‘He’s just asleep, he will wake up soon.’
The doctor’s words were unbelievable, so they even called a doctor from the palace, but the answer was the same.
‘He coughed up blood and collapsed, and you say he’s just asleep?’
Ian could hardly believe it, but he could not disbelieve it either.
If she was in pain, she would have grimaced somewhere, but Rosebelia’s face, with her eyelids tightly closed, was peaceful as she slept.
As her peaceful face overlaid the moment Rosebelia’s face was bleeding, his heart tightened.
Ian had checked her breathing and pulse as soon as Rosebelia lost consciousness in his arms.
He had stopped breathing until he was sure she was breathing properly.
He was so startled that just recalling that moment made his heart sink again.
‘Have I ever been so shaken by someone else’s business?’
Ian, who let out a faint sigh in a row, quietly looked down at her. His eyes, passing over her disheveled hair on the pillow, soon lingered on her round forehead.
His gaze, flowing like water, reached her rosy lips as it passed her sharply raised nose, and he unwittingly swallowed his breath.
For a moment, Ian’s Adam’s apple jerked violently. Once caught by her, his gaze hardly fell away.
At that time, when he was repeatedly clenching and unclenching his fist, there was a knock from outside the door.
“Come in.”
The person who appeared was Karl, the chief of the guard. The guards were a force that only the emperor and crown prince could mobilize.
Ian was a prince, but the guards could move for him at any time according to the secret order of the Emperor Calisto.
“What shall we do with the guards?”
“Disband them.”
“Understood.”
As Karl showed no sign of leaving the room, Ian turned around, frowning.
“Is there anything else to say?”
“You don’t look well. You should rest a bit…….”
A fresh laugh burst from his closed lips. Talking about his complexion in front of someone who had just fought a beast.
“Karl.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
“I need to find out about the beast that appeared in the village today.”
“I will follow your order.”
[Star Icon]‘Can you kill me?’
He opened his eyes at that voice. Although he was sure he had opened his eyes, nothing had changed.
What was in front of me was Rosebelia and Ian standing under the dim castle wall.
‘What do you mean, Klein? And who is this person?’
‘This is His Highness, the Crown Prince.’
The man who had been standing behind Ian like a shadow approached and spoke. Rosebelia stared at Ian, unable to close her mouth.
‘The Crown Prince?’
‘I can’t tell you everything, but there is a curse secretly coming down in the royal family. The curse manifested in me, and I have no confidence to live with this curse.’
‘Even so…….’
‘You are the only one who can kill me.’
Ian’s voice was firm and clear, like his unwavering gaze.
‘How can you ask this of me, Your Highness?’
‘Will you obey if it’s a command from the Crown Prince and not a request from a fellow knight?’
Ian’s voice changed in an instant. Rosebelia tightened her face at his voice, neither high nor low.
‘Why ask this of me?’
‘Because you are the only Swordmaster in this empire, besides me. I cannot die of my own will. So you must…….’
‘I will not kill someone who was once a comrade.’
‘Prepare yourself by the time I come again. Next time it won’t be a request but a command.’
Startled, I woke up and blinked slowly.
What came into view was not a dim place, but a brightly lit unfamiliar room.
“Are you awake now?”
Supporting me as I tried to sit up was Ian.
“……Klein?”
“Yes, I’m here.”
It was really Ian that I saw just before I collapsed.
“Where is this?”
“It’s an inn near the village.”
“What happened to the beast?”
“It’s dead.”
When I ran my hand over my chest, Ian suddenly let out a deep sigh.
“Did you take care of it alone, Senior?”
“Huh?”
“None of the gathered guardian knights, Senior Vanessa, or Senior Lucas claimed to have defeated the monster. Then, the one who killed the monster must be you, Senior…”
“Yes, I killed it. I encountered it when I was separated from the group during the last suppression, so no one else would have seen it. Having fought it before, I could kill it right away.”
During the last suppression, Rosebelia had gone out upon hearing a strange noise in her sleep and encountered a red slime.
Unable to cut it with a regular sword, she killed it using aura, and was caught by Commander Gabriel.
Rosebelia did not want it known that she was a Swordmaster, and Gabriel had respected her wishes, keeping the fact that Rosebelia was a Swordmaster a secret so far.
“You should have requested support right away.”
“That… was my mistake. I was too impatient.”
“I thought something serious had happened when you coughed up blood and collapsed.”
It had to be Ian who saw that.
“I’m sorry. You must have been shocked.”
I tried to lift the corners of my mouth, but Ian asked with a rough voice.
“Why did you cough up blood? Were you attacked by the monster?”
“No, that’s…”
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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