“Oh! That’s right. Empress Mother must have been very surprised. What if she’s disappointed that you didn’t invite her separately?”
“That won’t happen. We’re not as close as Count Odor and Lady.”
Olentia bit her tongue in confusion. She wondered why he was comparing her situation to theirs.
But then, Dimidius almost lay down on the couch and extended one hand towards her.
“Lady! Please hold my hand!”
Olentia was taken aback by the request and rushed to hold his hand. She thought he might be having another outburst, but Dimidius seemed perfectly fine, even brushing his hair back.
Instead of just holding his hand, Olentia lightly tapped it. It felt unexpectedly warm.
“Are you playing with me right now?”
Dimidius chuckled softly and rose from his seat, then spoke to her.
“I find it fascinating that Lady is here.”
“Try that again! I won’t respond, and I’ll just leave.”
“But it’s better to touch each other frequently. It will help contain the divine power in my body.”
The way he expressed it as “touching” felt somewhat strange. Olentia clenched her fist and turned her head.
“I don’t know, you! Just show me to my room. I want to rest.”
In response, Dimidius led her to the second floor, even though the butler was present.
“It’s next to my room.”
Olentia immediately objected, “No, why is it next to Your Highness’s room? Why now?”
“Well, Lady might need me while sleeping. You should come quickly if that happens.”
“Gosh! You want a lot!”
Olentia entered the room and looked around at the plush bed, the spacious table, and the decorative cabinet with an organ. There were many clothes prepared in the closet, including nightwear, outdoor attire, and indoor clothing.
Olentia changed into indoor clothing and made a disgruntled expression as she spoke to Bobi.
“I wonder how I’m going to spend five months with the Duke. Bobi.”
Bobi couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
“Well, from what I can see, you two seem to get along very well…”
“No, we don’t!”
“Yes, I hope not. You’ll have to part ways eventually. By the way, Miss, what should we do with the belongings at the Lord Noktiper’s house?”
“Leave them be. As you said, I’ll have to return in five months anyway.”
There was nothing particularly important among her belongings, and it seemed faster to look for what she needed than to transport them to the Duke’s mansion.
“Olentia had endured for five months, eagerly awaiting the day she would find the inheritance and return to Noktiper. If she held out, it might come sooner than she thought.
Olentia saw Crown Prince Regalis Pulfar in her dream. In a room with a piano, Regalis smiled at her in a gorgeous dress. In her dream, Olentia had a conversation with Regalis, and the atmosphere wasn’t bad.
After having a strange dream, Olentia scratched her head.
It was tiresome to think about whether it was just a dream or a premonition anymore.
Even if it was a premonition, it didn’t seem dangerous to converse with the Crown Prince.
“Right? It’s probably nothing.”
Thinking that way, Olentia washed her face with the cold water brought by Bobi. The splash of cold water helped clear her mind. She thought she would forget the dream of talking to the Crown Prince so casually.
She followed the butler’s guidance and entered a splendid rose garden. In the middle of the garden, breakfast was prepared.
Dimidius, having finished reading the newspaper, looked up.
“Have you come, Lady?”
“Yes, good morning.”
“Did you sleep well? It’s your first day in an unfamiliar place.”
“Well, I did sleep, but…”
“What kind of dream?”
“It’s just a trivial dream. You don’t have to worry about it.”
It wasn’t so bad to have a normal conversation with Dimidius. Of course, it would be better not to meet him at all, but that seemed impossible.
Olentia had breakfast with Dimidius. She ate refreshing salad, fruit juice, and a light meat dish. They didn’t talk much while eating. Dimidius occasionally played pranks, but he wasn’t usually talkative.
Moreover, besides seeing his face in the morning like this, there wasn’t much to meet Dimidius for. He rarely left his office on the third floor, and it seemed like he ate hastily while working in the evening. The Grand Manor was so vast that they didn’t even bump into each other in their free time.
Olentia idled around because there wasn’t much to do. She adjusted her dress for the Founding Festival and sighed. Her life here was similar to her stay at Count Armeniaca’s mansion, but for some reason, it felt even lonelier.
But then she received good news from her lawyer.
Finally, her inheritance had been transferred to her bank.
Overjoyed, Olentia headed to his office on the third floor without thinking. A knight with a black leopard emblem on his uniform stood guard by the door.
“Just a moment! I have something to discuss.”
The knight politely nodded and opened the door to the office. Olentia stood there quietly, waiting, and suddenly realized.
“Oh, I should have waited to tell him later.”
She didn’t intend to disturb his work, and she was so happy that she made a mistake.
But the door was already open.
Olentia entered, feeling embarrassed. As expected, Dimidius had a look that said, “What’s going on?”
Olentia awkwardly scratched her head while holding out her hand.
“Oh, my inheritance has been transferred to my bank. I was so happy that I…”
In response, Dimidius chuckled and handed her some documents.
“It’s good news. However, our contract period is still in effect, isn’t it?”
Olentia nodded.
“Yes, I know. I’m well aware of that. I’ll be on my way then.”
Since she didn’t want to interfere with his work, Olentia quickly left the office. Dimidius didn’t seem surprised, so she thought maybe he had manipulated Sokor to make it happen. After all, there wasn’t a single noble family within the Bonus Empire that wasn’t connected to Dimidius in a business sense.
Sokor and Kikojellia must have been busy.
Just thinking about it made Olentia’s spirits soar.”
“Today, I should raise a toast with Bobi,” Olentia said happily as she returned to her room.
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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