First, I found the well in front of the house to fetch some drinking water.
Suddenly, an old lady came rushing towards me.
“Sister! Sister!”
As soon as she saw me, the old lady called me ‘sister’ and followed me around.
At first, I was shocked, but I couldn’t ignore her as she reminded me of my grandmother who had dementia.
With the poor security in this place, it was somewhat scary to stay alone, so after much thought, I brought the old lady to the protagonist’s house.
When I moved to the monastery, I could just take the old lady with me.
After bringing the old lady home, I first changed her ragged clothes and fed her.
Of course, I had to save some food for the protagonist, so I could not eat much, and I had to eat just enough food with the old lady not to starve to death.
Though it was not enough food to completely fill my hunger, I managed to hold back my desire to eat more and left some food.
“I’m hungry.”
From my experience, it’s best to sleep when you’re hungry. After the meager meal, I quickly fell asleep with the old lady.
How long did I sleep?
Suddenly, during my sleep, soldiers stormed in. Before I could beg for my life, they gagged me and blindfolded me.
I was dragged by the soldiers, not knowing where they were taking me.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]In the silent carriage where only the clanging sound was heard, I was trembling with fear, not knowing where I was being taken.
It couldn’t be that they kidnapped me because I was too pretty, were they taking me because I was a foreigner with an unfamiliar face?
Even if they were trying to reveal the identity of a foreigner, they would tell me why, so that’s not it.
Then why…? Could it be a group trying to sell me somewhere as a maid because I look like I work well?
No matter how much I tried to accept the current situation, biting my lips in fear, I could not figure out anything.
After a while of riding in the carriage, it seemed like we had arrived somewhere with the sound of heavy iron gates and the low voices of people and the bustling sounds started to be heard.
Soon, the people dragged me out of the carriage and it seemed like they were handing me over to someone. I was dragged again and sat down on a chair.
‘It’s not a torture chair or anything, is it?’
Given the situation, only bad thoughts kept coming to mind.
I thought it must be a torture chair because it was cold and hard. As I wriggled my buttocks, I could even hear a creaking sound.
At that moment, I felt someone touching my face, and I shook my head begging for mercy.
Then, some hands took off the hood and the gag from my head. I could not properly open my eyes because of the bright light and blinked several times.
As my dim vision cleared and things started to look clear, what appeared before my eyes was not torture tools but a feast.
“You took care of our grandmother.”
There was a man sitting opposite, looking down on me arrogantly with his arms folded.
When I looked closely at the man’s face, he was so handsome that I felt breathless.
As I was gazing at him lost in thought, I remembered where I saw this man.
‘That’s right! The man I saw in the square!’
So this man was Sicar Blake whom I saw in the square.
Then, I remembered the contents of the novel and I thought I could roughly guess the identity of the old lady.
In the novel, Sicar’s grandmother suddenly gets dementia, gets caught by bad guys while wandering around, gets all her clothes and belongings taken away, wanders around in rags, and dies as a beggar.
The grandmother was the only blood relative of Sicar, and after her death, Sicar, who was already halfmad, began to go darker.
In other words, the grandmother’s death was a setting to make Sicar even darker.
‘I can’t believe the grandmother I briefly took care of was the grandmother of the villain in this novel!’
I remembered him beheading the deposed king at the stake in the daytime, and I felt a chill in my throat.
He appeared very calm and polite, but I knew that despite his propriety, he was a politely madman.
Sicar brushed up his hair that fell below his forehead and looked at me with a sullen gaze.
As our eyes met, I felt as if he was reading my memories, although he was just looking at me.
His gaze was so sharp that it seemed to pierce through others.
“Black hair, black eyes…you possess a mysterious appearance that I’ve never seen anywhere before. Your attire is also strange… In any case, I will give you a decent reward for taking good care of our grandmother, but if you need anything else, just say it.”
In other words, he seemed to be offering me money right now.
As the saying goes, row when the water is coming in.
If not now, then when would I get such an opportunity again?
I was in a terribly hungry and cold state, too distressed to feign modesty that I didn’t have and say, ‘I’m okay’.
“I didn’t do it for the reward, but I would be grateful for anything you can give.”
What I was saying was that he should give me anything he could. If I just took what was given, I could at least fill my stomach and survive in this world.
Sicar, who didn’t know modesty due to his nature, had a nonchalant face, even when I shamelessly asked for whatever he could give.
“I will compensate you without lacking.”
Sicar, scary in temper but cool in personality, gave me a reward that would allow me to live and play for several years.
After saying ‘Thank you so much’ to the point of wearing out my tongue, I got on the carriage with the large reward he gave me, intending to get out of the ducal estate.
But suddenly, the grandmother climbed into the carriage with me and clung to me.
“Sister! Where are you going! Sister! Don’t go!”
I was taken aback. No, I was scared. ‘Why are you doing this, grandmother?’ was the phrase that automatically came out.
The grandmother was shedding tears to stop me from leaving, but I was the one who really wanted to cry.
“You can’t do this, grandmother… I have to go… You’re not planning to kill me, are you?”
‘If I stay here any longer and Sicar finds out about my memories, I don’t know what will happen!’
‘Are you going to kill me even after I tell you this is a novel?’
But because the grandmother was crying and wailing, I couldn’t leave the ducal estate.
I resisted with all my might, but in the end, I was pulled out of the carriage.
‘Is this how you treat a benefactor?’
I had to be led back into the ducal estate by the soldiers again.
The soldiers seated me in front of the table where Sicar stood.
He looked down at me and said,
“If you stay here as our grandmother’s companion, I will give you enough wealth that you can live in luxury and still have plenty left for the rest of your life. What do you think? Will you make a deal with me?”
Do they threaten people with a knife to their necks when making deals here?
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.]
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