Jackal’s eyes trembled as he looked at Ilay.
When it was mentioned that someone was looking for him, he expected it to be the emperor to some extent. However, he didn’t anticipate that the emperor would come in person.
After the empress left the world, Rix brought the disbanded assassins under the emperor’s control.
‘To think he became the emperor’s puppet.’
At first, Jackal thought Rix’s decision was to rectify the center of the Assassins. Since most of them had nowhere to go once they left this place, having spent their entire lives as assassins.
However, looking at Rix today, it seemed his decision was stained with greed.
In truth, Rix having the Assassins or following the emperor had nothing to do with Jackal.
The Assassins were merely a means to achieve his own revenge.
“I didn’t expect Your Majesty to come to such a humble place. But, as you know, I am the person of the late Empress Mama. I have no more attachment to a place where she is not present.”
He bowed slightly in greeting and was about to leave without hesitation.
“Oh well. Following the late Empress Mama, what’s the point? When the world changes, you should adapt to it accordingly.”
“…”
“Besides, calling you a person of the empress seems like an amusing story to me.”
At the sound of the sly voice, Jackal’s steps came to a halt.
‘Amusing story?’
As Jackal turned around, there was Ilay, smiling meaningfully.
“Jackal, you’re a twin, right?”
Then, with the following voice, his mouth stiffened.
He turned his body to glance briefly at Rix, who was standing next to Ilay.
‘Is that what he mentioned?’
When he first wandered into the Assassins, he trained alongside Rix. Since they trained with the twin brothers at that time, if Rix remembered that, he could have mentioned it to the emperor.
‘It’s still okay.’
Rix probably doesn’t know the whole truth yet.
“Exactly, I had a twin brother. A brother I separated from a long time ago, and I can’t remember his face.”
Jackal replied dryly, but warning signals were going off in his mind.
“If you have nothing more to say, I’ll be going now. Well then…”
It was about to be the moment to leave hastily, considering that further conversation could be dangerous.
“Countess Heydern was the daughter of a traitor.”
Jackal stopped again before he could take a few steps.
‘What?’
Even hearing with both ears, Jackal couldn’t believe his eyes, and his eyes shook violently.
“Did you think I wouldn’t know? Your twin brother is the legitimate son of Countess Heydern.”
A bitter smirk spread across Ilay’s lips.
He seemed sure that Jackal, who couldn’t hide his surprised expression, believed it.
“No. Saying that your twin brother, Deern, disguised himself as the dead Jackal is quite easy, isn’t it?”
“…”
In the moment when the secret he had kept for twenty years alone was revealed, Jackal clenched his fist tightly.
‘How did he…!’
In an instant, the secret he had guarded for decades was exposed. The truth he had hidden fiercely for revenge against the empress.
‘Damn it.’
Jackal cursed inwardly.
At the same time, an old memory flashed in his mind. The day when the joyous occasion of the birth of the precious baby he had been waiting for ten months turned into sorrow and anger.
The day he lost his beloved wife and only blood relative. The day he was deprived of them, right there by Rix.
In Dern’s eyes as he looked at Rix, there was a deep sense of hatred.
He wanted to twist Rix’s neck right there, but he had no choice but to endure.
[Rix, don’t kill De… If you do, you and your child will be chased by the empress for the rest of your life.]Jackal’s dying voice echoed in his ears.
There was no other choice for Dern. He had lost all his loved ones, but he had to protect Leia, who was just born.
That’s why Dern abandoned Leia, who was a blood relative, at an orphanage. Secretly, he sent someone to take care of her…
‘It was so secretive; I thought no one would find out…’
As the blood-stained past resurfaced, Dern’s lips trembled with regret.
‘Shouldn’t have come back to the empire, no, to the Assassins.’
If he had hidden his tracks and lived as if he were dead, would Leia not have been happier?
Dern asked himself in belated remorse.
“Why are you trying to leave? I know what to do. If you want to protect Leia, you should stay here even more.”
“…”
“Dern, be mine.”
Then, at the chilly voice of Ilay, Dern clenched his fist tightly.
He couldn’t utter a word in response to Ilay’s command to return.
At the moment when Ilay bet on Leia, who was no different from Achilles, Dern already sensed a bitter defeat.
“It’s an order.”
The emperor added a cruel smile, uttering an irresistible command.
Time passed, and Leia and Akia’s wedding was approaching.
Congratulations and gifts showered down on the Heydern mansion. But that wasn’t all.
When Leia went out into the city, noble people who recognized her would approach, take a few steps, and repeatedly stop. Just like this.
“Madam, I heard you’re finally having a wedding. Congratulations.”
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.
Link to read
