“Who are you?”
I quickly scanned the room, darkened by the settling shadows. Although invisible to the eye, a strange sense alerted me that someone else was in this space.
“Do you recognize the being that brought you here?”
The being that brought me here…
‘Would you like to live the life you’ve always wanted?’
Come to think of it, wasn’t that the voice I heard just before dying?
‘Are you rejecting the second chance I’m giving you?’
And the very voice that had given Rosebelia another chance to live.
“I thought you’d have a lot to ask me.”
My mouth barely opened. I didn’t know where to start; my mind was a blank canvas.
“…Yes.”
Barely having uttered those words, a faint laughter reached my ears. I couldn’t pinpoint where the sound was coming from. It seemed to float in mid-air, yet sounded so distinctively clear to my ears alone.
“So, what do you want to ask me?”
“The dreams… I’m curious about the meaning of the dreams I see.”
“The dreams I show you are experiences that Rosebelia went through in her past.”
As I suspected, this was a story beyond the original work that I didn’t know.
“Why are you showing them to me? Why did you turn back time?”
“The child ruined my plans. Things shouldn’t have ended so quickly. Also, her abilities were too precious to waste.”
“Ruined? What do you mean…”
“I want you to make a different choice from her. And she would have wanted the same.”
I was skeptical at first, but the ‘child’ the voice referred to must be the real Rosebelia.
Rosebelia ruined the plans? Something that shouldn’t have ended quickly did end because of Rosebelia?
“…Why did you bring me here?”
“The affinity between your soul and that body was similar. Hence, I could bring you here. Otherwise, a great rift would’ve formed in this world.”
I did think our circumstances were quite similar when I absorbed Rosebelia’s memories. Is that why our soul’s affinity was similar?
“You two are alike, but amusingly, you made a different choice in a crucial moment.”
The voice, once filled with humor, suddenly grew stern. Sensing my tension, it quickly reverted to a playful tone.
“A lot has already changed, but be careful. I’m the one who brought you here, after all.”
“What about the real Rosebelia’s soul, the one originally in this body?”
“That child is resting peacefully in a better place. Remember, you are now the real Rosebelia.”
The voice began to fade. Sensing that the mysterious being was about to leave, I called out urgently.
“Wait!”
“…Is there anything else you want to say?”
“What happened to my original body?”
“Unfortunately, Yujae was fated to die there. I brought you here just before your soul vanished.”
Yujae.
I lived with that name for over 20 years. Just a while ago, I was being called by that name.
It felt strangely awkward now.
“Could you tell me your name?”
“Hmm, that’s a problem… All I can do is show you the things you should be cautious about in your dreams.”
“…Alright.”
“From now on, live as your own Rosebelia. There is no one to replace you.”
As I was about to nod slightly, I hesitated for a moment.
“Fortuna.”
“Excuse me?”
“That’s my name.”
With a laugh scattering in the wind, the room fell silent. The warmth that had filled the room dissipated, leaving behind a chilling emptiness. She had completely left this place.
Fortuna, she had said.
I approached the window and drew back the curtain. The first light of dawn had already seeped into the outside world. I stood still until the dawn had completely dispelled the darkness.
Squinting at the rising sun in the distance, I reopened my eyes.
This was clearly a different start to the day.
[Star Icon]“Am I seeing things?”
“If your eyes are playing tricks, then so are mine.”
The attention of the knights participating in the monster-subduing training had all converged on a single point. Separated a bit from the knights of the White Order, they were all blinking their eyes in disbelief.
“I can see it too. Could everyone’s eyes be deceiving them?”
“If that’s the case, then that person over there is…”
“Yes, it’s the person you’re thinking of.”
At Rinart’s confirmation, some clamped their mouths in disbelief, while others covertly glanced at Ian with slack-jawed faces.
“Then is it really His Majesty who…”
“Shh, lower your voice. The only people here who know his identity are Commander Gabriel and us. Since he has expressed his wish not to reveal his identity, you should all be cautious not to slip up.”
“So how should we address him?”
“Here, he goes by the name ‘Klein.’ Call him that. As for me, I would try to avoid crossing paths, if I could.”
“You are indeed wise, Vice Commander.”
Just as someone was about to respond, the outdoor training ground erupted into noise. Standing alone in the middle of the training ground next to the instructor was now Rosebelia.
‘Why is Rosebelia here when the instructor had just called out the name Edwin?’
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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