Latifa whispered into his ear as she clung to his arm.
“Please, wait. This, this isn’t right. We, we had other plans…!”
“What plans?”
At his unimpressed question, Latifa was taken aback and shouted.
“It’s going to rain, isn’t it?!”
“Rain? This is the first time I’ve heard of this. Move aside. You’re in the way.”
Hades pushed her aside coldly, as if hearing such a thing for the first time.
‘Why, why is this happening?! Has he really gone mad?!’
Latifa quickly looked around for Manut, who was also one of the accomplices who knew about the rain. She had to find him and stop Hades’ actions.
But he was nowhere to be seen.
Latifa, desperate as if grasping at straws, continued to plead while pulling at his arm holding the sword. But he coldly ignored her, only looking at the trembling guards.
“You believed it would rain! Can’t we wait a little longer?! This isn’t right!”
In her rage, Latifa tried everything to turn his gaze. Finally, she turned his face to meet her eyes.
“General Hades! Please! Stop it! Please!”
“…….”
Hades’ eyes met her blue eyes for a moment. Latifa realized then that his eyes were no different from the arrogant Hades she knew.
‘Wait. Something’s off.’
She knew what Hades’ mad eyes looked like. She had seen and experienced it.
But this time, his eyes were ambiguous to be called mad. His black eyes did not show a trace of madness.
“This is… not madness?”
As Latifa looked at him blankly and mumbled to herself,
[Dash]Tap.Something cold lightly struck Latifa’s nose.
[Dash]Tap, tap.“Is this, a raindrop?”
“….Rain, it’s rain!”
“Rain? It’s raining here too?”
[Dash]Swooosh.“It’s rain! The blessing of the desert guardian god descends!”
Suddenly, the desert people cheered and devoutly bowed to the ground, or bewilderingly reached out to hastily drink the rain that had started to fall.
“Hey, did you hear? That woman just said it would rain!”
“My God, what is this! It must be a symbol of luck!”
“It’s a goddess. How else could it rain in the middle of the desert?!”
At the soldiers’ cries, Latifa Glaesia suddenly came to her senses and looked back at Hades Caleb Ignite. He was smirking with an insolently playful expression.
Latifa stood dumbfounded, getting drenched in the rain, and mulled over what had just happened.
Hades had tried to kill his subordinates, and she had run to stop him. Then she had shouted loudly that rain was coming so that all the soldiers could hear.
Then the rain came. The rain really began to fall, as if it were a lie.
“You. On purpose…!”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“General Hades! You used me?! My God! A human could never do this! You knew I would come, didn’t you?!”
Latifa was flabbergasted, yelling and protesting at him, but her frail cry was blocked by the pouring stream and was hardly heard.
Hades immediately embraced her and quickly ordered the soldiers.
“All forces, march to the cliffs above! Secure a foothold at the upper cliffs! Water can be collected later, so quickly protect the livestock and camels, and cover the supplies with tarps so they don’t get wet!”
“Yes, General!”
“If you don’t want to drown here, move quickly! It’s the goddess’s blessing! The guardians are watching over us!”
“Yes!”
Hearing the robust voices of the soldiers, which were not drowned out by the sound of the rain, Hades gave a faint smile.
“You indeed have enough qualities. I was not mistaken.”
He spoke thus to Latifa, who was still protesting and struggling, then quickly put her on his camel and mounted himself.
The pouring rain in the desert and the soldiers reveling and making a scene.
There was no spectacle like it.
[Star Icon][Star Icon]The rain poured all day, and the next day, it rained furiously, as if there were a hole in the sky.
After the suffocating heat, the rain was indeed refreshing, but Latifa was not pleased as they were inside Hades’s tent.
“Hoo……. Want a cup of tea?”
The face of Hades, drinking a strange herb tea boiled from the small, sophisticated hearth in the middle, looked truly content.
“You’re still mad at me.”
As he moved on the silk quilt, the heavy scent of jasmine flowers mingled with the herb smell.
“Isn’t the rain a spectacle?”
Latifa, still frightened, gruffly answered as she softly stroked the fur of a shivering desert fox.
“You could have hinted that it was a play.”
“It wasn’t a play.”
He chuckled.
“No. It was a play.”
Latifa retorted with strong conviction. Then Hades kept quiet for a moment and spat out a word.
“My Frau is quickwitted and demanding.”
“Speaking of which, I’ll ask you. What is Frau? You sometimes call me Frau.”
“Frau is Frau, what is it?”
He repeated the answer he had given last time.
“No, I don’t know what a Frau does. Is it, like, your assistant or something?”
Though Latifa had learned desert language, Frau was a word she had never heard or seen before.
“Assistant? Hmph. Frau is not such a trivial thing.”
Hades set down the steaming golden teacup and explained.
“Frau is what you call ‘the master’s happiness’.”
“My goodness. The master’s happiness, how more contemptuous it could be.”
Latifa Glaesia scrunched her face at the intuitive meaning of the word.
“Frau is not such a contemptuous thing. Of course, there may be people who command contemptuous things to Frau… but I’m certainly not.”
[Dash]Whoosh.Though the rain was still pouring outside, creating a clamor, the tent was quiet as there were only two of them.
“It might have come out a bit strange, but Frau is never a concubine or a member of the harem.”
“How can a concubine and Frau be different?”
He spoke again, gulping down a warm sip of tea.
“A wife or a concubine is treated as a person, but Frau is not. Legally, Frau is not considered a person. It’s generally treated as the master’s private property.”
“How can it…! Does that mean you’re not even treating them as humans?! That’s absolutely not acceptable!”
‘What, are you trying to treat a person as a slave?!’
Even if Hades was the only one Latifa could rely on in the desert, she did not want to assist him if she was to be treated like that.
“To those who are wealthy, Frau can be anything. Some people even appoint a very expensive cat that I raise as Frau, and some give the title of Frau after seeing my beautiful villa. It’s not that Frau is not treated as a person; it means that Frau can be anything.”
“Then are you saying I’m on the same level as a cat or a building?!”
“No, no. What I’m saying is this.”
Hades spoke in a calm voice as if trying to soothe Latifa’s anger.
“You, bearing the name of Caleb, can become anything. You might even transcend human… you can be anything. Even a goddesslike being.”
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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