Seeing the hand he extended, Delina asked again as if she couldn’t believe it. Then, quickly adjusting his face, Noah raised his eyebrows.
“Naturally. Where else could you find a handkerchief like this that you can’t buy even with money? It has some value to keep.”
“…”.
“Or, I can tie it around your wrist, especially if you like me.”
Noah, who now willingly extended his wrist, was different from a little while ago. However, despite trying to maintain composure, there was a sense of urgency somewhere. Delina, who had been staring at him absentmindedly for a moment, asked.
“By any chance… did you feel happy hearing my story?”
“…”
“So, do you want this handkerchief too?”
In speech, expression, and action.
Delina had been watching Noah since childhood. Even she, who had seen Noah to this extent, saw Noah unable to hide his emotions for the first time. Whether it was the same for the person involved or not, Noah subtly avoided Delina’s gaze.
‘Look at this?’
Now, the one who became more relaxed was Delina. Unconsciously raising her mouth, Delina, who had been shaking the handkerchief while making eye contact with Noah, said.
“Well, if you specifically beg and ask, I might give it to you. How about it?”
“… If you don’t want to give it, then don’t. I don’t particularly want a handkerchief embroidered with a pig, anyway.”
“It’s not a pig, it’s a monkey. You embroidered it with the jewelry you gave me. Just like that.”
Muttering, Delina tied the handkerchief around Noah’s wrist. Noah, too, was quietly entrusting his wrist to Delina. As Delina, who had finished tying the handkerchief, looked up at Noah, who was still, their faces were suddenly close.
“…”
“…”
At a distance where a little more would make them touch, both of them were silent. And Delina could feel it.
Her heart pounding, and her face turning red.
Of course, no one had put any medicine on them. It wasn’t due to fear or tension either. It was a natural phenomenon that occurred when Delina and Noah were close enough to each other’s faces. And Noah felt the same.
“… Your ears are red now.”
Looking at Noah’s ears gradually turning red, Delina spoke in a low voice. At her words, Noah absentmindedly brought his hand to his ear.
“This, well, this is…”
Unable to find an excuse for the changes in his body, Noah’s eyes shook slightly.
At the same time, Delina could see it. The words “Black Veil” on Noah were shaking as if they were about to break. Delina didn’t miss that moment.
“Noah.”
“…”
“I really can’t remember? Who I am? What we did together, how we spent time together… Do you really not remember anything?”
Still looking confused at Noah, Delina asked earnestly. Noah furrowed his brows as if thinking about something, and just as Delina was about to grab his hand, it was the moment.
“So, where did you go? You were just mumbling here.”
“…”
With a chilling voice, a black figure appeared. Delina reflexively moved her body backward. Then, in the midst of darkness, Ashed slowly revealed himself. His forehead was furrowed in a rather angry manner.
“How dare you deceive me and run away? Doing such things?”
He seemed to have been searching for Delina all this time after she cut the rope. Apparently infuriated by the fact that she had escaped, Ashed glared at Delina with a stern gaze. His gaze soon shifted to Noah. Delina urgently shook Noah.
“Noah, Noah?”
“…”
Ashed seemed about to approach as if he would kill both of them any moment. However, Noah remained silent with a confused expression.
‘What…!’
Seeing no sign of Noah coming to his senses, Delina stood in front of him protectively. And she looked at Ashed.
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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