“What is that nonsense you’re saying to a child…?”
Standing at the door, Zion was dumbfounded and mumbled.
Then, Evie Ariate was startled like a cat caught doing something wrong, and looked back, her eyes drooping.
At that pitiful expression, Zion could only sigh.
This house isn’t well soundproofed.
Moreover, Zion had been halfawake when he heard the little one knocking on the door earlier.
He had been pretending to be asleep, but the voice coming from the next room had fully awakened him.
“―Sister, is it really the Saintess?”
“―Not yet. …You know that was a joke earlier, right?”
Hearing talk of the Saintess, Zion doubted his ears.
So he dressed quickly and came out, only to be astonished by the sound that followed.
“―No, I really hate your teacher.”
“―I don’t know about that, but if he accepts, you must run away. He’s a pervert, less than a beast.”
In the end, Zion was at a loss for words, and Evie Ariate began to look around timidly again.
“Teacher!”
Zion glared at Evie, and the child got up from the carpet and ran over. So Zion couldn’t help but soften his expression.
“I’ll give you this.”
The child rummaged in her pocket and held something out. In her small hand was a crystal the size of a pebble.
Zion recognized what it was and sighed again, then firmly shook his head.
“You should keep this. Your mother worked hard to get it, didn’t she?”
“You don’t have a mom to give you something like this, Teacher. So I’ll give you mine.”
“No, take it back.”
When the child stubbornly resisted without even hesitating, Zion grabbed the stubborn child’s cheeks with one hand.
And he spoke in a stern voice befitting a teacher.
“Take this home, lock the door, cover the windows, and don’t move until tomorrow morning.”
“Tsk.”
“Tsk?”
“I understand, then. Let’s meet again after surviving this grim.”
The child jerkily shook her head to break free from the teacher’s hand. Then she nodded at Evie and trotted off.
The child who had come abruptly, left abruptly, and awkward silence enveloped the place where the child had left.
Zion looked at Evie first. Evie, who had been crouching while talking to the child, only then straightened her knees and spoke.
“She must really like Count, huh? What the child gave you, it’s the salt of Manyanya, isn’t it?”
Just as Evie said, what the child brought was a piece of Manyanya’s salt, the crystals that had filled the salt warehouse where Evie had hidden.
“You know what it is, so why ask?”
While Evie approached casually, Zion’s voice was irritable.
That was partly because of the sleepiness that still lingered, and partly because of this absurd situation.
“Just, the child is kind. That salt is valuable in Vis.”
“It’s valuable. You may not know in Tienda because it’s stacked moderately.”
The socalled Manyanya’s salt was made by purifiers purifying seawater.
In Vis, that salt is traded at a very high price. Because it can block the curse of corpses.
Morning is the enemy of the night. Thus, the curse of the corpses succumbed to the salt containing the protection of Manyanya.
That’s why the curse couldn’t even approach Tienda.
Manyanya’s tower is covered with these salt crystals, and the crystals are stacked heavily in each warehouse.
So in Tienda, they don’t even think about grim, but Vis is not like that.
In Vis, they spend all the money they have to buy salt or hide in the darkness, holding their breath, waiting for dawn.
And if they fail to escape misfortune, they die.
“That’s right, it would be nice if it was easily available in Vis.”
Evie Ariate said, looking around. So Zion couldn’t help but chuckle.
It was truly a fleeting and irresponsible remark.
The reason Manyanya’s salt is expensive is that Manyanya’s tower and Count Montra have teamed up.
The tower only distributes salt to Count Montra, and Count Montra calculates how much the common people of Vis can pay for their lives and raises the price as much as possible.
Certainly, here’s the translated passage:
It was all the result of that greedy balance, and Evie Ariate, the purifier of the tower, only muttered in a kind voice as if talking about someone else.
Of course, Zion knew that Evie was innocent in this matter.
But he really hated that selfish and cowardly Tienda, so he couldn’t look kindly at Evie Ariate, who was struggling to join in.
Especially since Evie Ariate continued to speak rashly.
“Assuming that’s the case with the salt, do you plan to spread rumors that you’re a saint?”
“No, I have no such intention.”
She lied so easily. So Zion sighed and said,
“Of course, you shouldn’t. You’re not a saint now, nor will you ever be.”
At Zion’s warning, Evie’s expression froze. So Zion became even more irritated.
Evie Ariate always makes that expression. As if she believes that looking with those wounded eyes will solve everything.
“If you still think of threatening me, you should reconsider.”
“Threatening …?”
Evie Ariate asked in surprise.
This reaction made Zion dumbfounded once again.
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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