Lexsus’s gaze wandered around the banquet hall.
All the main actors for the play prepared by Lexsus were gathered here.
Lenisha and Casius. The two lead actors.
Lexsus clenched his bracelet. His fingers curled like a hook.
Sometimes Casius’s gaze was seen turning towards Lenisha, who was seated next to him.
Lexsus also realized that the emotion clouding Casius’s eyes was not entirely pure.
He was looking at her with a man’s eyes.
“Lenisha.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Lenisha responded in a subdued manner.
Lenisha always pretended to obey Lexsus, but did she feel the same inside?
Lexsus, who slowly turned his head, scanned Lenisha’s carefree face.
He was as curious about what lay within as Lexsus himself.
Lexsus’s purple eyes sank heavily.
The brilliant scene was created by the ornate chandelier and the orange light of the candlesticks behind Lenisha.
Lexsus’s eyelids trembled.
Lenisha was the same as in the past.
Indifferent and cold expression.
The same expression as when she opened her family’s doors for Lexsus.
An unfeeling and indifferent expression.
An expression without compassion, love, or hatred.
Lexsus bit his lower lip.
To Lexsus, Lenisha was salvation.
The only silver lining that came to him.
Only Lenisha rescued Lexsus, whom nobody else had saved.
That day, Lenisha was a light in Lexsus’s eyes.
What was Lenisha thinking when she looked at Lexsus that day?
To Lexsus, Lenisha was still the same.
Lenisha was like the light cascading behind her.
‘Stupid bastard.’
He chewed on the selfmocking curse.
He wanted to shatter Lenisha to the core.
To the same eye level as Lexsus, revealing all of her.
But no matter what Lexsus did, Lenisha did not break.
Wasn’t she still looking at him with an indifferent expression, as if nothing had happened all this while?
‘Loser.’
It felt as if a stone was being thrown into the deep abyss of Lexsus.
Maybe things would have changed if Lenisha had clung to Lexsus’s feet and begged.
If Lenisha had made Lexsus something emotional, this tragedy might not have occurred.
The same was true now.
Lenisha must have known what Lexsus was thinking.
His plot to make her miserable.
She knew because Canary had told her, and the chief servant had told her.
‘Beg.’
Lexsus commanded with his eyes.
‘Please beg not to be sent away.’
He could have overturned everything even now.
Tonight was the last night.
Lenisha will be dethroned tomorrow and leave this imperial city.
‘Say you don’t want to go.’
Despite seeing his boiling emotions, Lenisha was undisturbed.
Lexsus let out a disheartened sigh.
“It’s all your fault, Lenisha.”
Lexsus shifted all the blame onto Lenisha.
His heart pounded loudly.
Captured by unnecessary emotions, Lexsus reached out.
Lexsus, who grabbed Lenisha’s cheek and chin, spoke in a faint voice.
“You should have loved me, Lenisha.”
It was the clearest and most confident voice these days.
Lexsus kissed Lenisha’s lips, tilting his head slightly.
Since she held on to nothing, he would leave her miserable.
This was Lexsus’s last farewell to Lenisha.
“You brought this upon yourself.”
Lexsus whispered.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Lenisha leaned back on the sofa, laughing loosely.
The glint in Casius’s eyes as he looked at Lenisha made her shiver.
It was like a reptile’s.
Lenisha licked her lips with a smooth voice.
“Casius?”
“…Empress Your Majesty.”
Casius’s face, pushed into the emperor’s bedroom, was filled with confusion.
Unlike Lenisha, who was sprawled on the sofa in her gown.
Lenisha lazily smiled.
Lexsus had chosen the most despicable and dirty method.
It was Lexsus who had summoned Lenisha to the Emperor’s bedroom.
He didn’t think he had called her for the common affairs of a married couple.
He clearly suspected that there must be some hidden agenda.
After bathing and waiting for about an hour, her heart even became comfortable.
And when she saw Casius, who entered after opening the bedroom door, it was even a relief.
All her complicated thoughts had flown away.
This was Lexsus’s scheme.
A mad Empress who dragged her government into the Emperor’s bedroom.
He was trying to make Lenisha the protagonist of a filthy scandal.
“It feels fresh to see you here.”
Didn’t you love her?
This too, was something Lenisha had initiated.
It’s true.
Because Lenisha had chosen Lexsus, she had caused all of this.
“A startled face, eh?”
“What the… This is not where I intended to come in.”
Casius furrowed his brows.
He hadn’t imagined that Lenisha would be in such a state in the bedroom, even though he had come in response to the Emperor’s summons.
Casius turned his head in confusion, not daring to take in Lenisha’s defenseless appearance.
As he turned the handle as if to go back out, Casius’s eyes widened.
Click.
The door was locked.
“…It’s best not to exert yourself in vain, Sir Casius. The Emperor’s bedroom can be locked from the outside. It can’t be manipulated from inside.”
Lenisha spoke with her chin raised.
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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