To avoid being directly hit by the chandelier, both Damian and I could be seriously injured. To get out of this situation, I concentrated all my strength on my legs, lowered Damian from my back, and hugged him close.
I closed my eyes tightly, hoping that the chandelier falling behind me would pass by, and the sound of a large crystal shattering echoed.
In no time, the shattered chandelier, which hit the wall, was visible.
“Unni?”
The chandelier, shattered against the wall, was visible.
“Did you do this?”
I asked Damian, and he nodded.
“That hyung did it.”
Damian pointed with his eyes. There was Hertian, breathing heavily, who seemed to have pushed away the falling chandelier.
“Thank you.”
I sighed with relief, faintly smiling.
“Why did you come in yourself?”
He quickly examined me, frowned at my wet clothes, and questioned.
“Because clothes should not catch fire.”
“Are you making excuses?”
Me?
Yeah. Why am I making excuses?
Even if I’m wet, it’s not like my underwear is visible.
In embarrassment, I rolled my eyes and covered my face with a handkerchief. Hertian laughed as he watched me, then took off his cloak and wrapped it around me.
Then, naturally, he embraced Damian and Joubel.
“Let’s go.”
At the entrance, knights and maids, who had gathered without me noticing, were carrying water to extinguish the fire.
Meanwhile, the rescued children in this place were crying loudly while trying to find their parents. The older children were taken care of by Hertian, and the younger ones were saved by the nanny.
After searching for his son, Damian and the lord and lady of the manor hurriedly took him to the clinic.
Dazed by the sudden turn of events, I finally let out a sigh.
Hertian came out and carefully adjusted my cloak, sending me a warm gaze.
“I’m glad you’re not hurt.”
“I’m just relieved that the children weren’t harmed due to the fire. Thanks to Hertian’s quick rescue.”
If Hertian hadn’t been here, I shuddered to think about what might have happened.
And it was strange that there were no knights stationed in this space where the children were staying. The most suspicious one was Violet.
Hertian seemed to share my thoughts, and the gaze we exchanged became chilling.
“First, let’s change our clothes.”
I nodded lightly and turned to go back to the Star Palace with him. However, Hertian suddenly stood behind me, preventing me from moving forward.
“What’s going on?”
With his icy voice, I, who had been cowering behind him, only extended my head. In front of us, the palace knights were standing in a row, blocking the way. They seemed to have business, but judging by their glares, it felt ominous.
And unexpectedly, a knight stepped forward and spoke in a loud voice.
“Lady Blondiche, her highness should come with us.”
“Why does the Duchess need to go?”
Hertian gritted his teeth and asked. Faced with his intimidating demeanor, the knight hesitated a bit.
“We’ve received information that her highness, the Duchess, was seen fleeing after setting fire to this place.”
“What?”
I opened my mouth dumbfoundedly at the absurdity.
‘Me, who was just in the fire, set it on fire?’
The knight, seemingly convinced of my guilt, continued speaking.
“Some people saw her highness, the Duchess, here and witnessed her running away. After that, the fire escalated.”
I couldn’t stay silent in the face of such ridiculous statements.
“Then where is that person? When I found out about the fire and tried to find someone to help, there was no one here. Did they know about the fire and ignore it, leaving it unattended?”
If anything, the suspicious one might be on their side.
“Unfortunately, once a report is received, there’s nothing we can do. It was an incident where nobles almost burned to death in one go.”
“Did you hear that the Duchess saved them?”
Hertian’s sharp words made the knight avert his gaze.
“I heard, but…”
“If you heard, you shouldn’t be standing here like this. Shouldn’t you have something more important to do? Is your head not functioning enough for that?”
In response to Hertian’s cold words, the knight seemed a bit shaken.
“I heard, but…”
Even the seemingly inexperienced knight couldn’t help but sense Hertian’s displeasure.
“If you heard, you should be doing something more important than standing here. Is your brain not functioning properly?”
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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