Even when looked down upon, Ambhe, who seemed noble and high-ranking, asked with a flawless and righteous face, but Sugar pulled out the end of her hair and tightly grasped a strand of her bangs.
“I don’t know. He hasn’t come home for a few days. I thought you came to tell me about… Oppa.”
The child’s face, clearly showing disappointment, became increasingly tinged with fear as her words reached the end.
People looking for her brother who claimed to know him, but her face turned pale with fear, like when the man who was bleeding from a split face came to mind.
“Oh… We don’t intend to harm you. We’re just looking for your brother.”
It was a truth without a hint of falsehood, but the child’s complexion, which had paled at the mention of the man who was bleeding, showed no signs of improvement.
Before Ambhe could say anything else, Isaac spoke first.
“Let’s go.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
Answering decisively, but not moving first, Ambhe, after looking at Sugar once and the inside of the house once, took the first step.
Passing through the door that wouldn’t close without a latch, Ambhe, wearing a hooded robe, shouted inside.
“Somebody will come to fix the door right away. We’re just fixing the door and leaving, so don’t be too scared!”
Right away? Before Isaac could feel doubtful about Ambhe’s words, she headed towards a very small store common in this neighborhood.
Located not far from Sugar’s house, the store, although old, was occupied by an elderly man with strong arms.
“Fix the door of that house properly. The latch is broken.”
Ambhe said so, tapping the table with Taren’s dialect, and the old man nodded and soon called people.
After a while, seeing the people the old man had called rushing towards Sugar’s house, Isaac asked.
“Was it Taren’s store?”
“Yes.”
“There really isn’t a place without Taren.”
“Well, that’s true.”
Ambhe, smiling brightly, left the store and asked.
“Weren’t there more things to ask the child? Even if inside the house, you could have searched a bit; there might have been something hidden.”
Before Isaac could feel doubt, he said, looking briefly at Sugar’s house.
“If she had hidden something in the house, those guys nearby would have already ransacked it. Even though they’ve fallen, those who were nobles can’t deceive the eyes of those born and raised here. But that child surely has something to hide.”
“Did you pretend not to know about her brother’s whereabouts even though you knew?”
“No, I only spoke the truth about her brother.”
“Did you know that the child doesn’t lie?”
“Through the vision passed down through generations in the Akendel family.”
Although it smelled strongly of deception, Isaac swore to the truth before the heavens.
As the vision passed down through generations in the Akendel family, one of them was the ability to see through the deception and lies of others.
Of course, as it was in the vision, deceiving others and crafting more plausible lies than the truth was also one of the abilities in the vision.
Isaac shrugged and added, “At least, unless that child is as good at lying as an imperial spy, all the answers about her brother are true. Well, if you don’t believe me…”
“I believe. Because Her Highness the Princess believes!”
Before the sentence could finish, Ambhe replied cheerfully and soon raised her head.
“Then, what are you hiding?”
“Well, the family has almost collapsed, but anyway, it was a noble family, so it could be related to the family’s problems, or…”
When Isaac paused for a moment, Ambhe shook his arm impatiently.
“Or?”
“Or it could be the child’s own problem.”
While Ambhe comforted and pacified the child, Isaac, who observed Sugar without taking his eyes off her for a moment, noticed some peculiarities about the child.
First, she was wearing clothes that didn’t reveal any bare skin except her face.
Although the weather was chilly, it wasn’t cold enough to wrap her whole body tightly inside. Yet, it wasn’t like the child was particularly sensitive to the cold, as there was a slight sweat near the boundary between the child’s face and hair.
Second, the child was extremely guarded against someone touching her body.
Even though the tips of her hair, which couldn’t feel the sensation, were briefly touched by Ambhe, her face noticeably turned pale. Considering these points together, if the child was hiding something, it was most likely related to her body.
“By the way, those eyes of the child.”
“Yes, I saw them too.”
“Quite familiar, weren’t they?”
“Exactly, although the color wasn’t exactly the same.”
As they exchanged conversation, they simultaneously said, “Similar to the color of the knight’s eyes.”
“Why is Lord Hainder interested in such trivial matters?”
Olivia muttered nervously while scratching the edge of the documents, and Cryer, who was nearing the end of the last chapter of the records of the Bolshevik Duke, raised his head.
“Lord Hainder?”
“Yeah. The one who confronted me about your issue before.”
“Oh, the one who told me to leave.”
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
