Delina, who had been quietly listening to the young ladies’ conversation, also tried to recall what happened on that day but to no avail. I never even had my own debutante ball, so there was no way I could go to the imperial palace. Therefore, I didn’t know much about the Emperor’s birthday either.
‘But it must be huge. All the notable nobles will be in attendance… I wonder if His Highness will attend? It would be a problem if there were any issues between the imperial family and him.’
For all the young ladies present, the Emperor’s birthday might be a day of anticipation, but not for Delina. Even now, all she was pondering was whether Bellion would be in attendance or not.
“Will you be there?”
Sylvia asked Delina once again.
“Excuse me?”
“Will your family be attending the Emperor’s birthday?”
It would be surprising if Sylvia didn’t grab her by the collar right there and then. Seeing Sylvia exerting herself to drag Delina down, Delina, who had been rather bothered, answered.
“I don’t know. The Count of Floren will probably attend, but I can’t say for sure.”
Certainly, Niel and Charlotte, who were indispensable in such a place, were there. However, whether Delina from the ducal family would attend depended on whether Bellion would go or not. Delina had absolutely no desire to willingly go to a place where Hier was targeting her.
“By the way, didn’t you say you’ve been temporarily moved away from your family?”
“…”
“It doesn’t seem like a good thing to be exiled from your family.”
Seizing the opportunity, Sylvia squinted her eyes and probed even more insistently. The atmosphere tensed once more. At its center were Sylvia and Delina.
“Did you cause some sort of trouble? It’s okay to speak openly.”
“No, thanks for the concern, but it’s not an issue like that.”
“Oh? But even so, sending a young lady who isn’t even an adult to another place seems a bit much. Didn’t your count family make a mistake?”
The atmosphere escalated further at Sylvia’s perilous comment about the family. A few young ladies swallowed dryly, and even Delina, who had been maintaining her composure, began to tense up a bit.
“Miss, excuse me for interrupting your conversation, but there is something I need to tell you.”
The tension that had been taut was broken by none other than a servant of the Duke’s house. The servant hastily approached and stood close to Sylvia.
“What is it? What’s going on?”
“Well, more guests have arrived at the mansion.”
“What?”
At the servant’s words, Sylvia’s eyebrows shot up.
“Haven’t all the invited guests arrived already? Why can’t we turn them away?”
“Yes, we are aware of that, but… this is something you should see for yourself…”
Sweat poured from the servant under Sylvia’s scrutiny. Behind the servant, a few guests were walking up in a line.
‘Wait, just wait…’
Delrina, watching the approaching figures, blinked her eyes several times, wondering if they were deceiving her. However, her vision was clear, and the faces of those approaching from afar were very sharp.
‘Why, why are you here?’
Startled by the very familiar figures, five people who should only be seen in the Duke’s training ground, Delrina abruptly stood up from her seat.
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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