Their pace slowed down only after they had run far enough that the previous place was no longer visible. Ansi and Derl, who had run to the point where they were out of breath, steadied their heavy breathing.
“Looks like they’re not chasing us.”
There was still tension in Derl’s eyes as he looked back, but relief was evident in his voice.
It seemed that the ones who tried to take Ansi and those who stopped them were still entangled with each other.
Derl put the gun he was holding back inside. Then he turned his gaze towards Ansi.
“Are you okay?”
Derl asked. However, Ansi didn’t answer and just glared at Derl. Her bloodshot eyes contained various emotions.
The man in front of her with gray hair and blue eyes.
He was definitely Ansi’s elder brother.
Derl, whom she thought was dead, appeared in front of her after a year and a half.
Smack, Ansi hit Derl’s chest with her fist. It wasn’t to hurt him. She just really wanted to confirm that her brother was alive.
Her stiff back of the hand touched a solid body.
It was different from the figure she had seen countless times in her dreams. It wasn’t a body that had been scattered to the point of being unrecognizable after being hit by a bomb, but that of a living person.
Derl existed here, wholly.
Ansi bit her lower lip hard. She tasted the metallic flavor of blood.
It was a moving situation, but no tears flowed. Whether to call it anger or joy. Emotions that couldn’t be identified swirled inside Ansi.
She couldn’t feel it was real at all. To prove that it wasn’t a dream, she hit her own cheek hard.
Derl was startled and stopped Ansi’s hand.
“What are you doing?”
Ansi’s gaze faltered. A stinging pain spread throughout her body. Her cheek hurt, and Derl’s hand was warm. It was reality.
The moment she realized that, a suffocating hot sensation rose up her spine. Her head rang piercingly. Unconsciously, water gathered in her eyes.
“Derl… you know what?”
Ansi lowered her head.
“I thought you were dead and tried to get revenge on Kardian. I approached those people to kill all of Orphe and die myself.”
Derl’s eyes wavered.
Revenge, death. They were words he never thought his most rational and realistic sister would choose.
He found out that Ansi had married an Orphe man after he escaped from prison. But he never imagined the reason would be something like that.
What kind of life Ansi had lived during the year and a half he wasn’t by his family’s side… He couldn’t even guess, and his mind went blank.
Derl’s lips quivered without being able to say anything. Ansi opened her mouth again.
“I really thought we all had to die together. So I hated myself for not being able to succeed properly because of my emotions. But now… how fortunate it is that you and I are alive…”
Ansi raised her head. Her tear-stained face contorted.
“Do you understand what I’m saying?”
She asked, choking up.
Kardian had said that Derl’s hearing was impaired. Then whatever she says now won’t reach him, will it? Thinking about that fact made her feel helpless.
But, nevertheless.
“Thank you for being alive…”
The strength left Ansi’s hand. Right now, it was enough that Derl had appeared. Just his existence in front of her eyes was something to be grateful for.
Then Derl answered her.
“I’m also thankful that you endured well until now.”
“…!”
Ansi moved her gaze to Derl’s mouth, ears, and then back to his eyes.
False hope wasn’t right. Maybe he read her lips and answered even though he couldn’t hear. She shouldn’t expect too much.
However, a quiet hope was unintentionally carried in her questioning voice.
“You can hear?”
“Yeah.”
Derl nodded. Ansi slightly opened her mouth.
“At first, I couldn’t hear, but at some point, it came back.”
“Really? Are you really okay now?”
“Yes.”
“Thank goodness…”
Ansi’s legs went limp. Derl hurriedly supported her.
Looking at his sister who seemed to have become even thinner, he asked worriedly.
“Are you okay? I saw earlier that they were trying to catch you, did Kardian not harm you?”
“…”
Asking if he didn’t harm her? There were too many answers she could give to that.
The bastard who ruined the peace of Rubel, imprisoned her brother, and tried to make Damion a murderer. The one who threatened her under his dirty desire to have his younger brother’s wife.
Whenever she thought of Kardian, her blood ran dry. Even now, the weight of the gun strapped to her thigh was vivid, and she desperately wanted to put a hole in Kardian’s head.
But… how could she say such things to Derl?
“…It’s okay. It was bearable.”
In the end, Ansi held back her words.
However, she couldn’t hide her pale face in time.
Derl’s expression hardened. He pulled Ansi and started walking.
“Let’s go for now. To where I was.”
Right now, his sister looked so precarious. It was different from the dignified and shining figure he knew before.
Now… she looked unhappy.
It seemed like they couldn’t stay here any longer. Whoever made her like this, he had to take Ansi away from them.
[This is the timeline separator]Ansi and Derl headed somewhere to take a shared carriage. Using the carriage Ansi had ridden was dangerous as it could be tracked, so they planned to blend in with the people and leave this place.
They turned to an inconspicuous path and walked hurriedly, but the station was quite far.
While walking together, Derl briefly recounted what had happened.
