When I slowly turned my head to check, the Duke was standing there, having cleanly wiped away the look of contempt and scorn he had shown me earlier.
He even looked gentlemanly at first glance.
Scatha let out a hollow laugh at the cold wind that ruffled her hair.
You’re ridiculous. You who hold honor in high regard, who is the head of the Ten Families and the pinnacle of the aristocratic world, yet who stoops so low to me, are laughable.
The Duke looked straight into Scatha’s face, which expressed such a sentiment, then handed her the night lantern.
“If you don’t hold a night lantern, you may be mistaken for an intruder.”
Perhaps because he wasn’t as intimidating as he had been at the barracks, Scatha was able to respond less pitifully than before.
However, she had to concentrate all her nerves so her voice wouldn’t tremble.
“…Please don’t pretend to know. We’re not that close.”
Though I knew he wouldn’t answer all at once, the man brought up an unexpected topic.
“Well, I know you don’t like Berlioz’s music, and I know about your sleeping habits. Isn’t this knowing well?”
Scatha bit her lower lip tightly and then focused on regaining her composure by putting strength into the hand holding the lantern given by the Duke.
“Not really… I don’t dislike it. I don’t have any special sleeping habits. What you know, it’s not that impressive.”
Cassard stared intently at the woman’s face. Without any reply, just looking like that, the woman didn’t avoid his eyes and slightly furrowed her brow.
Afterward, she felt resistance in her slender arm that could be held with one hand. She seemed to be doing her best to pull her body out, groaning.
“Let me go……. It’s easy. Pretending not to know is not that difficult…….”
I could see her fingertips holding the lantern trembling. She was glaring with wideopen eyes, but that face, which just looked pretty, was probably the problem first.
Contrary to what the woman said about not pretending to know, considering that I wanted to embrace her and kiss her.
“I’ll take you there.”
“I don’t need…….”
He gently wrapped Scatha’s shoulder and turned her in the opposite direction.
“If you wanted to say that, you shouldn’t have gone in the opposite direction to the pharmacy warehouse you said you had to go to.”
“…….”
I couldn’t refute it. Catherine hadn’t given Scatha a night lantern for her first time on pharmacy warehouse duty, nor had she told her where it was.
Following his guidance, Scatha arrived at the nearby pharmacy warehouse and gave a brief nod.
“Go.”
It was meant to draw a line like this and disappear quickly before my eyes, but the Duke, noticing it, came out rather shamelessly.
“Not very pleased to see me, I guess. I’m quite pleased to see you.”
“No pleasure between us.”
“Then what kind of relationship is it.”
Struggling to feign a blank expression like him, she slowly lowered her head.
Wishing to appear calm. If I had known that the Duke had already noticed how much I was afraid, I would never have done so.
“……No relationship at all.”
It’s true, even if said with a trembling voice, that there’s no relationship…… but it strangely feels bad.
It seems a pathetic thought that there might have been even a little lingering affection on this side only. From a woman’s perspective, it’s only natural.
It’s a thing of the past, and just because a woman accepted a kiss without any resistance doesn’t mean she has feelings for him.
At that time, the woman was dragged in, tortured, and, under the threat of a necklace, was stuck with him.
Probably, even if he had done more, she wouldn’t have resisted, considering her situation at that time.
“Let’s say that’s the case.”
Cassard tilted his head crookedly.
“Is your husband a man incapable of keeping his wife from danger?”
Maybe that’s why. Although I knew it was a memory I wanted to forget, the words came out harsh. Even though I’ve never indulged in the hobby of belittling someone else’s family.
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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