Suddenly, Marianne’s eyes widened. Nicolas had told her to write an incident report, not to organize documents. It meant that he acknowledged her as a fullfledged officer.
Her lips quivered for a moment before she finally said, “Thank you.” Watching Marianne confidently walk to her desk, Nicolas raised his voice.
“That’s your desk over there. Just shove those mountainlike documents anywhere. Oh, and.”
Marianne halted a few steps and looked back. Nicolas, who had already turned his back and was walking in the opposite direction, casually waved a hand.
“There’ll be a welcome party tonight. Since we have two new recruits, let’s drink until our noses bend.”
(Time separator here)
“Counselor! What on earth are you doing here? The capital is in chaos! You said you won’t take on any more cases, what’s going on, Sir? The capital is what, why are you here? When will you return to the capital, Sir? Eh?”
Christoph, sitting on a bench, crossed one leg over the other leisurely, as if he couldn’t hear Oliver’s nagging. He cast his gaze to the sky.
The clear blue sky and white clouds, contrasting sharply, marked the middle of spring. Fleeting branches in his view sprouted bright green leaves, and somewhere cheerful bird song was heard.
A familiar salt taste lingered in the air. Though it shouldn’t be possible considering the distance from the police station to the seaside, somehow he felt it. Perhaps because this place was Blauberburg.
A land where the sky and sea meet.
Christoph then realized he was looking at the sky for the first time in a very long while. He hadn’t even had a moment to look at the sky in his busy life, caught in heated negotiations.
And the result of that busyness was Marianne’s declaration of divorce. She put the brakes on his accelerating life.
“Oliver Engel.”
“Yes, Counselor.”
Oliver responded with a fat voice. Christoph’s indifferent voice continued.
“After graduating from Royal University, I passed through Bager Law Office and opened my private law practice. I’ve never taken a vacation in that time. I was devoted only to work. So I think I’m fully entitled to a vacation, what do you think?”
Christoph was right. He was the most famous lawyer in the capital, and clients were relentless. Plus, he was a workaholic himself.
“Alright, Counselor.”
Oliver took a step back, proposing a compromise.
“Then let’s deal with Count Dietrich’s case last, and then you can go on vacation. I won’t stand in your way then. Count Dietrich is enraged and demands you at once.”
But it didn’t work on Christoph. Oliver had learned this tactic from Christoph himself.
“Beat around the bush. That’s your job.”
“It’s not working, that’s why. He’s threatening me that if I don’t bring you, he won’t leave me alone. Even though I am still a dependent child. Who knows what might happen if I’m marked by Count Dietrich.”
When negotiation failed, Oliver switched tactics, wailing. Christoph’s voice suddenly turned icy.
“Dietrich is threatening my man? Then he should be prepared. He’s not so lacking that he wouldn’t know that.”
My man.
At those words, Oliver, who had been sulking moments before, scratched his head shyly.
Cold and rational Christoph, who seemed as though he wouldn’t bleed even if pricked, had this reason for Oliver not being able to leave him. If Christoph accepted someone as his own, he took responsibility until the end.
Oliver’s energy genuinely diminished. Sighing deeply, he grumbled.
“Count Dietrich’s third son has caused another accident. This time, it seems to be quite a big accident. An accident that cannot be covered up with money.”
Oliver paused for a moment and looked around, lowering his voice. This place was not the capital, but he was a very cautious and prudent man.
“Hindenburg’s Countess has been touched. Count Hindenburg seems very angry. Whether it’s up or down in the newspapers, he’s been raging about putting that bastard in prison for a long time. Only you, the lawyer, can handle this matter.”
Hindenburg.
Michael’s face came to mind. Christoph, who was muttering that the three brothers are always the problem, faintly furrowed his brow. Somehow, it felt ominous that Michael’s name was mentioned more than usual today.
“Is it the second or third Countess Hindenburg?”
“The fourth wife. He married for the fourth time not long ago, and is currently enjoying his honeymoon.”
“Put her in. The third one should have been imprisoned a long time ago.”
“Who has been covering up for that until now?”
Although Oliver reproached him, Christoph consistently feigned ignorance. Oliver, who sighed heavily, stared intently at his superior. A suspicious voice came from his teeth.
“Are you really going to close the lawyer’s office for a while? The loss will be huge. A lot of money comes and goes every day, and you, the lawyer, know it better than I do.”
“When have I joked, Oliver.”
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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