For a long time, it was miraculous for Ines, who had to seek forgiveness as she endured without reason.
She had come back through twelve years, so he would probably look quite young.
She was to confront Earl Graham, but Ines had neither a plan nor strength yet.
But just imagining Carson, who would have grown up a lot, brought peace to her mind. If she saw him from afar today, his appearance would encourage her.
Then Susan brought a drink for Ines to have.
“Miss, please have this. It’s a chilled flower tea.”
“Thank you, Susan.”
“And you don’t have to be here.”
“Why?”
“It’s rumored that he’s coming this way, but actually, it’s not this road.”
“What?”
Ines inadvertently raised her voice in frustration.
“But don’t worry. I went to the knights guarding the square and shared this drink and got the proper information.”
Ines looked at Susan with surprised eyes. She wondered if this child had always been this resourceful.
“Did I… do something wrong?”
“No, what are you talking about? You did great.”
At her praise, Susan blushed nicely.
“Then it’s to Conero Square?”
Susan asked with a look that wondered how she knew, but Ines hurried on without really answering.
Carson’s younger sister was in the mansion of the Lord of Resonia. There were only two ways for him coming from the capital to get to the Lord of Resonia’s mansion.
Ines had once been conscripted to replace the water facility at Conero Square in Romfield, which had collapsed due to heavy rain.
It was a very large square, and the entire water facility had collapsed, so she had to crawl across the entire floor for quite some time to do repair work, and the memory remained.
“Hurry, Susan.”
Urging Susan, Ines jogged her memory. The quickest way to get from Resonia Square to Conero was to use the underpass. Ines’s steps began to quicken, as she could not know when he would pass there.
“But I was surprised to hear that you were going to see Prince Carson.”
“Why? Because I’m a fool who only knows Joseph?”
Having come out to the town after a long time and feeling a bit excited, Susan talked more than usual.
“No, I mean… that’s not what I meant.”
It wasn’t, Ines chuckled behind Susan’s back. Susan’s surprise was natural. The original Ines didn’t know anything about Carson.
“I know, he’s quite famous. I’ve only seen him in magazines.”
“Yes.”
Carson was famous not only in the capital but also among the people of the local territories. He had achieved much from a young age. But more than that, his beautiful appearance contributed to his fame.
It was a fact she had recently learned, but it was said that there was no maid who did not have one or two of his portraits.
“Do you have his portrait too?”
“What?”
When she glanced at her, Susan was startled with her mouth open. She hesitated for a moment, but Ines had no choice.
“Get me one too.”
“What…?”
“What else, Prince Carson Raymond’s portrait. Just the size of my palm, a little bigger is fine too. Right?”
As Ines hurried down a narrow alleyway, Susan still followed her with her mouth agape.
“I’ll get it for you.”
With a shout from Susan, who came to her senses belatedly, the corners of Ines’s mouth rose slightly.
As the time he was supposed to pass by drew near, Ines became impatient.
The Lord of Randhill would naturally meet the nobles of his territory to greet him. But before that, Ines wanted to see him one more time.
When the alley ended, the entrance to the underpass began to appear.
“Was there an underpass here? But can you go, Miss?”
At Susan’s words, Ines let out a small chuckle. It looked dark and narrow at first glance, but she was more accustomed to such paths. She was more concerned about Susan, who was a maid.
“And there’s not a single person.”
“We can get there much faster this way. Hurry.”
This underground tunnel was a space where laborers toiled for construction. Because it also served the role of draining water when it rained a lot, the floor was always damp. There were spots here and there to place equipment, so at a glance, it felt like a maze.
“It’s kind of creepy.”
“That’s true. The floor is slippery, so be careful.”
In fact, this place was not just creepy, but a terrible place. One of the prisoners laboring in this facility couldn’t withstand the long hours and fainted, banging her head in the water.
People all saw the situation, but nobody helped her up. There was no one left with the strength to do so. Ines saw the scene from the opposite side but didn’t approach to help her up. And finally, the woman drowned just like that.
At that time, the water level was only enough to cover a person’s ankles.
While Ines was lost in old thoughts, she heard a humming sound of someone’s voice somewhere.
She furrowed her brow sharply.
There were never laborers when there was a procession in the square. The Keynes Empire was a country with clear boundaries between black and white. They never revealed the desperate side hidden behind the splendor.
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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