Grayan and I arrived at the forest, tethered our horses at the entrance, and quickly penetrated its depths.
The forest, dense with coniferous trees, retained its natural appearance. It was undeniably beautiful, but it also looked very dangerous.
It seemed like a place where wild animals like boars or bears could live… To think of coming to such a place alone… she was really a fearless rabbit.
“First of all, there are no dangerous animals living nearby. Boars or bears may appear if you go into the heart of the forest though.”
“Is the place April likes near here?”
“Yes, it’s not in the heart of the forest, so it should be safe. …Perhaps.”
…’Perhaps’ meant it might not be safe. I was really worried, April. I couldn’t scold the rabbit who was greatly saddened by her mother’s anniversary…
“By the way, you may not know… how April’s biological mother passed away.”
“Ah, yes. I haven’t heard the details.”
I actually knew because I had read the original… but since the contents of the original and reality could be different, it seemed better to listen carefully this time.
I tuned into Grayan’s voice, waiting for him to speak.
“It might be a bit of a long story… but to trace back to the cause of everything, I must mention the rabbit demihuman rebellion that occurred when April was four.”
“Ah… Yes, I know about that incident.”
The rebellion of the rabbit demihumans.
It was an important point in the original, and it remained vivid in Gloria’s memory.
Long ago, there were many rabbit demihumans living in the Ainstern kingdom. Of course, there were also many rabbit demihumans in the Elowin kingdom, but the rabbit demihumans living in the Ainstern kingdom were special.
Most of them were outstanding magicians.
Despite being demihumans despised by the people of Ainstern, the rabbits were recognized for their abilities and were able to live a fairly prosperous life in the Ainstern kingdom.
However, someone was very displeased that the rabbits were living more prosperously than the common people of the Ainstern kingdom, and eventually, a major incident occurred.
A young rabbit demihuman child was beaten to death by humans.
Given such a terrible incident, the rabbit demihumans could not stand by.
They repeatedly petitioned the king to severely punish the five perpetrators involved in the mass beating, but the prime minister disposed of all the petitions without informing the king.
Finally, the rabbit demihumans’ story reached the king’s ears with the 17th petition…
‘…The king, thoroughly ignored it.’
In the end, the five who committed the mass beating were not punished for assault or murder, but were given a reprimand, saying it was ‘an accident that happened somehow.’
The outrage of the rabbit demihumans over this ridiculous result spread like wildfire.
The rabbit demihuman magicians living in the Ainstern kingdom were the first to rebel, followed by the rabbit demihumans living in the Elowin kingdom who also joined in, saying, ‘Let’s overthrow the Ainstern kingdom.’
And the power that most actively helped the rabbit demihumans at that time was the Salisbury family.
‘There is a reason why the Ainstern king considers the Salisbury family a thorn in his side…’
He now talks about ‘peace’ and arranges a political marriage between Gloria and Grayan, but it’s clear as day that he hoped for Gloria to have an accident and promoted the marriage.
‘A sinister man, unlike his glamorous appearance… that is, the king of Ainstern.’
The contents of the original and Gloria’s memories naturally mixed and created understanding.
I was able to recall the rebellion of the rabbit demihumans in much more detail than before.
‘The Salisbury family actively helped, but in the end, the rabbit demihumans were defeated.’
And an unprecedented massacre took place.
Numerous rabbit demihumans lost their lives like flies to the powerful ones of the Ainstern kingdom.
As a result, only a small number of rabbit demihumans survived, and there were not many left now.
The surviving rabbit demihumans either hid somewhere or, as the story goes, went to a remote island across the sea.
‘And April’s parents…’
They barely escaped from the Ainstern kingdom during the massacre, but they were soon caught by pursuers.
At that time, April’s mother lost her life trying to save her daughter, and her father, severely injured, ran to Salisbury Castle, left April with Grayan, and has been missing ever since.
At that time, April was only four years old… It must have been a terribly big trauma for a child.
‘Really, it’s clear that April needs urgent trauma treatment.’
Why had I forgotten that April had many wounds? Normally, April was cute but brave, righteous, a bit wild and stubborn, yet kind and cheerful.
So I must have forgotten. Behind the cheerful appearance that April always showed us, there was a child in an unstable state, unable to overcome trauma.
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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