Elishia’s face was complicated and a bit sad.
What made her look like this?
‘Come to think of it, I didn’t hear why she refused the proposal.’
The proposal wasn’t sudden. Elleon had dutifully and impeccably conveyed his intention to the Duke of Uter.
It was absurd when she acted as if she wanted to introduce me to Carina.
In the end, when they lightly kissed with Lady Oze’s tacit consent, Elishia didn’t push Elleon away or refuse.
Shyly closed lips.
Cheeks like pink flower water had transferred.
Purple eyes that didn’t hide the feelings of surprise or excitement.
He thought he had conveyed his sincerity to her.
“I think marriage is too early.”
“It’s not like we have to hold the wedding as soon as we get engaged. I’m fine with just an engagement…”
“No. We… it won’t work.”
He hadn’t known that seeing Elishia turn away from him would be so painful.
“Don’t come looking for me anymore. I can’t marry.”
“Elishia.”
“We’re not meant to be. It would have been better if we hadn’t met…”
Eye for an eye.
This method wasn’t applicable only to revenge. Deceitful lies worked better on a woman who pushed him away and acted as if she was going to break off the relationship without any explanation, even though she didn’t dislike him. As a result, Elishia was now standing before him, just as he intended.
Yet something went wrong, even though it had gone as he wished. Only then did Elleon realize as he looked down at Elishia’s face.
He had never seen her face light up with a smile.
He couldn’t take his eyes off her when she seemed relieved and pleased as she tried to introduce him to Carina.
But even then, her expression wasn’t one of sheer joy and happiness.
‘I want to know what she thinks of me.’
It was good that Elishia had come to him, but what had hastened her steps was the trick he had played.
Elleon knew well what the barrier was that he had to overcome to know her true feelings. If he wanted her to be honest, he had to apologize and be sincere with Elishia first.
Until then, she would be by his side out of pity for his blindness.
Elishia Uter and Elleon Clement had neither promises nor any relationship between them.
As long as she lived as the maid ‘Lona.’
‘I can’t do anything with Lona.’
Lona was just an illusion where Elishia had briefly stayed after losing her memory.
He couldn’t advance the relationship as he wanted or pour out affection without restraint on a nonexistent being.
“Lona.”
“Yes?”
Elicia, who was walking towards the mansion holding his arm, looked up at him.
“I have a place to go together tomorrow.”
“Where?”
“You’ll find out when you go.”
She tilted her head.
“Will it be okay to go out?”
“Yes.”
When tomorrow passes.
If you look as weighed down as you are now, I’ll pat your head and tell you it’s okay.
Even if there is sadness lurking in your heart, I’ll take all the shadows and tears for you.
Illeone promised himself.
(This is a time separator.)
Elicia returned to her room on the third floor of the mansion and locked the door.
“Sigh.”
A long sigh naturally came out when she was alone.
The familiarity that the place she had considered her own space for over half a year took the tension out of her body. Elicia quickly took off her clothes and changed into her pajamas.
In the Duke’s house, they sprayed rosescented perfume on the washed clothes. It was the preference of the Duchess Mariella. It wasn’t strong, but the faint scent hit her nose every time she took out new clothes to wear.
How welcome was the stiff touch of pajamas washed with unscented soap used by the servants. In the Duke of Yuter’s mansion, I had no place to put my body, as it always felt out of place. The small room of the great shrine, passed by several maids for generations, felt cozy like home with its low ceiling.
Elicia turned off the light and quickly lay down on the bed. Fatigue rushed in because she worked hard serving Illeone again after a long time. However, when she actually lay down, she couldn’t fall asleep easily due to various thoughts.
“What should I do with Illeone?”
He wanted to go for a walk, and she was able to examine the spot where the grass had sprung up. As expected, there was no new grass growing just because he went blind.
“Mariella said there’s a force here trying to make the original work happen.”
It was impossible for the original work to proceed as it was with Illeone in that state.
“Come to think of it, hasn’t the original work already gone awry?”
She did not tell Mariella everything, feeling suspicious that Mariella was the one who reincarnated.
The fact that it was her who opened Illeone’s eyes.
It was her, not Carina, the protagonist, who made Illeone better by being reincarnated into Elicia.
“Then shouldn’t I have become a hindrance long ago?”
Following these intertwining thoughts, she arrived at one conclusion.
“Mariella didn’t tell me everything either.”
Mariella believed her to be her daughter Elicia until she confessed that she was the one who reincarnated. She must have firmly believed that it was just an accident that caused her to lose her memory.
“But she’s hiding something?”
Why did she do that? Mariella knew better than anyone that Elicia’s life was not easy. Before the original work started, before the force of death became strong, Mariella’s goal was to get Elicia out of the original work.
“Why does she have to?”
Neither Mariella’s actions nor Illeone’s situation, who went blind again, could be understood.
“Does Mariella know the original work?”
She may know a lot more than herself, who only read a little at the beginning. Then could Mariella have a clue to solve Illeone’s situation? There may have been a story about going blind again that only she didn’t know.
“Sigh. But she doesn’t seem to want to help with that.”
Elicia couldn’t sleep well all night, lost in thought. It was only after dawn that her eyelids finally felt heavy.
“Lona.”
“Hmm.”
“Lona. How many times do I have to wake you up?”
Ugh, don’t be annoying. Let me sleep a little more.
It was when Elicia was making a fuss in her sleep. A cool hand softly caressed her cheek.
“You didn’t get your reward yesterday. Can you get it now? Elicia.”
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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