Moreover, during the training period, everything needed for daily life was provided, so she gave up the unnecessary salary for the operation of the knight order.
So from now on, though she will have a salary, she has not saved any fortune.
Thus, Lucia looked at the child, who was wrapping herself in her clothes, and felt frustrated again.
But if she hadn’t saved the saint today, she wouldn’t have been able to bring her without any problems.
‘Yes. Positively. I burned the documents, and I wasn’t found out. I didn’t get any assignments.’
Exactly 11 years until the child turns 16, the age of awakening.
During that time, she can hide her existence with control stones, work as a knight for the royal family, gather information, find the group dealing with the saint’s seal, and eliminate them gradually.
…Even so.
‘I have to worry about what to eat tomorrow.’
This training center is an isolated training center, thoroughly separated from the secular world, solely for training.
Even the maid who had been commuting here so far only came when there were no people around, so they had never even seen each other’s faces.
So that service also ended the moment the childcare leave began.
The fortunate thing in this unfortunate situation is that it’s not a bad timing since neither the child nor Lucia was ready to meet others yet.
‘If I want to hire a maid, she’ll have to call me mom. But it’s hard to force her to call me that. How can I, who can’t even cook right now…’
As Lucia’s expression grew stern with many concerns, the child lowered her head and spoke softly.
“…I want to go home…”
Lucia doubted her ears at the child’s unexpected words.
‘What did she say?’
She came this far, so wasn’t she willing to live together?
But on reflection, the child had never said even once that she would stay together.
Though surprised, she calmly asked.
“Are you talking about the orphanage? Why?”
The child glanced at the dirty white gloves on the table and hung her head again.
Actually, the child did not want to go back.
Warm water, smooth and clean bathtub.
It was full of things she had never experienced in her life, even if it was brief.
But what lingered more than those things was this sweet moment, where a woman who resembled the mother from her dreams had said she would become her mother.
Was the dream the opposite?
However, the child remembered.
The serious faces of adults. The long sigh they exhaled looking at her.
Everything was the same as the portrayal of adults by the children of the orphanage, who were abandoned for their wrongdoings.
Unlike the children of nobles, the children of the orphanage learned two things when they started to read.
How to care for a child, how to do housework, and how to tend to farm work.
The situation of children being adopted 5 years after the war ended was for the sake of lacking labor.
Weak girls were adopted to take on the role of nanny or maids, taking care of housework and younger siblings, and boys were adopted to assist in labor.
Moreover, not just an ordinary family adoption, Annie was sold into the state of a cleaner for a filthy warehouse where no one lived.
In front of Lucia who was saying that she would adopt such an ugly self, the child who knew her position understood this situation even more.
It was time to go back as if waking from a dream, having done wrong.
The child, looking at Lucia who asked for a reason, did not lie.
“……Annie. Dirty. Eyes not big.”
However, a lack of vocabulary could not be helped.
At the gloomy child’s words, Lucia looked around.
‘Is that so.’
Indeed, this place is a training ground for the Imperial Knights.
Decorative weapons hanging on the walls, a very dry place where even common sofas or furniture were not seen except for the parlor and dressing room.
Furthermore, the always clean floor was dirty because of today’s incident, and the atmosphere was like an old office.
So, it was absolutely not a place for a 5yearold child to live, just as the child said.
“That’s right. It’s true.”
“……!”
The child was engulfed in shock as if hit by a stone falling from the sky.
Although she expected that the adult in front of her would think so, there was a tremendous difference between actually hearing it.
The child began to tremble her soft little chin to hold back tears that seemed to burst soon.
Then, Lucia was the one who was flustered this time.
She had only sympathized with what the child was saying, but it seemed that tears would burst at any moment.
Did she make a mistake?
Lucia went over the situation so far.
The only place the child had been in this accommodation so far was just one bathroom.
And the situation that triggered the crying…….
Looking at her dirty boots, Lucia reconsidered the child’s words.
‘Could it be……. Dirty means. Herself?’
Although it was a suspicion she had never imagined, that was the only thing she could think of. She decided to ask the child.
“Did the bathroom get dirty because……. ”
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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