“Your reward is not appealing.”
Layton, who looked displeased, got up from his seat and approached briskly.
“Then how about this……. ”
“What?”
“I know a secret of the Duke’s. If you do me this favor, I will tell only you.”
A secret……?
Nelia was momentarily intrigued by the provocative word, but soon shook her head.
“I’m not interested in hearing other people’s secrets.”
Not even from the person involved. And words coming out of Layton’s mouth were not very reliable.
“It’s information that you, who will be working as the Duke’s maid for a while, might want to know, right?”
Layton’s subtle voice caught Nelia again.
Nelia glanced at Layton.
The Duke had been kind to her, but she didn’t know what he was really thinking.
So Layton’s words were quite tempting.
If she knew about him, she might be able to live a more peaceful maid life.
“What do you think? Are you considering doing my favor now?”
When Nelia hesitated, Layton asked with a smirk.
But Nelia eventually turned away.
“I’m fine.”
She did not like the favor being exchanged for someone else’s secret.
Behind her, she could hear Layton’s desperate cry.
“Hey! Are you really not curious?”
Without any regret, Nelia moved her steps to the second floor.
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When Nelia arrived in her room, she picked up the book she had borrowed from the library over the weekend.
The title of the book was ‘Siegfried Mythology’. A grey dragon was drawn on the cover.
The same pattern was on the carriage that Duke Hart had arrived in, it was the symbol of the Andrian Empire. The symbol was modeled after an ancient dragon, the god of rage and destruction, ‘Siegfried’.
Siegfried Mythology was one of the important stories in .
Nelia borrowed this book out of simple curiosity.
This mythology seemed like an important key to unfold the story of the original, but she wanted to know the rest of the story as she hadn’t finished reading the original.
The story of Siegfried Mythology went like this.
A long time ago in the Andrian Empire. There existed a dragon named ‘Siegfried’, who was a god of destruction and anger, and a powerful ruler.
Before he died, he hid his heart and left a will that he would grant the wish of the one who finds it.
The key to finding the heart was the gemstone on the necklace that Layton had touched, ‘Elena’s Tears.’
How Elena’s Tears guided the way to the heart, I didn’t know. After all, I had only read up to the middle of the original work.
‘What was Duke Hart’s reason for finding the heart…?’
Ah, it was for revenge against the emperor.
There had been a brief scene recalling the past when Emperor Archen killed Duke Hart’s father.
And there seemed to be another reason, but again, my reading was up to that point.
‘If I had known I would end up in this book, I would have read it all night if I had to.’
Regretting now is of no use, but it was a pity.
Pushing her regret behind, Nelia flipped the thick book cover. The paper was quite faded, as it was an old book.
[Chapter 1, The Majesty of the Gray Dragon.]At the beginning of the world, only gods existed. Among them, Ziggurat, born with destruction and rage, made a habit of annihilation and war.
But even the other gods couldn’t stop him. The great gray dragon, the only one in the world, that was Ziggurat.
The flames coming from his mouth melted anything solid instantly, and his steellike claws pierced anything.
‘Ziggurat was really strong.’
Reading the terrifying descriptions without any interest, Nelia quickly flipped the page.
[Chapter 2, The Spring Breeze That Melts the Ice.]There was someone who stopped his dominance, ironically, it was a small, insignificant human woman.
Her name was Elena, the only woman engraved in Ziggurat’s heart.
The encounter between Ziggurat and her was both a coincidence and fate.
The gods united to attack Ziggurat who was unchallenged, and Ziggurat, off guard, was severely injured and fell.
He fell into a countryside hill, and was healed by Elena who came to pick spring herbs.
‘So, he falls in love with Elena, who saved him.’
From the start, the only key to opening the path to Ziggurat’s heart was Elena’s Tears. It couldn’t be anything but a very romantic naming.
Nelia quickly flipped the pages again.
[Chapter 3, The Challenger of the Dragon.]‘Oh, there seems to have been someone daring enough to challenge the world’s strongest.’
At the exciting subtitle, Nelia stopped her pageturning hand.
Thanks to Elena, who melted Ziggurat’s cold heart, peace came to the world. Ziggurat, who used to wage wars, no longer wished for battle.
Elena, the woman he loved, wanted that too, and he had two children to take responsibility for.
However, the children who came as a gift brought both happiness and sorrow.
Despite being born of the same mother, the two children had distinctly different appearances and personalities.
The second child, Cal, looked like an ordinary human, but had a straightforward character and appearance that was strikingly similar to Elena.
My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
