Perhaps on top of that foolish hope that Shasha might not be used, I may have covered my guilt.
Using Shasha to soothe my heart. Taking comfort in Shasha growing up well. Maybe I’m even worse than the Earl and his wife. Although I like and love Shasha, my feelings aren’t entirely pure.
“Sis?”
“Uh, yes?”
“Your expression looks sad.”
“No, where were we in our conversation? Ah, you asked if we decided where to go?”
“Yes!”
Shasha nodded vigorously, not knowing my feelings. I tried to smile with her so as not to worry her.
“It’s not that we’ve decided, it seems like we now have someone who will completely protect us. I wanted to tell you that.”
“Someone who will completely protect us?”
At my words, Shasha tilted her head.
“Not someone who will use us like Mom and Dad……?”
“Yes. Someone who won’t use us but will accept us as we are.”
Of course, I may be used, but someone who will not use Shasha.
“Who is it?”
“His Majesty the Emperor.”
“Ah……!”
I was cautious this time too, in case I couldn’t control my emotions like last time. Fortunately, Shasha seemed to understand, nodding.
“I see.”
“If anything happens, if something happens to us, we just have to tell His Majesty the Emperor.”
“Umm…… Sis! Then, if anything happens, we can send a pigeon like last time!”
“Eh?”
The thing called the Pigeon Assassin Corps?
I had to say that we wouldn’t need that, but I couldn’t tell Shasha, who seemed happy about it. The Emperor jokingly called them the Pigeon Assassin Corps.
“Uh, yes, that.”
“The Emperor will like it too, right? It must have been very pretty! I even made them dance!”
“Did you make them with magic?”
“No! They are not magic!”
I thought it was obvious they were magic, but no……?
“Not……? But hundreds of them……”
“I helped a pigeon that hurt its leg in the garden, and one day, they just multiplied!”
“Is, is that so……?”
“They’re very smart. They listen well.”
I naturally thought they were created by magic, used for their purpose, and then vanished in front of the Emperor…
‘So do those birds all fly back again……?’
“How did you train them to dance?”
“I danced myself! I can’t read books, but there were pictures drawn in the book! Pictures of dancing!”
“Ah…… I see.”
“Did I do something wrong?”
“No, you did well!”
Well done or not. Because I didn’t educate Shasha to keep her innocent, the child couldn’t even read or write at the age of 7.
I hadn’t even taught her manners. She probably didn’t know what the dance she saw was.
‘When the Emperor talked about a courtship dance, I thought he was showing off, but it might have really been a courtship dance.’
I awkwardly smiled and turned my eyes back to Shasha. The child was subtly watching me, perhaps worried that she had done something wrong, so I quickly changed the subject.
“But Shasha.”
“Huh?”
“You don’t worry about your sister getting married now…?”
“Yes! My sister promised to like only Shasha. Shasha’s okay with it because she said she doesn’t like him!”
I was momentarily at a loss for words at Shasha’s firm statement.
“Ah… You don’t mean, your sister might like or fall in love with the Emperor, do you?”
“Never! No.”
Only then did my tense face quickly relax.
She was a child who had never claimed anything as her own. For such a child, I might be the first person to become hers.
So she had a small obsession. Like a child with separation anxiety, like a child who only looks for her mother, Shasha seemed to have become like that.
Of course, it wasn’t bad. A child has a process of growing up like a child, and although Shasha was a little late, she was growing as she should.
‘As her own things increase little by little, and she is loved and cherished without being exploited, this obsession will get a little better.’
“Then it’s okay. Shasha!”
“Yes. And His Majesty the Emperor has allowed Shasha to go with your sister. So Shasha, get ready too.”
“Ah…!”
“Of course, Shasha going with us is our secret, got it?”
“Our two… only secret…!”
Shasha’s eyes sparkled as if stars were contained in them.
“Shasha…?”
“I love it so much. Our secret…! I’ll keep it for sure!”
“Uhhuh!”
Looking at the brightly smiling Shasha, I suppressed my anxiety. I hope everything goes smoothly just like this.
I hope the Count and Countess leave us alone and let us go safely, and I earnestly prayed to a god I didn’t believe in.
Have some conscience and stop at this point.
(This is a time separator.)
But the gods were cruelly not on my side.
What I wanted was not much, just a tiny bit of mercy, but what I didn’t even want to think about happened.
Through this incident, I realized that the Count and Countess were extraordinary people.
Today, I took Shasha, who had no plans to go out, for a walk. We headed to the garden not far from the mansion’s main gate, where we had met the Emperor last time.
It was still an unattended place, but it was the only place near the mansion where we could play.
There were no flowers, and it was unattractive because it wasn’t cared for, but it was still a fun place to pull weeds.
So I was playing with Shasha there… and we ran into the people we didn’t want to see. Without even saying who they were, I recognized them at once.
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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