“Really, what a character you are.”
A voice laced with mockery pierced through the darkness and lodged itself into Liz’s ears.
With a contemplative expression, Liz looked at the steep slope right in front of her. It might as well have been a cliff!
Her neck felt choked because the woman had grabbed the collar of her clothes from behind, but she had no intention of complaining. She could very well let go entirely.
“You were trying to kill me, weren’t you?”
“No!”
Liz jumped at the question from the cross-dressed woman.
“I was just… trying to give you a little push. Honestly, you won’t die just from falling here.”
“Still speaks well, even when about to die.”
The woman abruptly let go of Liz’s collar, only to grab it again.
As her body began to tilt, Liz felt a chill run down her spine.
“Say you want to live,” the woman said with a malicious tone.
“Is it really that easy?”
It was too simple a way to save her life. She had no reason not to do it.
Drawing a deep breath, Liz screamed loud enough to echo back.
“Do whatever you want with my life! I’m living it as a bonus anyway!”
“…”
Am I insane?
In a situation where begging for my life would still fall short, here I am provoking this person.
I’m going to die for sure.
“Bonus?”
An unexpected reaction came back.
The woman seemed to ponder Liz’s words for a moment, then stopped her malicious mischief.
And with a strength that didn’t match her delicate frame, she yanked the collar and dropped Liz onto the ground.
“Ouch!”
Liz landed on her buttocks, and, to make matters worse, on a pebble—causing her to wince in pain.
It took quite some time for the pain to subside.
Finally regaining her senses, Liz rubbed her sore bottom as she wobbled to her feet. The woman was observing her with a blank expression.
“What… What are you going to do now?”
Not letting her guard down, Liz took a step back as the woman spoke.
“I won’t kill you.”
“Really?”
So focused on understanding her intentions, Liz didn’t realize she was being disrespectful.
“I don’t lie.”
The woman seemed unfazed by Liz’s disrespect.
And it seemed she was genuine about not killing her.
Having lived for what felt like two lifetimes, Liz was somewhat confident that people of this sort wouldn’t lie.
“Why… Why won’t you kill me?”
Liz, who couldn’t fully let her guard down, cautiously asked.
“I stole money, lied, and even boasted. You said you’d give me a spectacle worth at least 1 silver, but you didn’t keep your word.”
Liz knew well that nothing good would come from saying this, yet she wanted to know.
Then the woman chuckled.
“I admit you stole and lied. But it wasn’t a bluff. The spectacle was worth ten gold.”
‘What does that even mean?’
Confused, Liz watched as the woman moved her finger closer to her face.
“Is this your real face?”
“……”
Just then, a gust of wind blew from across the mountain, scattering Liz’s hair and bringing her earlocks into her line of sight.
They were red. She had returned to her original self.
In front of this disguised woman, she had reverted to her true face!
Unlike the bewildered Liz, the woman scrutinized her with sparkling eyes full of interest.
“Wow, fascinating. How do you do it? Magic?”
“……It’s a drug. A very painful one.”
With nothing more to hide, Liz told the truth.
For the first time, the woman, who had been shadowed by ennui, looked youthful and energetic.
“I’d love to try it, pain and all. If you have one, give it to me.”
“I don’t have any.”
It was a lie. Not because she was worried the woman would writhe in agony, but because she needed it for herself. She couldn’t relax until she was out of the city.
“Is the full deployment of the military police because of you?”
Caught off guard by the woman’s sudden question, Liz remained silent. Clearly, she had seen the portraits carried by the patrolling military police.
“I guess so.”
“Don’t ask why. I can’t tell you.”
She didn’t really know anyway.
“I have no intention of asking. I’m not interested.”
The disguised woman said this, then reached into the purse at her waist, grabbed something, and extended it to Liz.
“I always keep my promises.”
Upon reflexively taking it, she found it was ten gold coins.
As Liz stared at them in disbelief, the woman spoke.
“It’s for the spectacle. Seems worth more than 1 silver.”
“……”
“I would have given more if we could have also had the experience, but alas.”
At that, Liz inwardly agreed.
‘I also have so few of the drugs that I can’t let you taste that hellish agony. It’s a shame.’
“Thank you anyway……”
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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