Woke Up And I'm A Married Woman (17 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 14
Though I saved my life using the time-reversal spell, I lost nearly all the magic power I once possessed.
Thus, the very first thing I did upon opening my eyes again was to draw magical circles across the entire second floor of Cedar’s mansion—my own living space.
Both mages and Aura Sword users require one essential condition to reach greatness.
That condition is abundant magical power. No talent can surpass innate magical capacity.
In the past, I was the mage who possessed the greatest amount of magic power in this world…
‘My magic power is ruined. At this rate, I’ll never even come close.’
Now, I was barely better than a beggar.
I desperately carved out channels and did everything I could to gather even the tiniest amounts of magic, striving to fill the empty vessel—but the result was the same.
Weeks had passed, yet the magic power I’d gathered wasn’t even enough to form a puddle on the floor.
Disheartened, I heaved sigh after heavy sigh.
‘I might still manage to cast some magic… but large-scale spells like before are out of the question.’
After so much time spent gathering magic, the best I could muster was a faint breeze barely strong enough to dry my hair.
This was incomparable to the past, when I’d received offers to join the Empire’s civil engineering corps, with recruiters insisting I could level entire mountains with a mere flick of my wrist and become the new face of their field.
My spirit sagged like a melted slime, yet I shook my head firmly and straightened my posture again.
‘If I keep steadily accumulating magic like this, by next week I should be able to cast a self-defense spell once or twice in a truly dangerous situation.’
There’s no point dwelling on negativity. The situation is already set in stone—my only choice is to look straight ahead and never glance back.
‘I don’t have time to be gloomy. I need to find another way quickly. I can’t keep depending on Cedar’s home forever.’
Cedar had said he married me simply because he needed a wife.
That meant if that reason disappeared, there’d be no need to maintain our marriage.
I didn’t want to grow complacent thinking everything was fine now, only to be caught off guard and act foolishly when Cedar eventually asked for a separation.
I clenched both fists tightly. Right now, what mattered most was independence!
‘Fortunately, all my magical knowledge remains intact in my mind. I’ll find a way somehow.’
It wasn’t that I’d lost my knowledge—only that I lacked the magic power to cast spells. All the great magical wisdom was still safely stored in my head.
‘Still, it’d be nice if I could cast at least a little magic.’
Of course, there were ways to regain the ability to cast spells.
One was to use the magical circles I’d just drawn, which gathered ambient magic from nature, and the other was to use mana stones—crystals that stored magical energy.
Magic power is the energy that flows through the natural world.
Sometimes, during intense shifts in the natural environment, this energy coalesces into physical objects—mana stones being the most typical example.
‘So now mana stones are my lifeline. Truly, life is full of surprises—just when you think you’ve seen it all, something unimaginable happens.’
I’d never really cared much about mana stones before.
They were incredibly rare and absurdly expensive, and since I’d always had magic power to spare, I never imagined I’d need them.
‘With those, I could gain far more magic power at once than with the circles. But mana stones are just too expensive.’
In the end, if I wanted to keep using magic, I’d have to earn money.
‘The real problem is how to earn it. I’ve never made money in my life.’
All I’d ever done my entire life was magical research.
‘Rather than learning an entirely new skill now, it’s best to earn money doing what I already know.’
Magic and money.
Magic and money.
Just how am I supposed to earn money with magic?
After much frustrated pondering, a sudden idea struck me.
‘What if I made and sold magical potions?’
In this world, there existed magical potions that produced effects similar to actual spells.
Of course, these still required mages to create them, but most mages focused exclusively on advancing their magical research to increase their own worth, so very few ever bothered with potion-making.
But I couldn’t use magic anymore, right? What good would it do to research new spells I couldn’t even cast?
It made far more sense to apply my knowledge to potion-making instead.
The more I thought about it, the better it sounded. I stood up from my seat and stepped onto the staircase—an area I never descended unless it was mealtime.
‘I’ll need to grow ingredients, so I should check out the garden.’
Making magical potions required various kinds of herbal materials.
Fortunately, this mansion had a small garden—I just needed to ask permission to use it.
‘These shoes are comfortable. And the clothes are easy to change into.’
As I descended the stairs, my skirt rustled softly against my knees. These were new clothes Cedar had specially ordered for me.
Apparently shocked to learn I couldn’t even dress myself in the mansion’s existing wardrobe, Cedar had bought me several simple dresses that required only buttoning to wear easily.
Today’s outfit was a cheerful light-blue dress with a white apron.
