Hayden’s predicted three-day war ended with just one battle in a day, which was absurd.
“You said it would take three days.”
When Roo pointed it out, he grinned with a smirk.
“It’s all thanks to the southern sage who fought so competently.”
Objectively, to a third party, it was a sight where it was hard to distinguish who the emperor was.
Feeling dissatisfied that she was still in her nightgown by the time morning came, Roo, who had been left in Hayden’s bed, playfully annoyed him for no reason.
Of course, he, the main culprit, was currently lifting her onto his lap, gently smiling and leaning in to press his face against hers.
Due to Hayden’s massive build, he was currently doing all sorts of cute things, asking her to try just one more bite of the late breakfast and lunch.
Lady Freya silently opened the emperor’s bedroom curtains, watching the scene where it was impossible for anyone to tell who the emperor was without a facial expression.
“If I’m like this, it’s okay…”
Looking at Hayden, who stared at her with eyes saying, “Really?” Roo closed her mouth for a moment.
No, honestly, her hands were trembling, and her legs were the same. Her body was not in good condition.
Fighting with just her bones barely set in place after being injured and enduring the pain that felt like her whole body would be torn apart by Carlos, she still won.
So how could her body be fine? Even though the battle wasn’t over yet, just seeing Hayden’s words about eating a bit more for recovery caused her to fall asleep with a thud.
So, she didn’t do any unreasonable stubborn things.
“How can this be?”
Instead, she felt extremely unjust.
“We won everything!”
“That’s right.”
“Everything is over!”
“Yes, you’re right.”
Hayden replied with a gentle smile, offering Roo a spoonful of freshly made meat soup brought by Lady Freya.
It was a dish prepared meticulously by the chef, taking seven hours from yesterday evening.
Using the best wine, various vegetables, and the highest quality beef, it was grilled, roasted, baked in the oven, and simmered, creating a rich flavor.
It was a recovery meal for those who had just returned from the battlefield, so Hayden kept poking Roo with a spoon until she finished eating.
At the moment, it was the only rest time given to Hayden.
Already involved in the massive aftermath of the war, including handling the Flache couple and the imperial court officials, two sages, Lady Godeau, and even the only surviving Duke Alanka from the East, he was on the brink of death from being immersed in work. That’s why it was only natural for Emperor Hayden to be busier.
“But why am I…”
But the new southern sage was lying down again. No, at least the fractured bones had all healed, so she could move a bit. Roo felt very unjust.
I’m a sage! If I’m a sage, wouldn’t it be easy to handle things like paperwork and work after the bones are completely healed? Shockingly, among the wizards who participated in the battle, Roo was the biggest casualty, unbelievably so!
“If you’ve been badly injured, rehabilitation is very important, as I’ve heard from a knight I know.”
That knight, therefore, could only say nothing and just accept what was fed to her.
“So, did he tell you not to walk around uselessly and just lie down quietly?”
“I was told something like that.”
“You bragged a lot to me, didn’t you?”
“I really did well.”
Lady Freya quickly opened the curtains, placed soft slippers and a shawl near Roo’s bed, and then quietly left the bedroom.
Since they were already so close to becoming a couple, it would be really nice to see them get married soon. That thought made her steps involuntarily light.
Of course, although the imperial staff, led by Chamberlain Shi Jong and Lady Freya, knew everything, they pretended not to know while keeping silent about the fact that the emperor was making an effort to receive affection from his fiancée.
The emperor was extraordinary in intellect and extremely powerful, and even now, immediately after the war, he continued to crush opposition emanating from the Calleta region with force.
If necessary, he could be as ruthless as possible.
For someone like him, the fact that inside the bedroom, he would show all sorts of affections to just one woman was not something to be ridiculed by those who knew; instead, it was quite chilling.
“Yeah, even I think so.”
“Really? I was going to keep insisting until you admitted it.”
“I admitted it quickly because it seemed that way….”
It meant that he was a man who didn’t need to prove his dignity, power, or masculinity.
So, without hesitation, he embraced and played with the sage, much smaller than him but by no means weak.
Even when sitting like that, no one questioned Hayden’s power and strength.
“Sure. Take one more bite.”
Naturally, while feeding Roo and pressing his lips against her cheek, he reconnected Katarth to the tip of the Vifel.
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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