The knights came directly to the window to verify if they were indeed coming. After confirming, they took me outside. The air had become so cold in the past few days that you could see your breath, but that wasn’t the important thing.
I briskly walked towards the main gate. However, I couldn’t spot Idrish along the long road.
Strange. He was definitely coming this way.
That’s when it happened.
Only one house on the high wall next to us leaped high. It had thick arms and legs, and an even thicker body and waist, but it flew like a bird. Idrish transformed into a human right before landing. He headed straight for me.
“Idrish!”
With wide strides, he embraced me tightly.
I, too, held onto his waist tightly with both hands.
His scent, mixed with the morning air, was delightful.
A week had truly been too long.
“Any injuries or painful spots?”
Idrish released my shoulders and checked here and there. My body spun around in his hand before stopping.
“Yeah, I rested well. Is Idrish okay? What about the antidote?”
Idrish turned his head back. At the end of the long brick path past the main gate, a brown wolf was visible.
Terminus, who had soon arrived and transformed into a human, was breathing heavily. He took out the antidote from his pocket.
“Have you checked everything? If so, I will go to Father right away.”
We moved inside with Terminus. My steps quickened, almost as if I were running, at the thought that we could finally save Lord.
We arrived at Lord’s bedroom and entered.
In the center, Lord lay on the bed.
Oh.
I covered my mouth with both hands. Lord’s condition was severe, to say the least. His lips were purple, and there was no color in his skin. It looked like his vitality could run out at any moment.
“His condition has worsened. We’ve tried various methods and medicines, but he hasn’t improved at all.”
The doctor who had been guarding Lord’s side immediately reported to Terminus.
Terminus approached Lord, opened the lid of the antidote.
At that moment, the door behind us creaked open.
“Oh, Mother.”
“Terneya. What is the meaning of this?”
“I brought the antidote.”
“What do you mean, antidote? Remove it immediately! Why are you so foolishly begging like this?”
She glared at Idrish and me.
I tried to wear the most harmless and virtuous smile, but next to me, Idrish wore a ruthless expression that could kill the whole world at any moment. It seemed futile.
“Terneya, snap out of it. How can you believe those people’s words so easily? Do you even know who they are? That potion, we absolutely cannot allow it.”
“No, I know about that Artigra too.”
“When I heard that you went to get their treacherous selves and a fake antidote, I couldn’t believe it. Remember the people of our family who died because of them.”
The woman, as if recalling that time, twisted in agony. I couldn’t fathom her emotions.
It seemed like even she couldn’t believe us.
Her husband had fallen, and the fallen prince who had caused the rebellion and almost destroyed us appeared out of nowhere, claiming he had been poisoned by snake venom and asking for help to get the antidote.
But it was all true.
“The Baekho must disappear from this world. They have a wicked and merciless nature. They have killed countless servants and shamelessly preserved their lives. Killing them now wouldn’t be enough. They should never exist in this world.”
The words seemed too harsh.
I worried that Idrish might get hurt.
But the bigger issue was Lord. Right now, at this moment, his breath was becoming shallower. We needed to give him the antidote as soon as possible.
She seemed to be blocking us from giving him the antidote.
Should I persuade her? But would my words have any effect? What should I say? Whatever I said, she would probably dismiss it with cunning words.
At that moment, even before me, Terminus stepped forward.
“The only ones who can save Lord are them.”
His voice was firm.
“You’ve been deceived. Can you be sure that this is the antidote? What if it’s poison meant to completely end Lord’s life?”
“Mother, don’t you trust me? Do you think I would foolishly fall for someone else’s scheme?”
“My river, my song. I trust you. But…”
“If you trust me, then please trust them too, Mother. I haven’t been deceived, and they are sincere.”
I was a bit surprised and looked at him. There was no reason for us to trust them to that extent. After all, hadn’t they trapped me here and followed Idrish themselves for that reason?
“Son.”
“I trust them.”
Once again, Terminus forcefully spoke.
“Father will surely wake up.”
His mother also fell silent. Terminus’ firm stance seemed to affect her as well. Terminus turned away, and she didn’t stop him anymore.
Terneya pried open the Lord’s unyielding lips and administered the potion.
A chilling silence followed. Everyone held their breath, watching his transformation.
His lips, once purple, regained their color, and life returned to his eyes as he blinked and said, “I slept well!”
The surroundings were quiet.
Indeed, life didn’t flow like a novel.
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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