However, he felt that he could not avoid it anymore.
In Lucy’s room, Leydocks fell into deep contemplation as he looked up at the night sky that the child had looked up at.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Coming down to the dining room for breakfast, Kian was nowhere to be seen.
Grandmother had gone to worship because her condition had worsened, Durion was eating in his room because he didn’t want to bother us, and Bica usually ate alone because he disliked eating with others.
With even Kian missing, there were only Sicar and I at the breakfast table.
“Why isn’t Kian coming down?”
“Kian is having breakfast with Bica.”
“Why doesn’t he eat with us?”
“From today, he says he’s going to play with spirits while eating.”
“Spirit play?”
“You must have seen it yesterday too. Kian’s skills have improved significantly. In the novel, Kian is supposed to be able to handle spirits well only when he turns eight. However, Kian’s skills have improved day by day while having spirit classes disguised as spirit play with Bica.”
Sicar said casually, but I wondered if he had chosen Bica as Kian’s nanny with all these things in mind.
“Sicar. I have a favor to ask. Can’t you like Kian a little bit? They say they keep feeling a cold energy from you.”
“Do you think I can easily like someone who will try to kill me when he becomes an adult? And I’m originally that kind of person. You said you’re confident, so you change him. Or, change me. You have to do your best to make my life a happy ending.”
He is a coldhearted bastard.
“By the way, Lucy left home last night.”
“Did you see Lucy? How did you check?”
“I was guarding the front of the mansion just in case last night, and I saw Leydocks frantically searching for Lucy. Now that he has seen his daughter leave home in the middle of the night in this winter, Leydocks’ thoughts might change a bit.”
So that’s why he went out with Durion last night. I wish his heart would change soon, before the day after tomorrow.
What was most urgent for us now was to hide the sentence behind Kian’s neck as soon as possible. Kian, who couldn’t go anywhere and was trapped in the mansion because of that sentence, was so pitiful that my heart was heavy.
“By the way, are you looking for Valize’s corpse?”
“They’re searching, but it’s hard to find because it’s a snowcovered mountain. It’s hard to find it easily because even when I look at the novel scene in your memory, the exact location is not mentioned.”
Well, it did take a few months in the original work.
We finished breakfast roughly and got up from our seats to play with Kian again today.
“Recently, it seems to be the most exhausting thing in my life. Even when Agashion cursed me, it wasn’t this hard.”
“That’s why they say it takes a whole village to raise a child.”
Durion, who was following us down the corridor, seemed to agree, rubbing his tired shoulders as he walked.
“I’m telling you, I wouldn’t be this tired even after going to the training room. After folding a thousand sheets of colored paper for two days, I fainted, can you believe it?”
“Anyone who hears you would think you made them all by yourself. You didn’t even make a hundred. I wonder how such a slow guy learned swordsmanship. It’s only laughable.”
“If it was about breaking paper instead of folding it, I would have been the fastest.”
“Then it would be hard to leave a good impression on Kian.”
Durion slapped his hand as if he was saying something ridiculous.
“Doesn’t the young master treat me more kindly than Bica? He said he felt a faint warmth from me.”
“It’s fortunate that Kian seems to open up to you at least.”
Durion smiled brightly, as if he was in a good mood, and then said as if he had thought of something.
“Duke. You’re not planning to do that weird origami again today, are you? How about sledding in the snow today? Thanks to the snow falling in the back hill, it’s perfect for sledding.”
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
