“……It seems that I am correct.”
“I wish I were correct even if I’m not,” Casius responded.
“Then I suppose I am somewhat knowledgeable about honor.”
Duke Lotera looked pleased, and Lenisha also remembered often smiling as she read the letter.
“It was my will to gift this attire, but it was your will to accept it. I wanted to take a gamble with you, someone my father trusted.”
“……”
“My blood relatives are alive.”
Lenisha spoke slowly but with a certain tone.
She poured out her words without even blinking her eyes.
“My brother and his wife, and even my niece Isabella. Brixton Lotera and Haelin Nova Lotera. Find them secretly. Protect them from Lexus.”
“……What if I refuse?”
“I don’t know.”
Lenisha took her hand away from Casius.
Casius momentarily thought he would miss her being distant.
Lenisha coldly ordered Casius.
“You will lose your life now that you’ve heard my secret. Right here.”
She was threatening with her small body.
Not a single mark remained on the wrist that Lenisha had grabbed.
What could she be thinking to say such bold words?
If it’s bluff, it’s a remarkable thing, and if there’s a hidden hand……
It was when Casius was absentmindedly touching his wrist.
He felt cold metal on his neck.
Casius reacted to the sharp hostility and raised his head.
Knights who had approached without notice were aiming their swords at Casius.
Their ferocious eyes seemed ready to kill Casius at any moment.
“Oh no.”
Casius let out a moan.
He had been careless. Or maybe, he was mesmerized by Lenisha.
He didn’t even notice them getting closer.
“These are the elite knights of Lotera left by my father. Even if you are excellent, you can’t get through them unscathed.”
She was a woman who used both sweet honey and a whip at once. Are all the women in the Empire like this?
“I’ll take back all the gifts I gave you, Sir Casius. So, you better choose wisely.”
It was a threat to strip him of his clothes.
Casius clicked his tongue as he looked at Lenisha, who was laughing.
Casius had truly seen the person.
Lenisha was not just a flashy and pretty flower.
She was hiding something sharper than anything else within her.
The wind blew. Lenisha’s scent engulfed Casius.
It was an offer he had no intention of refusing anyway.
As long as Lenisha was Lotera’s daughter, Casius couldn’t defy her.
He had accepted a runaway slave and erased his origin. She was the daughter of his benefactor.
Duke Lotera was the only person who knew that Casius was the heir of a foreign country.
“You have red hair. It’s really like burning red hair. According to the rumors, the extinguished foreign royalty had the same…… tattoo as you?”
Duke Lotera had recognized the mark of Hasham engraved on Casius’s shoulder.
He had personally erased it.
“Pride is not left in such marks. Pride exists only when you survive. It’s good to eliminate dangerous elements. Now you are just a knight of slave origin.”
Casius owed a lot to Duke Lotera.
Even without doing this, Casius would have followed Lenisha’s will.
“I will secretly inquire. I will find them and protect them with my life.”
“Good.”
Lenisha gestured.
Then, the knights sheathed their swords and retreated as if they had never been there.
Lenisha fiddled with Casius’s clothes.
He took a deep breath at the close distance again.
How could she so freely……
‘Is she playing with people?’
Casius gritted his teeth.
Lenisha smoothed Casius’s attire with a gentle touch.
She buttoned the unbuttoned button, straightened the barely hanging bow tie, and even the vest and jacket that constricted the body.
Lenisha, who had returned to her appearance when she first entered this place, smiled once again.
Casius stared at her with mesmerizing eyes as they curled.
Underneath her eyelashes, which seemed to have been brought forth by shattering the moonlight, were round, pinkish eyes that shook one’s heart.
Casius unconsciously swallowed.
“It’s a shame to waste it when you’ve made yourself pretty.”
“…Pretty?”
“Yes, pretty. This dress suits you well.”
Lenisha playfully tapped Casius’s cheek.
Only then did Casius come to his senses.
“Now, let’s go back. My people will guide you out.”
“Wait. I have something to say…!”
“We’ll meet again soon, Sir Casius. Our connection is not over. We’ll hear that story next time.”
Lenisha pulled away from Casius.
A signal came. A sign that someone was coming this way.
“Ah. Hiloshain is not all that meets the eye. It’s a land blessed with unknown gold and honey, and the blessing of the gods.”
Lenisha, having left those cryptic words, suddenly disappeared just as she had appeared.
It felt like a dream.
If it hadn’t been for the maid that Lenisha left behind, he might really have thought so.
“…Is she always like this?”
“Excuse me?”
The maid, guiding the way, asked with a surprised face.
“I mean Her Majesty, the Empress. Is she always like this…?”
Freespirited?
Or how should he describe it?
Casius hesitated for a moment.
He couldn’t find the word to describe Lenisha.
Instead, the maid answered.
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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