“I stand on the threshold of death.
Unbelievable. Rewinding through the words that are hard to believe, or rather, that I don’t want to believe, my breath caught at the tip of my chin.
Unbeknownst to him, thick veins bulged on Cedric’s tightly clenched fist.
Around the man who rejected the truth with his entire being, a stern atmosphere lingered.
“Do you not believe?”
Eyes filled with resentment, uncertain where to vent, slowly turned towards Evans.
“If your words are false, it will be difficult to save your life.”
Despite the suffocating tone, there was no change in Evans’ face.
“What can an old man, who has little time left to live, gain by lying to the Earl?”
All of this is the truth.
Evans, reiterating once again, looked directly at Cedric.
Cedric, whose eyes were squinting, closed them tightly.
And slowly exhaled a breath that felt like it was gnawing at his insides.
“How much time do I have left?”
Revealing the hidden eyes, he asked in a sinking voice.
“It varies for each person. Some can live for as short as three years, and others as long as ten.”
“How can one know that death is approaching?”
To the incessant questions, Evans remained silent for a moment.
“How can they know that they are dying,” he asked with a sharp voice, like a knife aimed at the throat.
Absorbing the despair of the man who came to him, Evans slowly spoke.
“Various symptoms manifest.”
Cedric’s eyes, deeply sunk and intense, stubbornly fixed on Evans’ lips.
“Like losing strength and collapsing like a sick person, and sometimes even not remembering the people around you.”
“And?”
“Hair falling out completely, and some unable to walk like a person without bones.”
Cedric, concentrating on the voice, recalled the actions of Lamein that he had observed so far.
He couldn’t find anything matching the symptoms Evans mentioned.
“Is there no sure way to know?”
“There is one.”
“What is it?”
“Traces of the treatment I underwent will appear.”
“Traces?”
Cedric twisted his slow gaze.
“The skin that was injured and then healed turns black.”
“…….”
“But if someone hides that gruesome mark and doesn’t show the other symptoms I mentioned, there is no way to know.”
…Found it.
One matching behavior.
She, embracing my product, released a desperate breath at her limit, trying to hide her body.
The sight of her grabbing the gown covering her slender body was just because she was tense.
He had simply thought that she wasn’t ready to accept herself yet.
But it was a mistake.
Cedric, who had been sitting for a long time, stood up.
“I’ll go now.”
The only thought that filled his mind was that he had to meet her immediately.
At the moment when the urgently placed toe reached the door.
“Earl.”
Evans’s voice stopped him in his tracks.
Turning his head with a stern expression, he said, “There is nothing as important as earnestness in living life.”
Emmons spoke with a fleeting smile like the wind.
In the narrow space where the dim light of a small lamp dispelled the darkness,
“Everyone has the most earnest way in front of love,” said the voice of the old man, piercing his ears, and he was enveloped in a strange feeling.
“Doesn’t that earnestness have the power to change someone’s life and the world?”
“…….,”
“Even if it’s a common saying, this old man believes in those words.”
Take a closer look.
Evans, who politely added a final farewell, stood up from his seat.
And he moved towards the place where tools for making wooden crafts were placed.
Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.
A dull sound of hitting wood echoed in the space.
Cedric resumed the steps that had paused for a moment.
For the first time in a long time, the knocking stopped.
“Madam, are you really okay?”
“I’m fine. Look, I’m perfectly fine. So stop asking.”
She looked at Jane, who was full of concern, and forced a calm expression while inwardly wondering if her abilities weren’t listening.
But underneath the calmness, worry continued.
Recently, the black marks on her body had become darker.
Not only did they darken, but their range also expanded.
So, during baths, she made everyone, including Jane, leave the bathroom.
But every time she changed clothes, she couldn’t help but be conscious of Jane’s gaze.
‘It might be difficult to keep it hidden like this.’
Swallowing the overflowing worries, she breathed slowly.
“Let’s go into the village for now.”
But the situation could no longer be delayed.
Lamein started walking again.
As they entered the village, which was sparsely populated with old wooden houses, a musty smell that made the furrow between her brows deepened hit them.
She slowly scanned the silent village as if no one lived there.
The leader who sold himself for a pittance to Heter.
He regarded the villagers as his possessions.
The young children who had just started walking were sold as slaves, and the elderly suffering from illness were sold as bullet shields on the battlefield.
And then, claiming that there was nothing interesting left, he abandoned the village.
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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