Deborah sat down in front of the boy just like that. The boy was surprised. Whether to say it or not, Deborah spoke to the boy.
“Let me take a look for a moment.”
Deborah grabbed the boy’s ankle. It was a very thin ankle.
“What are you doing now…!”
The boy, with a contorted face, shouted. Whether to say it or not, Deborah rolled up the pants and examined the injured ankle.
‘It doesn’t seem swollen, and he didn’t make a sound of pain. Maybe the bones are okay.’
Phew, Deborah sighed briefly, looking serious, and said to the boy.
“How about the ribs? Does it hurt when you breathe?”
“I-I’m fine…!”
The boy burst out.
‘Could he be pretending not to be in pain when he’s actually hurt?’
Deborah left a slight suspicion and opened the medicine box she had brought. The boy, with a frown, said,
“Don’t touch my body!”
“Do you want to apply it yourself? It doesn’t matter.”
Deborah offered the ointment and said. Unexpectedly, the boy’s eyes widened at this reaction.
‘Now that I look at him, he seems like an ordinary kid.’
Honestly, he wasn’t ordinary, especially since he wasn’t conventionally handsome.
“…Leaving it like this might be better.”
Avoiding eye contact, the boy said. Deborah smiled softly.
“It might be better. But applying the ointment will heal faster and leave less of a scar.”
“Whether I get a scar or not…”
“Your mother will be sad.”
Looking at the ointment jar, Deborah said. At that moment, the boy opened his lips.
“My mother doesn’t care about someone like me.”
Deborah’s hand, about to open the ointment jar, stopped just before. The boy’s voice was as cold as if it were covered in frost, full of resentment about why she touched his wounds.
Deborah knew this kind of voice. It was Sage’s voice directed at her.
“…”
Summoning courage, Deborah stared at the boy. As she thought, the boy was making a scary expression.
However, behind the boy’s fierce gaze hid eyes full of wounds.
The boy didn’t vent his frustrations to his parents with a young heart. Surely there was something Deborah hadn’t thought of.
“Sorry.”
At Deborah’s sudden apology, the boy’s eyes widened.
“I can be thoughtless and hurt others like this… I’ll be more careful from now on.”
“…”
The boy got up without saying a word. He planned to return when the woman in front of him seemed completely overwhelmed.
But Deborah was a far more remarkable person than the boy had imagined.
“Where are you going?”
Saying that, Deborah dipped her finger into the ointment and applied it to the wounds on the boy’s leg.
“Ah!”
The boy, grimacing because it itched, exclaimed.
“What are you doing?!”
“What am I doing? I’m treating the wounds.”
“Just leave it! Whether I get hurt or not, no one cares!”
Deborah, speaking earnestly to the defiant boy, said,
“I care.”
In the small shadow created by the boy under the sunlight, Deborah spoke again.
“I really care a lot. So, just apply this and go. Then, I won’t bother you anymore today.”
“…Darn it.”
The boy sat down again with a sulky expression. Deborah chuckled and said,
“Thank you for indulging me.”
“I sat down because I believe you won’t bother me anymore.”
The boy, whose face turned red, glared at Deborah. Deborah, with a light laugh, applied ointment to the leg wound.
“Ouch! Be gentle!”
When the boy complained, Deborah raised an eyebrow and said,
“Oh, I applied it gently.”
“Lies! You deliberately applied it forcefully, didn’t you?”
“Why would I do that intentionally?”
“You’re getting back at me for bumping into you earlier, right?”
Deborah’s eyes widened like fists.
“You knew?”
“…You think I wouldn’t remember something like that? I’m not a fool.”
The boy mumbled softly. Deborah thought the boy wouldn’t remember her.
It was just a moment. However, just as Deborah remembered the boy, the boy also remembered her. It made his heart flutter for some reason.
“Hehe. It’s really fascinating.”
“What’s so fascinating?”
“The fact that we’ve coincidentally met twice.”
“Everything is fascinating.”
The boy said, raising one corner of his mouth in a dismissive manner. Deborah shrugged and said,
“Yeah, everything is fascinating to me.”
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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