It was clear that I had come to Siena only for the purpose of delivering an invitation, but how did my schedule end up being so packed again?
It was much harder than I thought to find a handsome, wonderful partner with a warm heart despite their cold exterior.
Jade looked at the scene unfolding before her with a serious expression. The magicians she had met at the palace were engaged in a heated discussion while sipping tea.
“No, listen to what I’m saying!”
“What’s the point of listening to that nonsense? It’s meaningless! We need more corpses. If we can easily destroy the cores, there will be peace across the entire continent−”
“If we start training the magicians in detection now…”
“The flow is barely noticeable through the bones and flesh. How can we even train that? Do you think magicians are dogs or something!”
Shouts and yells were exchanged back and forth, but the magicians called it a discussion.
Of course, Jade had not invited any of them. They were all renowned magicians in academia, but she wasn’t particularly close with them. The only one she occasionally contacted was Viscount Milton, but she had never seen him so excited and shouting like this before.
However, when she received a message this morning saying they needed her magic power again and she agreed, strangely enough, all the magicians came together at once and were drinking tea while yelling at each other.
The servants were busy bringing hot water and milk, and Jade watched them with a gloomy face.
The only quiet one was a magician named Oakley, but even though he was quiet, he constantly caused disturbances with his sudden interjections.
“Ah, I heard the Magician of Flames was able to detect a core before.”
“What! Hey, young magician. Hurry up and try it!”
“How can I when there are no monsters? And it was only once…”
Jade sent a resentful look towards Rigel who had leaked the information, but she wasn’t sure if he received it.
“What was different?”
“It just bothered me.”
“That’s it?”
“Yes…”
Then the magicians fought again, spitting as they came up with hypotheses.
“Do you… always work… in such a lively… place?”
Amidst all the commotion, the knight who was actually invited was deflated and just rolling his eyes.
“Of course not. I prefer quiet places. Anyway, Sir Jenersenn, long time no see.”
“Yes, that’s right…”
“Would you like a cup of tea?”
“No…”
He mumbled awkwardly, his beard still unkempt since arriving in Siena.
“If I drink it here, I’ll get indigestion.”
At the same time, there was the sound of something breaking in front. Someone must have hit a teacup while swinging their arm.
“It was good tea leaves.”
“It’s still alright. By the way, why did you call for me?”
Jenersenn Marlowe said, scratching his chin and muttering.
He only mentioned that he had received a message from Lady Jade to visit the townhouse, but he was met with enormous glares, that Sir Leon had beaten him up under the guise of sparring at the training grounds, that his body still ached, and so on.
Jade grinned and handed him the invitation for now.
“It’s late, but I will be having my coming-of-age ceremony. Here’s the invitation for now.”
“Ah, thank you. I’m grateful you took care of this separately. I will make sure to attend.”
Always blinking shamelessly, Jenersenn took the envelope Jade handed him with very polite manners.
“The envelope is very nice. It definitely gives off a wealthy vibe. The coming-of-age ceremony will be held at the Broen estate, right?”
“That’s correct.”
“Ah, I don’t have many connections in the south, so I haven’t been there much. But this works out well. I heard the sky is so beautiful there. I’m looking forward to it.”
“No, listen to what I’m saying!”
“You’re not listening either!”
“I’m twenty years older than you, you bastard!”
“Ha, what does age matter when we’re all growing old together? We’ll all be cozily lying in coffins soon.”
“What did you say!”
They definitely seemed chilly with each other at the palace. I guess they were just putting on airs in front of His Majesty.
Jade calmly covered her ears for a moment with her hands to block out the magicians’ commotion, then removed them.
“Actually, there’s another reason I asked you to come.”
“Ah, of course, I thought that would be the case. You could have just sent this little envelope to the mansion. Please feel free to tell me anything I can assist with.”
He still maintained his sharp way of speaking, even though he wasn’t part of the subjugation team.
The surroundings were very noisy, and it was safe without worrying about someone eavesdropping. The townhouse, which had been cleaned so that not a single one of Felix’s people remained, was spotless.
Still, there were many better places than here.
