I didn’t know if it was my broken heart causing the sleepiness or if stoats are naturally like that.
As my belly rose and fell rhythmically under the white fur, Hadal lifted his hand off my head.
‘Eh?’
I was about to fall asleep!
I looked up at him in protest, but Hadal just shrugged.
“It’s time to eat. I’ve prepared a special meal for you today.”
“Kyu?”
A special meal? What could it be for a stoat? My eyes lit up as I thought of a possibility.
‘Could it be chocolate chip cookies?’
I couldn’t remember the last time I had chocolate.
‘If it’s really chocolate, I might swear loyalty.’
As if on cue, someone knocked on the door. It was the butler.
He carefully placed a silver-lidded dish on the desk.
“Here it is, Your Highness.”
As Hadal nodded, the butler quietly left, not without giving me a long look.
I hunched my shoulders, and a warm hand covered my back, pushing me toward the dish.
“Go on.”
What could be so formally presented? It definitely wasn’t chocolate chip cookies.
‘Seems like something cold.’
Approaching the dish, I felt an unfamiliar chill emanating from it. I shivered and sniffed around, but my sense of smell wasn’t sharp enough.
Hadal spoke seriously.
“It seems you’re not gaining weight because all your food is snacks.”
There it was again, his obsession with my weight!
‘So, is this dish supposed to make me gain weight?’
“Isn’t chocolate or marshmallows the best for gaining weight?”
‘But he clearly said it’s not a snack.’
So it wouldn’t be chocolate. I looked at the dish with a mix of anticipation and apprehension.
Finally, Hadal lifted the lid, revealing the food on the plate!
“I heard stoats like raw fish.”
“Kyu?!”
It was a live fish!
Its tail twitched intermittently, and the small fins on its gills flapped. I turned pale.
‘Scary!’
Frozen in place, I stared at the fish in front of me. Its yellow eyes looked at me intently, as if I was facing a giant monster.
‘Wow, since I’ve shrunk, the intimidation from the fish isn’t a joke.’
As I shrunk, the fish seemed to have grown.
Unaware of my trembling, Hadal pushed my back with his palm.
“Go ahead, eat.”
“Kyu, Kyu?!”
Eat this? Raw?
To make matters worse, there were no forks or knives. I was expected to grab the fish with my hands and tear into it.
‘But I can’t!’
To hold the fish in my hands. Honestly, back in my battlefield days, I was adept at catching fish. But now, I’m almost the same size as the fish.
“Kyu, Kyu.”
I can’t, Hadal.
As I looked at him with those eyes, Hadal pushed me again.
“Don’t be shy.”
“Kyu.”
Does this look like I’m just being shy?
As I hesitated in front of the fish, Hadal rested his chin in his hand and frowned deeply.
“…Maybe it’s not a stoat but a magical creature.”
Gasp, now he’s doubting my identity.
I stood resolutely in front of the fish again.
‘I can’t be misunderstood as a magical creature. Since it’s come to this, I’ll bravely conquer the fish!’
That resolution lasted only a few minutes.
“Kyu, Kyu… Kyu, Kyu…”
In a tearful defeat after a staring contest with the fish, I admitted my failure.
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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