The king looked quite perplexed, unsure of the atmosphere to match.
Everyone was glancing around due to the frozen tension.
“Actually, a few weeks is not such a long journey. The princess took three months to get here,” Levanfell said.
Upon my mention, the family stiffened all at once, looking startled.
“But the Kingdom of Lupeone seems to have many engineers. Making a wheel run for three months with rotten wood.”
“YYour Majesty.”
“You may take it as a compliment.”
“Yes, yes. ThThank you…”
“If I have the chance, I would like them to teach their technology to the empire. It would not be strange if it fell off a cliff with a loose wheel. To make such a carriage run.”
“ThThat, that is…”
“Did the kingdom want to show off its technology? It seems so since they sent the princess to the empire in such a carriage.”
As Levanfell’s words lengthened, the king’s face turned pale.
“I’m just asking in case.”
“YYour, your Majesty.”
“With a wheel about to fall off and a carriage rotting away!”
“Gulp”
“…You didn’t send the princess in that, did you?”
The king finally closed his eyes, understanding why Levanfell was furiously making these illogical arguments.
“Oh. My prank went too far again. Surely the kingdom wouldn’t have sent the princess without checking.”
“MMy negligence…”
“If that happened, it would be ignoring the princess, who will be received as empress, and ignoring the grand empire.”
Levanfell rebuked with sarcasm. The atmosphere was freezing, and no one dared to step forward.
“The hospitality is enough.”
Levanfell looked around as if warning the stiff family members. His eyes finally turned to me.
“I’ll give you space since you probably want to spend time with the family you haven’t seen in a while.”
The faces of the king and my siblings finally bloomed with relief. Levanfell frowned when he saw their more comfortable expressions.
“However.”
Levanfell deliberately wrapped his arm around my waist. My body tensed up at the unfamiliar touch.
“The princess will soon become the empress.”
Levanfell seemed to notice my tension and only laid the tips of his fingers on my waist.
“Whether it’s a few days before the wedding or after, no one will dare to look at the empress. So.”
“……”
“You should think of the princess as the empress of the grand empire and treat her accordingly. Very carefully.”
After Levanfell finished, our eyes met. He seemed to have more to say, but he swallowed it, and I smiled reassuringly.
“It’s okay. Leave the rest to me.”
“Father. And my sisters, brothers!”
My family was wrapped in a terrifying fear.
They had always despised me as a princess and now, I was to become the empress, wielding power, so their reaction was natural.
“I really wanted to see you. So much! …I missed you.”
I suppressed my exhilarated smile and welcomed my family.
My father, the king, left with Levanfell to discuss political matters, and I came to the Damask Palace with the rest of my family.
Listening to useless talk about alliances since we’re now family was predictable.
Before leaving, the king warned my siblings not to touch or talk to me until his return.
“Hey, are you really marrying the emperor?”
But my stupid brothers wouldn’t follow the king’s command.
“Where is Karayan brother?”
Ignoring Lucenia brother’s words, I looked for Karayan first.
Karayan, being my real family, I sincerely wished for him to attend the wedding.
“Brother couldn’t come because he’s still dealing with the epidemic investigation. The aftermath is taking longer than expected because there are more casualties.”
Considering he didn’t come, the situation must be more serious than I thought.
“Teriella. What’s going on? You’re becoming the empress of this empire?”
“…Why are you so surprised when you sent me to marry the emperor? Were you disappointed to see a wedding invitation instead of news of my death?”
“You think it makes sense?! You becoming the empress of the grand empire…!”
“You were the one who sent me to marry the emperor, and now you’re shocked? I suppose you were disappointed that instead of being killed by the emperor, I sent a wedding invitation?”
Certainly, here’s the translated passage:
“It’s not impossible. It will be like that soon. …You still don’t understand what’s happening?”
I crossed my legs arrogantly, holding my chin.
“Don’t you have anything else to say to me?”
Even when given the opportunity, my family members glanced at each other and tightly closed their lips, as if they had made a promise.
‘That’s right. It’s always like this.’
They have tormented me for years.
They always messed me up and pretended to know nothing, to have done nothing, and turned their backs on me.
You always make a fool out of me like this.
“Well… this is all our plan.”
“Plan?”
“Yes! Think about it. Could you have become the Empress if we didn’t send you here? If we hadn’t forced you to go when you said you didn’t like it, you would still be picking up leftover crumbs to eat!”
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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