“……Reian?”
It was a name not mentioned in the original work. No matter how much I searched my mind, I had no memory of reading the name ‘Reian.’
Could he be lying to me about his name?
I looked up at the man quietly.
“You… No, Reian.”
“Speak.”
“Yoon Gaeul. You called me that as you looked at me. Why did you do that?”
I wasn’t sure if I would get the clear answer I wanted this time, either.
“I had a dream.”
“……A dream?”
“A different world from here. That person appeared in my recurring dream.”
I appeared in his dream?
A character in a novel dreaming of my past life, does that mean my possession of this novel isn’t just a mere coincidence?
“I recognized you the moment I saw you. That you were Yoon Gaeul.”
His unwaveringly resolute tone and gaze, without the slightest doubt in his words.
I realized it would be futile to deny that I was that person.
“Is that all? The person named Yoon Gaeul kept appearing in your dream, and you recognized me as that person the moment you saw me?”
“……Yes.”
The pause before answering, and his appearance as he responded, convinced me he was hiding something, but I didn’t press him.
He wouldn’t tell me anyway.
‘He really can’t lie.’
Since the lie was so obvious, it seemed I could believe the rest to be true.
My head was spinning.
Did my past self know this man?
The thought suddenly crossed my mind that Reian might also be a reincarnate like me.
If what I believe to be ‘real life’ in my past life is a ‘dream’ to that man, and what I believe to be ‘inside a novel’ in my current life is ‘reality’ to that man?
Depending on which life is emphasized, a past life could become a dream, and vice versa.
I slowly recalled the faces of the people I knew as Yoon Gaeul.
But there was no one who stood out as this person.
“What did Yoon Gaeul in your dream call you?”
“I merely gazed at you.”
“Not even once, did I see you?”
Instead of answering, the man averted his gaze in silence.
Knowing he was bad at lying, he avoided the question.
‘A tricky question, I suppose.’
Whatever his intention in approaching me was, it didn’t seem like a threat. If it were, he would have left me to die when I fell off the cliff.
So, what does he want from me?
That was the calm question I needed to figure out now.
First and foremost, I needed to sort out the situation I was in.
I had been attacked while traveling with Carlott and had crashed. What had happened afterward?
Frankly, having fallen from that height of the cliff, it would be assumed that I was dead.
Would they even search for me, assuming I was alive?
‘……No.’
I smiled bitterly.
I was certain they might not even search, assuming I was dead.
They might even think it was a blessing that the bastard child, the eyesore of the family, had died on her own.
Especially since the last person who saw me was Carlott… There was a possibility of covering up the crash site.
The one who hated me most among the Ferdia family was Carlott.
‘So, this might be an opportunity.’
If I could become a dead person, even if I ran away blatantly, it wouldn’t matter.
Except for the fact that I was penniless, it ultimately turned out well for me.
Before the novel started, escaping the Ferdia mansion meant I didn’t have to worry about dying.
Whether my sister was adopted or not, it had nothing to do with me.
But why?
Why did I feel like there was a hole in the middle of my chest?
I stared quietly at the man’s face as he started to apply medicine to my other arm while I was lost in thought.
His flawless skin, long eyelashes over his reddened eyes, and the appearance that caught my eye.
Suppressing the urge to touch his softlooking black hair, I asked Reian.
“Where am I?”
“This is where I reside.”
So this simple bedroom is where this man lives.
“Was there anyone else on the cliff from where I fell?”
Since I fell right after dealing with the last assassin, Carlott would be safe, but I couldn’t rule out the possibility that there may have been another assassin who hadn’t revealed himself.
The man’s hands, which were winding a bandage over quite a deep wound, slowed down.
“I don’t know about the situation on the cliff. But……”
“But?”
“It appears that a largescale search is underway in Ferdia.”
“……A search?”
I was utterly surprised, as it was not even a little bit considered.
A search? Even at the family level…?
There’s no way they’d mobilize a whole knight’s brigade just to find me. I thought of another family.
“Did another boy fall after I did? That redcurled haired man……”
Then, assuming that Carlott fell, and they started a search in Ferdia to find that guy.
But my guess was firmly denied by Reian.
“No.”
“……They’re really looking for me?”
I was dumbfounded. I felt like I was still in a dream, lacking a sense of reality.
What was even more surprising was Reian’s following words.
“Yes. It’s been half a day since you fell off the cliff.”
Even half a day had passed.
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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