‘But he’s the one who didn’t bow his head even in front of the Emperor or my father. I can’t scold him.’
Moreover, it was absurd for her to look down on someone who even her father had spoken up to. After a brief thought, Silvia chose to honor him.
“…Can we have a moment alone to talk? It seems you haven’t eaten properly at the banquet, so I’ve arranged for some tea in the backyard.”
Silvia was quite active. It was hard for her to find a noble meal that appealed to her in the Harventa Empire.
She didn’t want to marry anyone just because of her position, and she didn’t want a loveless marriage either.
Someone who could uphold her authority and dignity, not be embarrassed to walk around with, and receive the envious gazes of other ladies.
‘This wizard is more than enough.’
I wish his warm gaze would reach me, that was her hope.
As she raised her gaze in anticipation of his warmth, Silvia had to involuntarily step back.
‘What… It’s cold.’
I didn’t know gold could be such a cold color.
Even though she thought the man’s gaze she had seen so far was a mirage, the afterglow of the golden color that reached the young princess again was warm enough to want to touch.
‘He only has that look when he’s facing the princess…’
Caught in that disparity, Silvia had to grit her teeth.
By this point, Agares had also noticed.
‘Damn hormone reaction.’
He always found it unpleasant to receive a gaze he had never experienced or understood. Naturally, an even colder voice than usual was spat out.
“I see what you want, but I have no room for anything else.”
“Perhaps you have a lover.”
“I have something more precious than that.”
Despite his cold tone, Silvia’s feelings were not a concern for Agares.
He didn’t want to leave his little friend under the night wind any longer.
On the other hand, Evelia looked at Agares once, then at Silvia, while biting the remaining bread.
‘I roughly get it.’
Her pet rabbit’s words were quite rude, but since she understood the situation, she didn’t feel like blaming him.
‘Our rabbit’s feelings are the priority.’
If it was something her dear friend disliked, she would go out and stop it even if it wasn’t enough, she had no thought of pushing her to go and flirt.
“It’s cold. Let’s go quickly. I’m sorry, princess, but I’ll go in first. I’m quite frail.”
When Evelia passed Silvia and hopped away, Agares hurriedly followed her.
Silvia, left alone in the cold night air, clenched her fists and her eyes seemed to hold back something, but Agares and Evelia were quite indifferent to those who were not theirs.
“Ugh.”
When Evelia stumbled because the unfamiliar Harventa Empire’s dress got caught on her feet, Agares immediately lowered his body to catch her.
“You can’t run. You keep trying to fall.”
“You can run if you want. I’ll catch you.”
Everything is as you wish.
Ah, Sylvia bit her lip and asked. The words crafted by an appealing man at first glance were exactly what Sylvia wanted to hear.
It wasn’t something like, “Don’t run because it’s dangerous”, “Be careful because it’s dangerous”. It wasn’t about confining within fences in the name of protection out of love.
“You can run. It’s okay if you fall. I will catch you.”
Could there be words that could respect someone’s will more than that?
The way that man cherished the young princess was something that no one could dare to imitate.
She was insanely jealous. She had a desperate desire.
Not knowing how to suppress the surging jealousy, Sylvia stood like that for a while.
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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