Raising my head along the blue beam, a familiar figure appeared.
“…Cedric?!”
Cedric, whose lips were charmingly curved, jumped down through the torn roof in an instant.
As he suddenly appeared in front of me, he looked at me with a refreshing smile.
“Looks better than I thought, Rebecca. Glad about that.”
Cedric effortlessly cut through the enemies with the blue beam extending from his hand.
The monsters sliced by the sharp beam instantly lost their forms.
“Straw dolls. It seems someone cast a spell to create enchanted dolls.”
I thought they weren’t human, but enchanted straw dolls.
‘No wonder the numbers kept increasing endlessly.’
It was at that moment, looking down at the large straw dolls scattered on the ground with a puzzled expression.
Cedric loudly shouted towards Adrian outside the carriage.
“Adrian! Can you cast a protective barrier in the forest and drive the carriage?”
“Of course, Your Highness!”
Adrian, who responded loudly, quickly turned around to return to the driver’s seat.
Behind him, enchanted dolls rushed towards him again.
However, unlike before, this time a blue beam struck them directly, like lightning.
How long had it been since Adrian, under Cedric’s protection, started running?
Soon, Adrian’s voice echoed from the driver’s seat.
“We are ready to depart!”
Cedric, with a shout, swept the horde of monsters out of the carriage.
Then, he promptly cast a blue-tinged barrier at the open door.
Upon that, the monsters rushing back into the carriage lost their strength, transforming into straw dolls.
“It seems the barrier was properly set.”
Cedric, speaking softly, shouted loudly towards the driver’s seat.
“Adrian! Run as fast as you can! Let them gather behind the carriage!”
“Yes, Your Highness!”
The carriage, which had been stationary, gradually began to dash at high speed.
As the door broke, and the torn roof, the forest wind blew violently into the carriage.
Simultaneously, monsters unable to catch up with the carriage also gradually fell behind.
In this way, how far did we run?
Outside the broken door, a purple light started to shimmer around the forest.
Adrian’s protective barrier for the forest seemed to finally spread throughout the entire forest.
While watching that, I closed my eyes tightly against the rough wind.
‘Ugh, I hope I won’t fall outside…?’
As my anxious thoughts gripped the carriage’s window frame with both hands.
At that moment, I felt something firm wrapping around my waist.
When I cautiously opened my eyes again, I found myself pressed against Cedric’s chest.
At some point, Cedric had wrapped his arm around my waist and was gazing down at me intently.
“No need to be afraid, Rebecca.”
Cedric’s lips, once again, let out a gentle undertone.
“From the moment I arrived, there’s no danger for you. I won’t let it happen that way.”
A casually offered comfort, yet it instantly quelled my anxiety.
I tightened my grip around Cedric’s waist, pretending to be fearless, and spoke confidently.
“Promise me, you’ll keep that promise. At least today, I don’t want to die.”
While Cedric smiled faintly at me, trying to hide my trembling lower jaw, he said, “You’ve got guts. Even if you went around saying you were a member of the Twins family, you wouldn’t be embarrassed.”
“Make sure you don’t say anything like that at all.”
I replied, gritting my teeth.
As I pinched Cedric’s waist, he embraced me even more tightly, bursting into a pleasant laughter.
“Ouch, Rebecca. I can feel pain too, you know.”
“That’s what you get for teasing.”
“But why say you don’t want to die, at least ‘today’?”
“… Why? You’re not planning to let me die just because of that teasing, are you?”
Cedric laughed softly, watching me turn pale.
Then, looking down at me with his brilliantly shining blue eyes, he gently said, “Just curious.”
“…”
“Why today is so precious to you.”
Brushing away my hair fluttering in the strong wind, Cedric spoke.
It was the first time he showed interest in my daily life stories.
‘…Well, of course, the current situation is far from ordinary.’
Feeling a pleasant awkwardness, I slowly opened my mouth.
“Today, I went to the Gift Exchange Market.”
“Yeah, I heard about that. And?”
“And…”
“Is the reason you feel good today because of someone you were with there…?”
“Someone I was with?”
“…Yeah.”
As the carriage shook vigorously, Cedric, as if to protect me, hugged me even stronger.
At the tip of my nose, a dense yet warm, familiar scent brushed past.
Having become accustomed to his embrace, I spoke naturally again.
“Oh, if you mean someone I was with…”
“…”
“Camilla came. The wife of Count Dimitri.”
Whether it was not the name he expected or not, Cedric raised his eyebrows with a slightly surprised expression.
“I bought a gift that I had been keeping an eye on for a long time from a competition with that woman. With that, I only need to become rich, but if I die today…”
“…”
“…It would be quite embarrassing.”
Confessing seriously, Cedric burst into a forced laughter.
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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