Ignoring the disapproving expression of the three princesses standing behind her, Stella confidently pulled out the dagger lodged in the lizard’s neck.
Hot blood spurted up from the recently deceased lizard’s neck. Startled by the splattering blood on her face, Stella held back her scream but did not shout. Of course, it was because of the princesses standing like dolls behind her.
Princesses dressed in hunting outfits adorned with lace and sparkling brooches recoiled in disgust at Stella, wiping the blood off her face with her sleeve as if nothing happened.
One of them even hastily stepped back to retch.
Hearing the retching sounds, Stella felt somewhat satisfied.
And as if to show off, she forcefully stabbed the dagger into the lizard’s forehead. It was a somewhat impulsive action. The princesses screamed and turned their heads.
“Oh my!”
“It’s dreadful.”
“How can you touch a monster directly?”
“So vulgar!”
The more the princesses screamed, the more strangely empowered Stella felt. Mila would probably be equally horrified if she saw it, but there was no help for it.
Surprisingly, the violet horn fell off the lizard’s forehead like a ripe fruit.
“It falls off because the lizard is dead. It never falls off when it’s alive.”
When Stella, looking bewildered, held up the easily fallen violet horn, Esta explained with a chuckle.
Stella tucked the acquired horn into her pants pocket, looked around at the princesses, and smiled with satisfaction. Deliberately revealing her neat teeth, she grinned widely.
The neatly groomed princesses stared at Stella, who was smiling broadly with blood on her face, as if looking at a loathsome monster. That was the moment.
Stella wiped away the fierce smile from her lips and forcefully threw the blood-stained dagger towards Princess Annette.
“Kyaaak!”
“Aaaah!”
The princesses, shocked and horrified, sat down with both hands clasping their heads. Margaret Princess’s once pristine white hunting attire was instantly ruined.
“What on earth are you doing!”
As Annette stood up with rage, Stella pointed her finger at Annette with a smirk.
Annette, who had been glaring at Stella as if to kill her, turned around with a highly impressed expression, screamed once again, and fell to the ground.
“Kyaaah!”
Not far from the princesses, a violet-horned lizard, with a dagger pierced through its neck, shivered on the ground. Stella, as if it was nothing, shrugged her shoulders and passed by them to stand in front of the lizard.
Luckily, when Stella arrived, the lizard had already died, its body sprawled out.
Relieved that she didn’t have to stab the dagger deeper, Stella collected the second violet horn. Strangely, not a drop of blood came out from the spot where she extracted the horn.
“Well then, enjoy your hunting, princesses.”
Stella delivered an exaggeratedly courteous farewell and distanced herself from them.
The princesses, with pale faces, watched Stella’s retreating figure for a while.
“Princess, are you okay?”
“What should I do? My hunting attire is ruined. It’s made of silk. Oh, dear! It’s torn here!”
To have hunting attire made of silk. Annette, looking at Margaret complaining while sitting down, frowned. Caitlyn glanced at Annette and helped Margaret stand up.
Annette, who had been glaring at the two of them disapprovingly, turned her head again to glare at Stella’s retreating figure. Observing every aspect of Stella as if studying her, Annette’s pupils glinted ominously.
Around the hunting ground, a spectator stand was arranged in a staircase-like structure outside the high fences, providing a comfortable view of the hunting ground.
The better the view of the hunting ground, the closer to the Emperor’s seat, the more expensive the seats were. Despite the unimaginable price, the area right next to the Emperor’s seat had been popular enough to require reservations several months in advance.
This year, Melissa Viscountess occupied the seat next to the Emperor. Melissa had captured the second-highest number of monsters in this hunting competition, right after the Emperor.
Despite the efforts of enthusiastic young nobles to somehow engage in conversation and get closer to Melissa, it was in vain. In Melissa’s eyes, no other men even entered.
“What’s so interesting?”
Kai couldn’t take his eyes off the telescope since earlier. Although he watched the playful princesses’ hunts every year, he had never been so dedicated to observing that he used a telescope.
Melissa’s forced smile made his lips quiver slightly.
“Purple-horned lizard.”
“What?”
The purple-horned lizard was never the type of prey Kai paid attention to.
It was one of the most commonly seen monsters in this mountain, and due to its violet horns, many traders raised them like livestock. As a result, they were as common in this area as crows.
A faint unease lingered in Melissa’s gaze as she looked at Kai. As she reached out, a waiting maid promptly handed the telescope into her hands.
Clutching the telescope yet unable to divert her gaze from Kai, Melissa slowly raised the telescope in the direction he was looking.
There, there were already two dead purple-horned lizards and three princesses dressed as flamboyantly as dresses in the hunting ground.
Melissa persistently observed each one, wondering if among them there was a woman who had stolen Kai’s heart.
However, no matter how much she looked, none of them seemed like someone Kai would be interested in. Kai wouldn’t fancy a woman wearing flashy hunting attire or carrying weapons in the bustling hunting ground where monsters were hunted.
Did he really see the lizard?
Melissa, lowering the telescope in relief, suddenly brought it back to her eyes like someone who realized something.
Where did the horns go?
No matter how closely she examined, none of the three had taken the horns. It was impossible for the foolish princesses with the weapons they were carrying to cut off the horns so neatly.
Who could it be?
Melissa’s cold eyes moved busily, searching for someone who wasn’t there.
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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