“Even if she lost her memory, if she heard the voice of God, Elysia would have returned to Hadoonsha. She would have known she was a servant of God even if she lost her memory.”
Alejandro asked Rona again.
“Do you remember the secret signal?”
Rona had heard various stories while staying in Hadoonsha for the past few days.
The high priestesses here were said to be those who heard the voice of God.
And they come to Hadoonsha after hearing a certain secret signal that God directly tells them.
It is said that what the secret signal is is kept a secret. But it was when Elysia was just three years old that she met the deputy priest, told the secret signal, and entered Hadoonsha.
“I can’t remember.”
“Not hearing God’s voice and not remembering the secret signal means you are not qualified to be a high priestess.”
“Wait a moment.”
At Alejandro’s unexpected words, Duchess Uter turned a bit pale.
“This child… was to become a deputy priestess.”
“But now it seems as if God has withdrawn his grace.”
Alejandro was troubled, saying this was the first time in history.
“There’s a halo. God has not yet withdrawn his mouth from Elysia.”
“Elysia will be expelled.”
The words of the deputy priestess shook the pupils of Duchess Uter. Her appearance looked like a person facing a very fearful event, and Rona was nervous.
‘Is being a deputy priestess such a glorious job?’
The path of a cleric is usually a tough and difficult one. You live a life that is ascetic, moral, and sets an example for others.
Anyway, Duchess Uter was shaking as if she had received a death sentence at the thought of ‘Elysia’ being expelled from Hadoonsha. Elysia was said to be just twenty years old.
And Duchess Uter was not even thirtyeight years old because she married early and had a child. They were both young and too young, weren’t they? But Rona felt like a criminal for losing her memory just because her job was going to change.
“It can’t be. Please think again. Alejandro, Elysia absolutely must stay in Hadoonsha.”
The desperate appeal of the beautiful and frail duchess aroused sympathy and a protective instinct. But Alejandro, who didn’t even blink an eyebrow, also showed a worthy aspect of the deputy priestess.
“Expelling Elysia is a decision to be made by the sanctuary.”
“Oh.”
Disheartened, Duchess Uter shed tears like a picture.
“If you wish, I will return the wealth donated by the Uter Duke’s family to Hadoonsha.”
“No. No. It’s a gift to the Five Gods and Oder. It’s ridiculous to take it back.”
Duchess Uter wiped her tears, stood up, and looked at Alejandro.
“Then just promise me one thing.”
“What are you talking about?”
“If Elysia regains her memory, please rescind the expulsion.”
Silence followed those words.
“Excuse me, but that is also a decision to be made by the sanctuary.”
Alejandro finally opened his mouth.
“Just as it’s the first time a halo bearer has stopped hearing God’s voice, there’s no guarantee that she’ll hear God’s call again. We just wait until we understand what the Five Gods and Oder want.”
Duchess Uter nodded her head as if it was comforting that it was not a firm refusal.
“High Priestess Elysia is expelled. Starting from today, Elysia Uter leaves Hadoonsha.”
As Alejandro declared, Duchess Uter shed tears again.
The Duke’s carriage was exceptionally comfortable and pleasant. The interior was spacious and cushy, even riding over cobblestones didn’t cause much shaking. It seemed no different from a Grand Duke’s carriage.
But the Duchess of Yuter seemed tremendously disheartened, her face somber all the way back to the Duke’s estate. Lona didn’t know what to say.
‘I wonder if this is how parents feel when their child, whom they’ve sent to a prestigious university, decides to drop out and start a business.’
She tried her best to understand the Duchess of Yuter’s feelings. Especially if they had donated a large sum, expecting their child to diligently attend school, and had even laid grass in front of the school building.
Looking at the heartbroken and distressed Duchess of Yuter, Lona felt guilt for something she hadn’t done wrong.
‘I wonder what happened to Elysia’s real soul by now?’
Seeing the Duchess in such pain was heartwrenching. If only I could bring back the missing Elysia, I would. But since Lona herself didn’t know why she was here, there was nothing she could do for the Duchess.
Lona wanted to comfort the Duchess of Yuter, even if just a little.
“Mother.”
When she called her that, the Duchess of Yuter opened her eyes wide.
“I’m sorry for not remembering.”
Lona tried to speak calmly, leaving emotions aside.
“But I believe I can live happily. After all, I’m the one living my life.”
“Elysia.”
“I will try to fill the time I have forgotten. I will learn diligently whatever you teach me.”
“Ah, Elysia.”
The Duchess of Yuter hugged her and wept.
“My dear child. My beloved baby. Just trust in your mother. I’ll do whatever it takes.”
Lona felt like crying a bit.
‘I wonder what’s happening to me? Is our Ms. Kim eating well? My mom is surprisingly stressprone, what if something happened to me?’
Suddenly, she thought about her situation in reality, but soon gave up. This world where her consciousness was alive was now real to her.
Until the carriage arrived at the Duke’s estate, the Duchess of Yuter held Lona tightly and didn’t let go.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Eleon thoroughly examined his room.
He was thirteen when he left the Grand Duke’s house to enter the knight academy, which was a boarding school. He became a knight commander as soon as he graduated at sixteen and immediately went to war, wandering for seven years. He was twentythree when he returned home with an injured eye, and now, two years later, he was a twentyfiveyearold young man.
So, it had been a full ten years since he had returned home.
In this room, whenever he opened his eyes, it felt strange and awkward as if he had just arrived. But when he closed his eyes, it was comfortable and familiar.
“I’ll have to adapt.”
The gap would be quickly filled. Perhaps.
Knock, knock.
With the knock, the butler entered.
“Your Grace, you called?”
“I think I need to go out.”
“Where to? Should I prepare the carriage?”
“No, that’s fine. I’ll walk.”
He was thinking of going to Cafe Cardinal.
To the place where Lona disappeared.
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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