“It’s impossible right now. I can’t perform the heart transplant.”
Espen’s breathing became rough. He glared at Evelyn with bloodshot eyes and shouted.
“It’s not your decision to make! You have to think about how to finish the job without any problems!”
Evelyn cringed at his outburst. Evelyn’s gaze scanned Espen.
‘Why do you look so unstable today?’
She hadn’t interacted with Espen up close often. However, Yunisia had heard about what kind of person Espen was, and she knew well from seeing him.
‘After enduring for so long, is he going to drag the experiment, which is on the verge of success, so recklessly?’
Something had clearly changed in Espen. Just the fluctuation of his mana made it apparent.
‘First, let’s buy some time.’
Evelyn cautiously spoke.
“Well, then, please give me some time to diagnose Lady Marian’s condition. It’s impossible to do it right now.”
“Hmm.”
Even the stubborn Espen couldn’t dismiss this request as unnecessary. After a moment of contemplation, he nodded.
“Alright.”
Then, with a jerk of his chin, he ordered Evelyn.
“Marian is at Baekok Palace. Go there and examine her.”
Evelyn flinched at the mention of Baekok Palace, then lowered her head.
‘That’s where the magic circle was installed back then.’
Among the magic circles Yunisia carved into the royal palace, Baekok Palace had a unique purpose.
Mana amplification.
‘Why on earth did he leave Lady Marian at Baekok Palace?’
It seemed suspicious. Evelyn quickly stepped back from Espen.
On the other hand, even after Evelyn left, Espen furrowed his brow. There was a bubbling sensation inside his chest.
‘Why do I feel so bad today?’
It felt like someone he disliked was poking his heart with a needle.
‘A feeling that something is distorting in a place I don’t know.’
It was an uncomfortable feeling he had never experienced before. Espen, who was trying to calm the boiling mana for a moment with closed eyes, suddenly opened his eyes.
‘No, this might not just be a feeling.’
He might actually be sensing that something was wrong. Espen stood up immediately and slammed the door as he left. The aide bowed his head.
“What’s going on?”
“I have somewhere to go.”
“But there’s an important agenda in the meeting soon…”
“If Abamama says to go, I must.”
The king’s brainwashing was so sophisticated that, to others, a person might seem a bit vague, just appearing to be controlled by someone, making it hard to imagine.
However, from the practical standpoint, that ‘vagueness’ was the problem.
“But today’s agenda is very important…”
If the king mindlessly nodded during the meeting without any thoughts, it could result in a highly unfavorable decision for the royal family.
The aide, who was trying to address this issue, looked at Espen and quickly shut his mouth.
A chill swept around Espen’s body. Espen stared ahead again with eyes where vitality was rapidly fading.
‘This is all because of that bastard.’
Hadel, who was nothing more than a vessel to ‘store’ Marian’s heart.
The kiss between him and Marian, even though it was supposed to prevent them from ever meeting, didn’t fade from Espen’s anger.
‘I need to extract Hadel’s heart right now.’
There would be no need to worry about Marian once that guy was dead.
‘Now that Evelyn is here, I can extract it right away and deal with him so that he doesn’t die.’
Determined, Espen turned toward Changgung with a sinister expression.
“Knights, follow me.”
“Yes!”
Espen, full of the will to kill, led the knights, and their eyes wavered at the fact that their destination was Changgung.
‘Only Prince Hadel is in Changgung.’
‘Surely, he’s not trying to kill Prince Hadel today, is he?’
While it was true that there was a combustion of fire attribute, killing royalty was another matter.
The knights exchanged glances, suppressing their anxiety.
Changgung was no different from when Espen last left. The magic circle absorbing fire mana was functioning properly. If Hadel had been quietly trapped in the palace, he would have been close to his last breath by now.
‘I should have killed him earlier.’
Thinking so, Espen swung open Hadel’s chamber.
As if mocking him, there was no one in that room.
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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