The entire duchy was shaken by a massive earthquake.
People in the dining room were flustered, grabbing hold of falling tableware.
“Madaminwaiting, be careful!”
Upon hearing the shout, I turned and saw a vase from the shelf falling toward me.
I should have dodged, but it was too late.
The moment I tightly closed my eyes, Cassard embraced me.
Crash!
The sound of glass shattering came from behind his back.
“Cassard, are you alright?”
“I’m fine. We need to get outside.”
Cassard pulled me toward the exit.
“Louis, come here!”
I extended my hand toward Louis.
The child pulled me toward him, his eyes filled with anxiety.
“Aileen, where’s Evan?”
Evan had been absent all morning.
If he were outside the building, it would be better, but what if he’s inside?
An ominous thought dominated my mind.
“Madam, get out first! He is not here!”
Mikhail was casting a protective spell over us.
“Are you sure?!”
“I am sure. Now hurry!”
Eventually, we evacuated outside with the servants.
The tremors came intermittently, sometimes shaking us violently.
The castle wasn’t collapsing, but no one could hide their alarmed expressions.
Meanwhile, Mikhail was staring at the domestic magic tower.
“The tremor is magical in nature. It’s emanating from the magic tower.”
“Is there a problem? And you said earlier Evan wasn’t here…”
Mikhail’s expression grew serious.
After a moment of silence, he divulged the truth.
“I believe Evan is inside there.”
“What?!”
Could the earthquake be related to Evan?
Whether it was true or not, the child was in danger.
Recognizing this, Cassard sprang into action.
“I’ll go. Mikhail, protect the two.”
“As you command.”
Before I could stop him, he had already moved far away.
“Cassard!”
My shout was accompanied by an intensification of the earthquake.
At that moment, Louis let go of my hand.
“I’m going too!”
“Louis?!”
Louis suddenly broke through the protective barrier.
My body involuntarily followed him.
I heard Mikhail’s voice behind me, but I couldn’t stop.
The moment I stepped into the garden where the magic tower was located, everything was quiet.
‘The earthquake stopped.’
As if the shaking of the entire castle had been a dream, silence enveloped the area.
Rushing inside the tower, a sudden chill engulfed us.
‘Why is it so cold?’
While wrapping my arms around myself, I saw Cassard and Louis.
Both were staring into the air.
Evan was floating there.
‘…Evan?’
Sharp shards of ice orbited around the seemingly unconscious Evan.
Cassard leapt into the air, shielding Evan with his body and landed back on the ground, holding him.
As I hurried toward them, Cassard stopped me.
“Don’t touch him. He’s not stable yet.”
True to his words, Evan’s skin was freezing and thawing intermittently.
Cassard, holding Evan securely, exuded a red aura.
It was the dragon magic he possessed.
The red magic melted Evan’s frozen body, and even dissolved the ice shards that had been floating in the air.
“What the hell…”
I couldn’t complete my sentence, struck dumb by the bizarre sight.
“He’s awakened. Too soon.”
Awakening.
His words made my eyes waver.
The twins were supposed to awaken in about half a year.
The original story described an explosion of magic, not ice.
The immense power that erupted from the children tore Aileen’s body to shreds.
In the original, the awakening took place over seven years, but now it was six months earlier.
Everything had changed.
Moreover.
‘Why did only Evan awaken?’
Had there been a problem with the ice magic he had learned recently?
I could only look at Evan with confused eyes.
Cassard’s magic was stabilizing Evan. Indeed, the child’s complexion improved.
“He must have instinctively come to the tower. Had he not been here, an entire wing of the castle would have been frozen.”
So that’s why Evan had disappeared.
“His magic has stabilized. Still, it’s best if he stays in the magic tower for a few days to monitor his condition.”
“Ah… I understand.”
A sigh of relief involuntarily escaped.
Soon, the servants brought in beds and furnishings to the resting area inside the tent.
Looking at Evan lying on the bed, my feelings became complicated.
Like me, Louis couldn’t bring himself to leave the spot.
“Aileen, will our brother be able to get up soon?”
Usually, he would call him by his name, but in times like this, he always reverted to ‘brother.’
Holding back tears, I hugged Louis and whispered,
“Yes, he will get up shortly.”
His magical power had stabilized after the first awakening, so now all we had to do was wait for him to regain consciousness.
In the meantime, I was able to hear an explanation about Evan’s magical power from Mikhail.
“Think of magical power as the ocean, and the exits to escape from it as merely coinsized.”
The sudden awakening was like a massive tidal wave.
The surging power was abundant, but the ability to control it was lacking, causing him to lose consciousness.
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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