With the arrival of a zombie that had returned to the state of a corpse, brought by Luus and Michael, we returned to our rooms to rest.
Luus went down to the basement with Michael’s help, saying that she would get information from the zombie they brought.
The news that all the zombies who had approached the Duke Keaton’s estate had been taken care of quickly spread throughout the mansion.
It was because Emily, Rose, Miliana, and Patrick, intoxicated with the joy of victory, bragged about it to the other servants.
“I matched the Duke’s signal and shot a magic bomb with my slingshot, and I hit it!”
“I haven’t held a weapon in a long time, but there’s nothing to fear when I’m with the Duke, hoho.”
“Do you know the taste of catching a zombie? Haha. You don’t know! I only got the honor of being with the Duke!”
With their shoulders puffed up as if filled with pride, they were busy spinning their little heroic tales. Anyone they caught among the servants was subjected to their incessant, giggling chatter, just like a woodpecker.
‘I don’t know why they’re so upset they couldn’t include me.’
The one who hit the zombie’s head must have been their skill.
Even though I asked Luus to cast a buff to increase my accuracy, it would have been impossible if the volunteers hadn’t bravely stepped forward.
But it was only surprising that they added praise as if all this was thanks to me.
‘It feels a little ticklish…….’
It was much better than pretending to be a bad person, playing “Elizabeth Keaton.”
Since I’m human, being recognized isn’t a bad thing, right? Hmm.
While pretending to read and hiding my smirking lips, I heard a knock on the office door.
‘Who is it?’
“Duke, it’s Lina. May I come in?”
“Come in.”
As soon as I permitted, Lina appeared with her face flushed. Her eyes sparkled as if stars were stuck in them.
“Congratulations, Duke! The story that you’ve defeated all ten zombies is spreading throughout the mansion!”
‘I suppose.’
While I was resting, the zombiebusting special forces had been chattering nonstop, and in no time at all, they had made sure that everyone in the mansion knew about it.
“Everyone wants to congratulate you on the victory led by the Duke.”
Lina brought her hands together and looked at me with twinkling eyes.
“Why are you making such a fuss about it…….”
I avoided Lina’s eyes out of embarrassment, but inside, I was filled with satisfaction and pride.
‘Hehehe. It’s all going according to plan.’
“Isn’t the inside and outside too different?”
Zero scolded me, but I didn’t budge.
‘Nyehe, but what I did well is a fact! And it’s also a fact that Zero has to give me an additional reward for this!’
I grinned unyieldingly, and Zero jumped up with short arms and legs.
“What, what? What kind of damn reward!”
Look at this guy!
‘This, this, you’ve really got a bad manager, huh? If you’ve achieved your first victory fitting for the main quest of zombie extermination, shouldn’t you naturally get a reward, huh?’
Does the host agency have no concept of incentives?
“I never promised such a thing. This, this time you acted unilaterally without even having a subquest…….”
He can’t even make eye contact; it seems there are incentives on his side too, what a shame.
Zero, your cane is trembling.
It’s pitiful for a small guy to shrink even more.
‘Let’s give up the reward when asked nicely, huh?’
It’s also good for your early departure to boost my enthusiasm.
When I shamelessly demanded a reward, Zero could no longer refuse and finally raised the white flag.
“……What do you want?”
‘Oh, you’ll give me anything I want?’
“There’s no way! I’m just a civil servant…. Tell me the reward you want within the range I can grant.”
At Zero’s words, I fell into thought.
What should I ask for that would be useful in the future zombie extermination journey?
‘I’m worried about the food supply.’
The Duke Keaton’s food warehouse was still abundant, but it wasn’t enough to let my guard down.
As the kitchen servants had previously feared, essential fresh foods such as raw meat, seafood, and vegetables were already running low.
‘Eating is essential. So the food…’
I was about to request compensation from Zero when,
“Duke, Duke?”
“Uh, yes?”
I had forgotten about Lina, so engrossed was I in my conversation with Zero.
“What are you thinking so hard about? Did you hear what I said earlier?”
Lina, who had been excited about my performance earlier, now sounded quite agitated.
“Ah… sorry, Lina. What did you say?”
“Oh dear. The butler and housekeeper suggested that we throw a small party to celebrate this victory, and they asked me to ask you!”
A party? A party for what?
I understood the joyful heart, but in the current situation where food had to be conserved, the proposal did not sound good.
“Having a party in this isolated situation doesn’t seem like a good choice.”
As I indirectly said, ‘That’s not great,’ Lina shook her head as if she had expected it.
“You’re worried about the remaining food, aren’t you?”
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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