So far, only dozens of people individually selected had been sent to the Kalua Empire.
If the situation in the Kalua Empire changed or if there were clues about Ascan, they cooperated among themselves, sometimes carrying out joint operations to bring me information.
Some time passed.
The man, who had been looking at Ascan’s personal information for a while, raised his head.
“I’ve memorized it all. Miss.”
Swoosh, I extended the candle I had prepared in front of him.
The middle-aged man skillfully burned the paper with the candle and discarded it into the iron trash can nearby.
“I’ve sent people I’ve sent to various regions of the Kalua Empire. Please be ready, as I will soon send you a written message about where you will reside.”
“Yes, understood.”
The man politely bid farewell to me and left the room.
There were still more subjects to interview, but suddenly, Jerin came into the room and handed me a letter.
“Miss, it’s from the Western Province. Seems urgent. You should check it right away.”
The urgent content to be conveyed to me was promised to be written on red paper, not white paper, and Jerin’s handed paper was indeed red.
Seeing that, I immediately checked the contents written inside.
[Urgent. Witnessed someone in the Emperor Helcyon’s Imperial Guard using an eternal flame.] My heart raced at the fact that I witnessed an eternal flame, but the realization that it was the Emperor’s Imperial Guard bothered me.‘If it’s the Emperor Helcyon’s Imperial Guard…’
They were currently the most famous group in the Kalua Empire.
A few years ago, the sudden appearance of Helcyon’s Imperial Guard masked their faces with black masks, thoroughly concealing their identities.
At that time, the Kalua Empire’s emperor and Helcyon were in the midst of an invisible war, so it was a natural precaution to avoid being assassinated in secret.
In fact, it was appropriate to consider the Imperial Guard as Helcyon’s number one contributor to becoming emperor.
Not only did they protect Helcyon from numerous assassins but they also quietly eliminated political opponents, and it was rumored that they had never lost in armed conflict.
There were many exaggerated stories among them, and some people believed that Helcyon fabricated his achievements to boast.
In the original work, Helcyon’s Imperial Guard did not exist, but now the story is unfolding differently from the original, so I didn’t pay much attention.
But an eternal flame…
A thought crossed my mind, wondering if it could be true.
“Jerin, immediately tell everyone to investigate the Kalua Emperor’s Imperial Guard.”
First, we needed to confirm whether what the witness saw, the eternal flame, was accurate.
“What? Oh, okay.”
It was not unreasonable for Jerin to be surprised.
Even now, there were many people curious about Helcyon’s Imperial Guard, not just me. However, no one had uncovered anything about them.
I wasn’t sure how much information I could dig up even if I took the lead, but it had been a long time without finding any clues about Ascan.
Even if it was a very small possibility…
I couldn’t afford to miss it.
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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