The moment Edith heard Walter’s characteristic mocking tone, mixed emotions surged within her.
She was grateful that Walter had come to a situation where it seemed impossible to escape, but right now, he was in a more dangerous situation than she was.
In her mind, scenes of Walter being exposed and in a perilous situation in front of Elizabeth and her companions played out, making her complexion even paler.
The person who had rescued her from Sofia’s scheme in the very beginning, who had found and given her a precious necklace filled with memories, the one who had granted her brief moments of freedom and peace.
If he, who had only come to find her and would be exposed and killed, she felt like she would live a lifetime of regret.
With an indifferent face, she wanted to question him as if interrogating.
“Do you know which lineage you come from? Why have you come to me again, not knowing who is in the upper echelons of those who seek you?”
But the words spoken in a trembling voice were pitiful.
“Why are you… Why are you here, Walter?”
“…”
“How did you get in? I sent you away.”
Walter chuckled as he looked at Edith’s expression, which was anything but welcoming. It wasn’t because of her almost collapsing expression.
When I wielded a sword in the mercenary corps, I had vague thoughts. If she ever met me again, she would reach out and pull me into an embrace, saying it was a mistake, that there were unavoidable circumstances, and whispering apologies that she didn’t mean in her heart.
When she said it with a tender voice in the fantasy, Walter felt that he could forgive everything, even if it was a lie she told for her position’s sake.
Knowing it was a filthy trick, he would pretend not to know if she asked him to, and if she wanted him to erase it from his memory as if it never happened, he was willing to do so.
But the real Edith just asked why she was here.
Walter was at a loss as to why he had such delusional thoughts in the first place. His stern expression didn’t budge. It was ridiculous to think that he could be anything after being kicked out of the topic.
Even in the midst of saying that, Edith looked slightly paler than the last time she had seen her.
From the moment he spotted her, his heart, which had been pounding like crazy, twisted and seemed to be in pain, and he unintentionally spoke in a rough voice.
“You’ve been hiding here for more than half a day, and you’re worried about others, Edith.”
“How did you know how long I’ve been here?”
Instead of answering her question, Walter gestured in the direction he had come from.
“We need to go to the study.”
“…….”
Edith walked as he led. At least Walter knew he wasn’t the one who would harm her.
Walter walked alongside her, wondering how they had ended up in this secret passage by chance.
Leading the people gathered to curse Sophia and Whitman, and taking over the Portrian Mansion to vent their anger was a plan that the Volunteer Corps had been working on for a long time.
After being imprisoned for seven years and returning to the mansion, which he had escaped from so easily, Walter felt a strange sense of exhilaration.
This time, he hadn’t come to be imprisoned but to seek revenge on Nicholas Portrian.
The hired hands, who had been bustling about, froze when they saw the approaching Volunteer Corps and the residents of the estate.
As they were beginning to surround the mansion and pondering where Edith might be, Cassius, who had been leading the search of the mansion, approached.
“Walter.”
By his side, Vivian, her expression filled with concern, was present.
She explained that Cassius had rescued me from Elizabeth’s interrogation.
“Walter, Lady Edith has disappeared. It seems she noticed that Lady Elizabeth was looking for her and went into hiding… It’s been more than half a day already.”
Vivian noticed that Edith was wearing thin clothing and had not been eating properly recently, so she shook her head.
Fortunately, Vivian remembered when Edith had gone to the study to retrieve letters from a former maid and returned covered in dust.
“It seems like there’s a secret passage starting from the study inside the mansion. Madam knows about it thanks to the former maid.”
After instructing one of the members of the volunteer army to protect Vivian, Walter hurried to the study.
Once he began searching with the knowledge of the secret passage’s existence, it didn’t take long to find the entrance.
If Edith, who had been hiding inside, had expected such a cruel reception, she would have hurried her steps, even if it meant speaking up.
“Don’t be alarmed by the crowd, just cover your face with the cloak.”
Walter said this and then headed towards the exit leading to the study, extending his hand to her.
Edith took his hand. She remembered that early morning when he had clasped her hand tightly and wouldn’t let go. The memory stung her chest.
As they concealed the entrance once more and stepped out of the study, a large crowd had gathered. Fortrion Manor seemed to be overrun by furious people who appeared unwilling to listen to anyone.
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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