The fact that an unmarried woman, not officially related to anyone, stayed at a man’s house even though she had a mansion in the capital was good fodder for gossips.
He wanted to please Elysia. He had planned something to make her happy since she seemed to enjoy going ‘outside.’ He had quickly procured a luxurious tent that the noble ladies could use when traveling far. Elleon’s officer tent from the battlefield was quite practical and sturdy. The newly acquired tent had expensive and impractical silk garland decorations.
Elleon wasn’t the type to care about money when buying things, but he wasn’t wasteful either. But all his previous financial senses vanished. He felt that the beige tent with blue and white garland would add an inexplicable charm, and it seemed Elysia would like it.
It seemed as if something had happened to his mind.
His entire life and values had changed.
Even trivial and petty things that he would usually reject were all approved in his heart, as long as it was something Elysia might like or enjoy.
And then, the woman disappeared.
From the very place he had prepared for her, hoping she would enjoy it.
The moment he confirmed that Elysia was not in the Duke’s residence, a sharp intuition led him to Mariella.
The reason she didn’t favor him as Elysia’s companion.
Nobles’ marriages are about lineage, status, assets, and honor. No one in the Empire should oppose a marriage with the Clément Duke family, but Mariella did.
Something was going on.
He had taken it lightly as long as Elysia stayed by his side, but now that she was gone, he had to know the reason more than anything.
“Elysia is missing.”
Mariella turned pale as soon as she heard that.
“What do you mean?”
“She suddenly disappeared from the Duke’s backyard. In a blink of an eye.”
“Elysia…….”
Elleon was about to open his mouth when,
Tap. Tap tap tap.
A sound at the window made him turn, and a pigeon was perched there. It was a carrier pigeon.
Mariella, who had been at a loss, rushed over, opened the window, and read the note attached to the bird’s leg.
“……Crystal Palace.”
Among the words Mariella muttered without realizing it, only ‘Crystal Palace’ caught Elleon’s ear.
“Crystal Palace? Is Elysia there now? Why did Saviel……why did he take her…….”
Mariella seemed to be struggling with something fiercely.
Elleon did not rush her.
If it’s a choice where one side must be chosen, it shouldn’t be rushed by me. Mariella must make the choice herself. But as he thought about Elysia’s whereabouts, his chest felt like it was burning with impatience.
Just as Elleon’s patience was about to burst, Mariella opened her mouth.
“I have something to tell you.”
Her eyes already regretted it, even before she started the story.
What’s going on?
Illeon was puzzled.
Soon, the story Mariella told was both familiar and surprising.
“I am from another world. And in the world I live in, there was a ‘book.'”
A book in which Illeon is the protagonist, recording parts of his love and life.
It was connected with the founding myths of five heroes and Oder who had crossed over to save the world they lived in. But as a descendant of the gods who inherited the blood of Oder, it was hard to accept.
“You are the protagonist of this world. So they want you to live the life as described in the book.”
Elicia was a character to be withdrawn. She was someone who was entangled with Saviel and then disappeared.
“So Elicia and I….”
“You have a different fate waiting for you. It’s not Elicia.”
“That’s nonsense. You think I would believe that?”
“If you don’t believe it? Elicia will die tonight.”
…He had to pretend to believe it, even if just for the sake of saving Elicia.
“Il, Illeon.”
A passionate voice faintly called his name.
“I’m struggling.”
Elicia’s hand, filled with hot fever, grasped his cold arm.
“I’m struggling.”
Illeon was a man who loved her.
In his eyes, looking at his lover suffering from the fatal side effects, there was both anger and helplessness.
He was also confused by Mariella’s words, but before he could even control his emotions, unimaginable events kept coming.
“Elicia.”
Illeon wrapped Elicia in a thin blanket and held her in his arms. He felt her frail body, boiling with heat, through the clothes and blanket.
‘Poison?’
He would not leave alive the ones who did this to Elicia.
Illeon’s animosity blazed.
“Haah.”
But that too flew away at a single sigh from Elicia, rubbing her head against his shoulder.
“……Sorry.”
Her cool embrace must have been somewhat comfortable as Elicia muttered softly.
“What’s there to be sorry about.”
“You’re struggling needlessly because of me.”
“Holding you is not a struggle. Don’t even think like that.”
Illeon pressed his cheek to Elicia’s forehead. He felt her body’s heat, hot enough to burn, against his cheek.
Some time later, Mariella returned with the antidote.
“She needs to take this. It must be swallowed all at once.”
“I will feed her.”
Mariella hesitated but soon nodded and handed over the bottle.
Illeon poured it all into his mouth at once.
‘Even if I am the protagonist of this world, I would still choose you.’
Illeon fed the medicine to Elicia. Although she resisted the bitter and astringent taste, with her jaw forced open, she had no way to spit out the medicine Illeon deeply pushed in.
“Haah.”
Soon after taking the medicine, Elicia seemed to weaken and relax.
“She’ll fall asleep. For quite a long time.”
Illeon carefully laid her down on the bed at Mariella’s words.
“We’ll hear the rest of the story later.”
Looking into Illeon’s bright red eyes, Mariella nodded.
(This is a time separator.)
Three days have passed since then.
Elicia had been suffering terribly with a fever, and there was no sign of consciousness returning.
It was a thoughtless deadly poison.
There was no need to consider side effects for medicine that a person destined to die would take.
It was never going to be easy to detoxify.
It was when Mariella was wiping Elicia’s face with a towel.
A small voice reached her ear.
“……Mother?”
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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