“My goodness, Your Majesty the Empress. You’ve arrived?”
The Empress looked at Anais with a glare and then reluctantly changed her expression at Jaina’s innocent reaction.
“Yes, what is it this time……?”
“Ho ho ho. I was just wondering how my mother has been in the meantime.”
I couldn’t understand what was so curious, as it had not even been six hours since I had greeted her.
The Empress was suddenly angry.
“How long ago did you see me?”
I snapped without realizing it.
But Jaina just went on telling her story, giggling, whether she knew my feelings or not.
At that, the irritated Empress glared at Anais without knowing it.
The sight of her shivering and scratching her back made me burst with laughter.
“Mother, you seem to be in a bad mood right now.”
“No, I’m just a little tired.”
The Empress spoke with an elegant smile, thinking she could not lose.
It was she who insisted. So it hurt her pride to tell her to stop.
“Then you should rest. I’ll play with Princess Anais. See you at dinner!”
As if she didn’t know the Empress’s mind, Jaina cheerfully spoke and took Anais with her.
The Empress had to endure her boiling irritation.
She was already busy preparing for the banquet, and too much time was wasted dealing with Jaina.
And there was nothing special about the conversation.
How the crown prince is doing these days, what’s trendy among the common people, what the cake tasted like recently—all of her selfcentered stories.
If I said one word to her, what came back was more talk.
After a few days of hardship, the Empress realized that she had made a grave mistake.
Jaina didn’t bother her at all.
Only then did the Empress blame her past self.
‘She should have expected that bitch to be crazy, just like Orabi’s blood.’
Regret was of no use, no matter how much she beat her chest.
[This is the time separator]And today.
“Your Majesty the Empress, did you have a peaceful night?”
The Empress seemed to have finally reached the limits of her patience.
Looking at her boiling eyes, I smiled faintly.
“I’m very grateful for your concern about the Empress’s wellbeing so early, but I’m worried it might be too much.”
She finally started to hint that she should stop coming.
I turned my face to the side and shook my shoulders, pretending to cry.
“How could you……”
“How could you say such a thing? When you wanted to be friends with Jaina first, and now you say don’t come because it’s annoying. Is that what you mean?”
Is that what I was going to say?
I looked at Nathaniel, who was sitting next to me, in surprise.
Did this person know how to talk like this?
Did he suddenly gain some realization?
“No, it just seems like the crown prince’s wife is overdoing it, so I’m worried.”
The Empress also rolled her eyes, seemingly bewildered.
Their relationship was always fascinating to watch.
“You seem very tired today, Your Majesty. I’ll come back later; please rest well.”
“Again …? Oh, no. Yes, see you later.”
I realized it was time to back off, and I took Nathaniel with me.
“How long are you going to keep doing this?”
“Yawn, she seems about to burst, so please just try a little longer.”
I yawned and trudged down the road.
I’d been looking at the dewkissed Empress’s palace garden for weeks now.
“Anais doesn’t seem to like this very much.”
Anais, who came out with us yesterday, didn’t even say thank you or goodbye.
Strangely, I felt she was on guard against us.
“It’s probably because of pride. Since I know about the abuse……”
“Is that something to be proud of?”
Nathaniel asked me, seemingly clueless.
“Of course, it’s a matter of pride. It’s not a good situation anyway. And we’re not that close.”
“I don’t understand.”
Nathaniel looked perplexed.
“Do not speak of such things in front of Princess Anais.”
I firmly warned Nathaniel.
He simply nodded and followed behind me.
“We’re almost there. Let’s push through to the end.”
I explained the plan as we walked along the forest path, pondering the treats I would offer him as a reward.
[This is the time separator]“Then we’ll take our leave, Your Majesty!”
“Ho ho ho. Off you go.”
Waving goodbye after the luncheon greeting, Jaina went outside.
The Empress let out a long sigh.
She had intended to take a short nap after ordering Anais to choose flowers and decorations for the banquet that would follow the hunting competition.
But as if there were a secret spy stone hidden in the palace, Jaina and Nathaniel suddenly appeared at the precise timing, making her suspicious.
In the end, Milia had to give up her nap time and go back to work.
‘Dealing with people is so exhausting.’
Milia was tired.
She hoped Anais had chosen good items, so she wouldn’t have to work twice.
Opening the door to the preparation room, she saw Anais, giggling with the maids.
She held back the sudden surge of anger.
‘She’s getting sensitive these days.’
She remembered almost being caught scolding the princess by the crown prince and his wife.
She steadied her heart and moved forward.
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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