“If you feel that your life has no value, it’s because you haven’t studied the words of God properly. What are you going to do now?”
Right, Ren was currently angry and stopped in front of his house, unable to leave. He spoke his purpose with suspicion.
“Today I’ll go and apologize to that child who got into trouble because of me, and I’ll carry out the punishment myself……?”
Mahradin Endim might dislike Neris as well, but he wasn’t stupid enough to start a quarrel with a freshman in front of other upperclassmen just for that reason.
Probably, it was a trick to try to raise his own stock by defeating the famous and arrogant Ren.
“Stupid action.”
Priest Adams cut it off very firmly. Ren’s anger flipped his eyes.
“Why!”
“Would Henri Voltaire pass the punishment he himself imposed on someone else just because of a mere request? He’s not that kind of person. Also, the punishment of Miss Trued has already been accepted by the student council. Duke Elandria will protect his family, so there’s no need to go and interfere unnecessarily.”
Protect? Ren slightly opened his mouth at this unexpected statement.
He knew Nellusion’s character to some extent. That boy pretended to be kind and fair but didn’t actually care about any student that wasn’t useful.
He himself was one of the living witnesses. Nellusion, who had been annoyingly friendly when Ren’s brother was Pope, was now completely indifferent to him.
This could not have gone unnoticed within the theology department. So this was kind advice.
Neris Trued was already targeted by the Elandria family, so don’t even get involved.
The power of the Duke of Elandria was enormous. A young boy, now betrayed even by the only remaining servant, couldn’t possibly stand against it. However.
“Hmph!”
Who would back down just because they heard such words! What, should I just sit and not talk to anyone during class time?
What about that child? Leave her alone because she’s destined to be used by Nellusion?
Ren sneered as if to show off. The image of Neris from the first day they met came to his mind.
In fact, he had thought about their meeting that day many times already.
To him, who had been made to feel as if he had nowhere to turn, her words were the warmest he’d heard in a long time. Though her attitude was cold, there was no doubt that her words were comforting.
And look at her action today. The son of the Fayel family still had some places to lean on.
But what about the daughter of the Trued family?
And yet, she, the young freshman, had managed to stand up to Mahradin Endim among the much older upperclassmen. If Ren, who was taller and older, couldn’t muster that courage, it would have been absurd.
Having heard the boy’s snort directly, Priest Adams raised one eyebrow. Ren scowled with all his might and fussed.
“Fine, I’m going in, so go do your thing! Don’t stand in front of someone else’s house as if you’re a gatekeeper!”
Ren knew that he had nothing left for himself. If anything, only his divine power. But… he didn’t think Adams’ advice was based solely on sympathy.
He felt there was something more he could do.
Such intuition came to him.
But at least for today, it would not be fulfilled. Ren closed the mansion door, deliberately making a loud noise as he crossed the hallway. Dagon poked his head out.
“Young master, what happened?”
Just a moment ago, Ren was enraged and threw a tantrum, but only now he showed his face. Ren wondered why he hadn’t realized Dogon’s betrayal until now.
Ren wanted to slap his face. He wanted to kick him. Wasn’t it a cheap price to pay for a servant who tried to kill his master?
But what meaning would that have?
Perhaps for the first time in his life, Ren had succeeded in pretending to be calm even though his anger hadn’t subsided. That calmness was only on the surface, but that’s what was important.
“Dogon.”
“Yes, young master.”
Dogon smiled the virtuous smile he had shown Ren since he was very young. Ren stared at him and casually said,
“Go to your uncle.”
The way to Berlen’s uncle was perilous. There was no law that Dogon would not fall into the hands of Omnitus on the way. And then Dogon would be asked the question, ‘What is your young master trying to do by sending you to Berlen?’
Ren was planning to prepare a ‘list of the names of traitors who helped Ren Fayel’, including the name of Priest Birk, something that Omnitus would be pleased to hear.
It was the boy’s first experience of choosing to sever ties with something that had been with him since his past.
During his happy childhood, Ren Fayel never thought that he would achieve such a painful growth. But his great brother was no more, and he had to accept that fact.
He simply hoped he could walk that path strongly, with the confidence of a child.
Recalling the girl he first saw under the white arbor roof, Ren murmured to himself.
(This is a time separator.)
While studying about outdoor tea parties, the freshmen enjoyed the arrival of autumn at the academy.
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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