Ettan momentarily put down the pen and scratched the end of his eyebrow. He had been a considerable and handsome man for a long time, but traces of the hardships of the years showed in the corners of his eyes.
“A burning love cools colder than ice when it cools.”
Lou laughed briefly as if understanding what he meant.
“Among the men I’ve met so far, no one has loved me as much as you do.”
“Oh, the burning love is for Emperor Majesty, huh? Still, I’m worried. But you said ‘men’?”
“I just stand still, and they all chase after me.”
“Of course, they would!”
“Oh my. What if it was a joke, but what if you take it seriously.”
“I didn’t hear it as a joke at all, my dear.”
She shook her head, trying on a sparkling amethyst ring. The smoothly cut rectangular shape was beautiful.
“It would be better for you to wear this when you get a little older.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. And I’ll tell you in advance. If you think this marriage might not be it, feel free to overturn it. Don’t mind our feelings.”
“I have no intention of doing that, Dad.”
Lou answered with a bright smile. Overturning the marriage. She didn’t want to upset her fiancé. She stood up from her seat, approached her dad, and tightly hugged his neck.
“But thank you for saying that.”
Ettan, who spoke without hesitation, difficult words as a noble and politician, gently stroked his daughter’s arm.
“Be well-prepared and take care of your health.”
“Yes. It’s a war from now on.”
Lou said cheerfully.
While the nobles from the west, north, and central regions gathered around the Flache Viscount, the eastern nobles would evaluate their abilities at the wedding of Count Norlys and assess who the leading candidate for empress was.
Those who were unaware that the emperor was already engaged were running desperately to seize the empress position.
Jane Telot Kyungwi, affiliated with many nicknames such as Cabinet Blue, Chalea Judiciary, or Police Department, has solved five murder cases, handled dozens of useless and trivial cases, and processed more than two hundred documents.
While doing so, she constantly indulged in cheap coffee and cold cucumber sandwiches sold in front of Cabinet Blue, incredibly syrupy pancakes, and popular jerky among colleagues.
“It’s a balanced nutritional diet in its own way!”
She evaluated her meals herself, but her aunt, Mrs. Godeau, the genius of housekeeping, considered it a miserable diet. However, Jane Telot was an adult, and she had the right to eat what she wanted.
Anyway, today she returned home after a long time, thinking about her beloved aunt.
“It’s been a while, Jane.”
“I love you too, Aunt.”
She kissed her aunt’s cheek, who scolded her for coming back after a few days. Mrs. Godeau had set up a luxurious feast, all of Jane’s favorite foods.
“Why did you sleep outside?”
“Sleeping outside? Aunt, there’s a hard desk, a reasonably crumpled chair, and even a roof and window. It’s an excellent lodging.”
“Sleeping outside is homelessness unless it’s a hotel.”
Mrs. Godeau said sternly, pushing the plate of meatballs she had made with all her heart in front of her niece.
“Anyway, I’ve decided to quit that homelessness that Aunt hates.”
“Why?”
Jane Telot Kyungwi, while spreading her aunt’s special thick and rich sauce over the meatballs, made a subtle expression. It was a facial expression that subtly showed displeasure.
“…Well, remember the incident with the son of Duke Alanca last time, Aunt? The count who died stabbed with a sword by a dancer.”
“That tragic incident! Is there anyone in Chalea who doesn’t know about it?”
“But everyone has forgotten, Aunt. Nowadays, the talk is about a whip made of monster leather and who will become the empress. Well, no matter what, it will be the daughter of some duke or marquis in the east. Regarding the incident, by any chance…?”
Jane looked very cautiously at her aunt’s expression when she said this.
“So, have you heard anything ‘from Grandpa’?”
“I’m not sure.”
Mrs. Godeau said coldly. It was not that she disliked her niece’s question but rather that she hated her birth family.
“They always talk about noble stories. Just hushing up the story of the noble who died tragically. No one talks about such things.”
“Yes, that’s true… Everyone seems to have forgotten about that incident. I think it’s better to forget.”
“Why? You remember it.”
Jane answered while picking at her meatball with a fork.
“Well, I’m an investigator, so, Aunt! I can’t forget, but people will make a big fuss and move on. It’s an incident that was made like that.”
“Made?”
“Yes. Count Elsh’s involvement with that dancer, Elena Justner, is certain, but they made it look like a cheap affair, and the culprit disappeared.”
“Is that the conclusion you reached while sleeping outside?”
Mrs. Godeau asked with a hint of amusement.
“Yes, Aunt. This seems like a murder executed from the outside. It can’t be buried so well. In the end, it just left a disgrace on the Alanca Duke’s family, right? Cedric Lambert seems to be working hard to restrain his four younger brothers.”
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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