Rozelia was taken aback, and Klaus squinted suspiciously as if questioning her reaction.
“Let’s have a meal. Why are you so surprised?”
Rozelia found herself speechless at Klaus’s question.
No, she had never been in such a situation before!
In her bewildered state, Rozelia awkwardly replied, “Uh… Well… It’s difficult for Rozelia to find the time.”
“Why is that?”
In a rush, Rozelia decided to make use of the already failed pretext of using Duke Yukilliod as an excuse.
“Well… I’m spending time with Duke Yukilliod!”
“…….”
Klaus’s expression stiffened.
However, he soon nonchalantly spoke with a calm expression, “Can’t the Duke of Raphelios stand the idea of having a meal with someone else?”
“No, it’s more like…”
“If you’re worried, I’ll send a letter to Duke Yukilliod.”
“No, you can’t!”
“……?”
With a desperate urgency not to get caught, Rozelia hastily pulled out another excuse.
“In truth, Rozelia is on a journey right now! Unfortunately, we’ll have to postpone the meal to another opportunity…”
Klaus nonchalantly jabbed, “Then send a carriage and people to where you are.”
“What?”
“What’s the location? I’ll arrange for a carriage to pick you up as soon as possible.”
No… Do I have to go this far to have a meal…?
“Well…”
In the end, with a resigned expression as if giving up on Rozelia crying mustard seeds, she said, “I will tell Rozelia.”
Klaus, who was looking at Rozelia with a puzzled expression, calmly nodded his head.
“That’s fine. If you need a carriage, feel free to ask.”
“Yes…”
What should I do! I can’t split my body in two!
Should I have just said I couldn’t come? But if I left it like that, I would have had to go and pick it up myself…!
Frustrated, Rozelia, who was tearing at her hair due to the vexing feeling, sighed quietly.
“Miss, are you going to pull your hair out like that? It’s a shame for such a short haircut.”
Rozelia, who turned her head at Nadia’s leisurely voice, quietly lowered her hand with a sense of regret.
She was a carriage that had visited Nadia’s house for the delivery of sponsorship funds.
Now, meeting Antonio’s condition had become a familiar sight for Rozelia, and Nadia was looking at her with a relaxed gaze while resting her chin.
For a moment, Rozelia’s gaze touched Nadia’s delicate arms.
At the sudden thought, Rozelia looked at Nadia significantly.
Nadia’s arms were unexpectedly slender, and when Rozelia crossdressed, she had an appropriate chest volume similar to Rozelia.
Come to think of it, their heights were similar too.
When Rozelia gave Nadia a puzzled look, seemingly questioning what she was staring at, Rozelia took her hesitant mouth.
“Miss Nadia, could you help me with something?”
Unlike Rozelia, who asked with a determined and serious expression, Nadia responded lightly with a bright smile.
“I’ll consider it if you treat me to a meal.”
Nadia’s way of strictly considering financial gains and losses for everything except selling paintings left Rozelia amazed.
Momentarily dazed, Rozelia soon nodded with a resolute expression.
“Sure, I’ll treat you to a meal properly.”
At Rozelia’s words, Nadia lifted the corners of her mouth with a charming smile.
“What should I do to earn that?”
In response to Nadia’s question, Rozelia hesitated and spoke slowly.
“Well… Pretend to be my sister, please.”
“Pretend to be you?”
Knowing full well that Antonio already knew Rozelia’s identity, Nadia asked with a meaningful smile.
“Hmm, yes… Just pretend to be Rozelia from a distance.”
As Rozelia awkwardly cleared her throat, Nadia smiled as if finding it cute.
“Well… Alright. I won’t know if it’s revealed or not.”
“It’s okay. Just show yourself from a distance.”
Even if it was Klaus, recognizing Nadia disguised from up close would be impossible, so she planned to show her from a safe distance.
Well… She needed to think more about how to observe her without being noticed…
Having entered into a peculiar agreement with Nadia, Rozelia left the city with mixed feelings.
She was heading to catch a carriage to the mansion.
While walking through the city with roads, she spotted a familiar figure in front of a flower shop.
It was Viscount Yukilliod.
When Rozelia stopped and stared at him with a puzzled expression, Johannes, who felt her gaze, turned his head and pretended not to know her with a surprised expression.
“It’s a real coincidence. I happened to pass by this road and was admiring the flowers.”
Why would a viscount residing in the royal guesthouse come to the village to admire flowers…?
When Rozelia harbored such doubts, Johannes, who seemed to read her mind, put on a meaningful smile.
“This is truly a coincidence. I was just passing by and happened to be admiring the flowers.”
There should be plenty of flowers in the royal garden…
By the time Rozelia had such doubts, Johannes had already bought a bouquet and was offering it to her.
Rozelia, in the state of Antonio, could only respond with a confused expression.
“Why are you giving this to me…?”
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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