“When I opened my eyes, I was lying in the reception room. Thankfully, I quickly recovered.”
“That’s good.”
Mia asked cautiously again.
“Adel, were you alright? Thinking about it, I think they were targeting you. Was it Eton’s doing? Or was it Seira’s?”
“It must have been a joint effort between Seira, Eton, and Lady Hans.”
“Really! Just leave those people be!”
Mia seemed ready to turn the carriage around and grab them by the scruff of their necks.
“Calm down. Luckily, nothing happened.”
“Did you really cause Eton to act like that?”
Adel hesitated for a moment, but decided not to mention Christine.
“…Yes.”
“Amazing, Adel! I thought you might do it, but I didn’t expect you actually would. It serves him right! He tormented you, and now he can’t even show his face for a while.”
The one who tried to harm Adel had reaped what he sowed, so he had nowhere to vent his grievances.
Besides, he had embarrassed himself in front of the princess, which not only shamed his family, but also would undoubtedly stir up the social scene for a while.
There was no greater disgrace.
“It’s karma.”
“…I’m sorry, Adel.”
Mia muttered, looking like she was about to cry.
“What do you mean?”
“If something happened to you… I… I…”
“It’s okay, Mia. Nothing happened.”
“But it was almost a disaster because of me. It’s all my fault. I stubbornly insisted on coming to this party without knowing my place. Ah, I’m such a useless, vain creature!”
Adel stopped Mia from pulling her hair in frustration.
“Don’t say that, Mia. You’re more attractive because you have just the right amount of vanity.”
Mia, who seemed about to cry, glared at Adel.
“What did you say?”
“Besides, not everything about the party today was bad. Thanks to it, I had a chance to become closer to the princess.”
Mia burst into tears and hugged Adel tightly.
“Waaaah! Adel, you’re such a good friend! If I ever step foot in high society again, I’m not a person! I swear I’ll never go again!”
Mia seemed to have lost all interest in high society. After all, she had been used to trap Adel. Today’s event must have left a deep wound on Mia as well.
Adel comforted her crying friend.
“I’m really fine.”
Mia, who had been crying for a while, suddenly wiped her tears and smiled.
“So, I did get my own kind of revenge.”
“Revenge?”
“Yes!”
At the same time.
“Oh my, Seira, what’s that in your hair?”
“My hair?”
Seira touched her neatly combed blonde hair and her hair ornament with a confused look, and then her face twisted.
She had touched something sticky.
“Oh my, isn’t this caramel?”
“Caramel?”
Seira doubted her ears at the people’s words.
Why was there caramel in her hair…?
“Stay still. It seems someone stuck it while eating, it’s tangled with your hair.”
“I think it needs to be cut.”
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]“You worked hard today, Count.”
Inside the carriage returning to the palace, April carefully started a conversation.
Christine, who was leaning on her chin and indifferently looking out the window, turned her gaze to her.
“No, I also had fun.”
She said with a smile, but it was not a happy expression at all.
But even his indifferent face made April’s heart flutter. Because those steelgray eyes, wrapped in silver eyelashes, were beautiful even when they were indifferent.
“I was surprised… when you called my name earlier.”
Really, at that moment, it felt like her heart was falling.
“I apologize. It didn’t mean anything.”
Christine had an indifferent expression.
“No, I think it would be nice if you call me by my name in the future, if it’s alright.”
“….”
When he just silently stared at her, April spoke in a slightly stuttering voice.
“Even when we’re alone….”
“Let’s try.”
“Ha! Really?”
Her eyes sparkled as she tried to make a promise, but Christine had already turned his gaze out the window.
“But you were more beautiful than I thought.”
“…..”
“That person, the wife of the former Duke Oswald.”
At the mention of Adel’s story, Christine turned back.
“It was so different from what I heard. Such a beautiful and elegant woman. It was enough to move the count’s heart.”
Christine gently furrowed his brow in discomfort, but April did not notice.
“It’s the handkerchief the lady had tied on her hand earlier. That’s the count’s. The one he had pinned to his chest when he came….”
“It’s just something I lent her to wrap her injured hand. Please refrain from imagining unnecessarily.”
A voice as cold as a knife blade.
“Ah, I’m sorry.”
April was flustered and didn’t know what to do.
“And the princess is also beautiful.”
Surprised by his unexpected words, she looked at him.
“….really…. is that so?”
But Christine was just looking out the window again, nonchalantly.
The carriage was filled with an idle silence, and only the sound of the horses’ hooves and the rolling of the wheels could be heard.
But April was too busy interpreting his words from earlier. She never dreamed that such praise would come from this indifferent man.
‘Does Count Vice have some feelings for me?’
Suddenly, the brilliant lights of the palace could be seen from the window.
From afar, the sounds of the guards opening the castle gates and saluting with their swords could be heard.
April sighed in regret. It was almost time to part with Christine.
In fact, today’s escort was a chance she had earnestly requested from the emperor.
Thump!
As the carriage stopped, April tightly clutched the hem of her dress and gathered her courage.
“Could you…kiss me, Count Vice?”
With just his gaze lingering on her, April’s heart was throbbing madly.
She gripped the hem of her dress tighter and gathered a bit more courage.
“Can’t we…have a goodnight kiss?”
But he, like someone who couldn’t hear, opened the door of the carriage nonchalantly and stepped down.
And he reached out his hand to escort April.
‘So it’s not possible after all.’
With a bitter smile, April took his hand and stepped down from the carriage.
Then it happened.
“Have a good dream, princess.”
Christine’s lips lightly touched the back of April’s hand.
“Yes, you, you too, count…”
With her face turning red, she barely managed to reply.
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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