Theos once again provided a clear answer.
“It’s fastest to inquire with the family of the person who experienced the magical power explosion. They probably researched it in preparation for a similar event, given the possibility of it happening in the bloodline. There might have been similar incidents in previous generations.”
“I see. The world of magical power is fascinating.”
Edith calmly responded again, but her inner thoughts were complicated. Once again, she wondered how much she should narrow the distance with Lexion for the sake of the child.
Recalling the attitude and vitality displayed by the Duke, her cells still felt chilled.
“But it seems that the rumors of Lexion ruthlessly treating those who inherit the family’s blood may not be true.”
She remembered that Lady Lea, although strict, was a loving mother.
Come to think of it, even the duke’s daughters held grand parties against his will.
If he had given them such harsh magical power training to the point that it would affect their attachment relationships, the daughters, who had grown up and gotten married, would not likely listen to their father’s wishes. Preparing such a feast would require an enormous effort.
“Should I ask Lexion directly?”
While Edith was contemplating, Theos finished the meat pie she had brought out.
Checking the clock, she realized that the appointed time had already passed. Theos handed her two magical stamps as an expression of gratitude for the meat pie.
“Thank you, ma’am. If you ever need anything else, please feel free to visit anytime. Just tear these if you need me.”
“Wait.”
Edith brought a small bottle of herbal oil and handed it to Theos.
“When the weather gets dry, your skin might crack and bleed. Apply this regularly as a preventive measure.”
“Ah… Thank you.”
Theos was caught in an indescribable mood. Even though he hadn’t overused his magical power, his chest felt a bit stingy. Among the nobility, there was someone like her. Although he had often seen the authoritarian attitude of nobles toward magicians, no one had treated him with such kindness as she did.
But she would have shown the same kindness even if she had encountered him as a wandering rogue without magical abilities.
“On your way out, my maid will provide you with another meat pie. Take that too. Share it with your sibling.”
“…”
If I ever get a chance to help this lady who has shown kindness to me.
To avoid revealing his trembling voice, Theos just slightly lowered his head.
Around the same time, a farewell was taking place at the Star Palace in the western part of the Yellow Palace, where Hwangbi was residing.
“Elizabeth. It was nice to meet you after a long time,” Patricia Hwangbi greeted Elizabeth with a gentle smile.
However, Elizabeth noticed that her eyes were not smiling. It meant that something was dissatisfying.
It seems that Elizabeth is not pleased with the current situation, where she almost overwhelmed Valter, but the assassination members were taken away, and Valter, in turn, leaked them to Lexion Mansion, facing the Duke’s constraints.
‘Eizen, even if he hadn’t made mistakes due to his impatience…’
Elizabeth thought that Eizen’s blunders, intensified by missing Valter successively, were due to his impatience. However, she couldn’t say she had done well either.
‘I can’t use that frame right now.’
In fact, the biggest harvest obtained from Fortrion was finding a frame with the signature ‘Valter Isac Lexion.’
However, Eizen and Elizabeth agreed to keep it hidden from Hwangbi and Gilbert for the time being.
If they continued without achieving results, it could serve as a pretext for escape, and it was also insurance for when they didn’t receive proper compensation.
But Gilbert, walking side by side with her, remained oblivious to her true intentions.
“It’s nice to walk together in the castle after a long time, Elizabeth.”
Elizabeth looked at her lover. After meeting him for the first time in a few years, he still boasted a refined appearance.
An overall sleek impression with a deep-set pair of double eyelids. A refreshing eye smile. Everything about him that had set her heart ablaze was intact, which upset her.
Although the woman as his lover had never enjoyed city life because she worked as a spy in the slums, the man in front of her had been fine enough to stay up all night with worry.
However, for the sake of her daughter, she had to temporarily suppress such petty emotions.
“Yeah. It would have been nice if Elise had come along. What kind of camp is she attending?”
Since arriving in the capital a week ago, she had not seen her daughter’s face. Gilbert hastily urged her, displeased with her expressing dissatisfaction.
“But if she doesn’t go to camp, she’ll be ostracized at the academy.”
“But Mom returned to the capital after so many years.”
“Probably because you dropped out when you were young, they’ll cover their faces. After all, I know Elizabeth’s personality better than anyone.”
“…”
“Don’t say that, El. Shall we go to your new mansion for a rest?”
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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