RETURN OF THE FEMALE KNIGHT

109. You Are Such A Fool

He voiced his concerns to her, but she didn't even hear it. There was something else more pressing.

"Kookie, we only met once. Why did you make a wish to save my life?"

She could not understand his mindset. Why would he use a wish to protect a girl he only met that day? He could have wished for anything, but he chose only one thing: for her to be alive and not dead.

Jungkook smiled back.

"It's true that I was too young to be overly concerned about what wish I made. But I have never regretted it."

"...Kookie."

Her throat tightened at the knowledge that Jungkook had loved her all this time without her even knowing it. He had told her he liked her from the start, but this was the first time she understood it with her heart. It was love beyond measure.

"You...you are such a fool."

Jungkook lifted his eyebrows at her. She did not stop there, continuing to say what she wanted to say.

"You should have made a better wish that could have helped you. My life is—"

Lalisa's breath hitched and she stopped speaking. Jungkook, who was watching her, spoke with a faint smile.

"Don't say that your life is worthless. Because you're everything to me."

"Really, you stupid..."

Her voice was thick with tears. She had no idea about this until now, and it would have been unfair if she had gone on not knowing how much he cared for her.

'If I tell him, will he believe me?'

She had an entire past where her family died and she alone survived, dedicating her entire life to exacting vengeance against Namgil. It was a lonely hell, and she died without ever achieving her goal.

And then, like a miracle, Lalisa was given new life...

It was all because of Jungkook's wish on the Dragon's Orb. A portion of the prophecy came to mind.

[The first to marry the Crown Prince will spend their life in solitude. They will die a miserable death.]

Lalisa had never considered it before, but the prophecy described her first life. She had spent it in solitude and then suffered a miserable death, unable to avenge her family in the end.

Her head spun from all the information she learned today. It was as if all the unsolved mysterious in her life had been answered.

However, the most important thing was that Jungkook loved her, and she loved him. The curse on the Imperial Family, the myth of the dragon, the wish-granting Orb —many hidden truths were found, but it all paled in comparison to the feelings they had for each other.

Jungkook looked at Lalisa with a tense expression.

"You must have more questions."

"What do you mean?"

"Well. About how my arm mutates into something like a monster, and how much power I can use with it."

Jungkook's voice grew lower and deeper.

"What if we have a son, and the blood of the dragon flows through him strongly like me? Don't you wonder?"

Of course she did. She wondered whether the physical changes to the body were dangerous, what they would do if they had a boy child, and whether they could break the curse.

But first she wanted to say something to him, who still bore the shadow of hurt in his eyes.

"Stop calling yourself a monster. You are my husband."