Upon hearing his subordinates’ words, Gennerva slowly nodded.
“Look at those pitiful people. Because the World Tree disappeared, they encountered a storm and all ended up dead.”
“Yes, that’s true.”
“I need to make a new World Tree soon.”
“You’re amazing.”
“Am I? I work with such a strong sense of mission and responsibility, but people don’t understand that. It’s funny.”
Gennerva, looking at the dying people without enthusiasm, clicked his tongue as if he were looking at insignificant ants.
Then, he turned and boarded the prepared carriage. As his subordinates followed behind, the carriage departed.
As the carriage started moving, Gennerva opened his mouth abruptly.
“How’s Queen Eteria?”
“Ah. Based on the confirmation, she is currently in a fully recovered state from all illnesses…”
“Fully recovered from all illnesses?!”
Inside the moving carriage, Gennerva abruptly rose from his seat.
His frail body couldn’t balance properly, shaking in all directions, but his face looked as pleased as a child who got the toy he wanted on his birthday.
“Yes, yes. It’s thanks to the relic that Queen Eteria found.”
“A relic?”
“Yes. It is said that relics contain the power of the gods. She used that relic to help Queen Eteria.”
“Oh.”
“So, because of the alliance formed between the two countries, other nations are in chaos.”
Gennerva sat down and tapped his leg.
“Why? Are you afraid they might join hands and invade the continent, Leonharta and Eteria?”
“That’s just how they are, you know.”
“Despite having nothing, they have an abundance of delusional inspirations. Ah! Is it because they have nothing?”
“That could be.”
Gennerva turned his head out of the carriage window.
“Really…”
Gennerva sighed in admiration, covering his mouth with a smile that kept emerging. However, the restlessness in his shoulders did not subside.
“People who don’t know would believe that the incurable disease was cured by a relic.”
“Yes.”
“I made it, right? That power to cure it in an instant.”
Gennerva’s eyes behind the glasses became filled with madness.
“Why do other people leave me alone? With the power of the relic, others could be cured too.”
“…That’s true.”
“It’s not the power of the relic.”
The restlessness in his shoulders intensified. Then, he grabbed his stomach and leaned back, bursting into laughter.
“Hahaha! Haha! The gods haven’t abandoned us! Hahaha!”
“Yes?”
“My efforts to save the world must have been recognized by the gods, and that’s why they bestowed the saint upon me! Hahaha!”
“Why aren’t you surprised?”
“…Last time, even after all sorts of experiments, there was a child who didn’t die, and you were delighted, saying it was a saint.”
“Me? Did I?”
“Because of various experiments, the child eventually died. It wasn’t a saint.”
Upon his subordinate’s words, Gennerva rubbed his forehead, narrowing his eyes.
“Ah… right… I remember now. Yes, that’s right. I thought it was a saint, but… it wasn’t a saint?”
“Yes.”
“Ah. This time is different. Listen to me carefully. During the incident in the previous substitute temple, there was also the Empress, right?”
“The Emperor, Substitute Minister Elihu, and the advisor were all present at that place. Is that not enough? Many people gathered in the name of a sacred ritual.”
“But this time, we fixed Empress Eteria, and she is the Empress!”
“The Emperor, Substitute Minister Elihu, and the advisor were also present at that place, as I mentioned.”
Gennerva smirked and stroked his chin.
“…Then, is one of them the saint?”
Gennerva’s eyes, tinged with madness, rolled around in a sinister manner. His subordinate showed no surprise, as if accustomed to his behavior.
“If it turns out not to be the saint this time, it will be a bigger problem.”
“Why?”
“…Why, you ask. The death of a child that no one searches for is different from the Empress of a mighty empire dying.”
“Um.”
Gennerva pretended to contemplate, rubbing his chin. However, he soon shrugged his shoulders, laughing innocently.
“Well, there’s nothing we can do about it, right!”
Gennerva laughed brightly like a light.
“It’s the Empress’s fault for not being the saint!”
That’s right. This is the kind of person he is. A man who has no interest in others’ deaths and is only concerned with the success of his own experiments.
“Still, it would be nice if the Empress were a saint. It would be interesting then.”
Gennerva laughed enthusiastically, shaking his body back and forth.
“I’m so curious about what would happen if you mix the sap of the World Tree with the blood of the saint! They say the saint is a gift from the gods, right? Then, won’t the gift from the gods not die?”
“Well, I don’t know.”
“I wonder how the heart of a gift from the gods is beating. Like a human? Or maybe the heart isn’t beating at all?”
“In my opinion, it doesn’t seem like she’s the saint this time either.”
“Hmm. Then, she’ll become the noble sacrifice for the people of the empire.”
Gennerva buried his face in his hands and savored the joy. The obsession and madness seeping through his spread fingers were eerie.
“I can’t wait to see…”
Gennerva’s obsessively intense gaze was directed towards the palace.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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