“Roselia?”
“I’ll go out for a moment to get some fresh air!”
Roselia hastily headed out of the banquet hall, clutching the hem of her dress as if escaping.
To avoid being caught by that lunatic Crown Prince, she planned to hide until his interest faded, considering the trouble it would cause not only for herself but for many others.
Leaving the noisy banquet hall and stepping into the palace corridor, Roselia hurriedly moved, searching for a place to catch her breath.
The corridor was lined with numerous balcony windows.
Thinking that unless the Crown Prince checked each balcony individually, it would be difficult to find her, Roselia hastily walked toward a balcony in the corner.
But just before opening the door, Roselia’s hand came to a sudden stop.
A strange groaning noise tickled her ears, and Roselia’s face turned pale.
Upon closer inspection, two silhouettes were entangled beyond the balcony window.
“Oh, no… Please stop…”
“It’s too late. If you followed us to the balcony, isn’t that saying it all?”
Along with the rough man’s breathing, Roselia quickly turned her body, blushing.
Right, the balconies on the outskirts of the banquet hall were implicitly known as places where nobles enjoyed illicit pleasures.
Furthermore, to protect the privacy of nobles, each balcony had partitions separating them from others.
In her haste to escape, Roselia had completely forgotten, but in a way, it might have been fortunate.
Even if he was the Crown Prince, he had no right to interfere in the scandalous affairs of the nobles.
With a determined expression, Roselia turned her body to find another balcony.
Avoiding balconies with unpleasant sounds or rough language, she finally found a quiet balcony.
And not long after opening the door, she made eye contact with someone standing next to the window on the adjacent wall.
Oh no, she thought it was an empty balcony since there was no visible silhouette…
Upon confirming her counterpart, Roselia’s eyes widened.
“Roselia?”
Duke Valtezare stood there with a surprisingly indifferent face amid the surrounding noise.
As Roselia, flustered, tried to leave, the door on the banquet hall side suddenly opened, revealing the Crown Prince stepping into the corridor.
Unable to do this or that, Roselia, who was frozen, had her wrist suddenly caught by Klaus, who pulled her into the balcony, closing the door.
With Roselia confined in his arms, Klaus, conscious of the Crown Prince, raised his index finger to his lips and stared at the balcony across.
“Hush…”
Klaus, preoccupied with the Crown Prince, held Roselia closely and only kept an eye on the balcony door.
Meanwhile, Roselia, feeling suffocated due to Klaus being too close, had her face turning pale.
In front of Roselia’s gaze, Klaus’s tense, clearly defined Adam’s apple appeared as if he was swallowing nervously.
Unlike her smooth neck, his masculine presence emitted an overwhelming aura that made Roselia tightly close her eyes.
Seeing his distracting physique up close, she thought it would be more comfortable to close her eyes rather than dealing with the confusion.
Too close, too close…!
The footsteps of the Crown Prince were gradually getting closer.
On the other hand, due to Klaus’s unusually quiet response, so quiet that not even his breathing could be heard, Roselia, who had her eyes closed tightly, glanced slightly with her eyes.
Then, she unexpectedly made eye contact with Klaus, who was staring intently at her from just in front of her.
Meeting the navy blue eyes looking down at her from such a close distance, Roselia involuntarily stiffened, forgetting to breathe.
Her heart, beating recklessly without awareness, strangely couldn’t lift the gaze entwined with his.
Likewise, Klaus seemed unable to withdraw his intense gaze from Roselia’s dark eyes, and he only breathed heavily without taking his eyes off her.
They were so close that they could feel each other’s breath on their lips.
In the midst of the dizzying sensation, Roselia, trying to control her emotions, found herself unable to escape Klaus’s unrelenting lips.
“A, a little distance…”
At that moment, the footsteps of the Crown Prince, which she had unconsciously ignored while being conscious of Klaus, were heard nearby.
Klaus, only now realizing the presence of the Crown Prince, hastily covered her lips.
Due to the sudden giant hand blocking her mouth, Roselia had to look at Klaus with a puzzled expression.
The sound of the Crown Prince’s footsteps came to a halt right in front of the terrace where they were.
“…”
Sensing the urgency of the situation, Roselia, in Klaus’s gentle hold, quietly exhaled as if her breath was held.
Due to the wind, Roselia’s warm breath tickled Klaus’s palm, causing his eyebrows to twitch involuntarily.
At that moment, the Crown Prince’s presence was felt right in front of the terrace door.
Feeling the tension to the point of breaking out in a cold sweat, Roselia, held by Klaus with her waist bent, was led down deliberately to where the moonlight shone well.
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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