Ascan chuckled as if he himself had received the praise, nodding his head.
“I thought the same. I was surprised by the perfection beyond my imagination.”
“If Breloph Young One’s magical engineering weapon is this excellent, it will be a great help to us. To achieve our goal as soon as possible…”
“Enough.”
The harmonious atmosphere lasted only briefly. Ascan cut off Bill’s words without listening further.
Bill looked puzzled, but Ascan didn’t have the intention of using Tanashia for revenge.
He couldn’t forget revenge, as he had told Bill before. However, that didn’t mean he would treat the woman he liked as a mere chess piece.
“Bill, we’ve got Calspelliver. That’s enough. Things are going well according to our plan, so there’s no need to involve her.”
“What are you talking about? If there’s a faster way to take revenge, why go around in circles?”
It was an unexpected clash of opinions. Somehow, when Tanashia was involved, the thoughts of the two men seemed to sharply diverge.
As Ascan was about to frown and speak, a creaking sound, different from the natural wind, was sensed.
To an ordinary person, it was an extremely subtle sound that they would never hear, but Ascan’s keen ears couldn’t avoid it.
Ascan immediately sensed that an intruder had entered the mansion.
He couldn’t tell who the person sneaking into his mansion was.
“Hush.”
Ascan raised one finger to his lips.
Although Bill hadn’t noticed the intruder, he immediately closed his mouth. He acted promptly, knowing about Ascan’s excellent hearing.
After a while, the sound of footsteps getting closer quickly, scaling the building walls, reached their ears.
As Ascan and Bill exchanged glances, looking at the window simultaneously.
Creak!
Suddenly, the window wide open, and someone entered the room.
Swiftly rolling through the air from the empty space and landing on the floor, it was Zen.
At the unexpected entrance of Zen, Ascan made a puzzled expression. After all, Zen was supposed to be the guard to protect Tanashia.
Looking at Ascan with a stern expression, Zen spoke.
“… Something has happened.”
“Something?”
Ascan still had a puzzled expression when Zen replied.
Tadadak, this time the sound of rapid footsteps approaching from the corridor was heard.
Shortly after, without even knocking, the door opened, and Kaltun entered. Breathing heavily, he spoke.
“Pant, Commander. Something big happened.”
Ascan turned his gaze from Zen, who was looking at him with a stern expression, to the suddenly appearing Kaltun.
“What happened?”
“W-well, it’s news that just came from the palace. Breloph Young One has accepted the Emperor’s proposal, and tonight, she’s scheduled to spend her first night in the palace.”
Ascan’s eyebrows twitched. Then his jaw tightened, and the blood vessels in his neck stiffened.
Darkness crept into his golden eyes. From his harshly hardened expression, an overwhelming intensity, almost like a lie, could be felt.
In the room, Bill, Kaltun, and even Zen, all of whom were skilled individuals, were overwhelmed by the aura emitted by Ascan.
Ascan, with a voice that seemed to explode like a volcano on the verge of eruption, spoke.
“Now, what nonsense is this?”
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.”
