He was consumed with a strong desire to take responsibility for El more than ever because of this incident.
Is that all it was?
As the sun set and darkness descended.
Lapellian, who never left Raciel’s side, pondered and pondered until he found one answer.
‘Yes, this is the best option.’
Lapellian loosened his clasped hands, took her tender hand, and made a decision.
“Adoption.”
The result of gratitude to El for saving his sibling and guilt over his inadequacy in the situation had finally taken complete form.
(This is a time separator.)
“Ugh.”
El, who had been squirming a little, let out a faint moan.
As consciousness slowly returned, her whole body felt heavy and numb, as if a stone had been placed on her stomach.
‘What’s this?’
A nasty sensation pervaded her whole body, which didn’t feel like her own.
There wasn’t a single part of her body that felt comfortable, and the slightest movement caused her pain, and even opening her eyes was difficult.
‘It hurts.’
Especially the facial area.
In the coarse language used by the children she lived with, it hurt damn badly.
El cautiously brought her hand to her face, where even a frown caused intense pain.
She felt a tingling pain in the cheek that had been struck by the boss, and soon she touched something scratchy, like cloth.
“Ugh, huh?”
She struggled to open her swollen eyes and groped around her ear.
Pain beyond words rushed at her.
Then she realized that her voice sounded different than usual.
‘Why is this?’
The pain was there, but the shape of the sound was strange.
She just let her unopened eyes be and rolled her eyeballs around, then deliberately made a sound.
“Ah.”
The sound was audible, but it felt stuffed, as if her ear was full of water.
‘This is…….’
El quickly realized she had hurt her left ear from the position of the bandage.
‘I only had the talent to beg, and now there’s a problem with my ear…… Huh?’
El lamented her fate, not her lamenting fate, then groped her left ear again.
Then she suddenly realized that the boss wouldn’t have treated her.
El forced her unopened eyes open and blinked to focus her blurry vision.
“Ah!”
The conversation she had had with the boss before losing consciousness came back to her, and the ceiling, unfamiliar yet somehow familiar, came into view.
All the ceilings she knew were either moldy or broken wooden boards with holes in them.
A life more familiar with the blue sky than a ceiling like a ceiling.
The reason she felt a familiar feeling from such a delicate, magnificent, and elegant ceiling was only one.
‘The Mosteros Ducal House.’
Though it was a bit different from the reception room, the atmosphere was similar to that of the Ducal House.
El’s mind went blank.
The pain that had bound her whole body disappeared like the tide, and cold sweat poured down.
‘I’ve been caught. I’ve been found out.’
El felt more pain and anguish from having her true identity discovered by the Mosteros Ducal House than from being beaten. She didn’t even have the mind to feel the pain in her body.
The feeling of being useful, even for someone like me, was clearly crushed to the bottom.
“In the end, I’m back to where I started. I guess I can’t remain a good person to anyone.”
El bit her lips as if she was in pain, tormenting them with her teeth.
Her despondent mood naturally brought tears to her eyes.
El lifted her heavy arm and wiped her eyes with it.
Suddenly, she felt like she wasn’t the only one here.
“Huh…”
El slightly turned her heavy head to the side.
“Aack!”
“Eeheok!”
At El’s scream, Rielo, who had been watching from the edge of the bed, screamed too.
For Briel and Rielo, El was labeled as ‘an incredibly good person who saved Rielo’. So the twins came here as soon as dawn broke to watch over El as she woke up.
Rielo had just approached in anticipation of El regaining consciousness, not expecting that her action would cause such a commotion.
“Uaack!”
“Uaaack!”
At Rielo’s scream, El forgot her pain, jumped up and screamed again.
Then Rielo also let out a huge wail.
Lapellian, who had gone to fetch water himself, sighed quietly and grabbed Rielo by the scruff of her neck and pulled her up.
Then, he threw her quite aggressively to Briel.
Briel caught Rielo and clicked her tongue.
“You shouldn’t do that.”
“I wanted to see close up, close up.”
Rielo, who was about a head shorter than Briel, stared at her brother who had thrown her, with a sulky look.
Lapellian ignored the glare on the back of his head and approached El.
“You must have been surprised.”
“No, I…”
“Fortunately, you seem to hear the sound, but where does it hurt?”
“Uh…”
The pain that she had momentarily forgotten rushed back, but the mental shock was greater, so El was dumbfounded and unable to reply.
‘Why doesn’t he look at me with the same eyes as when we first met, even though he must know about me? Why doesn’t he ask anything?’
There was no trace of disgust or contempt in his eyes. There was still a gentle and warm tenderness.
El stared at Lapellian’s eyes with a stunned face.
“Are you not fully conscious yet?”
Lapellian reached out to El, moving his face closer to her.
El, stiffened by the approaching hand, closed her eyes tightly and hunched her shoulders.
It was the activation of an instinctive defense mechanism due to a life marred by violence.
However, the large hand merely rested lightly on her forehead.
At the warm touch, El opened her real eyes and clutched the blanket tightly.
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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