April bit her lip and hugged my waist tighter. It’s… suffocating! Didn’t she do the same thing before? How can this bunny be so strong?
“April.”
“…”
Grayan discouraged April once more. With tears in her eyes, April said in a resentful voice,
“Duke, you… you don’t know anything.”
“That’s right. You don’t tell me anything.”
As Grayan answered calmly, April opened her eyes wide and let the tears fall.
And then, she suddenly transformed into a rabbit!
Before I could react, the rabbit slipped out of my arms and ran off into the middle of the garden.
“April…!”
I reflexively reached out for the fleeing April.
At that moment, Jade intervened.
“Don’t worry about the princess, I will take care of her. You two should get going.”
“What? No…”
“Alright, Jade. Take good care of April.”
“Yes, don’t worry, Your Grace.”
After giving a polite bow, Jade quickly ran in the direction where April had disappeared.
As I was about to follow him, Grayan gently grabbed my shoulder.
His grip was firm but not rude or threatening, just enough to hold me back.
“If we delay any longer, we’ll be late for our appointment. Don’t worry too much about April. There are many people in this castle who can take care of her.”
“No, but… sigh…”
I couldn’t help but let out a sigh. …I finally understand why April and Grayan didn’t get along.
He was too clumsy to handle the delicate feelings of a 12yearold girl!
[This is the time separator]“You see, children don’t grow up by themselves. The role of the caregiver is extremely important.”
“I see…”
Inside the carriage heading to the outskirts of the Duchy of Salisbury.
I had been lecturing Grayan on ‘the attitude of a proper caregiver’ and ‘home education theories’ for over an hour.
Meanwhile, the two beastkin mages who had joined us on the journey kept sneaking glances at us.
“Once we return to the Duke of Salisbury’s residence, make sure to have a proper conversation with April! You understand, right? And apologize for not understanding her feelings!”
“Yes, I understand……”
She responded obediently with a gloomy face, but it was questionable whether she really understood.
Either way, after hearing my story, it seems like she began to reflect on her behavior as a parent.
‘Well, is this enough scolding……?’
Thinking it was about time to offer a carrot, I reached out to Grayan.
“Ah, we’re almost there. See over there? That’s the sacred land, Hyperion.”
The previously silent sheepheaded mage spoke with a hint of excitement.
I withdrew my hand from Grayan’s shoulder and moved closer to the window.
As I gazed beyond the window, sure enough, a scene unlike anything I had seen before unfolded in the distance.
A lake of incomprehensible depth and size, and a mysterious island floating in the middle of it.
A tree, shining like a giant jewel, rose from the center of the island.
‘The World Tree.’
The sacred island of Hyperion, where the World Tree is, is a sanctuary of mutual inviolability.
And… the birthplace of all life.
I don’t know why I remember such a thing, but it suddenly popped into my head.
As if it was a fact I had known for a long time.
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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