A carriage was already waiting at the entrance of the Plant Zone, ready to depart to the castle. It was a carriage for the maidservants who set out for the delivery of hunting season handkerchiefs.
Milah did not return until the sun set.
Stella, gazing at the darkening garden, recalled the seeds she had not yet planted. It was not completely dark yet, but it would soon be. The thought of planting seeds made her heart flutter with excitement.
It was when she walked slowly to the end of the garden.
She saw a familiar figure. Recognizing him as the knight from whom she recently obtained carrots and pie, Stella approached briskly.
The old horse he rode was with him. Its name was Ben, right?
“Royce?”
It felt strange to see him at this hour, considering he usually came back exhausted in the late night.
The man looked entirely different from what Stella vaguely remembered in the dark night. His naturally disheveled black hair, deep brown eyes, straight nose, and moderately reddish lips formed an impeccable appearance.
Having seen him at midnight, Stella hadn’t noticed how handsome Royce truly was. Even the clothes he was wearing didn’t look worn out.
“What brings you here at this hour?”
Royce seemed momentarily taken aback by Stella’s question before gesturing towards the empty land and asking, “Have you already harvested all the carrots?”
He responded with a question.
“Yeah, I’ve harvested them all.”
“All of those?”
Stella nodded. Royce seemed somewhat awkward. Stella, who was scrutinizing his face, asked teasingly,
“Are you here because you want more?”
“No, it’s not that.”
Kai, who was about to take the persistent Ben outside, frowned at the sight of the princess walking confidently into the darkened field. Stella was carrying the pickaxe she had seen last time.
It was utterly incomprehensible what she intended to do in the middle of the night.
“What are you trying to do now?”
“Just planting something.”
Without looking at Kai, Stella answered while firmly driving the pickaxe into the ground. It was quite strange to see a woman alone in the dark night, wielding a sharp farming tool.
Kai, unable to resist his curiosity, unconsciously approached Stella.
Stella was planting round seeds she had taken from her pocket after digging the ground deep once with a pickaxe.
It seemed like a quite challenging task to do alone. Considering he had some experience and thought of lending a hand, Kai approached and asked, “May I help you?”
“Do you think you can?”
Stella asked with a hint of anticipation, looking at Kai’s face with a flushed expression. After Kai responded that he would help, Stella asked, “Can you handle the pickaxe?” But…
“No, you can’t. I’ll do it. When I dig the ground, you just have to plant the seeds and cover them with soil.”
“But I think it would be better if I hold the pickaxe.”
Something seemed off. The frail-looking woman was digging the ground with a pickaxe, while Kai, who had nothing but muscles all over his body, was tossing seeds.
Even though Kai insisted once more that he would take the pickaxe, Stella was very firm.
Having no choice but to agree to help, Kai squatted on the ground, and Stella began throwing seeds into the dug soil.
“You need to cover the soil well. Seeds shouldn’t receive sunlight when they are planted.”
“Yes.”
Kai, who was roughly covering the soil, quickly responded and pressed the area where the seeds were planted firmly with both hands.
It seemed like the lurking bodyguards were perplexed by the scene.
Kai, who somehow ended up helping with planting seeds, let out a bitter laugh only after everything was finished.
What am I doing here right now? It was all because of stubborn Ben, who changed his mind.
“Thank you for your hard work. Thanks to you, we were able to finish quickly.”
Stella approached with a bright smile and greeted Kai. It was a completely different smile from the bitter one she had when dealing with the trivial gift her father had sent.
It was bright, radiant, and clear. Although it was a pitch-dark night with no sunlight, Stella’s smile somehow seemed vividly visible.
Kai, who thought it was strange, discovered that Stella had a pickaxe hanging on her shoulder. Perhaps the moonlight was reflecting off the pickaxe, making it more noticeable.
“Then, I’ll go now.”
It was the moment Kai was about to leave, thinking he would never come back with Ben.
“Wait a moment.”
Stella quickly spat out her words and rushed back to Verdura Castle.
To see a princess of a country running so admirably, Kai found himself sighing unknowingly, shaking his head. As he was about to pull Ben out, Stella suddenly came running back.
Kai was taken aback when he noticed a long-haired fairy standing there, glaring at him from the ground.
It was a fairy with long hair, and it had a face Kai had never seen before.
“Don’t scold Stella.”
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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