“Let’s go inside.”
The man kindly smiled as he ordered the gate to be opened. Although he did not match the beauty of Gilma, the man before them was quite handsome, no, pretty.
Luella looked at the hastily wiped red lipstick mark and smiled back at him. Had he been kissing someone and rushed over?
“What an enormous mansion.”
As soon as they followed Hazen and Tien through the iron gate, exclamations flowed out. The grandeur and flamboyance of the garden, which was not visible from the outside, was breathtaking.
Peroz Mansion was formidable in appearance, as if written ‘rich.’
Luella, looking at the perfectly organized garden without a single mistake and the straight path through it, asked,
“But are we walking?”
Hazen answered with a bewildered face, as it was an unexpected question.
“Yes, the carriage broke down on the way home. It will be faster for us to walk than to send someone to the mansion.”
Hazen tried to maintain a friendly smile while wiping the sweat from his forehead.
After helping Luella Rominin down and changing clothes, he suddenly remembered that he had not told the guard.
Kite, not a person to care about such details, had hurriedly changed clothes and run over, but of course, Xenon was trying to send her back, knowing nothing about the guild.
“Alright. Let’s walk.”
Luella cheerfully said, seeing Hazen’s apologetic expression.
There was still enough energy left to walk to the mansion since they had come so easily. Of course, the fatigue hit harder as they thought they had arrived at the destination, but it wasn’t so shameless as to call for a carriage.
“What time is it?”
She asked as soon as they arrived at the huge, pure white mansion after a long walk. She could have called up the screen to find out, but she was so drained from running around all day that she didn’t have the energy.
“It’s 2:50.”
“Is that all?”
It felt like they had walked over an hour, but only a few dozen minutes had passed.
As she was wondering if it would be rude to ask for food at this time, Hazen opened the front door and said,
“Welcome to Hellane.”
“Hellane?”
She had entered the game Hellane, but why was that name here? Wasn’t the guild’s name Peroz?
Her mouth was about to ask why that name was mentioned, but it automatically closed. No, it gaped.
Was this what another world was like?
The moment they stepped into the mansion’s interior, with white as the base and all sorts of colors blended together, it felt like they had entered a magical world.
Certainly expensive decorations and bright paintings, purple curtains fluttering in the wind coming through the open windows.
Golden, glittering stair railings and spotless white marble floors, all shining and gleaming.
On the ceiling was a chandelier adorned with decorations, making a pretty sound as it rustled in the breeze.
Luella muttered in a voice that came from the bottom of her heart,
“I should have come sooner.”
“How did you get here together?”
While admiring the magnificent interior, a familiar voice rang out. Turning around, she saw Peroz’s Gilma, Kite, coming down the stairs.
He had just washed his hair, wearing a simple black pair of pants, a shirt unbuttoned down to his chest, and only slippers on his bare feet.
‘Oh my, look at how unnecessarily cool he is.’
The man, looking like he had come straight out of Greek mythology, was so cool that she couldn’t take her eyes off him, or rather, didn’t want to.
Afraid she had stared too intensely, she forced her eyes away, but like being drawn by a magnet, her gaze returned to him.
“Hello? Nice to see you again.”
As soon as she spoke, Luella’s cheeks turned red. She wanted to greet him haughtily, but she didn’t know why those words came out.
She avoided his gaze and waited for his reply, but there was no answer.
Feeling unnecessarily hurt, Luella looked sharply at the man.
“If you’re greeted, it’s courteous to……. ”
At that moment, Luella’s words dissolved into thin air.
Trying to hide her embarrassment, she looked at the man, picking on him unnecessarily, but she forgot what she was going to say at the sight of his smiling face.
Kite was showing with his whole face that he was welcoming.
Slightly upturned lips. Eyes that were gently outlining a curve. The man’s sharp and cold demeanor had completely changed with just one smile.
The moment their red eyes met, she could neither see nor hear anything else.
In this space, it felt like only that man and herself were present.
“We met at the front gate.”
With Hajen’s words, the illusion that they were alone was broken, and her consciousness returned.
Luella pretended nothing was wrong and turned her gaze out the window to avoid the conversation.
Hajen approached Kite, who was still looking at Luella, and whispered.
“You should have given a heads up at the guard post. They didn’t understand when I said we came to join the guild. We almost had to turn back.”
Hearing the story, Kite’s expression, which had momentarily stiffened, crumpled severely.
“Wipe off that red stuff on your lips. What on earth have you been doing?”
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.”
