“Where have you been and what have you been doing all this time? And your face…”
Seeing Theodore’s face covered with burn marks, Grace was initially shocked, then opened her mouth as if in awe, and finally started stroking his face without saying anything.
“I heard the general outline from people. And I also know what happened between Oppa and Father.”
“……. ”
“Thinking back, it makes sense. At some point, Father stopped looking for Oppa. Perhaps Father thought Oppa had died in the fire at that time.”
Grace’s voice was trembling.
“Still, Oppa, thank you for being alive like this.”
“……Grace. I’m sorry. For involving you in all this…”
“No. Oppa. I’ve never once disliked or found it difficult to take care of Ashed. If anything, I should be grateful to you for giving me such a wonderful nephew.”
“No, I should be grateful. You raised him so well.”
As the two praised each other, Ashed cleared his throat awkwardly. Grace and Theodore laughed at Ashed’s reaction. That’s when it happened. In the distance, a loud noise could be heard.
“……!”
While Theodore was surprised by the commotion, Grace and Ashed, seeming to sense what had happened, stiffened their faces. Then Theodore asked.
“Why? What’s going on?”
“…It seems like Father is having another seizure.”
“…What?”
“I don’t know if Oppa heard, but… Father’s condition has deteriorated a lot lately.”
Hyr’s illness had become so serious that even most nobles knew about it. Now, people couldn’t recognize her properly, and only Grace and a few servants could enter Hyr’s room.
“I’ll be back in a moment.”
Feeling the severity of the situation, Grace left for a moment. But the situation didn’t seem to be improving. All the palace servants were looking for Hyr.
“…She may have left the room.”
Observing the servants, Ashed, realizing the situation, muttered in a low voice, then looked at Theodore and said.
“The situation is not good. For now, she might have gone somewhere else…”
But Ashed couldn’t finish his sentence. Hyr suddenly appeared beyond the bushes in the garden.
“You, you…!”
Having come out of bed, Hyr was in her nightgown. Her physical condition was miserable. The old body was unnaturally thin, and her complexion was waxy. Her unfocused eyes discovered Theodore and widened as if popping out.
“Don’t come! Don’t come!”
Due to the burns on Theodore’s face, Hyr trembled all over, seeming to lose strength, and shouted.
“Are you here to take me away? No! Not by anyone! Go away! I said go away!”
“Even after a long time, it seems like you haven’t changed.”
“Don’t come! I told you not to come!”
“Even if your mind is not sound… It seems that Father and I are not so different.”
“Don’t…!”
Hyr, who shouted as if in a fit of rage, couldn’t finish her sentence and collapsed with a thud, accompanied by a gasping sound. Servants and Grace, who heard Hyr’s scream from afar, rushed in and quickly checked her condition, but she had already stopped breathing.
Hyr Helium, the emperor who ruled the Helium Empire. His death was truly pitiful and empty.
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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