I eventually gave up returning to my warm room.
“You, you, you. Follow me.”
Leading the leisurely sweeping servants downstairs, Lady Emerun scolded for her pointless actions. She casually surrounded her.
“If you ignore someone begging like that, the family will be cursed.”
“It’s not the time to be concerned about that right now!”
I disregarded the subsequent grumbling.
‘Being in the mansion is no different than rolling around in the mud.’
Taking the grateful old woman clinging to me onto the carriage and heading to her house was challenging.
“Young lady, we can’t go further with the carriage from here!”
As soon as we got off the carriage, rain poured down on our faces.
We advanced forward through the pouring rain. In such rain, even an umbrella was useless.
Though curses were about to burst out, I closed my mouth because of the worried face of the old woman looking at me.
‘How on earth do you stop this damn rain?’
It was clear that this situation happened because of Aris.
A way to control this power.
‘Only the method of absorbing it comes to mind.’
Aris’s state, not much different from a lunatic, was uncomfortable, but no matter how I looked at it, I felt like I couldn’t delay it any longer.
‘Let’s save people first and then think.’
I looked up at the sky.
Rain poured down as if there were holes.
At this rate, I was worried that the kingdom might be submerged in water.
‘Water can be so terrifying.’
Lack of water alone is not a curse. Excessive rain becomes a dreadful disaster, covering the kingdom.
The old woman’s residence was near the Amtein and a canal.
‘It seems to be here.’
I guessed from her demeanor and the fact that her house seemed like it would be swept away by the water.
This place is commonly known as the beggar village. Officially called Rioreji, everyone calls it the beggar village.
The beggar village, which one comes to after leaving Amtein’s head area, was a place where residents of Amtein, who found it difficult to cultivate, exchanged food.
In fact, due to the characteristics of Amtein, plundering occasionally took place, but because of the numerous curses, it was not done unless absolutely necessary.
Although the people in the beggar village were poor, it was a grateful place responsible for Amtein’s food and drink.
Near the canal, the village with wide fields suddenly looked like nothing but water.
‘I expected it, but it’s worse.’
Plop, plop. My feet sank into the ground with each step. The area where poor people lived had an unpaved road, making it entirely a muddy field.
The water rising to ankle height made movement even more difficult.
The servants, who haven’t had a good expression since earlier, showed displeasure.
“Miss, this won’t work. Let’s go back.”
“Yeah, at this rate, it’s dangerous for the young lady too.”
“I’m fine.”
Pointing at the old woman looking at me anxiously, clutching her wet skirt.
“I came to help, so I should help.”
“…….”
“I know you’re going through a tough time. As much as you’ve suffered, I’ll make sure to compensate you. Generously.”
When I particularly emphasized ‘generously,’ the servants made awkward faces.
“We didn’t mean it in that sense…”
“I said that because I’m worried. I know.”
As the servants of the Count’s mansion, they had no genuine intention to sincerely support me, even though I was called a young lady.
Still, in the current situation where help was needed, when I pretended not to know their true feelings and spoke, an embarrassed expression appeared on the servant’s face.
“If that’s what the young lady wishes, we’ll follow.”
Amidst the pouring rain, we silently walked to the old woman’s house.
“Over there!”
Where the old woman pointed, there was a dilapidated house. The lower part was already submerged in water.
“Let’s go inside.”
“Miss, me too.”
“Madam is here.”
Ignoring her worried objections, I approached the house.
“The door won’t open!”
The complaining servant shook his head. It was a door with a latch from the outside to the inside, but it wouldn’t open.
“It seems like there’s water inside too.”
“Move aside.”
Pushing the servants aside, I grabbed the doorknob.
“Miss, even I couldn’t do it…”
The servant shook his head, saying it was useless. Instead of responding to his words, I turned the doorknob and simultaneously pushed the door with my shoulder.
The door opened slightly and then closed again.
“It takes quite a bit of strength.”
Muttering to myself, the servants, with wide-eyed expressions, alternately looked at me and the door.
If we were to compare strength, I wasn’t easily surpassed by an average man.
“Don’t just stand there; help me push.”
The bewildered servants, at my words, snapped out of it and opened the door. With my strength and the servants’ combined effort, the creaking door gradually opened wider. And finally.
Crash!
The door swung wide open. The water inside the house rushed out and was pushed back in by the water outside.
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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