When Adel looked around, she found herself lying on a couch that appeared to be in a study.
“What on earth happened…”
As Adel tried to get up from the couch, Christine pressed his forehead with his finger.
“Stay down.”
“Ugh!”
Adel, who had been struggling to rise, finally gave up and lay down again.
Whether that was funny or not, the corners of his mouth slowly rose.
“Do you enjoy tormenting me?”
“Of course not. Can’t you see the worried look on my face?”
As Christine leaned in close, Adel unconsciously turned her head away.
“I can see. Very clearly. So could you back off a bit?”
Every time she met Christine again, he seemed to have developed the habit of suddenly getting in her face.
Every time, Adel seemed to have developed the habit of turning her head.
“Fortunately, it seems your mind has come back to normal.”
He stepped back and handed her a glass of water.
“Drink.”
With Christine’s support, Adel, who had sat up, emptied the glass in one go. She had been feeling thirsty as if her throat was parched.
“What happened earlier?”
At Christine’s question, Adel unconsciously furrowed her brow.
She had gaps in her memory, but she remembered being forcibly dragged into a room by Eiton, whom she met in the hallway.
And she seemed to have resisted in her own way…
“I’m not sure what happened either. I guess drinking was a mistake.”
She decided not to mention the possibility that someone had spiked the drink she had. Nothing was certain yet.
“Thanks for your help anyway, Chris.”
“I think the one who should be thanked isn’t you, but that guy.”
“Huh?”
“You were about to strangle him.”
Then Christine extended a dagger to her.
Shocked, Adel alternately looked at the dagger and him.
It was hers.
Did I pull out a dagger too?
“I carry it for selfdefense.”
Taking the dagger from him, Adel lifted her skirt and inserted it into the garter on her thigh.
Watching her, Christine softly whistled.
“A fitting item for a villainess.”
“I’ll take that as a compliment.”
Adel wore a stoic expression, but she actually felt like crying.
She kept showing him her worst side.
She wished she could show off how well she was living.
“Show me your right hand.”
“Why the hand?”
Christine pulled on Adel’s hesitant hand.
There was blood on the space between her thumb and index finger. She had cut her own hand while clumsily waving the knife around.
“Tsk, if you swing it around without knowing how to use it properly, it becomes a tool for selfharm, not selfdefense.”
He took out a handkerchief and wrapped Adel’s wound.
“But I feel at ease having it.”
Christine, who had been tying the knot, hesitated.
It meant that there were many threats to her, to the point that she needed to carry a knife.
“Well, that guy seemed scared when he saw the knife.”
As soon as she finished tying the knot, Adel quickly pulled her hand out.
“But it would have been dangerous without your help.”
“I didn’t do much. You were wildly swinging the knife, so he was taken aback. All I did was knock him out from behind in that gap.”
Christine, who shrugged his shoulders, added as if he remembered something.
“Oh, it was a bit bothersome to undress him and tie him up.”
“You undressed him and tied him up?”
“Was he too weak?”
Adel shook her head.
“No.”
“Should I have left him with one piece of underwear?”
“Underwear? Pfft!”
Suddenly imagining it, Adel laughed.
At that, Christine’s eyes also slowly became playful.
“How well you handle such a thing…”
“Don’t say things you can’t say in front of a lady!”
“I’m just saying what I saw.”
As the conversation flowed in a weird direction, Adel quickly coughed and changed the subject.
“But did you also receive an invitation from Mrs. Hans?”
“Hardly.”
“…Then?”
“I escorted the princess.”
The moment the princess was mentioned, Adel’s heart sank.
Looking at it, he was wearing a luxurious party outfit today, not a uniform. As a partner of the princess, it was natural to be more careful about his dress.
You are destined to become the emperor’s soninlaw after all.
“But how did you know I was here?”
“I smelled you.”
“That’s impossible. I wash myself well. I also wash my hair well…”
Even while saying that, Adel brought her nose to her arm and armpit.
Seeing her do that, Christine laughed without realizing it.
“My nose is quite sensitive.”
“At that level, you’re not sensitive, you’re a beast.”
In an instant, he had pulled Adel behind the curtain.
“What, what…?”
Her surprised eyes widened,
“Shh!”
He placed his finger on Adel’s lips and gestured towards the next room with his eyes.
“It seems he has come to look for him.”
The library where the two were was right next to the room where Eiton was tied up.
Soon after, the presence of murmuring people approached.
As Christine had said, it seemed like people had come to look for him. But more people were gathering than expected. The vague voices of Seira and Mrs. Hans were heard.
Adel was convinced that all this was Seira’s plan.
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
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