It was written on the card that the delivery person, overwhelmed by Lucia’s spirit, had thrown while running away.
‘What does this mean?’
Leon Ruwins.
He was a conservative royalist, the son of a minister, and a respectable gentleman without a single flaw.
Therefore, if one were to guess, her actions could be considered unethical by him.
Of course, she kept the promise with the emperor by becoming a sword master, but on the other hand, she was also an immoral knight who had given birth during those five years.
What made his intentions even more suspicious was that the gifts’ contents came randomly without distinguishing gender.
‘If he was friendly, he would have sent only the girl’s things. Is he trying to drive me and the child out of here then?’
Perhaps Leon did not like her using the royal residence for private use and was trying to drive her out by filling it with gifts…
…Of course, that was not the case.
Lucia had misunderstood entirely.
Leon had simply sent everything because he did not know the child’s gender.
It made her feel contemptuous, but she decided not to think too much about this issue, as usual.
Because such conservative nobles eliminated those they disliked in their elegant way, and she was always used to such harassment.
What bothered her now was only Gilliana and Vernon, who were joyfully unpacking many gift boxes.
“Wow, it’s cute! Look at this! A dress this small? My taste is a bit more, um, wild.”
“Look at this! Such a delicate horse as a child’s toy. It must be very expensive, indeed noble family!”
“Stop opening them. It’s hard to return them.”
Watching their fuss, Lucia sternly spoke.
“Eek? Leader? That’s not right!”
“Why would you return such good things?!”
They glared at Lucia, holding the gifts like Gollum, as if on guard.
“Don’t you realize there’s no place to even step?”
Lucia looked at them disdainfully, as if they were still far from understanding.
But naturally, it did not resonate. The eyes facing her were as if boasting.
“Leader, I don’t know what you’re thinking, but it’s not polite to just return gifts with such clear intentions.”
After Vernon answered with a stern face, he whispered to Gilliana.
“Gilliana. Since Leon is so proactive, what about helping him?”
“Alright. It’s hard to go this far for someone who has a child. If this isn’t true love, what is it?”
Unlike the oblivious Lucia, they precisely discerned the meaning of the gift.
But.
‘Yeah, like this. It’s not polite to return it.’
Avoiding a fight is not an option. It was one of the virtues of the knight that Lucia thought of.
She seemed to think of blood revenge, and her face turned grim.
Her expression was so poignant that if someone knew the situation, they would want to pat Leon’s shoulder with a tender look.
“Captain. Finally, there’s clothing fit for Nia to wear. Wow, there must be about 30 sets of this?”
Gilliana said as she tore open the many similarly wrapped presents.
Soon, simple dresses suitable for a small child appeared.
The clothes seemed much more fitting and comfortable for Nia, who was still awkwardly wearing Lucia’s clothes.
‘Come to think of it, where’s Nia?’
The child who had been mopping the living room floor was nowhere to be seen.
Since gifts had been pouring in, it was certain she hadn’t gone outside; she must be in the kitchen or the reception room.
Hastily cleaning up and looking through the gap in the opened door of the reception room, the child was nowhere to be seen, but small feet attached to a large box were seen moving slightly.
“Nia.”
Hearing her name, the child dropped the box, and Lucia quickly caught it.
“I, I did something wrong……!”
The child quickly hid her hands behind her back and cried out.
The startled Lucia looked into Nia’s eyes, who stammered,
“Ah, so, there were so many of these. But, it’s clean…….”
The child, speaking incoherently, fidgeted as though something dirty had stained her hands.
“…….”
Lucia was slightly surprised.
It was a development entirely absent from her mind.
‘……Was she still worrying about it?’
It made sense. A week had passed since she was brought from that hellishly filthy place, and although she hadn’t had contact with the members now, she answered well.
And crucially, she had even slept in the only bed with Lucia.
In her mind, it was something she couldn’t do if she thought herself dirty.
But there was something Lucia failed to notice.
Even in the most intimate place, the bed, there was no 5yearold child perilously crouching on the dangerous edge.
She had never lived closely with others, so she didn’t know that this dry life with a child was abnormal.
It was then.
“Little Captain! Try this on quickly. Isn’t it pretty?”
Gilliana approached Nia, holding up a white dress.
The one with many small bows attached, looked both cute and comfortable.
But the child took a step back, adamantly refusing.
“Nia, Nia not, no. Wear this continually……!”
Nia, as if not to have Lucia’s clothes taken away, tightly clenched her short sleeves around her body.
“Hey. That clothing is dirty now, so let’s wear a new one~!”
Gilliana’s insensitive but harmless words seemed to wound the child, whose golden eyes suddenly filled with tears.
“Uh? Why? You don’t like this that much, Little Captain?”
The flustered Gilliana quickly waved the tiny dress in front of her, and the sobbing child backed away, shaking her head as though the dress were a monster.
It felt as though they had returned to the first day they met, with only her rags replaced by Lucia’s blouse.
Although she had taken the child on the pretext of cleaning up the mess herself, the child’s heart had not taken a single step out of that storeroom, remaining frozen in place.
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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