Balter tugged at the ribbon of the velvet dress Edith was wearing. Exposing her slender shoulders, the sweet fragrance wafting from her stirred his senses. He effortlessly lifted her, cradling her in his arms and gently placing her on the bed. The sight of her long and luscious golden hair spreading like a duke’s mantle always appeared sensual.
As he beheld her lying defenseless in his domain, the tension he had forcibly suppressed for a while revealed a presence that seemed ready to explode at any moment.
Edith, now wearing only a thin dress that clung to her, swallowed her dry saliva in silence.
“…This is a kind of medical procedure for the child. It’s nothing strange.”
She didn’t mind Balter approaching her like a predator eyeing its prey, occupying her side space. Seeing her internal rationalization, it seemed that hunger wasn’t the only thing plaguing her.
Edith walked towards the bed with light steps and gently caressed Balter’s neck, which she touched with her fingertips.
“Why did you undo the dress ribbon, Balter?”
“Well, I thought the clothes might be inconvenient when sharing mana with my lady.”
Even though Lexion’s mana could undoubtedly pass through fibers, Balter shamelessly muddled the explanation without changing his expression.
Edith didn’t bother to point out that fact and slid her fingertips.
“Then this might be inconvenient too, right?”
“… …”
Balter undid the shirt button that her fingertips had lightly touched. Despite revealing the upper body, whether it was due to the fireplace or the blue eyes that scrutinized him, no chilling sensation was felt.
He pressed against her from thighs to waist, lower abdomen, and the entire upper body. Although it was just skin contact, his mind became dizzy. Her body temperature spread through him like flames.
“Tell me when you’re ready, Edith.”
Brushing his broad shoulders for a moment while filling the private desire, Edith met his gaze and whispered.
“Yeah, you can.”
“…”
His Adam’s apple and pupils trembled noticeably, making Edith realize that the words she had uttered were somewhat meaningful.
“…Are you talking about mana infusion, right? You know that, right?”
“I didn’t think of anything. My lady must have something else she wants to accept, right?”
Edith did not deny his casual words, avoiding eye contact. Due to her, who could not say she disliked sharing body warmth even if it was a lie, Balter felt tense all over.
According to the doctor, he had to share mana for three hours a day, entwined for a week. His broad patience was already showing signs of reaching its limits.
With his face buried in her neck, Balter began to inject mana cautiously.
“Ah…”
Accepting the unfamiliar force, she wriggled her body and let out a faint voice. The subtle vibration of the short breath alone heightened Balter’s sensitivity to the limit.
He kissed her skin like a bird pecking at its food. Even if the little one in her belly couldn’t cross the set boundary, tormenting her was at his discretion. If Edith’s desire boiled as much as his own, well then, perhaps he could find some satisfaction.
However, the problem arose from an unexpected place.
“Balter, do more… it feels good.”
Whispering so and hugging his shoulders tighter, Edith made Balter realize, illuminated by the moonlight, that her face was flushed as if she were drunk.
Suddenly, Balter recalled the precautions that Lexion’s chief physician had advised.
“Since my lady has no mana at all, there may be abnormal reactions during the process of receiving mana.”
“Is it dangerous?”
“While you may become intoxicated with mana and your nerves may become sensitive, it will never harm your body. Instead, the baby in your belly will accept the mana, making you more comfortable.”
At that time, he only thought about whether Edith’s body was in danger or not. But now, seeing Edith, whose body had become more sensitive due to being intoxicated with his mana, a red emergency light flashed in his mind.
“Ah… my body feels strange, Balter… it’s weird, but comfortable.”
As if the weight and discomfort that she had unknowingly felt were momentarily gone.
Balter responded to Edith, who was speaking in a dazed manner.
“They said you might become intoxicated with my mana since you don’t have any. It shouldn’t strain your body.”
It might be a strain for me, though.
Balter swallowed the rest of his words. Edith laughed blissfully without knowing his inner thoughts.
“Uh-huh… then do more.”
“…”
When she looked at him as if trusting him while whispering in a completely relaxed voice, Balter felt like he was going crazy.
‘You have to trust someone trustworthy.’
Every night, facing a woman who had my child like a beast in heat during mating season, I couldn’t sleep, exorcising forced delusions only to finally fall asleep. What did you see and believe in, Edith?
‘Maybe she’s repaying me for the hardships I went through because of my lineage.’
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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