“No, we went home after everything was finished.”
He shook his head sideways. His smiling manner was as if he was teaching a young baby something naughty.
“Ines is misremembering. We definitely saw it. Him kicking his wife’s belly. Right?”
“Yes?”
As he again said, “Right?” and smiled, she felt as if she was entranced by something both wicked and beautiful, and responded, “Yes, yes.”
“Now you seem to remember. Very clever.”
“Yes, I remember. Very clearly.”
“He was about to kick his wife’s belly again, so she had no choice but to push him away. You do understand how important motherhood is in the Kaines Empire, don’t you?”
Finishing his words, he lightly touched Ines’s shoulder. Then he pushed her toward the bed. Somehow, it felt a little awkward seeing a woman standing in his home in her nightwear.
Ines obediently tucked herself into the blanket, like a child who listens well.
“So rest assured and sleep; I’ll watch until you fall asleep.”
She was about to call his words nonsense, but Carson was faster.
“Just sleep. What will you do if you cut my knight’s arm again today?”
At those words, Ines’s mouth completely closed. The truth was, she dreaded the time she would spend alone after he left. She had prevented Charlotte from killing her husband, but she couldn’t avoid the incident from happening.
Perhaps tonight she would be plagued by even more horrific nightmares than usual.
“Stop thinking about it. Standing in front of your bed in the middle of the night is far from being noble anyway.”
Contrary to her thought that she couldn’t fall asleep while Carson was watching, she fell asleep more quickly than she had anticipated.
Ines’s body, having climbed a mountain for the first time, screamed for sleep, and the alcohol poured into her empty stomach all day slightly muddled her mind.
She felt a casual, yet warm hand caressing her forehead amidst her drowsy state. Ines buried her face deeper into that hand and fell into a deep sleep.
Carson left the room after confirming Ines had fallen asleep.
At that time, Noah was at the police station explaining the whole situation and returned to the mansion to head straight for Carson’s office.
Upon entering, Noah couldn’t help but be surprised.
Today, Carson was dressed exceptionally relaxed. He had already discarded the jacket that tightened around his body, and he wasn’t wearing a tie either. Seemingly having already had a drink, he sat casually on a sofa rather than at his desk, exuding a sense of decadence.
“You’ve worked hard. Come here, have a drink.”
Noah also took off his constricting clothes and sat next to him. Today, he felt somewhat different from other days.
“Shall I give a report?”
When Carson nodded, Noah detailed the story about Drophinua. The police station indicated that they would take Charlotte into custody as soon as she recovered.
“Proceed with the trial quickly.”
“Understood.”
“What about Gemren?”
“Despite extensive searching, there is no connection whatsoever between Lady Swalden and Gemren.”
The investigation into Gemren had already concluded. While they knew he was in contact with high-ranking nobles to request something, they couldn’t determine exactly what he wanted.
Furthermore, nothing related to Ines came up in the investigation. However, Carson couldn’t ignore Ines’s reaction lightly. His intuition was always spot-on. Thus, Carson had previously ordered a re-investigation into Gemren.
“But I found out what he wants.”
“What is it?”
“He wanted to become the jailer of Lomfield.”
“Ha! He’s not even qualified.”
Of course, it wasn’t that they hadn’t found out anything related to him.
Gemren was, to put it bluntly, a sexual deviant. Finding the women who had been harmed by him wasn’t easy, given how tightly he had sealed their lips. But there was nothing Carson couldn’t find out if he dug diligently.
Women involved with Gemren invariably failed to maintain their physical and mental integrity.
If such a man wanted Lomfield, the reason was clear.
“To go to the extent of accepting a baronetcy and then aim for Lomfield… it’s so obvious it makes me nauseous.”
“With a title, he’d soon become a warden, wouldn’t he? In about ten years, he could even become the prison director.”
“He wants to be a small-world god, I guess.”
“Yes, although it’s not yet related, I’ll also look into Lomfield. It seems like a place rife with corruption.”
Having said all he needed to, Noah hesitated for a moment. He was unsure whether it was appropriate to share this particular information with his lord. Noticing his hesitancy, Carson urged him on.
“What is it?”
“Well… it’s not directly related to Lady Swalden, but if there’s one thing that stands out…”
“Which is?”
“All the women who were harmed by Gemren had blonde hair. Among them, two even had green eyes.”
Carson tilted his head back and muttered a curse under his breath. He leaned his arm against his forehead and spoke into the air.
“Should we tail someone?”
“We’ve already assigned someone to tail Gemren.”
“Not him, the other one.”
“Who, then?”
“Who else? That troublesome Ines.”
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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