Bonisa’s forceful voice turned me around.
“Do you have more to see?”
“Can I just go?”
In response to her hesitant question, I cheerfully answered.
“Yes. Go.”
“Why…… Why?”
She seemed to find this situation hard to believe. Just to go home. Even by my standards, I had been too generous.
“But I didn’t pay a penny……?”
“I told you that you paid with the tapestry you made.”
“That’s ridiculous. This tapestry, at best, would be worth about 20 gold. But your dress is…….”
Bonisa couldn’t finish her sentence. She seemed to believe that if she outright stated the value, I would revoke this arrangement. Her regrettable state reminded me of my past.
The day I was bedridden in a hospital, an anonymous sponsor showed up wanting to cover my surgery expenses. Without any reason, this person was offering me help. I was spiteful of them. They must be so wealthy, I thought. But after the surgery, my mind changed.
‘I wanted to live desperately.’
Thinking of the surgery costs, I decided to hang on. With that as an excuse, I wanted to live diligently.
“If you consider the value, that’s correct.”
“But why…….”
I hoped Bonisa would have that same trigger. That seemed to be my only wish.
“Think about it yourself.”
There’s nothing I can do if she doesn’t understand.
But she probably does. She has repaid a debt that she could never pay off in her lifetime.
“It turned out well that the place you’re getting married to is quite cold. You should take this.”
I added as I looked at the tapestry. I’m sorry to Hertian, but I’ll have to consider it as saving a person.
“Please take me with you!”
That’s when Bonisa shouted. Her voice reverberated loudly in the mansion’s lobby. Her eyes were different from before.
“Please take me to where you’re going!”
With eyes full of longing.
Did she now have a desire to do something?
“You said you wouldn’t be a slave, even if you died. What are you babbling about, following me around.”
“Please let me work by your side. I’ll work hard no matter what. Please trust me.”
I looked at her who had approached me and gave a faint smile.
“Sigh. Do as you wish.”
I had gained a gum sticker.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]When I met Hertian after a long time, I began with an apology.
“I’m sorry. The dress you chose for me got ruined.”
I had a hard time looking into his eyes because of my remorse. He asked in a mild tone.
“How did it get ruined?”
“It was so beautiful that I was walking around the house in it and slipped without realizing the floor was slippery. I fell and it got so messed up, I can’t wear it anymore.”
I kept the matter about Bonisa a secret. It had already been resolved from my side.
“Did you get hurt?”
“No.”
“Then it’s fine.”
He didn’t get angry or argue, just maintained a gentle smile.
“If you had fun, then that’s worth the dress.”
Hertian was undeniably an angel. My eyes were moistened by the emotion.
“Don’t cry. I will prepare another beautiful dress for you.”
“No, it’s not that.”
He was a real gem. Truly a gem.
Afterwards, we sat facetoface and discussed the wedding. We sorted out everything that needed to be sorted. Only the wedding remained.
After everything was done, I sat at my desk and took out a sheet of light yellow letter paper. He stood by my side, watching what I was doing.
“What are you writing now?”
“A letter to send to my friend. I want to personally tell them that I’m getting married.”
“If it’s uncomfortable for you, I won’t look.”
Upon hearing that it was a letter, he politely took a step back.
“Uh. Even my parents don’t know about this yet, but since Hertian and I are on the same page, I’ll show you specially.”
So far, only the recipient’s name was written on the letter.
“Cassian? Isn’t he the one you said was precious to you?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“I’m curious about the reason. Why do you consider him so precious?”
“He’s my only friend. There were many people around me when I was struggling alone, but he’s the one who stayed with me until the end, I suppose.”
Lian had died and everyone had offered their sincere condolences, yet no one stayed by my side until the end like Casian did. Of course, I understood. It was difficult to empathize with someone else’s pain and mourn.
“So, I was always grateful yet sorry. I wanted to do everything I could for you, but you said you didn’t need anything. And we couldn’t even comfortably meet for a cup of tea.”
“May I read the letters?”
Since our last encounter, he had shown much interest in Casian.
“Most of it is mundane, but please read it.”
I handed over one of the letters I had held in my hand. He read the letter sent by Casian. Even though there was no specific point of contention, I was somehow anxious.
“It seems he is very fond of Her Highness.”
He made an odd remark. A story about Casian being fond of me.
I denied his words with a light laugh.
“No, we aren’t like that.”
“Even if Her Highness thinks that way, he may not.”
“Why do you think so?”
“Because there’s no man idle enough to continue sending letters to a woman he doesn’t care for.”
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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