Jade smiled brightly.
“Shall we take a short walk?”
Jenersenn was walking alongside Jade with a very awkward attitude, rolling his eyes. They were strolling through a small garden with the sound of the magicians’ fight in the background.
“Oh, your dress is very pretty.”
“You think so? I put some effort into it today.”
She deliberately brushed her curly hair behind her ear with a shy face. Jenersenn laughed loudly with a stiff face, then quickly lowered his head and whispered.
“Why are you doing this?”
“What? Is it that hard to just walk with me? We were pretty close in the subjugation team.”
“That’s a separate issue. Didn’t I tell you earlier that I was beaten to death by Sir Leon at the training grounds?”
“That must have been Sir Leon’s pure intentions to help raise your skills.”
“If you’re pure twice, you’ll die…!”
Jenersenn already seemed to take Jade and Axel’s relationship as a given fact, depending on how much they showed it.
Well, we did stick close together in the subjugation team, so outsiders might have felt something. Fortunately, Jenersenn says he can keep his mouth shut.
Smiling inwardly, Jade turned her toes that had reached the corner again.
The townhouse’s garden was not very large, and there were few trees to hide behind in the first place, so they were fully exposed to the gazes of passersby. The combination of the tall Jenersenn and the short Jade naturally piqued the interest of gossipers.
Jenersenn, who was always sly, completely lost his composure and started begging from the moment they circled the garden twice.
“Please don’t do this. At least tell me the reason!”
“Oh my, do you dislike walking with me?”
“Yes! My dream is to live a long life!”
“This is unbelievable. Alright, alright. Let’s get straight to the point. Sir Jenersenn. You know about Sir Leon’s past, right?”
“Pardon? Eh? Uh…”
As he said, he becomes stupid when it’s time to lie, and Jenersenn stammered as if his tongue was stiff.
His advice not to gamble was indeed correct.
Jade snorted and continued leisurely.
“You must know since you were aware he could use a sword. Don’t even think about lying.”
“Uh, eh…”
“You like Sir Leon, don’t you?”
“That, that’s only natural… isn’t it? Any knight would see Sir Leon as someone who has reached their dreams…”
“You even respect him. Then you wouldn’t want Sir Leon to disappear to some unknown place again, would you?”
Jenersenn looked at Jade with gloomy eyes.
“Yes, that’s right.”
“I feel the same. So I’d like Sir Jenersenn to secretly help me out a bit.”
“Are you saying if this goes well, Sir Leon will stay outside?”
“Probably.”
The man, slightly shorter than Axel but tall, slender, and muscular like a knight, immediately shouted in a resonant voice.
“Just say the word!”
“Great. This is perfect. Become engaged to me.”
“…Pardon?”
A stupid voice automatically slipped through the gaps between his lips. Jade smiled brightly.
[This is the timeline separator]After suggesting the engagement, Jenersenn lost his shrewdness and became stupid again, so Jade had to hold onto him and explain for a very long time.
He understood the situation but had a completely unconfident face. He kept pointing at his own face and asking.
“Really, me, are you talking about me? Won’t you regret it? I’m really not co, confident in lying…”
“I won’t regret it. Starting tomorrow, practice lying properly and come by every day. I’d appreciate it if you cut off contact with your family.”
“I’m an outcast anyway… No, but, I, I!”
“No stammering allowed. And to be honest, really honest, Sir Jenersenn won’t suffer any harm. People in the world prefer someone with moderate experience over a complete pushover. Especially men.”
With those words, Jade kicked Jenersenn out.
When she returned to the room she had prepared for work, it was still occupied by the magicians chattering away.
“Did you make any progress?”
At her words, meant more as a greeting, the magicians all opened their mouths at once and shouted only what they were asserting.
“In order to easily destroy the cores, strong magic power must be directly−”
“Considering the diversity of the monsters, what Oakley said could be−”
“But then why did they perish−”
“This is truly a matter of debate, so it’s not easy to say−”
“A magician named Olivia clearly perceiving the flow of magic−”
The latter parts of the sentences were mixed together and hard to hear.
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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