Upon leaving the room, the mansion that was always quiet was in turmoil. I was on high alert and hid myself.
“Eidrish!”
No. It’s Vigus’s voice!
Seeing him making a fuss with a loud noise, he seemed to have already noticed that I was gone.
He must have noticed right away when I wasn’t there after putting the food down. I thought he was slowwitted, but he was surprisingly quick. What a shame. If only he hadn’t noticed this time, I would have bought time until dinner.
But it was already too late for that.
I ran at full speed. My hands and feet were tingling with tension. It was clear that blood circulation was happening throughout my vessels.
“Ha, haa, running on two legs after so long is killing me!”
It was fortunate that there were few servants in this mansion.
Although I had to pass by a few people, thanks to the spacious mansion, it was not difficult.
I managed to escape the mansion and safely hide in the forest as planned. I was already panting. I hid behind a tree for a moment and caught my breath.
“No, I can’t stop yet. If it’s Eidrish, he’ll catch up soon. Even if I have to cough up a lung, I’ll run until I reach the raccoon territory!”
I got up again.
(This is a time delimiter.)
I ran and walked for a while. I didn’t stop even if I slowed down. Thanks to that, I was able to arrive safely in the village.
The place I arrived was the Nerun territory where raccoon beastmen gathered. Although it was called a territory, it was actually closer to a village.
I carefully looked around the village.
On one side, a stream flowed, and houses were lined up along it. Since the raccoon beastmen were small in stature, the houses were generally modest and onestory.
The village was bustling. The women hung laundry in front of their houses and chatted without rest, and the children laughed and splashed in the stream. It was a serene country scene.
But the more peaceful it was, the more a stranger stood out. I headed to the train station on high alert.
The station was crowded with people carrying large luggage.
If Eidrish looked for me, the first place he would check would be this train station, so the more people, the better for me.
I went straight to the ticket booth.
“I want to buy a ticket for the earliest departing train.”
“There’s only one train a day. It’s at 4 PM tomorrow.”
This is bad.
But I had no other choice, so I reluctantly bought a ticket for tomorrow.
I had to endure one day.
I relaxed a bit as everything went smoothly as planned. I rolled my stiff shoulders. Then a hunger I hadn’t felt until now hit me.
Come to think of it, I hadn’t eaten anything today, and I could smell delicious food somewhere.
I was drawn to the smell and went there.
It was a snack bar attached to the train station. I could buy simple food and eat it at an outdoor wooden table. Most of the people sitting there seemed to be eating before boarding the train.
Should I eat a little and go?
I didn’t have the confidence to starve until tomorrow, and I couldn’t sit in a restaurant and have a proper meal.
Half of my decision was lured by the smell.
I bought a chicken roll at the snack bar and sat in the corner. I then hurriedly stuffed food into my mouth, planning to eat quickly and leave.
“Choke.”
I choked! I pounded my chest and reached for a cup of beverage. But instead of a beverage, I grabbed someone’s hand.
I looked up to see a man, and the blood in my body froze.
“May I sit at the table with you?”
Eidrish, with his hood pulled back, looked down at me with wide, bright eyes.
My body stiffened. The chicken roll I was chewing didn’t go down my throat, as if it had turned into stone.
Damn. How did he find me so quickly? No, how did he recognize me at first glance?
Of course, last time, the night I rescued Eidrish. He said he had vaguely seen me.
But he was doubtful whether it was a dream or not.
And now I look completely different from then.
I was a disheveled and naked original form back then, and now I’m a small raccoon beastman with no fashion sense…….
My heart pounded. It was so loud that it could have been heard by Idrysh.
Maybe I’m saying this because I’m not sure. If I was certain that I was the hedgehog, I would have tried to skin it right away.
So I had to act as calmly as possible.
“Since you don’t answer, I’ll take it as permission.”
Idrysh sat down in front of me. The way he leisurely crossed his legs looked slow to me.
Get up calmly and naturally. As if without any hesitation…….
“Yes, yes. Please sit down comfortably. I’m done eating, so I’ll go ahead…….”
“There’s plenty left.”
Idrysh gestured to the chicken roll I was holding. I hadn’t eaten half of it yet.
“Suddenly my stomach is upset. Haha, where’s the bathroom?”
I barely managed to raise the corners of my mouth. I couldn’t even guarantee that it looked like a smile.
There was no change in Idrysh’s expression. Instead, he opened his mouth slowly.
“You must not be from around here.”
Damn. Sweat ran down my spine.
“No, no? I’m a local here.”
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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