groped her body and looked around.
A white ceiling and luxurious bedding.
It was a detached residence of the Wens Viscount family.
“Huah, ha.”
Dowana breathed a rough sigh and felt relieved.
‘It was a dream.’
Too vivid to be called a dream, the sensations were so lifelike.
She hugged her body, trembling all over. She felt a chill throughout her body.
“I feel sick.”
It’s unsettling why I had such a dream. The force that grabbed and pulled my ankle was so vivid.
“But… What was the last thing I heard?”
While she vividly remembered someone gripping her ankle tightly, strangely, she couldn’t recall what was said.
Dowana immediately checked her ankle. There was a strange feeling as if there might be fingerprints.
Despite knowing it couldn’t be, she scrutinized her ankle with a shaky gaze.
“Ha…,”
Examining it closely, she sighed in relief. There was nothing on her ankle.
“I’m really… What am I thinking?”
Just a dream, yet worrying about leaving traces on her ankle.
While examining her ankle, Dowana’s gaze stopped at her anklebone.
“What’s this?”
A large red spot was positioned on her anklebone.
“I’ve never seen this before…”
Was this always there?
Normally, it would have been dismissed without much concern, but due to the intense dream, it oddly bothered her.
“Huu…”
Exhaling, Dowana grabbed her dress and fanned it.
The dress she was wearing was extremely damp, and she hadn’t brought spare clothes accidentally following the impromptu visit.
Glancing at the clock, she realized it was already past 4 in the morning. It was a time when both maids and knights would be sleeping.
“I can’t help it…”
Dowana buried herself in the blanket and closed her eyes. Was it because of the intense dream? Somehow, sleep didn’t come easily.
She tossed and turned, trying to force herself to sleep.
[Ding] Kiiiiiiing.At that moment, accompanied by an old door sound, Dowana’s room opened. She blinked, looking towards the door in the pitch-dark room.
It was so dark that she couldn’t discern who had entered.
A tall male slowly approached. Could it be Eric?
“Eric?”
The man hesitated for a moment, then cautiously approached Dowana. Then, he naturally nestled beside her.
Thinking Eric had come to find her, Dowana, who had been excited, suddenly fixed her expression to a frightened one.
“Uh, who are you?”
It wasn’t Eric. It was a red-haired junior knight.
The knight hesitated for a moment and then spoke while casually running his fingers through Dowana’s hair.
“I’ve come to put you to sleep since you seemed to be tossing and turning.”
Despite the seemingly affectionate words, Dowana saw through his hidden intentions.
As expected, the hand that had been stroking her hair withdrew carefully from her shoulder.
“Shall I put you to sleep so deeply that no one would notice even if you were carried away?”
He cast a seductive glance and whispered into Dowana’s ear.
Although she wanted to push him away, the dream had left her feeling uneasy, and somehow, she didn’t want to be alone.
Dowana didn’t resist and remained still. As she did, the knight’s lips curled menacingly.
He embraced Dowana, overturning the blanket up to her head.
With the rustling sound of the bedsheet, intense movements followed.
The faint moans gradually subsided around dawn.
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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