That he narrowly escaped the bomb but was captured by Parma while unconscious. That he couldn’t hear for several months. Then he was repatriated to Belgader and imprisoned in Kardian’s prison.
That he escaped from there and hid while working at a store for a few days.
Derl said to go to that store together for now. And around the time he was about to say where that store was.
A carriage rushed towards them. Derl and Ansi hid their bodies behind a tree. However, the carriage stopped nearby.
Derl kept Ansi behind him and watched the carriage while holding his breath. If by any chance they were people sent by Kardian, it was a dangerous situation.
Soon the carriage door opened and someone got out.
“Is it here, madam?”
“…!”
Derl’s body trembled.
The middle-aged woman with a puzzled face was his mother, Sophia.
Derl appeared from behind the tree where he was hiding. Ansi followed him.
“What’s here…”
Sophia, who was looking around and asking towards the inside of the carriage, stopped speaking. The hat she was holding fell weakly to the ground. Sophia blankly stared forward and blinked.
“Ah… Derl, no… why is this happening again? I’m sorry, wait, I think I’m not fully awake yet…”
Sophia rambled while holding her cheek and lowering her head.
She also knew that she had seen hallucinations of her husband and son several times since last year. Recently it had been quite okay, but it seemed like the illness had relapsed.
Next to Derl, Ansi who bit her lip was visible. Since she had never seen Ansi as a hallucination, her daughter was real, but why was Derl with her even after closing and opening her eyes…
“Ansi, you were here first.”
Sophia forcibly put on a smile and firmly pressed her cheeks. Usually, the hallucination would disappear at some point if she did this.
She didn’t know why Ansi was in such a remote place, but she didn’t want to show this side of herself and worry her daughter. Besides, the young man standing next to her probably wouldn’t like being misunderstood either.
“Mother.”
However, at the voice calling her, Sophia’s hand on her cheek trembled. No matter how she thought about it, it was definitely the voice of her son whom she missed.
She raised her head.
“Derl…?”
A thin voice escaped. Derl nodded.
“I… have returned.”
Derl walked towards Sophia with big strides. Sophia took a heavy step. Derl hugged Sophia tightly.
“…”
Sophia couldn’t say anything and just shed tears. As Derl held Sophia tight, only then did Sophia slowly raise her hand and touch her son’s back.
As the warmth touched her hand, a voice mixed with sobs finally leaked out of her mouth.
“Aah…”
While living, she thought countless times that she should have died instead of her son. Whenever she thought of her son who died from the bomb, it was so hard to keep her sanity.
Thanks to Ansi, she had been living day by day, but that didn’t fill the emptiness left by Derl.
But the son she really thought was dead had returned. Was this really happening to her? It felt completely unreal.
Sophia didn’t even wonder how Derl was here right now. Just the fact that her son was in front of her eyes, that itself was important.
If it was a dream, she never wanted to wake up. She wouldn’t mind if time stopped like this.
“Reunion is nice, but we don’t have much time so we need to leave now.”
Then Roma leaned out from inside the carriage and said. Ansi frowned, unable to hide her suspicion. Derl, as if Roma was familiar to him, put Sophia back in the carriage without wariness.
“Ansi, hurry!”
There were many questionable things, but there was no time to argue now. Following Derl, Ansi hurriedly got on Roma’s carriage.
Male lead is a clingy little husband
One-line summary: The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
Introduction:
One day, Lu Yuner’s soul transmigrates into a female-dominant world. She enters the Imperial Academy and takes up the position of a doctoral instructor, teaching classes and grading schoolwork.
One day, she encounters the young prince Su Qingwan secretly skipping class from the male academy.
As a result, Su Qingwan is punished.
From then on, Su Qingwan sees Lu Yuner as a “thorn in his side”.
But before long, this “thorn” becomes the person he cherishes most, and he goes to great lengths to win Lu Yuner’s affection.
Mini scene 1:
One day, the sun is high in the sky but Su Qingwan still hasn’t gotten up for class.
Servant Xiaoyuan: “Young prince, it’s time for class. You’ll be late otherwise.”
Su Qingwan says arrogantly: “I’m not going. I am the esteemed prince, my status is so noble, why should I suffer this hardship? Besides, isn’t learning all this just to please women? Hmph, they’re not worthy!”
Mini scene 2:
After Su Qingwan falls for someone, he completely changes. He no longer skips class and diligently learns how to be a good husband and father. But he discovers that Sister Yuner is always surrounded by admirers.
Drunk and overcome with jealousy one day, he clings to Lu Yuner, crying beautifully like a pear blossom in the rain.
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan likes Sister Yuner.”
Lu Yuner: “Young prince, you’re drunk.”
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan isn’t drunk. Qingwan likes Sister Yuner, likes you so much, likes you to bits…” Before he can finish, Lu Yuner’s eyes flash with emotion and she leans in closer.
[Reading Guide]
1. The female lead is gentle, gracious, humble and polite but not weak. The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
2. 1v1, a bit torturous in the beginning but definitely sweet later on.
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