Someone who usually doesn’t assert themselves is now stubbornly doing so. Moreover, even when the person involved, me, says they don’t like it!
Meeting eyes with Hadel, he calmly spoke.
“I hope everyone in this castle becomes familiar with you.”
At his words, I tried to smile but ended up wrinkling my snout, making a strange expression.
Just like how I found my own place by Hadel’s side, I understand that Hadel wants to do something for me. However…
“I just want to become accustomed to being a woodpecker. It’s not like I can always be a human.”
Since discovering from historical records that I was a person from a long time ago, I no longer wished to form any emotional connections.
‘It wouldn’t be bad to be forgotten in history just like this.’
As I thought about that, a bitter smile formed involuntarily. Hadel’s eyebrows furrowed in response to my answer.
“Isn’t it better to always be a human?”
“Are you kidding? You know better than anyone that I can’t always be a human.”
“I don’t joke about things like that.”
Hadel slowly stood up. Despite my attempt to take a step back involuntarily due to his intense gaze, I couldn’t move because Hadel was holding onto my arm.
Facing each other closely through the desk, I consoled myself, thinking that we couldn’t get any closer due to the desk. However, frighteningly, Hadel lightly jumped over the desk and embraced my waist.
“If you’re going to transform into a woodpecker.”
to the side.
“Just kiss me again.”
to the side.
With each word, a spark accompanied a warm flame. Regaining my composure, I blocked the approaching lips with my hands, shouting.
“Let’s talk!”
Hadel shrugged in response to my words.
“It’s an answer.”
What kind of answer is that? Of course, there won’t be an opportunity to transform into a woodpecker if we keep kissing like this, but still!
That can’t be a solution!
I glanced at Hadel, who looked nonchalant and weak.
“Ugh, really. Not a word of agreement. You’re usually not talkative.”
The inside of my palm itched. It was because of the soft curve of his lips as he responded to my grumbling. I glared at Hadel once again and said.
“Don’t laugh. Get used to it.”
“It would be nice if you got used to it. I’d like you to live by my side forever.”
“Did you ever think you would say something like that?”
Even if others don’t know, Hadel, who was usually taciturn, was saying something like living together forever.
Treating his words as nonsense, Hadel’s forehead slightly wrinkled when I didn’t respond favorably. As if putting pressure on the arm that was holding my waist, his grip tightened, and my body naturally turned around.
Hadel, who sat me on his desk, meticulously buttoned up the buttons on my neckline, saying with a calm voice.
“I want to see you in a dress.”
“Just ordinary.”
There was no strength in my response. Due to spending the last few years on the battlefield just before my death, I couldn’t remember when I had last worn something like a dress.
As Hadel neatly pushed back my disheveled hair behind my ear, he whispered in a composed voice.
“Of course, pants or a skirt is fine too. I think tight-fitting riding pants would suit you well. I should buy boots too.”
The list of things I need is gradually increasing. I shook my head. The neatly arranged hair was scattered again.
“So! Woodpeckers don’t need those kinds of things.”
“I need them.”
Staring blankly at Hadel, I was left speechless by his response.
“Why are you?”
Although a response was needed, Hadel, instead of answering, lightly kissed the end of my hair. Stepping back from me, he said,
“It would be nice if you realized that just wearing a single shirt and walking around is overly provocative.”
For a while, I didn’t understand what he meant, and I blinked my eyes, but belatedly, I blushed deeply, crossed my legs, and muttered to Hadel in a small voice.
“…Pervert.”
Standing at a distance where even if I reached out my hand, it wouldn’t reach, Hadel clenched his fist and twisted his lips. In the meantime, his composed voice overturned my attire.
“I can’t say I’m completely healthy, but it doesn’t seem like something that warrants criticism from a woodpecker.”
“P-Pervert! I told you it’s a side effect!”
Because I had lived as a woodpecker for so long, I didn’t realize I wasn’t wearing clothes! But now, am I not carefully putting on a shirt and everything!
“Anyway, I…”
I was about to string together words of protest, while vigorously flipping my hair, when it happened.
to the side.
“Hadel!”
Ah, why do you keep kissing me!
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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