After a long ride, when the carriage began to shake less and dawn was about to break, Hyacinth was the first to speak.
“Aren’t you going to tell me why you’re going to Karisen?”
“Why did you come to Tarium? You tell me first.”
“To see you.”
“!”
What kind of bluff was this? When Latil looked at him with widened eyes, Hyacinth laughed until his eyes crinkled.
“I see. You came for the same reason then?”
“No, I didn’t!”
Latil was flustered at the obvious teasing, but Hyacinth did not back down easily.
“You said you’d answer if I told you first. Aren’t you not answering because it’s the same reason?”
“Nonsense.”
“Surely an emperor wouldn’t stoop to spying on another country?”
“The one who came spying is you, not me.”
“I was interested in you, not your country, Latil.”
“!”
“Do you feel the same way?”
“Ah, no, I don’t!”
As Latil scowled and kicked his foot gently, Hyacinth leaned on one hand and laughed. It was strangely pleasant to see Latil’s old habits surfacing in such a situation.
Upon seeing Hyacinth’s smile, Latil’s heart fluttered, but she deliberately looked more stern and turned her gaze out the window.
Thereafter, the two barely spoke until they neared the border.
Then, as they were passing through a small village beyond the border, Latil spoke first.
“I’m getting off here.”
Hyacinth, who had his arms crossed and eyes closed, opened his eyes in surprise at her words.
“Here?”
His gaze turned to the window. This place was a small village near the border, not a place often visited by travelers.
“Do you have business here? I thought you would at least go to the capital or the suburbs.”
“I’m stopping here.”
Latil firmly replied, leaning forward to knock on the partition to the driver’s seat.
The carriage slowly decreased its speed and soon came to a complete stop at the edge of the village. As Latil opened the door to get out, she turned to Hyacinth.
“Want to borrow the carriage? To travel further?”
After all, this carriage was not from the royal palace, and the knight had bought a fairly ordinary carriage.
And from now on, