“The hunting competition was enjoyable, but the more interesting story was about the Emperor, who announced the engagement on the day the competition ended, and Lady Fleche, the daughter of Marquis Plache.”
“People deliberately used the pretext of a vacation to gather in Bellua to see the two. Nobles who deliberately avoided the noisy crowd enjoyed the latest news faster than anyone else.”
“Negerette seems very angry. He should be careful with his blood pressure.”
“Oh, I don’t know anything. I should go prepare a gift for the new Empress. By the way, did you hear that the situation with Duke Alanka completely turned around?”
“Poor girl. The Duchess probably wanted to elevate her daughter to become Empress, but the girl fainted five times and claimed to have taken her own life.”
“The marriage prospects are completely blocked now.”
“Still, it’s better to be careful with such statements. The lady didn’t do it on purpose.”
Today, too, the lobby of the Vuehteng Hotel is noisy. When the Alanka ducal people vacated the 4th and 5th floors for the funeral and left, those rooms would quickly be redecorated and filled with other guests.
Avoiding the noisy people and having a meal in her room, Jane Telot, the investigator, looked at her aunt who had returned from the troublesome visit to the Alanka family, feeling tired, irritable, and, adding her own opinion, downright annoyed.
“Well, it wasn’t fun for me.”
“Honestly, aren’t we distant relatives now?”
“Over there, they don’t seem to think so.”
“Because Aunt knows how to get along well with them. Honestly, if you treated them kindly and prepared delicious food, they would follow naturally. Why bother tormenting Aunt by not doing that?”
Having returned to the hotel to have a separate meal, Mrs. Gordieu, who must stay there all day, shook her head.
“There might be a chance that the Empress won’t come out of the house, and he vented his anger all morning because of that.”
“Is that all?”
“Yeah. I hope we have more constructive conversations in the afternoon. Even if it’s not constructive, it would be nice if there’s a conclusion.”
Mrs. Gordieu looked at her exhausted niece lovingly, as if finding the sight of her eating endearing.
The Emperor and his fiancee, who were the center of attention, were in Bellua, the estate passed down to the Emperor’s children.
Politicians and legal experts praised it as a symbol showing the Emperor’s determination to properly continue the Beler dynasty’s lineage.
Originally, the Emperor did not announce his engagement. The usual sequence was for the Crown Prince to announce the engagement, marry, and then ascend to the throne.
However, the young Emperor, who ascended to the throne during the Grand Duchy era, was unmarried, so he announced the engagement while staying in Bellua inherited from his father to continue the tradition of the Beler dynasty.
“Now, are you okay? Feeling better?”
But when the Emperor, who had gathered all the attention by announcing the engagement, did this, he was only looking at the face of his fiancee, hanging on her knees.
“Yeah, I’m fine.”
Rue quickly nodded. At least she wanted to reassure him somehow. Or rather, she didn’t want him to know the thoughts she harbored in her heart.
“Okay then.”
Since waking up until now, she hadn’t left Hayden’s side. Even when Lady Freya came, Hayden was the one who ultimately faced the public. He lowered the swollen eyes, fed her meal one by one, and even checked how the curse state was. He did everything himself.
After resting for a few days, she was slowly starting to move now. Rue had been very afraid that she might attack Hayden again, but Hayden solved it very simply.
“Would I have proposed to you with the ability to not handle that?”
Faced with a puzzled expression, Rue lost her words and nodded her head.
“Yeah. You’re the strongest.”
But is it right for the strongest person to handle everything? This was not Hayden’s matter; it was undoubtedly Rue’s matter.
“You could have given up, but you didn’t let me go.”
Hayden narrowed his eyes.
“Why would I give you up? Unless I’m insane, there’s no reason to do that.”
“You can do anything, and you endure a lot for me now.”
If Rustica Genesis’s life wasn’t important, Hayden could have killed Carlos, the family’s enemy, right away, tortured him, or done whatever he pleased.
But for her sake, he endured, endured, and endured. That miserable, vile, and cunning guy had entangled Rue’s life with his.
“It’s not enduring. It’s waiting. They’re different.”
He reached out to Rue, speaking gently.
“Enduring is hardship, but waiting is enjoyable.”
“Sorry…”
“No, not that.”
Hayden tilted his head, saying the answer was wrong.
“Thank you.”
“Sure.”
Only then did he smile brightly.
“Did you choose the ring?”
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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