Ezra raised an eyebrow and looked at the glamorous woman sitting in front of him.
“Is this Princess Erwin? Was she found so easily?”
It would have been quite rude if Plidas was indeed the princess of Evern.
But she pinned her platinumblonde hair, tinged with ash, behind her ears and greeted him calmly.
“Nice to meet you, Your Highness.”
Technically, he was no longer a prince, but it was in accordance with the caution given by Emperor Rudra, considering Ezra’s foul temperament.
The guard standing beside Plidas continued the conversation.
“Princess Erwin has already secured new recruits in Tesia and is under protection. His Majesty Emperor Rudra decided, as Your Highness needed assistance.”
“Hmm. Really? Is Emperor Rudra sorry for stabbing me in the back? But is she really Princess Erwin? Pretty, yes, but not as rumored. Has her face changed since childhood?”
“Time has passed.”
Despite the incredibly rude speech, Plidas did not lose her smile. She had prepared herself thoroughly for his ridiculous temperament.
Plidas was an actress of the Imperial Tesia Theater and Emperor Rudra’s lover.
One day, Rudra suddenly dyed Plidas’s hair and mumbled some incomprehensible words, saying she was quite usable.
“Plidas, there is something you must do for me.”
What else could there be besides standing on a stage for a play and providing pleasure in bed for him? Was he going to make her the empress?
Full of anticipation, Plidas looked at Rudra, who had conquered her position, almost in worship. But Emperor Rudra was not foolish enough to make a childless Plidas his empress.
“For me, for the Tesia Empire, you must act.”
Plidas concealed her disappointment and chirped in agreement. After all, without Rudra, her life would have ended on the streets.
Plidas’s identity was only fulfilled when she loved Rudra.
And so, Plidas became Erwin Del Adne, the princess of the ruined country.
Since Plidas was from Evern, she didn’t need to learn the accent or culture of Evern. Perhaps that’s why she was chosen.
But to evaluate Plidas as not as beautiful as rumored was an insult to the imperial theater of Tesia, where only the best were selected, and Plidas was considered the most beautiful.
Anyway, Plidas had to keep her mouth shut. All fellow actors who knew that she was an actress, not a princess, were killed.
It was a theater exclusively for Emperor Rudra, and now only Rudra knew that Plidas was an actress, not Princess Erwin.
“I heard you want me as a political partner, is that right?”
Plidas spoke as elegantly as possible, but Ezra cussed with his pinky finger in his ear.
“What the X are you talking about? A princess of a ruined country, a political partner? You’ve been a commoner since you were ten, haven’t you? You’re just for show. Don’t get cocky.”
“…….”
Plidas lowered her eyes and was lost in thought for a moment.
Emperor Rudra hated imperfection. Even if she was the lover monopolizing the emperor’s affection, covering mediocre acting with beauty was unthinkable in the imperial theater.
She knew well enough that the deposed Emperor Ezra was an outlaw, so there was no need to be surprised. If this was a play planned by the theater, it wasn’t a difficult act compared to what she’d been doing.
She imagined what thoughts and reactions Princess Erwin would have if she heard such words. Immersing herself in the character’s emotions was not difficult for Plidas.
Moreover, Plidas had an absolute belief that Emperor Rudra would protect her.
Even if the abdicated emperor of Parsad was mad, she had calculated that he would neither forcibly take Plidas nor threaten her life.
To Plidas, a woman, any man other than Rudra had no meaning, but behind her, who had become Princess Erwin, there was the Tesia Empire.
After making her calculations, Plidas sat with her chin propped up, crossing her legs seductively, and grinned widely.
“You know, Your Majesty, you need me and the Tesia Empire behind me, and I don’t need Your Majesty, so… Is it okay to plead with me like this now?”
(This is a time separator.)
The military vehicle that left Evan Bahar had been driving for quite a while, but inside the car, only silence flowed.
The person with the highest position here was Iriel, and since she kept her mouth shut, naturally, others had no choice but to do the same.
However, Iriel’s temperament was not cold enough to be indifferent to Cassard’s lover and the woman who bore his child until the end.
“Are you okay?”
A tiny gray rabbit doll, which had been fiddling with slender white hands, flinched and stopped. Big pumpkincolored eyes turned towards Iriel.
Slowly blinking her large eyes, she looked at the other person intently, and she was breathtakingly beautiful.
To say this might be rude, but she was attractive enough to live her life, loving another man, even if it was not Cassard.
Indeed, with such a face, she could have occupied the side of an arrogant noble like Cassard.
“I heard there are things to be reclaimed, but it seems you haven’t received them yet.”
“……Yes.”
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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