Observing Heinrich in silence, the Emperor quietly asked, “Ambassador.”
“…”
“Ambassador Heinrich?”
“Oh, yes. Your Majesty!”
The Emperor, who had been silently observing Ambassador Heinrich, tilted his head curiously.
“Why are you like this? Is something bothering you?”
Ambassador Heinrich muttered awkwardly with a troubled expression, “It’s nothing, Your Majesty.”
The Crown Prince, who had been watching Heinrich’s expression, spoke lightly, “Well, then let’s proceed with the contract for the Mikel Mines now.”
Ambassador Heinrich remained silent for a moment as if pondering something. While he did so, the princess, with a touch of charm, poured Sherrie into her glass, gazing at Heinrich.
“The Mikel Mines will become a bridge symbolizing the alliance between the Empire and the Kingdom. Don’t you think so?”
Ambassador Heinrich, looking at the wine in his glass, murmured, “First, I need time to report to His Majesty of the Kingdom.”
The atmosphere suddenly chilled for a moment.
The Crown Prince, looking at Ambassador Heinrich with a stern face, asked, “Is there any problem?”
There was no problem. Ambassador Heinrich entered the Star Palace and ruffled his hair.
“His Majesty of the Kingdom also suggested selling the magic stones of the Mikel Mines to the Empire whenever possible.”
If that happened, vitality would be injected into the diplomacy between the Empire and the Kingdom.
Then why did he return to the room without properly responding to the Crown Prince’s words and feeling frustrated?
‘…Frustrating. Surely, it’s not because of that little lady’s words.’
With a feeling of frustration, Ambassador Heinrich decided to take a walk.
Although it was called a walk, before he knew it, his steps took him out of the palace, and he reached the place where the demonstration had taken place earlier.
But…
‘What is that?’
The two-person demonstration he saw earlier still seemed to be in the same place.
The demonstrators were being led away by the guards.
Ambassador Heinrich watched the situation with sweaty palms.
The two demonstrators had pointed ears and blue eyes, typical characteristics of elves. They seemed to have a high probability of being citizens of the Kingdom with elven lineage.
Without even considering maintaining his dignity, Ambassador Heinrich rushed out like the wind and shouted, “What is this madness?”
The guards, who roughly scanned Ambassador Heinrich from head to toe, responded nonchalantly, “It’s nothing. They are being arrested for violating public order.”
“But they seem like citizens of our Kingdom.”
“It’s nothing. We’re arresting them for violating public order.”
“Well, they seem like citizens of our Kingdom.”
At that moment, one of the protesting demonstrators shouted vehemently.
“Y-Yes, we are citizens of the Kingdom! Imperial people stole our ideas! That’s why we were protesting here!”
“Does that make sense?”
Ambassador Heinrich’s face twisted.
“If someone stole something, why not complain directly to the Kingdom? Why come all the way to the Empire for a protest? I can’t understand.”
His words were right. As much as the citizens of the Kingdom loved technology and art, the Kingdom was actively raising support for protecting inventors.
However, as if his thoughts were mistaken, the demonstrators, while being roughly handled by the guards, muttered discontentedly.
“Ha. Complain to the Kingdom? We’ve complained countless times! But the higher-ups never accepted our opinions anyway.”
“…What is that?”
“They say no one helped us. Those corrupt administrators who took bribes from the Imperial guys just acted dumb!”
Ambassador Heinrich, as well as the King of the Kingdom, knew nothing.
It meant that the officials responsible for handling complaints in the Kingdom were corrupt. Could the understanding between the upper echelons like the Emperor and high-ranking nobles and the lower echelons be maintained?
Ambassador Heinrich’s face seemed shocked as if he had been hit. He hurriedly searched his pocket and took out a card.
It was a diplomatic privilege.
The guards tilted their heads uncomfortably.
“Stop the protest and come here. I have something to say.”
“It’s from Sien Mirmord.”
The Crown Prince’s forehead narrowed. Princess Anessa quietly clenched her fist while gazing at the Crown Prince.
“Yes, Brother. Sien Mirmord!”
“He seems a bit suspicious.”
“Right? He wasn’t easy to deal with.”
“Even if he’s young… is he really Mirmord? But Anessa, haven’t you ever thought about it?”
For a moment, doubt flickered in Anessa’s eyes.
“What are you talking about?”
Suddenly, the Crown Prince’s lips rose as if mocking.
“The thought that Matthias Mirmord is manipulating all of this.”
“…What?”
The Crown Prince laughed leisurely and tapped the table.
“The probability that an infant from the countryside could plan and scheme all this is close to zero.”
Logically, it was 0%.
Slowly, Anessa’s face stiffened as she realized the truth in the Crown Prince’s words.
“…So, what does that mean?”
“Well, it means that Matthias Mirmord is controlling everything from behind. The child made the top and everything. Everything.”
“Matthias Mirmord…”
“It means he’s hostile to us, Anessa.”
Anessa’s expression contorted. The Crown Prince leaned back, laughing with a relaxed expression.
“Sien Mirmord is just a decoy. Anessa, do you understand?”
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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