If the Count was really angry about this, it would have been better.
If he truly intended to punish Evie’s rudeness, she would have humbly accepted the situation.
But the Count was not like that.
Without any particular emotion or resentment to what Evie said, he simply exploited the situation to push through his own proposal.
The one where he would take care of her without her wanting, that ridiculous offer.
Evie’s head, filled with anger, was again haunted by the Count’s voice.
“Let me know after the selection of the saintess. How I should take care of you.”
“Don’t make me laugh, you crazy bastard…!”
It was when Evie barely swallowed her scream.
“Miss Evie, may I come in?”
“May you!”
From outside the study, DS’s voice came, and Evie inevitably snapped back.
The curse continued to eat away at her even in this situation.
It made her even more infuriated, but Evie calmed herself down by washing her face.
Then she spoke again towards the silent door.
“Yes, come in.”
On the other side of that door, in the corridor, DS hesitated for a moment and then pulled the door handle.
Opening the door revealed Evie sitting in front of various documents.
Dressed in a bright pink dress, Evie was flaunting her pretty figure as usual.
However, her complexion was paler than usual, but Evie seemed not to want to show it, so she was smiling brightly.
“Oh, what to do. It seems like I have no allies now. The only one left is the very angry Duke Bayon?”
Evie said to DS, flipping the papers.
“It looks like Count Montera will be the first to back out.”
“That person sent you a bouquet of flowers last week, Miss Evie.”
“He’s the type to swallow the sweet and spit out the bitter. Simply, Evie is sweet, but Evie covered in Count Laurel is bitter. Something like that.”
Evie rattled on unasked and suddenly burst into laughter.
Her pale face laughing uproariously was quite a sight, so DS couldn’t help but ask.
“……Are you really okay?”
“I’m not! Not at all okay! I feel like I’m going crazy!”
Her true feelings exploded inevitably.
Thus, with the barely maintained mask gone, Evie looked at DS with an aggrieved face and collapsed onto the desk.
“This curse really annoys me……”
With Evie’s full lament, DS went to her side and sat on the desk.
Then he began to pat Evie’s head that was spread out at a convenient place.
“Don’t try to console me.”
Evie became more irritated.
So DS stopped patting and began to roll Evie’s head from side to side.
It was definitely not consolation, and Evie finally let go of her rationality. As a result, DS got hit in the solar plexus and began to cough dryly.
After a fair retribution, Evie caught her breath. Then she spoke again with her face regained some color.
“I’m not okay, but thanks to that, I’ve made a decision.”
“What decision in this situation……”
“Whether it’s a count or a tower master, they’re all tyrants to me, and I believe that a saint’s status is absolutely necessary to not be swayed here.”
Perhaps thanks to a single outburst, Evie’s expression was quite firm.
Evie spoke to Dieth, who was suspiciously staring at her with that face.
“You may wonder why I’m still talking about being a saint in this situation, but I don’t think this situation is only disadvantageous to me.”
“Then, who is it disadvantageous to?”
“The count.”
Thinking of that detestable brat, Evie gritted her teeth and smiled.
“Now everyone is surprised and blaming me to please the count’s temperament, but I think you’ll be secretly annoyed in time. The count who threatened the entire nobility for his personal affairs. This is exactly tyranny.”
“Nevertheless, the count will be fine. Because he’s a Laurel.”
“But if a fellow noble family steps in, it will be different. The Duke of Bayon is furious about this. So there will definitely be an opportunity. An opportunity to overturn this situation.”
Evie’s eyes were quietly burning as she murmured.
It wasn’t vague optimism, but a fierce determination to not give up like this.
Evie, who had been secretly frustrated for a while, gathered her courage again. She began to think of something she could do.
“First, we need to figure out how to handle this curse……”
“I just got in touch. From the collaborator.”
As if waiting for Evie’s grumbling, the butler spoke.
Evie’s eyes widened at the welcome news, so Dieth immediately reported.
“There seems to be progress and difficulty. First, they were successful in tracking the area where the snake is. But there is another creature of the night in that area, so they became confused about which one is the snake.”
At these words, Evie’s face, which had been bright for a moment, became gloomy again.
“What are you talking about? They said they could feel each other like their own hands and feet. And now they’re confused?”
“They seemed to know you would ask that, and they even wrote an explanation. ‘If you cross your fingers with shells, you will definitely be confused whether this finger is that finger or this finger.'”
Evie was momentarily at a loss for words at the analogy that seemed to provoke her.
But the next statement was even more shocking.
“So they asked you to come down to Bis. If Evie is there, they said they can distinguish the snake.”
“Come to Bis?”
Evie unconsciously raised her voice.
As a precious asset of the tower, Evie could only go to places permitted by the tower master.
Moreover, Evie had previously run away to Bis to escape from the tower master.
She was in a state where she couldn’t even wander around Tienda freely after getting caught, and now they were asking her to come down.
“Do I have to go?”
“I don’t know. Maybe I should go to Bis to check for other ways……”
“…No.”
Dieth, who knew that Evie could not escape the tower master’s sight, tried to find another way without hesitation.
But suddenly, Evie cut off Dieth’s words.
Evie had no time now.
The Tienda nobles had turned their backs, and she couldn’t waste days looking for a way, whether it existed or not, while bound by the curse.
So Evie said with a thoughtful face.
“I’ll go. I’ll get permission from the tower master.”
“He won’t give permission easily. And he’ll definitely ask for a reason……”
“The count.”
“The count?”
“I’ll say that I have to meet the count. If I want to be a saint, I must persuade the count.”
Dieth’s face turned blank at Evie’s reckless assertion, but it went even more blank at the mention of the count.
“The tower master is currently betting with me, and he has promised not to use his authority to interfere with me until the bet is over.”
Evie spoke calmly for the sake of the pitiable butler.
“So he’ll permit it. If he stops me here, he’ll be interfering with my becoming a saint with his authority.”
At one time, Dieth was certain.
The nobles couldn’t even begin to gauge Evie’s real power, which was her intelligence and courage.
But that thought seems to need a little revision.
No matter how one looks at it, Evie Ariate’s cunning is far more remarkable.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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