Despite the continued forced laughter, the problem was that the flushed face didn’t cool down.
Edit participated in the class with a neat appearance, as if she had never engaged in any dangerous pranks.
As expected, the medical class satisfied her academic curiosity and intellectual desires.
Seeing the male students who attended the class together raising their eyebrows as if it were suspicious, Valter seemed to have issued some command, but Edit wasn’t too concerned as the class was interesting.
After barely holding onto her focus, blurred by the incident of kissing Valter, the lengthy class finally ended. As she prepared to leave, the professor who had taught the class approached her with proper etiquette.
“I am pleased that Her Highness, the Crown Princess, has shown interest in medicine.”
Edit was well aware of the meaning hidden in those words. In Agnas, emphasis was placed on both literature and martial arts, with medicine being relatively neglected. Therefore, concepts of public health were scarcely applicable to ordinary citizens, confined only to the imperial palace, aristocratic mansions, and parts of the capital.
One of the reasons she, who had taken care of numerous patients in a clinic for years, aspired to become a medical bureaucrat rather than the personal physician of a noble family, was her desire to bring about changes in this regard.
And now, she had the power to make the changes she had dreamed of.
“I will study hard to bring about positive changes.”
As she spoke with a faint smile, the professor responded with a kind smile, bowing his head.
“Then, I’ll see you in the next class. It seems the royal carriage has already arrived.”
Edit naturally followed his gaze. In the midst of the academy tinged with the colors of the sunset, a carriage bearing the emblem of the royal family was parked.
She gave a small greeting and lightly walked out of the building. Valter, who noticed her, came down from the carriage holding Adrian.
“Valter, weren’t you supposed to be resting at the palace?”
“I did rest. Don’t know if I’m a stack of papers. Played a lot with the little one, and even after running around the training ground ten times, I’m still energetic.”
In his voice, there was a resolution not to let pass what happened to him earlier. Edit barely held back a laugh as she got on the carriage. Soon, the carriage smoothly departed for the palace.
“Our little one loves carriages. Is the swaying good for him?”
Because Valter was playfully kneading Adrian’s soft cheek like kneading dough, the child eventually woke up.
“Mama!”
“Yeah, Adrian. Did you have fun?”
Edit hugged the child, whose warmth and the twilight outside the window blended together, giving a feeling of fatigue dissipating already.
Around the time the carriage passed through the entrance of the palace, Valter combed his lush blond hair with his hand and spoke.
“I have a place to visit briefly before dinner. You’ll like it when you see it.”
The place he took Edit and Adrian was the central staircase of the Crown Prince’s Palace. There, on the wall that had been left empty for a while due to reluctance to hang the portrait of the deceased previous Crown Prince in the hands of the current emperor, a new portrait was hung.
Within the ornate frame adorned with intricate carvings, Valter, Edit, and Adrian stood, wearing gentle smiles. Valter, after gazing at the portrait of her face and the face of his wife beside her for a while, lifted Adrian onto his shoulders.
“Adrian, who’s that over there?”
“Mom! Papa!”
As the child wriggled in excitement while looking at the portrait, the attendants nearby also smiled with contentment. Watching the scene of their happy and harmonious family, Edit felt a warm smile form on her lips.
“It’s completed faster than I thought. It’s so beautiful.”
A cozy home, loved ones, studying what she desired, and returning to a child who would grin widely upon seeing her – everything she wanted was now by her side. Edit knew well that people called this feeling happiness as she spent each day with him.
And finally, she realized. It was enduring patiently even when it seemed there was no hope at all, for the sake of this moment.
“…I’m glad I waited.”
With a content smile, she leaned on Valter’s shoulder. Valter, able to easily embrace Adrian with one arm, wrapped his remaining arm around her shoulder.
In the faces of the three people looking at the family portrait, there was a brighter smile than captured in the painting.
Epilogue Fin.
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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