He knew me well—the apron was already sewn into the dress, eliminating the need for ribbons altogether.
‘Cedar really is thoughtful and considerate. He always keeps my convenience in mind.’
Diana, who’d forced me into this marriage with Cedar, hadn’t sent over a single one of my belongings—proof of just how little she cared about me.
‘How pathetic of me not to realize Diana was that kind of person until right before my death.’
Still, it was fortunate I could use the time-reversal spell. It was also lucky I’d uncovered Diana’s true nature before dying.
I soothed my thoughts as I walked down the stairs.
Pushing open the heavy front door with a grunt, I stepped outside—only to find unexpected visitors standing in the sunlight just beyond the gate.
Their hair, blacker than darkness itself, seemed to absorb every ray of sunlight.
Slightly tanned skin, smooth cheeks, and narrow, sharp eyes.
Surrounding his massive, tiger-like frame was a faint distortion in the air—caused by the intense flow of magical energy.
It was none other than Cedar.
Sometimes, when I stood face to face with Cedar, I felt as if I were encountering an entirely different kind of being—my body freezing like ice.
Even though he’d never threatened me in any way.
‘Could it be because he’s truly descended from dragons?’
Just as our ancestors were the legendary Great Mage Periway, perhaps the Grenit family’s claim of dragon ancestry—dragons who once took human form—wasn’t just a myth after all.
Breaking the strange silence between us was Hyle, Cedar’s right-hand man.
With an unusually bright and cheerful grin, he greeted me first.
“Good morning, my lady.”
“Good morning.”
Unlike Cedar, who ate all three meals at home, Hyle sometimes accompanied Cedar and sometimes didn’t, so I saw him only sporadically.
But today, even in those rare appearances, his smile was wider than ever.
‘Somehow, that smile feels unsettling.’
I knew Hyle was a good person.
Yet for some reason, that beaming grin triggered a deep, instinctive aversion. Rubbing his palms together, he said to me,
“You came out to greet us! Newlyweds truly are sweet, heh heh heh.”
“…?”
Greet them? Newlyweds?
Blinking in confusion, I tried to make sense of his words—yet instead of explaining, Hyle simply turned and walked away.
“I’ll take my leave now. Enjoy some private time together.”
His weirdly grinning face as he shuffled backward was oddly unsettling. I tilted my head, puzzled.
‘What on earth is he talking about?’
Private time? Since when were we at that kind of relationship?
‘And Cedar’s expression looks oddly strange too.’
The corners of Cedar’s mouth twitched slightly, like wriggling worms.
When I stared at him with wide eyes, he quickly covered his mouth with his palm, as if trying to hide it.
“Ahem.”
After a few forced coughs, he returned to his usual stoic self—Cedar Grenit. Folding his arms, he asked me in a serious tone,
“Did you come out to greet me?”
“I was just going to check on the garden.”
Was I supposed to greet him? How was I supposed to know when you two would arrive and come out early?
Still confused, I kept tilting my head—and Cedar’s face immediately scrunched up in frustration.
Dragging his hands down his face, he muttered in an oddly dangerous tone,
“That’s what I thought. What nonsense was Hyle spouting on and on about?”
So it wasn’t that I didn’t understand—it was nonsense all along. Since we’d already met, I took the chance to ask Cedar about his recent days.
“Are your morning drills over? Anything unusual happen?”
“What unusual thing could possibly happen?”
Cedar shrugged his shoulders, then smoothly changed the subject.
“Did you drink the juice I prepared for you?”
“Oh.”
That was an extremely unfavorable topic for me.
‘Now that you mention it, he did say he’d leave juice for me before heading out.’
That morning, still half-asleep, I’d given a distracted reply during breakfast—and now I was paying for it.
At my vague response, Cedar’s thick eyebrows shot upward.
“Oh?”
I couldn’t possibly admit I’d barely listened to him then, so I fidgeted with my fingers and lowered my head deeply.
“…I, uh, was planning to drink it after checking the garden.”
“Didn’t they teach you as a child that lying is wrong?”
“I-I’m not lying! Goodness, really.”
“You’re terrifyingly bad at lying. You should know that.”
From moral objections about the virtue of honesty to the absurdity of declaring someone objectively “bad” at emotional expression—I had plenty of counterarguments ready. But I stayed silent.
This was a losing topic. The more I spoke, the worse it’d get.
So how should I escape this unfavorable situation?
The method I chose was evasion.
“I’ll quickly check the garden and come right back. Please go ahead to the dining room first.”
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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