“What’s this?”
What is it? Why are you here? Lu asked, muttering as she tried to pull her foot out of Hayden’s grasp with a sulky face.
However, he didn’t let go of her ankle. She attempted to pull it out once more, but it was impossible.
“Is this how you do it?”
Hayden frowned and looked at her. Right now, the emperor was kneeling in front of her.
Lu subtly glanced around, but he seemed to have swept everything away; not even a single ant was visible.
“Well, what is it?”
“I’m taking care because you might feel upset if you can’t even walk properly, and you kick the floor with this ankle?”
“I didn’t kick it with my ankle, I kicked it with my foot.”
“The joint is the main issue, and the knee needs to be…”
Hayden tried to speak but then shut his mouth. Huh? Come to think of it, that’s strange? Lu suddenly stood up on one leg. Surprised Hayden quickly let go of her ankle. Lu cautiously tapped the floor with her foot.
“What are you doing? Sit down, please.”
“Uh, just a moment.”
Now she lightly hopped around, rolling her sprained ankle.
“Hey, isn’t it strange? Why isn’t walking strange anymore?”
Anywhere, especially when healing her legs, there was always a problem with walking. She always had to walk carefully because she couldn’t control her light legs supporting her relatively moist, sagging body.
But this time, since the curse was forcibly broken in the Chosun workshop, it wasn’t that difficult to walk. The area was briefly sore. She rolled her foot once more, and an astonished Hayden quickly let go of her ankle. Lu rose into the air just as she was lightly jumping.
“This way, I don’t have to worry about using my legs.”
With narrowed eyes, he murmured with pale cheeks as he held her and lifted her into the air. Lu went up in the air just as she was jumping lightly.
“I told you not to do anything, no, I should stop talking.”
He looked at Lu with round eyes while hunching his shoulders. It would be better to stay close and take care of each one. What’s the point of blocking it? It’s not like that. While pretending not to be, this person jumps here and there.
“Is it really okay?”
“Why is it okay because of someone?”
Slightly annoyed, her voice, firmer than usual, answered. Did she get angry a bit? The voice was more firm and clear than usual. Slurp, a glimmering eye sneaked away while running away.
“Is it, is it because of the Emperor…?”
“Yes, because of me. Since she might feel upset if she can’t walk, I kept her walking, but this young lady really…”
Hayden sat on the bench where Lu had been sitting, holding her tightly and sighed.
Lu’s body naturally stiffened, not because she hated it, but because it was due to the law that ‘this can’t be done like this.’
In fact, it was good. It was good to be held as if being protected to the point where guilt could be felt. She always managed on her own. Sometimes it was torment, but it was sweet to be held as if being protected by someone else.
In Perseta, there were those who watched over her abundantly. Including Hayden, her dad who came chasing after her early in the morning, and her mom from Flache who was worrying, everyone, including Dragonlord and Ophelia, expressed concern for her. She didn’t regret leaving Caletta at all.
At times like these, Lu often realized how conscienceless she was. To push away while liking, it was a cowardly contradiction.
“Did I almost become unable to walk?”
When she asked cautiously, Hayden wiped his eyes and looked at her. How can a person look like that? No, how can someone have such eyes? Beneath the large and straight fingers, the cool yet soft gray eyes were looking down at her.
Lu gained assurance from those eyes. She almost couldn’t walk!
“Uh, was it that serious? Geez…”
Hayden wiped his mouth, turning his head. He tried not to say anything, but with Lu hopping around on her sprained leg, he eventually blurted out.
“I thought it wasn’t a big deal.”
“I still can’t walk properly now.”
He finally admitted the truth. Lu blinked and looked at him, then tried to slide down his thigh, moving her buttocks back. However, Hayden easily supported her back and blocked her from coming down. Where are you trying to escape?
“Why are you trying the test again when you just jumped around earlier, why…”
He said as if he didn’t want to say it, but he ended up saying it when Lu rolled her sprained foot on the ground again.
“I thought it wasn’t a big deal.”
“I still can’t walk properly now.”
He finally admitted the truth. Lu blinked and looked at him, then tried to slide down his thigh, moving her buttocks back. However, Hayden easily supported her back and blocked her from coming down. Where are you trying to escape?
“Why are you trying the test again when you just jumped around earlier, why…”
He said as if he didn’t want to say it, but he ended up saying it when Lu rolled her sprained foot on the ground again.
“I thought it wasn’t a big deal.”
“I still can’t walk properly now.”
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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