Marcus, who was leaning against the door, couldn’t even lift his head and instead bent his body, stepping aside without permission from the Emperor, as no one could raise their heads without the Emperor’s permission.
Enes also moved to show respect. However, Carson, taking just three brisk steps, walked up and stood in front of her. As he tried to hold her face with both hands, he grimaced at the small wounds scattered on her cheek, unable to touch them.
“What on earth is going on?”
Carson, who was speaking, saw the clothes soaked under her shoulders for treatment. Then he glanced at the physician standing beside her.
“You, leave.”
At his words, Marcus, unable to lift his head, stepped back and retreated outside. Feeling that it shouldn’t be seen if Marcus sees her, Enes quickly intervened.
“As you can see, it’s just a few minor injuries.”
“A few injuries?”
The group that followed the Emperor also quietly vacated their places. In no time, only two people remained inside the treatment room.
Carson examined Enes’s face and body, then carefully lifted the clothes hanging on her arms.
“Do you think of me as a troublemaker again?”
As he heard the lively voice, he stopped abruptly. Every time he heard a strange voice, Carson’s heart loudly announced his presence. His golden eyes stared at Enes.
“No, I’m thinking of you as a very loyal subject who disobeyed the order to come to the Imperial Palace.”
Enes chuckled with a snorting sound.
“I’ve added another crime.”
“What crime is it?”
“Since I surprised the Emperor and made him laugh, a charge of disrespect would be good.”
“Don’t scold me too much. I’m feeling very good right now.”
“Why?”
“Haven’t you heard about the ball I hosted?”
Enes shrugged and tilted her head slightly. Carson laughed with a creaking sound at her appearance. Isn’t it right to change just enough to follow along?
“I asked subtly, but with this kind of ball, I said that even if I become a court lady, I will still be a person.”
“Who said that?”
“The lower-ranking official in charge of finances. Well, it’s not certain yet.”
“Are you worried about that? In front of the Emperor?”
“Really?”
Carson finally stopped and laughed with his eyes closed. He reached out, grabbed the waist of Enes, who was sitting in a chair, and lifted her up, hugging her in his arms. The two leaned against each other as if they were one person, familiarly relying on each other’s warmth.
“But I want everyone to acknowledge it.”
“Got it.”
Although Enes had not said it yet, her room was already prepared not only in the Grand Jain Castle but also in the Imperial Palace, right next to his bedroom.
Even the Empress could not use the room right next to the Emperor’s bedroom. So naturally, there was no such thing as a private audience.
But he kept quiet. He didn’t want to make her efforts in vain.
She was quite cute, moving around energetically and determinedly coming to him, and he didn’t want to break the boosted morale.
“You know, right?”
“Okay, you did well. Setting up the ball.”
Of course, the ball Enes set up was larger than expected. It would be good to use this opportunity to re-establish the discipline inside the palace that had collapsed a lot.
It was only heard briefly on the way, but it was undoubtedly a very good pawn to use politically. The secretary maid of the former Crown Prince had caused financial problems in various palaces. At first, it was just a small jewel, but the crimes became bolder over time.
Several maids were involved in that incident as well.
So, using this opportunity, it would be easy to tidy up the remnants of the Empress hiding here and there.
If Enes had not intervened, the maid named Kacey would have had a hard time avoiding the blame as well.
“Thanks to you, it will feel much better, like being a burden in someone else’s house, right?”
Enes asked, raising her head slightly. What are you talking about? With the sparkling green eyes nestled in his arms, he somehow mustered the strength and lowered his head.
“Now, let’s go.”
“Yes.”
Without asking where, Enes, who answered vaguely, was hugged a little tighter by him. He let out a deep sigh.
Finally, he succeeded in entering his own palace. How much longer does he have to wait to be able to enter his room, or rather, his closest place?
“Is it uncomfortable anywhere?”
“Yeah.”
“Where?”
Surprised by the question, Carson buried his face in her neck and couldn’t say anything. Saying that his blood was boiling would make it unpredictable what expression he would make.
“Anywhere else? Really, is there nowhere else more hurt?”
“My waist hurts a bit, except that. It’s the ignition. It’s really strained. Because of the wind blowing on the floor, my buttocks hurt a lot.”
“Big trouble. I can’t even apply a healing spell.”
“Excuse me?”
Enes’s face turned crimson to her ears.
In fact, she hadn’t been in her right mind since earlier. More precisely, from the moment he lifted her up and hugged her.
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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