After dancing reasonably with today’s protagonist, the Flache Viscountess, her mother, young ladies who came to the party for the first time, and older noblewomen, he smoothly exited the dance floor. Usually, if he had loosened up a bit, the nobles would have gone to various rooms to handle the remaining heat. However, since the emperor established his residence in the palace, such debauchery was strictly prohibited.
If you want to do that, do it at home. It meant not showing dirty affairs recklessly in a sacred place. Thanks to that, the decadent and sensual culture of the nobles, which used to be open, now had to hide behind and pretend to be decent.
“See you later. Write me a letter. I’ll write one to Mom too.”
Milene continued to embrace her daughter, who had to part again. She had been too busy today. Nevertheless, she had come to see her daughter occasionally, and even now, she had to leave, but she had been repeating, “See you later,” for over ten minutes while holding her daughter.
“Yeah, Mom. See you.”
The Imperial Relay around Ru was now hinting that it was time for her to return to Glera Palace.
“Honey, we should go now.”
Edan, who couldn’t bear it any longer, urged Milene cautiously. After embracing her daughter’s cheek and looking at her once more, Milene whispered.
“Forget what Mom said, and don’t eat too little just because you don’t like it. Don’t overdo it, okay?”
“Yeah. I know what you mean.”
After nodding several times, Milene reluctantly let go of Ru.
“I’m leaving. Go in quickly.”
It would be good to go back together, but Ru felt uneasy about going in the opposite direction of the people alone.
Today, Milene heard all sorts of rumors in the social circle, and she understood the direction public opinion was flowing, but more than that, she kept turning around because her daughter was left alone, waving her hand.
“Young lady, come this way.”
Imperial guards guided Ru. The security for her, who had achieved a significant feat today, was very strict. She walked surrounded by knights, just like when she arrived.
The day is ending like this. The party was not as fun as it seemed, and her heart continued to feel heavy, thinking about the lord of the knights walking with them around.
As they left the brightly lit party venue, the late night greeted her.
I’m hungry and tired. Ru climbed onto the carriage and sank into the seat. Except for the occasional sound of the carriage wheels rolling and the horses whinnying, there was no other sound.
She leaned her head against the carriage wall. She had met many people today, but the only thing that stood out in her memory was Hayden’s gray eyes.
“This shouldn’t happen.”
Ru shook her head. She needed to get rid of the illusion that he had been looking at her all along. Didn’t her mother just say, “Don’t forget what Mom said”?
Special treatment would disappear soon. She shouldn’t get used to it. She deliberately tried to think of something else.
“What should I do tomorrow? If I go home, I have to stop the kids from swinging the windows. What was I like at their age? When I was young…”
When she was young. Ru frowned for a moment. She was trying to remember something. A boy soldier standing with soaking wet clothes, pitch-black dead eyes.
Thank you.
He seemed to have said thank you several times in a blunt voice.
Yeah, she heard that word several times. When she provided him with separate food, let him sleep, and replaced his worn-out sword with a new one, he never failed to express his gratitude. At the end, he seemed to have said those words with a smile, didn’t he?
Her memory was fuzzy. Her head was starting to ache a little. Nevertheless, Ru tried harder to recall more memories.
Bread. Yes. She had brought back soft and fluffy bread instead of the hard and tough bread.
At first, it was just bread, but afterward, he didn’t just give her plain bread. He secretly brought cheese and ham and stuffed them into the bread. “Eat it, it’s for you,” he said, sitting her down and making sure no one disturbed her until she finished eating.
Since there’s a lot, eat it slowly.
The hesitant boy barely washed his hands in the stream, reluctantly accepted the bread. He accepted the kindness.
Hurry, eat it. It’s delicious.
…Thank you.
Yeah, back then, he was so few of words and cute. Ru unconsciously clenched her fist and grumbled inwardly.
The carriage stopped, and the door opened. Ru, deeply lost in thought, stood up from her seat. She was about to take the extended hand to get off.
“Oh.”
At the short exclamation, she instinctively looked at the knight escorting her. His emerald eyes were widened as if shocked. The pulling force was very strong, and in an instant, the surroundings changed.
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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