“The chubby one is Ark, and the one with big eyes is Esta.”
“They have names?”
Ark and Esta bristled at Kai’s dismissive tone but he didn’t even notice them standing up.
“Of course, they have names. And who are you to barge in here, wreck my garden, and try to harm my friends?”
Kai briefly considered revealing his identity but decided against it. He didn’t want to return to this unpleasant land.
“I’m Roys, a knight of the Emperor’s guard.”
Stella’s fury rose at his audacity, a mere knight acting so boldly in her presence.
“If you’re from the knight’s guard, you should know who I am.”
Upon revealing her identity, Stella spoke regally, chin lifted.
Kai, not understanding why she was acting this way, realized belatedly that she was asserting her princess status. He decided to play along, though it seemed trivial.
“I beg your forgiveness for my rudeness, Princess.”
For the first time, Kai bowed in apology, and to a princess no less, one brought as a hostage from a remote frontier.
Initially irritated, Kai found the situation amusing. Today was the day he discovered the identities of those previously unseen beings.
Not wanting to create unnecessary trouble, and especially reluctant to reveal his status as the Emperor, lest she boast of a special relationship with him, Kai preferred to keep his identity hidden. The last thing he wanted was her spreading rumors about them.
Kai wasn’t ready for any special relationship with anyone.
“I’ll overlook your transgression this time, but only out of generosity. However, next time!”
Curious about what Stella might demand, Kai looked at her with interest.
“Don’t ever tell anyone you saw Earth Fairies here. Got it?”
Kai was surprised that her serious request was merely to pretend he hadn’t seen the Earth Fairies.
This was exactly what Kai wanted too. He had no intention of letting anyone know he saw such trivial things.
“Don’t worry. I shall leave now.”
Kai had no desire to stay, nor to engage further with a princess who was overstepping her status.
He quickly grabbed Ben’s bridle. Fortunately, Ben seemed to have lost interest in the carrot patch and turned around obediently.
“Let’s go, Ben.”
Kai was eager to leave but then:
Grrrrumble.
A loud rumble came from his stomach. He had skimped on dinner due to his work.
“Wait a moment.”
Kai, about to ignore everything and leave, stopped and turned around at the sound of Stella’s voice. Ben too stopped and turned towards Stella.
“What do you need?”
“You look like you haven’t eaten because of training. Just wait.”
Kai thought Stella might offer him a piece of bread and was about to decline, but instead, she headed not towards the castle but the patch where Ben had been eating.
Kai watched curiously, then his expression turned incredulous.
Princess Stella pulled out three carrots from the field. Then, she briskly washed them with water provided by Earth Fairies named Eston or Caston. Kai frowned at her crude, peasant-like actions.
“There, clean now.”
After inspecting the cleaned carrots, Stella extended one towards Kai. Surely, she wasn’t expecting him to eat that? Kai couldn’t help but laugh in disbelief.
“Try it. It’s small but quite tasty.”
She bit into one herself, and the sweet aroma of the carrot filled the air. Ben, standing beside Kai, whinnied impatiently.
“I don’t eat such……”
He was about to say he wasn’t the kind of person to eat that.
But what was this enticing scent? Unconsciously, Kai swallowed hard.
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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