“Did I, did I see that right?”

“Right now, is it protecting a person?”

Asphayren was looking at me, and the knights were looking at the puppy. And I was.

‘No, so why are these humans doing this here?’

I wore a tremulous expression in the meantime.

The one who ended this bizarre standoff, of course, was our great lord Asphayren Loarkin.

First, Asphayren subdued the puppy.

As soon as Asphayren fixed his gaze, the puppy that seemed about to pounce any moment tucked its tail between its legs and trembled.

It was a pitiful sight, enough to feel cruelly heartrending. But Asphayren did not care a bit.

He gave orders to the knights one by one in a stoic voice.

“Five of you there, capture this dog and take it to the laboratory. The researchers will be on standby, so help confine it. When finished, tell all the researchers to rush to the Cronen Palace.”

“Yes!”

“You go to my office and bring Kiara and Canis. There will be two researchers there too, tell them to come along.”

“I will follow the order!”

“And the remaining two.”

Asphayren, having spoken thus far, looked at me sharply.

I glared back at Asphayren, slightly angered because I saw him threaten the puppy, with a rather rude look.

Asphayren narrowed his eyes.

“Put that woman in ‘that place.'”

“‘That place,’ you say……?”

“The place I have her wait before persuasion and enticement.”

“Ah!”

The conversation somehow felt strange.

Persuasion and enticement? If it’s persuasion and enticement as Asphayren says…

‘Torture!’

I shrank my pupils. Is he going to restrain me now? Why? Because of a bad look?

“I understand, my Lord!”

Whether someone’s mental state collapses or not, the knights’ response was thunderous. The looks from either side, looking down on me, were truly overpowering.

The knights reached out to me. I slowly retreated. This couldn’t be, this couldn’t be. I can’t be caught like this.

I haven’t seen Asphayren the Second yet!

I fell to my knees with a splash and supported myself with both hands on the floor. A mournful wail naturally came out of my mouth.

“Lo, Lord! Just a moment!”

“What is it?”

Asphayren’s gaze turned to me again. I quickly bowed my head.

“So… please show mercy! I beg you, I beg you!”

A line that might have been recited in a historical drama came out of my mouth.

Naturally.

“……Take her away.”

It had no effect at all.

At Asphayren’s repeated command, the two knights tried to lift me.

I clung to the floor and resisted, but it was futile. The knights showcased their statuelike height and imposing physique, picking me up.

I was swaying like a doll attached to the bags of young friends as I was dragged away, wailing.

“I’ve done wrong, my Lord―!”

Of course, there was no response.

Asphayren, a master aura and a highly skilled magician, had the ability to detect magical power in Elos, ranking among the top three.

Especially, he was sensitive to the unique magical power possessed by monsters. He could distinctly distinguish a monster’s magic no matter how far away, even if other magic interfered.

So, chasing the Moonlight Wolf Dog was not that difficult for him.

In fact, as soon as Asphayren left Princia Palace where the official business was conducted, he quickly located the Moonlight Wolf Dog. It was behind the Cronen Palace. He drew a teleportation circle at once.

What Asphayren encountered when he arrived at the destination was something he had never imagined in his entire life.

“Awww, so cute, awww, pretty. Our fluffy cutie~!”

“Woof!”

The Moonlight Wolf Dog was licking a human’s face. Not to taste, but affectionately. Wagging its tail as if it would break.

The Moonlight Wolf Dog was a vicious and cunning monster that even Asphayren, who was skilled at catching monsters, found challenging to deal with.
So, despite having captured three cubs, he had not yet even attempted to tame them. No one could get near them, after all.

But now, that monster was there, fretting and showing all sorts of affection. Why?

Asphayren shifted his gaze to the woman who was receiving the monster’s affection. Who on earth could tame a moonlit wolf dog?

“!”

Asphayren’s eyes widened.

It was her. The woman who had conflicted him. The talent he had coveted after a very long time. The witness who had helped his cousin Ulysses.

To encounter her in this situation, here of all places.

Asphayren was so startled that he inadvertently let his presence be known.

Then an even more surprising situation occurred. The moonlit wolf dog bared its teeth at someone clearly stronger than itself, to protect the woman.

At that moment, Asphayren felt a shiver.

His usually cool head became hot. If the knights had not rushed in right after, he surely would have seized the woman and hastily spilled the words he had just thought of.

Asphayren slowly wandered the empty snow field, following his own command. Only one thought was swirling in his head.

I must make her mine.

By any means necessary.

(This is a time separator.)

How on earth did this happen?

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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