I Didn't Really Want to Do Farming! (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 165
Stella remained silent even after sitting down on the bench. Kai’s lips went dry at how different she was now compared to the girl who used to chatter nonstop around him, urging him to eat this or that.
He would have preferred it if she’d at least gotten angry and scolded him for deceiving her all this time, but Stella was quiet as if she’d become someone else entirely.
Up until arriving at Verdura Castle, Kai had clearly had a plan in mind.
Following Harmann’s advice, he’d brought plenty of gifts, changed his clothes several times for the banquet—garments he’d never paid attention to before—and even doused himself in perfume he’d never used in his life.
Yet, as if all the effort he’d put into his appearance had emptied his mind, Kai’s thoughts grew increasingly blank as time passed.
Watching Kai from afar, Harmann was nearly driven mad with frustration.
He desperately wanted to rush straight to His Imperial Majesty and drop a hint or two, but judging by the atmosphere, the two of them were clearly in no state to receive advice. Harmann could only pat his chest repeatedly to soothe his bursting impatience.
What good was being the emperor who wielded the strongest imperial authority in imperial history if he couldn’t utter a single word before the woman he loved? The war hero who once swung his sword fearlessly against enemies now seemed to have gone for a stroll around the neighborhood.
“Ugh, Your Majesty, please, just say something—anything at all, won’t you?”
Though he knew full well his voice wouldn’t carry over the distance, Harmann stamped his feet anxiously out of sheer desperation.
Meanwhile, Kai, sitting unusually demurely on the bench, suddenly realized that Stella’s clothing was rather thin. Though the sun felt warm, Stella still hadn’t fully recovered her strength.
Without hesitation, Kai sprang to his feet, removed his cloak, and gently draped it over Stella’s shoulders. Unlike his earlier indecision over what to say, his action of offering the cloak showed not a moment’s hesitation.
The cloak, embroidered with golden dragons, was permitted only for the emperor. Stella, who had studied imperial history well enough to know this, was startled and quickly removed the cloak, hurriedly handing it back to Kai.
“I cannot wear this, Your Majesty.”
Though she held the title of princess, she wasn’t even a noblewoman of the empire—merely a hostage brought here against her will. Stella was terrified someone might witness this scene.
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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