“I’m powerless. I want to escape this wretched hell, but all I can do is endure and tolerate. I have to pretend I’m okay, act as if nothing affects me, just to survive.”
Tears flowed like a breached dam. Cordelia tried to wipe her wet cheeks with her hands, but it was not enough.
She cried like a child, releasing all the pent-up emotions she had suppressed for so long.
“To you, I might seem scrambling, abject, but I’m giving it my best, my all…”
Leonard, unable to say anything, just stared at her.
He belatedly realized how deeply his thoughtless words had wounded her.
He had always thought she was genuinely unbothered because she always smiled, no matter what he said.
“…Sob.”
“You’re right. No one has the right to judge others so casually.”
“I have pride, too, sob, I do. I’m not a fool.”
“I apologize for what I just said.”
Leonard spoke earnestly. Hearing his words, Cordelia’s overwhelming emotions began to subside.
He continued to look at her sniffling figure, then unexpectedly said,
“I’ll give you strength.”
“What do you mean, sob, by that?”
“I’m taking you as my apprentice.”
His words seemed impulsive. Leonard didn’t fully understand this decision himself but didn’t regret it.
“What? What do you mean by that?”
Cordelia, still distraught from crying, initially didn’t grasp his meaning and just looked at him with tearful eyes.
“You said you were mistreated because you were powerless. As my apprentice, you won’t be treated that way. So, say you forgive me.”
“Me?”
“Hurry up.”
Leonard’s brazen and assertive manner forced Cordelia to relent under his pressure.
“Sob, okay, I forgive you.”
“Good. Now repeat after me. Oh, we need a witness. Baron, come out.”
“Did you call for me?”
Baron, who had been waiting for the opportunity, emerged from a tear shed by Cordelia.
“A moving moment. To see my master take an apprentice in my lifetime!”
Baron dramatically handed Cordelia a handkerchief from inside his coat. She used it to wipe the remaining moisture from her eyes.
“Sob, thank you.”
“Now, now. Stop your tears. It’s a happy occasion.”
“Repeat after me.”
Leonard swiftly grabbed Cordelia’s hand and began to mutter an unintelligible incantation.
“What are you doing? Repeat after me?”
“Uh… what are you, hic, doing?”
“Taking you as an apprentice. You’re hiccuping now? During a solemn consecration ceremony?”
“Consecration ceremony, hic, what’s that?”
“To think my first consecration ceremony as a master would be like this. No flowers, no rings, just my one and only apprentice hiccuping and crying.”
Leonard frowned, annoyed at how his imagined first ceremony was turning out, complaining about its lackluster nature.
A long and complicated incantation followed.
Due to Cordelia’s incessant hiccups, it took a long time to repeat the incantation.
Once she finally managed to stutter through the last sentence, Leonard lost his patience.
“Stop hiccuping!”
“I can’t, hic, help it!”
“Both of you, stop. We just need to finish the oath of witness now.”
Baron finished the oath with a beaming smile.
Simultaneously, a bright light enveloped her body. Intricate and strange patterns were temporarily etched all over her.
“Whoa. What’s, what’s this?”
“It’ll be over soon.”
Leonard spoke nonchalantly, and true to his word, the light soon faded. Fortunately, the patterns etched on her body also disappeared without a trace.
Cordelia looked at her body with a mixed expression.
When the ceremony shone so brilliantly, I thought there would be some significant change, but nothing was different before and after the ceremony.
“Is it over now? But why is becoming an apprentice so complicated? Isn’t it just about learning magic?”
“What? Don’t tell me you didn’t know what it means to become a wizard’s apprentice.”
“Uh… Isn’t it about learning magic?”
Leonard was dumbfounded by her surprisingly innocent comment. Baron tried to suppress his laughter but failed.
“Ha. I can’t even scold you for this.”
“Congratulations, Master. You finally got the apprentice you dreamed of.”
“Shut up.”
“Ha-ha, many wizards wish to be Leonard’s apprentice, as many as the stars in the sky. The mages of the Ma Association will surely envy Cordelia for this.”
“Ah, yes. Whatever.”
Cordelia knew the Ma Association referred to the Lophel Wizards Association in the Wilas Archipelago, but beyond that, she was completely unfamiliar with this world and felt no particular emotion. She was just happy to finally learn magic.
“So, am I your apprentice now?”
“Master.”
“Huh?”
“Now that we’ve officially completed the consecration ceremony, you should call me Master and serve me respectfully. Got it?”
“I’m already serving you respectfully. What more can I do? Oh, I understand! I will serve you!”
Leonard glared at Cordelia with wide eyes.
It felt like receiving a great favor, even though it seemed like she became an apprentice as a reward for forgiveness.
Cordelia pouted and grumbled, and Leonard shouted.
“You’re becoming my apprentice, and for that, the Grand Duke of Leviche knelt for three days! Ah, forget it, forget it.”
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
