“King of Birds?”
“The father of all birds…? Not the baby of all birds?”
As the humans were looking confused, switching their gaze between the two birds, the little bird hopped out of Rasilia’s palm.
Shraiden was of the largest species of parrot, and the little bird was only about two finger joints long. Compared to Shraiden’s peacock, the small bird looked like an insect rather than a bird.
As the little bird descended to the floor, Shraiden’s peacock lowered its eye level by lying flat on the ground.
“Chirp. Chirp.”
The little bird murmured something and pressed its forehead to Shraiden’s.
It was difficult to articulate what it was saying, but a very mysterious sensation reached the skin.
“It’s more fairytalelike than a fairy tale, Your Majesty the Empress.”
Yvette whispered, pulling Rasilia’s hem. It was unbelievable, but she seemed to have no idea what she was doing, captivated by what was happening before her eyes.
“Indeed.”
A moment later, the little bird removed its forehead. Then it flapped its tiny wings and chirped towards Rasilia.
It was asking to be picked up again.
Shraiden’s peacock lay flat again, shaking its head.
“Oh dear, I shall pick you up!”
The humans were surprised at those words.
Shraiden was a parrot, and although it was a species that mimicked sound well, it was still a bird. They didn’t think it would speak like a human.
But now it really spoke.
If they had closed their eyes, they would have thought it was a person, not a bird.
“You seem different.”
As Rasilia spoke, Shraiden gave a very humanlike cough.
“Yes. The father of all birds has given me the power to speak human language. So from now on, I am to be the mouthpiece for my father.”
“What…? A bird has such power?”
“Is that all? Right now, he is still young and cannot use all his power.”
“What a wonder.”
“Wow… indeed. It’s really amazing. No, it’s mysterious.”
As the humans expressed their admiration, the little bird shook its tail proudly.
“You’re no ordinary bird.”
“Indeed, what should I do? I can’t treat it like a regular bird. I feel like I should use honorifics and everything…”
Rasilia stopped her finger that was about to pet the bird.
Somehow, it didn’t seem right.
“Then what should I call you? Won’t you tell me?”
“Chirp.”
The little bird shyly hung its head. Rasilia didn’t understand, so Shraiden’s peacock intervened.
“The King wishes for Your Majesty the Empress to name him.”
“Me? Name the King of Birds? Is that alright?”
“He wishes for it to be so.”
“Hmm…”
After a moment’s thought, Rasilia nodded.
It was only temporary that she was taking care of this bird. Though it was called the King of Birds, there seemed to be no need to look after it, but she was given a short time together.
There was no need to know its real name. The bird had another owner.
“Then I’ll call you Pippi.”
“Squawk?”
The bird seemed to twist its body in shock.
“Why? Don’t you like it?”
“Chirp!”
Again, Shraiden stepped in.
“Isn’t that a bit too onedimensional? How about a name that reminds you of the noblest and strongest of creatures on Earth?”
“Ah… then I’ll have to think about it. Right now, I don’t know a magnificent name that would suit the noblest and strongest bird.”
“Chirp! Squawk! …Chirp?”
Rasilia’s words, which seemed unsatisfactory, made the bird about to throw a tantrum suddenly freeze.
“Ah… it seems we have a visitor at my estate.”
It was at that moment that Shraiden’s peacock spoke.
Thump thump thump thump!
A hurried footsteps sound reached the humans’ ears.
“Someone’s coming.”
Rasilia quickly put the little bird on Shraiden’s peacock’s back. The feathers on its back were stylishly raised so that the small bird’s figure was not visible.
“I leave Pippi to you. Make sure she doesn’t catch anyone’s eye. Pippi, you be quiet too.”
“Chirp!”
“Oh, to hide the noble figure of my father. What a sad thing…”
Even though it was called noble and strong, it was still a chick that was not even two finger joints long.
Bang!
A hair’s breadth difference, and the door of Duke Shraiden’s room opened. In fact, it was more accurate to say it had been torn apart.
The handle, which had just broken, was still rattling, as the Emperor with a twisted face pushed the door and entered.
[This is the time separator]“Em, Em, Emperor Your Majesty…, Hic!”
Ivette started hiccuping in surprise.
It was the Emperor.
However, he appeared half transformed. Both eyes were sparkling gold, and his entire left arm was covered in black scales, revealing red nails. There was a reason for the door being torn.
‘I recovered this morning… What happened again?’
Rasilia stared at the Emperor with a stiff face as he swiftly approached her.
His speed was too fast. She recalled the scene from last night when the shadow knights were thrown far away without even knowing what had happened.
“Your Majesty!”
Without even realizing, Rasilia blocked Ivette and Duke Shraiden.
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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