“Sister! You were with Scholar Sun all day yesterday, weren’t you?”
During all this, Lin Hwa was being so noisy.
But knowing that there would be no end if I responded to each tantrum, I ignored Lin Hwa’s scream and changed my clothes.
Perhaps she didn’t like to hear the angry sound. Fortunately, Lin Hwa’s hands quickened after her scream. She’s helpful in this regard.
Ah, I don’t want to enter the palace. Ah, I don’t want to see my pupil.
But the promised time is approaching, and I’ve changed all my clothes. I sighed heavily and left the house.
Then, as I entered the palace and went to Moonmugung, where my pupil was staying, of all things, my pupil was not in the room but standing in the garden.
Watering the weeds. He’s done this often before, but I really don’t know what he’s doing.
Is it because I looked at him so disappointingly? Or because my pupil has already nurtured his body in just a few days since I regressed?
“Master?”
I thought I went in silently. But my pupil noticed my presence immediately and looked at me.
As our eyes met, my heart reacted first. But I forced a smile, and my pupil reached out to me.
Is he beckoning? I don’t want to, I hate it. I grumbled inwardly, but reluctantly approached, and my pupil naturally pressed my collar to check the wound and then frowned.
“Ointment?”
“I applied it.”
“There’s no trace at all.”
“I applied it last night.”
“I would have told you to apply it often, Master.”
“That’s[dash].”
“Don’t you even like touching the ointment I gave you?”
I choked up and apologized in a creeping voice.
“I’m sorry.”
I didn’t like him, but I didn’t not apply it because it was the ointment he gave me. I just didn’t have the energy to care about other things because I was mentally weakened by yesterday’s hiding place incident.
But my pupil seemed uninterested and continued to water the weeds.
Is the inquiry over? Can I relax? The hiding place thing is…….
“Why are you looking for a hiding place? Do you have something to run away from?”
It’s not over. No, the inquiry seems to have just begun.
When he asked the question I had been worrying about all night, I felt completely empty inside.
I smiled, trying to hide my difficulty. I had prepared various answers, but none of them seemed appropriate.
“Ten households[dash].”
“I know you’re lying.”
“!”
“How can a master with no loyalty or fidelity love ten people?”
What are you talking about? You need to lack loyalty and fidelity to love ten people, right? If you have loyalty, you’d love only one person…….
“Thirteenth. Talk to me.”
I was able to escape the awkward situation thanks to the unfamiliar voice that came from behind.
Struggling to answer about the hiding place, I quickly turned around at this opportunity.
Unexpectedly, it was the 7th prince. Before my regression, he was one of the people my pupil killed relatively quickly, so his voice seemed unfamiliar.
But why has the 7th prince come here?
The 13th prince, before showing his true colors, was ignored by his siblings and didn’t interact with anyone, so why?
The seventh prince, who had a highranking maternal family and a mother of high status, had never visited this place, considering the thirteenth prince as insignificant as the dirt on his toes.
I was puzzled, but I quickly bowed formally.
“I salute Your Highness, the seventh prince.”
“So you’re the one.”
The seventh prince nodded towards me and then looked back at the thirteenth prince.
I also watched the thirteenth prince. Did the thirteenth prince know why the seventh prince had come here? He must remember more about the past than I do since he’s gone back several times.
But it was hard to discern his thoughts as there was no change in his expression.
“What is it, brother?”
His voice was calm, at least.
“The hunting tournament is soon.”
“Indeed.”
“I want to ride ‘Haesung’ at that time.”
“I refuse.”
“You refuse? …It’s just for one day.”
“I refuse. The only horse I have is Haesung.”
“I’ll lend my horse to you, little brother. A very good horse. How about it?”
“I refuse.”
Upon hearing the horse’s name, Haesung, and the argument about it, I remembered that the seventh prince had come looking for the thirteenth prince like this before his regression.
‘That’s the incident.’
Haesung was the only white horse the thirteenth prince had, and it was a famous horse, beautiful enough that its coat shone because it was so well cared for.
The seventh prince, who loved horses, wanted that horse so much that he often pestered the thirteenth prince to give Haesung to him as a birthday gift.
Then, with the hunting tournament approaching, he changed tactics, asking to borrow Haesung. That’s what was happening now.
But the thirteenth prince would never give his cherished horse to the seventh prince he disliked. As a result, the two began to quarrel, and eventually, the sparks flew towards me.
“How rude. You won’t even let me ride it once. What do you think, Sir?”
Just like now.
“You are the younger brother’s mentor, Sir. If it’s your word, he might listen, so please persuade him on my behalf.”
At that time, I was very embarrassed. It was an awkward situation for me, no matter whose side I took.
But before the regression, I sided with the seventh prince.
It wasn’t because I hated the thirteenth prince or followed the seventh. It was because the thirteenth prince was too weak to confront the powerful seventh prince over just riding a horse.
I thought a prince with an uncertain future like the thirteenth shouldn’t be hated by a possible future emperor like the seventh.
To make a long story short, the thirteenth prince didn’t lend Haesung even after I persuaded him.
The seventh prince left angrily, threatening to get back at us, but after breaking his leg from falling off his horse after the hunting tournament, he forgot all about Haesung, and I was relieved that everything worked out.
But thinking about it now, I wonder if the seventh prince’s injury was really an accident.
While I was sorting out my thoughts, the seventh prince urged me just like in the past.
“Sir, why are you not speaking?”
I smiled at my disciple. He stood there calmly. Perhaps because he knew whose side I would take, there seemed to be no expectation in his eyes.
He was even looking over the seventh prince’s shoulder at the wall, not even glancing at me.
But the side I must take this time is… my disciple.
“I apologize, Your Highness, the seventh prince. The thirteenth prince only has the horse Haesung, so if we lend Haesung, he will have no horse to ride. Even though you offer to lend another horse, that won’t work either. The thirteenth prince’s horseriding skills are not as good as yours, so he cannot ride an unfamiliar horse.”
My disciple’s eyebrows furrowed at once. I could feel the suspicion in his expression, ‘Why are you doing this? You weren’t like this in your previous life?’
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
