Though the difference in age was only one year, the sisters’ appearance was entirely different.
Neris was gentle in features but always bothered by the watchful eyes around her and tortured by rivalry, and after being tortured in prison, she had become lifeless like an old woman.
On the other hand, Valentin had an innocence and arrogance that only someone who had been loved by everyone could have.
“Valentin…….”
Valentin listened to Neris’s voice, cracked and parched after brutal torture, and wore an expression of contempt. A malicious light flashed across her lovely face.
Only then did Neris recognize Valentin’s clothes. She had only thought they were dazzlingly beautiful.
It was the princess’s dress that Neris had worn until recently. A ceremonial dress, woven with gold thread and adorned with jewels, that only direct royals could wear.
Suppressing the despair welling up inside her, Neris asked with a forced calm voice,
“What are you doing here?”
Before answering, Valentin gave Neris a onceover.
“I came to see your end.”
A happy smile quickly appeared on Valentin’s face, apparently satisfied with the current spectacle.
“Looking at your face, you seem to have expected brother, didn’t you? ……But unfortunately, brother Nell said he would stay by his new sister’s side.”
“New sister?”
The Elrandria family had joined hands with many influential people both domestically and abroad to become independent from the empire.
Among them, the most prominent, the current Pope, Omnitus III, offered the engagement between his illegitimate daughter, Brigid, and Nellusion as a condition.
Neris knew well about the situation at that time. After all, she was the person who had taken charge of the matter, seeing it merely as a way to elevate her family’s status.
Even though she was the one who had orchestrated it, Neris had secretly despaired at the time. Nellusion had whispered to her in a tender voice, saying it was all just a strategy. Neris thought he had seen through her heart, her hidden affection.
Neris knew well that she would never be with him. After all, she was already married. But his sweet words had comforted her achingly at that moment.
But now.
“Brother Nell…… came here too?”
Reality seemed to strike Neris’s head mercilessly.
Yes, if Nellusion had thought of Neris even a little bit.
How could he not have known that he had had no contact with her since Elrandria’s declaration of independence?
Valentin laughed shrilly at Neris, who could no longer hide her agitation, and covered her face with a luxurious fan.
Then, with a sprightly motion, she closed the fan and lifted Neris’s chin, smiling slyly.
“Get a hold of yourself. You thought you could really be my sister with your lowly birth?”
With each word from Valentin, Neris felt as though the breath was being knocked out of her.
Suddenly realizing something, she asked with a pale face,
“Was this your intention from the beginning? Mother, father, and you too?”
“Why leave brother out? After all, it was brother who first adopted you to send you to the crown prince.”
Valentin said with a deliberately more cruel voice.
“It was quite useful. True to her lowly blood, she thinks well, and even the eye color must be our family’s… Anyway, the sister had to cooperate with us from a suitable position. But now that her usefulness is over, she must disappear. For a clean new start between both countries.”
Tears flowed from Neris’s eyes, which had been thought to be dry. The violet jewel inside glinted like a crystal in the torchlight.
Valentin, the direct descendant of the duke’s family, who had skyblue eyes, seemed astonished at the sight.
“Don’t resent too much. The Crown Prince would never be satisfied with a lowly daughter like her in the first place. What can mere eye color do in front of real power? Marriage is a deal to us, so of course, it should be with one’s own daughter.”
Who had worked for the family so far.
She hadn’t dared expect great rewards.
She had just hoped that someday someone would say she had helped.
That’s all she wanted.
Neris couldn’t say anything more, feeling as if her head would explode. Valentin harshly slapped Neris’s cheek with a fan, as if he were dissatisfied even with that.
“You’re such a fool. You couldn’t even properly do married life, could you? Every time I saw ‘that brazen thing,’ how pitiful my sister seemed. But well, it ends in 3 days. Once I become the crown princess, I will chase that woman to the temple. You should thank me, you hated her too, didn’t you?”
Megara, the wife of the crown prince, had been playing the role of the crown princess everywhere except at official functions for several years now. She was the same age as Neris, but their lives were as different as heaven and earth.
Rich and beautiful, easily winning everyone’s favor, Megara had tormented Neris for a long time. So Valentin was right in saying she hated her.
‘You will end so easily too.’
Neris pleaded with a voice that had become cracked.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
