Seeing Kite back off, Hajen hurriedly rubbed his lips with the back of his hand.
“Huh? Didn’t it all come off? I disguised myself as a merchant woman and brought her here.”
“Don’t you know you’re not supposed to help in any way?”
“I was on the way to join the guild. Since I’m involved now, I gave her a ride. Thanks to my base, we got here quickly.”
Hajen spoke as he practically ran to the second floor, dragging Tien behind him.
“We’ve done our job, so we’re going to wash up.”
Kite glared at them for a moment before approaching Luella.
“Well….”
“Give it to me.”
Before he could even greet her properly, a tiny hand was stretched out in front of him.
“What do you want?”
Kite couldn’t help but ask with a bewildered face.
“The guild membership form.”
Looking at the mansion’s condition, it seemed they had plenty of financial leeway. She currently had nowhere to go due to an accident involving her own body. So if they really wanted her here, she wanted to join quickly, become a guild member, and openly demand food.
“Membership form?”
A puzzled look crossed the man named Gilmara’s face. Luella became anxious, wondering if his mind had changed in the meantime.
“Don’t tell me, you’re not going to take back what you said? I came all the way here. I can’t go back, so please give me the membership form quickly.”
At her urgent request, the corner of the man’s mouth twitched.
“No, it’s not that I’m taking it back, but I haven’t officially created the guild yet, so there’s no membership form.”
Luella’s eyes sparkled.
“Right. You said you were going to create it, didn’t you? Alright. Let’s make it now. And I will become a founding member.”
“Make it right now?”
“Yes. That way, I have a reason to be here.”
Luella knew that her words were brazen. But she did not want to act humbly from the start. Fortunately, hearty laughter erupted from Kite’s mouth.
Though she might have thought it rude, knowing the rumors about Luella Rominin, he was not offended. Rather, he found it cute how she was demanding what she wanted while also considering her justification.
“You’re clever to care about your justification even in this situation.”
“I’m good at making rational judgments. But what do you mean you didn’t see it that way?”
“I’ve heard a lot about Luella Rominin. She’s notorious as a wayward, wicked woman, a flirt who toys with many men.”
“I’ll reject the terms wicked woman or flirt. I may be wayward and bad, but I know the situation.”
Judging by the behavior of people she met at parties or on the street, she could readily infer that her personality, that is, Luella Rominin, was not likable.
And such a personality was a useful means to gloss over her mistakes and misdeeds, so Luella didn’t feel the need to correct people’s perceptions of her.
But that didn’t mean she would accept outright disparaging terms. She might not be able to prevent people from calling her names behind her back, but she couldn’t tolerate them using those words in front of her.
“Did you do some background check on me? It seems like you know quite a bit about me.”
“It’s just something I found out while investigating Balder Gilma.”
Ah, that rascal who declared hostile actions and made me unable to take a single sip of water?
As his story came up, Luella’s nerves became sharply edged.
“I don’t like it. Why do you keep associating me with Balder Gilma?”
“It’s been strange since the first time we met.”
“What is?”
“I guessed that there might be some confusion in your memory, but now it seems like you don’t remember the past at all. Am I right?”
Stung by the pointed words, Luella flinched, but at the same time, she couldn’t help but harbor doubts.
“Is it strange? Do you know me well enough to judge me like that?”
Kite hesitated for a moment before answering.
“I heard about a fall from a horse. I vaguely felt it when I saw you keeping your distance from Balder in Camun village. But I didn’t hear that you were hurt anywhere. You looked fine at the party.”
A fall from a horse? Was the original Luella Rominin wrong at that time?
“Tell me, is something wrong with your body?”
Gilma’s tone was quite sharp. But luckily, there was a reasonable excuse that could be used right now, so Luella answered simply.
“I fell down the stairs and hit my head after I met you at the last party. That’s all.”
The man’s eyes narrowed in disbelief.
“Your appearance is too fine for someone who has lost memory due to a head injury? You easily found your way here, too.”
“Is the way to the capital so complicated? I just walked straight and it appeared, you know?”
“You found the direction to the capital all at once without a map or compass?”
“I must be smart, I guess. But it’s a warning.”
“What?”
Luella took a step closer to him, narrowed the distance, and spoke firmly so that he could hear clearly.
“Don’t talk as if there is a connection between Balder and me in the future. Don’t even bring up his name in conversation. If you don’t, I won’t cooperate with you. You need my ability, right?”
Kite’s eyes shook a little, as if he hadn’t expected her to come out like this. However, he soon retorted.
“Is that possible? Balder even made a hostile declaration.”
“That’s what I mean. The fact that he made a hostile declaration means that we’re enemies now, perfect strangers. Don’t keep associating us.”
“Are you serious?”
“What do you mean?”
“Are you really perfect strangers?”
“Yes. Perfect strangers that I don’t even want to think about.”
Whether the real Luella Rominin felt that way or not, the person who possessed this body had no connection with Balder Gilma. But why did she hate Balder Gilma, a person she had no relationship with, so much?
‘Could Luella’s memories remain in this body?’
Otherwise, how could the name Balder feel so awful?
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
