Still close to dawn.
The Dark Mansion remained silent as I stepped out of the mansion, suppressing my footsteps.
I walked a few steps toward the garden.
Minha, who used to walk with me, whispered cautiously.
“Lord Bi, the carriage that was called in advance is waiting over there.”
As requested, the carriage was not engraved with the crest of the Twins family.
Moreover, deliberately asking for a carriage suitable for the middle class, no one would know that the Twin’s Grand Duke was riding in it.
“Did you pack everything without missing anything?”
“Of course, Lord Bi.”
Minha shook a large suitcase in her hands and smiled leisurely.
Other maids also had suitcases each, loaded in the carriage luggage compartment.
After checking meticulously that other maids were loading the luggage into the carriage, Minha came back to my side.
“It seems like it’s time to leave.”
At her words, I turned my head towards the distant mansion of light.
“Yeah, it seems so.”
Then, once again, the voice that had replayed hundreds of times in my mind echoed in my ears.
‘Rebecca, I want to regain your heart.’
For the past few days, Cedric’s face saying those words repeatedly suddenly came to mind.
The first time I heard those words, I was simply surprised.
‘Cedric, the male lead, is being swayed by another woman who is not the heroine, Lobelia. Moreover, it’s Rebecca, who used to be his all?’
Maybe the original story was starting to deviate.
If so, it was undoubtedly a welcome event.
Because it meant that the fate of my possession, Rebecca, could also change.
However, I was no longer the Rebecca of the past who poured love onto Cedric.
I never had a heart that he could regain in the first place.
So, naturally, I could only reject his confession of wanting to regain Rebecca’s heart.
‘Of course, if I had fallen deeply in love with Cedric, I might not have cared about such things.’
But that was not possible.
I still couldn’t completely give my heart to him, who still didn’t tell me the truth…
The past wounds caused by my husband’s lies were still deep.
‘I don’t want to give my heart to such a light love anymore. So, please don’t shake me, Cedric.’
While looking at the mansion of light for a moment, I suddenly lifted my head quickly as if erasing any lingering feelings.
What was important to the old Rebecca was probably only Cedric Twins, that man.
But now, for the current me, the only thing important was…
Preserving my own life.
A while later, in the Grand Duke’s bedroom.
Bam! Suddenly, the door opened wide, and at the same time, noise and light poured into the room abruptly.
At that moment, Cedric got up from his seat with a frown.
“Your Grace! Please wake up quickly!”
The urgent voice belonged to Bianca.
Sure enough, the child’s face was filled with anxiety.
“Bianca, what on earth…”
Cedric quickly turned his head to check the time.
The time was 4:30 in the morning.
There was no way Bianca would disturb her peaceful sleep at this hour for trivial reasons.
Cedric swiftly threw off the blanket, got up, and embraced his younger sister.
His lips produced a low and soothing tone that flowed nicely.
“Bianca, what’s going on at this hour? Did you have a frightening dream?”
Cedric asked with a gentle smile.
However, Bianca, with a face that seemed ready to burst into tears, quickly hugged him.
“Your Grace!”
It was the first time Bianca had acted like this.
Perplexed, Cedric could only gently pat the small back of the child.
“Bianca, what on earth…”
At that moment, Bianca stepped back from Cedric and pulled his arm.
“Your Grace, now is not the time! You need to look outside the window! Right now!”
While holding Cedric’s arm, Bianca led him to the window.
“What on earth is happening… Has an intruder appeared?”
Cedric asked in a deep voice.
It was a natural reaction because unless he was a considerable fool, there was no way that someone could enter his castle, which was infiltrated by mixed-blood demons.
However, Bianca’s voice pointing to the window became even more desperate.
“Look at that carriage in front of the Dark Mansion!”
At the child’s words, Cedric absentmindedly glanced out the window.
The moment Cedric, who had found something, slowly narrowed his eyes.
‘That… Isn’t that Rebecca? Why on earth is she going somewhere at this hour?’
Not only the time but also Rebecca’s behavior seemed strangely odd.
A plain gray dress and a black hat covering her red hair.
Far from being the attire of the Grand Duchess, it was closer to an outfit trying to hide her identity as the Grand Duchess.
That wasn’t the only strange thing.
The maids of the Grand Duchess were loading numerous suitcases onto the carriage.
‘Moreover… that’s not even our family’s carriage.’
In the brief moment when a strong sense of unease was engraved in Cedric’s expression, Bianca grabbed Cedric’s arm again and sobbed.
“Why is the Grand Duchess going somewhere at this hour? And with all those suitcases…”
“…”
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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