“That’s……, that’s too much of an exaggeration.”
Roo, forgetting to eat the stew offered by Hayden, spoke. Her face, pale from shock even after having rested for a while, had yet to regain its color.
“Well, then let’s say I exaggerated.”
He nodded nonchalantly and extended the spoon a bit further. He meant for her to eat quickly.
But Roo couldn’t accept it.
Could it be? Could Hayden’s words be true? That her abilities were sealed, and Carlos had been using them joyfully the whole time she couldn’t use them? Why would a powerful magician like Carlos need any other power?
Seeing the green eyes fall into confusion, Hayden momentarily put down the spoon.
Roo must be out of her mind with shock now. She must want to deny it, to avoid this problem as much as possible. But she must not.
“How about we deal with the problem at hand first, Lady Gennes?”
He spoke very carefully, yet firmly.
“You’ve been unaware of this for four years, and now you will know it today. Even if you don’t trust me, the symptoms that Lady Gennes feels herself are clear, so you will believe what you see yourself.”
Listening quietly, Roo thought over the situation when she had almost stabbed her own neck, and everything that had happened around that time.
Hayden had provoked her. He had poked and scratched at her most painful spot. With her parents afflicted, there was no way she could dare to stab the Emperor. Rather, she wanted to die and tried to stab herself.
And then, remembering the emerald magic and her body drained of power, Hayden’s distorted face apologizing. She remembered it all.
“Was it magic that would be revealed if I attacked Your Majesty? So, did you provoke me for that?”
“Lady Gennes, you didn’t attack me. I’m really sorry for the provocation. I didn’t mean it sincerely.”
“But you don’t regret it.”
He shamelessly nodded and offered the stew again. Roo sighed and accepted it. How had she come to this?
“It wasn’t magic that would be revealed if you attacked me, or if you harmed yourself. The dead sensation had to wake up a little to be visible to the eyes.”
“You tried to awaken my senses?”
Roo wanted to listen carefully to everything, but Hayden abruptly offered another spoonful of stew.
“The Emperor is personally serving you food right now, shouldn’t you show some willingness to eat?”
Her green eyes narrowed as she glared at him, but he just shamelessly smiled. Perhaps to make her apologize again, Roo just thought about it and accepted the food for now.
After all, the stew was delicious, and she was still officially only Lady Kaleta. Besides, Hayden answered more easily when she ate well.
“To awaken the rusty combat senses, and incidentally to create some gap from the one who made you unable to use your power.”
Roo, who had carefully considered everything that had happened in Perseta, asked,
“So, was that why you threatened me on the first day?”
The Emperor’s intimidation, pressing down on her whole body next to the newspaper stand, in front of the popular dessert shop, on the street where ordinary people were walking, was tremendous.
“Or did I just look arrogant to you, and you wanted to crush me?”
The man, who was clearly not going to lose to anyone in words, opened his mouth, then closed it, then briefly bowed his head, and raised it again.
“I’ve never thought Lady Gennes was arrogant.”
He put down the bowl of stew for a moment and seemed flustered in front of a woman half his size. Roo, who had not expected Hayden to be so confused, was surprised even in her weakened state.
“I’ve never thought that way.”
“But?”
“…I honestly thought you wouldn’t feel it.”
The oppressive sensation that crushed her whole body, the presence of a mighty being she could never overcome in her lifetime, he thought she wouldn’t feel it?
“You showed it outright.”
“No, ordinary people wouldn’t know. I thought the sense was completely dead, so I tried to stimulate it just a little, just enough to make you flinch…….”
“A little?”
Was that ‘a little’?
“Sorry. I thought I was lucky that my senses are more alive than I expected.”
It was still a curious thing to Lu that an apology came out right away. Hayden, even as the Emperor of Perseita, was not authoritative at all. If he was sorry, he was sorry, and he didn’t seem to be ashamed of apologizing.
“Thanks to that, we got here quickly.”
And he quickly became rational again. He looked at Lu’s face, where the color of his blood had not returned, then scooped up the stew and offered it again.
“I’ve opened up my senses a lot. So, at the crucial moment when magic was activated, I began to appear in the eyes of the construction.”
Feeling Hayden’s terrifying presence, having contacted the monsters, and having fought, the previously peaceful daily life was shaken, and it seemed important to forcibly use the knight’s combat senses.
“Does that mean it hasn’t been visible all this time?”
“Yes. This isn’t the first time you’ve been so exhausted.”
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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