Whether you look at it from a personality or appearance perspective, they are complete opposites.
The princess’s face turned slightly red.
“When he rescued me, his shadow completely covered me. It was the first time since I was born. It felt like being protected, and it was different from the protection of the royal palace.”
The princess’s friend chimed in, “I heard that too. It must have been a very romantic situation when the princess spoke about it.”
“Yeah, yeah? I thought my heart was going to stop!”
The princess reacted intensely, vividly recounting the story of that day.
In her description, Giovanni was incredibly strong, affectionate, and a handsome warrior.
Meanwhile, I scratched my chin.
‘Hmm, the speculation was correct.’
The veil maiden was the princess.
‘I didn’t expect her to say it so straightforwardly. It wasn’t really a secret.’
“It was a good idea to secretly pretend to be a maid…”
The princess, eyes wide, covered her mouth with a ‘shh’ gesture. Her surprised bunny eyes shook from side to side.
“You shouldn’t say this.”
She made a crying expression as if regretting revealing an important secret.
Her reaction left me even more bewildered.
‘It was a secret?’
I thought it was just a game of pretending to be a maid.
Princess Laratoo sighed deeply, glancing at me regretfully. I gave her a kind smile.
“Don’t worry too much, Princess. He knew you were the princess from the beginning.”
“Huh? How?”
“Well, there were few veiled maids, and the possibility of such a maid being a priestess was even less likely, right? Besides, the fact that the incident happened in the royal palace added to it.”
The rumors about the veil maiden who disappeared after suppressing the fire in the royal palace swept through high society.
Opinions on who she was were varied, but after she didn’t reveal herself, it all ended in speculation.
‘Most probably have a hunch.’
They are just keeping quiet about royal matters.
“Keep it a secret, Miss Lorenst. It shouldn’t be known to others.”
I nodded willingly.
“Of course. I have no intention of talking about it. Besides, I rarely attend social gatherings.”
“Thank you.”
The sighing princess stared at me intently. With a smiling face, she asked as if she had something to say.
“Why are you like that?”
“I think Miss Lorenst and I could really become friends. Can I call you by your name now?”
‘What an unexpected turn.’
I immediately stood up, lifted the hem of my skirt, and lightly bowed.
“It’s an honor, Princess.”
“There’s no need for such formality! Now that we’re friends!”
Princess Laratoo smiled widely and propped her chin up with both hands, like a flower holder.
Up until now, she had been standing stiffly with her neck and waist straight, seemingly arranging herself with a certain level of formality and etiquette.
“Igraine doesn’t seem much older than me, but she seems so mature. I envy her.”
The princess, saying she envied a duke’s adopted daughter. It was an amusing statement that I couldn’t reciprocate.
“I honestly worried because she was a maid of a duke, but she speaks well and is incredibly calm, so I was surprised.”
“…….”
“The events involving my mother are so well-known that I’m also well aware. Hubert Lorenst is a gentleman who knows gratitude.”
Did my smile awkwardly change? In a different sense, I couldn’t say anything.
It seemed like she was trying to express familiarity by mentioning that she knows about me, but I didn’t feel any warmth from her.
For a moment, irritation surged.
‘This is probably the image people have of me and Hubert.’
Princess Laratoo had a talkative nature. Within an hour, I learned that she preferred chewy white bread for breakfast.
Naturally, the conversation drifted towards family.
“Under the reign of my father, even ordinary people don’t go hungry. I admire him.”
‘Well, that might not be the case if you go to Amatein. There, even toddlers are used for begging.’
While it might be more prosperous and comfortable than the desert, hunger still existed in the kingdom.
Nobles who only see the good things are unable to see the shadows beneath their feet. Well, they might not be interested.
Princess Laratoo, although sometimes frustrated with her father, fundamentally loved and respected King Hermannon.
“He’s a king of justice and greatness.”
She firmly believed that her father, the king, wouldn’t make wrong decisions.
‘Suddenly, there’s a sense of distance.’
It was challenging to empathize from the position of someone who was labeled a traitor and executed by the noble and upright Hubert.
Princess Laratoo, unaware of my thoughts, praised the loyalty of the Lorenst Viscount to the royal family without hesitation.
I could see how highly King Hermannon valued his daughter.
I wondered if she ever wanted to bury herself away from the world.
‘There are people like this, too.’
The discomfort I felt while observing some noble youths who focused solely on socializing, without needing to worry about household chores or studying, was also sensed in Princess Laratoo.
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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