During the opening of the gates of Evern Castle, two people who escaped through a secret passage, evading the loosened surveillance network of the Tesia Empire, joined a few elite soldiers of Parsad who had repelled the Tesian soldiers blocking the passage.
In a barn near the Parsad border, Etin, who was holding Erwin and faintly falling asleep, woke up to the conversation coming through the wooden door.
‘Princess Erwin is ten years old? She’s really pretty even though she’s still young.’
‘I agree. But I would rather die than marry the first prince. He impregnated another young noblewoman this time?’
‘But is the first prince really becoming the crown prince? It seems like Blahnath is rising in power this time, I wonder if a civil war might break out.’
Her heart sank. The Prince of the Parsad Empire, Ezra, was infamous even in other countries.
A womanizing brute with no decorum, he had a penchant for killing, a trash of a man.
There was no ally willing to marry him despite his incredible status as the first prince of the Parsad Empire.
She didn’t know if he intended to save face by taking even the princess of a fallen kingdom, but Etin would never allow it. That’s not why they went through all this trouble to escape.
Etin smeared animal dung from the barn on herself and excused herself to the soldiers, saying she needed to bathe.
This was inside the borders of the Parsad Empire, and since Etin and Erwin were treating them as benefactors, they wouldn’t even dream of running away.
Especially since they had hidden in Corb, the capital of Parsad, in the slums.
The slums were not unfamiliar to Etin, who had grown up in the orphanage run by Queen Lia.
She would have stayed longer if it weren’t for the dirty looks from the males towards Skaha, who was becoming more beautiful every day.
If Etin had been a bit less feisty, Skaha would have become the prey of the slum men long ago.
That year, thanks to the efforts of the Blahnath family, Parsad reclaimed Lindcoem, once the capital of Evern.
When the leader of the slums, who was only fifteen, set his sights on Skaha as his bride, Etin took Skaha and ran. Just like the dawn of the day when the kingdom of Evern was destroyed.
Hiding in Lindcoem, where postwar reconstruction was actively underway, backed by the vast wealth of the Blahnath family, was not difficult. After all, Evern people were flocking to Lindcoem every day.
Among the places she chose was the Pione Monastery. A monastery on the far eastern edge of the empire, ignored even by the central church, and beyond the reach of the royal family or lords.
The head nun laughed that Skaha resembled Princess Erwin. She added that the royalty of Evern deserved praise.
If you willingly gave your necks to the Tesia Empire, who vowed to slaughter every Evern person, and saved everyone.
Skaha, who had become a praiseless fugitive, smiled bitterly.
Just as she did the day she heard those words, Skaha suffered for several days after returning from the duke’s residence.
Etin told Skaha that the head nun, Roegal, and Nemed had visited. They couldn’t meet them anyway, because of the marks still blooming on her body like hot flowers, most likely left by the Duke of Blahnath.
But Nemed did come by every day.
There was no need to ask Skaha what had happened. Her body was explaining what had happened.
They had left them conspicuously, almost maliciously, like a stamp proclaiming her his property.
Why had he sent her back like that, knowing full well this was a monastery?
During Skaha’s illness, several influential members of the Bakra class in Lindcoem, accompanied by reporters, sought out the head nun.
They wanted an interview with Skaha, who could not refuse the duke’s proposal due to the hardship of her imprisonment.
What interview? When Etin refused on behalf of the ailing Skaha, they immediately turned into vicious bandits.
They screamed that they would report to the central church that the Pione Monastery was harboring a woman who clung to the 10 Great Families and acted as the government.
It was unthinkable to take an impure woman to the monastery. Yet, it was not possible to send all the grown Scáthachs to the orphanage run by the monastery, nor was it possible to send a childless Scáthach to a facility for single mothers.
The abbess did not summon Étáin separately to pressure her about the matter, but they could no longer cause a burden to the monastery that had accepted them when they had nowhere to go.
Though it was regrettable for the time she had worked to become a nun, it was right to end monastic life if Scáthach couldn’t become one. There wouldn’t be a mad monastery that would accept an impure woman as a nun.
Étáin had subtly hinted to Scáthach, who had been curled up in the blanket like a cocoon, to prepare herself to leave.
Five years in the slums, five years in the monastery. Now where should I go? Should I become independent with Scáthach? There’s the jewel left by the queen, though I have used it a lot for living expenses……
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
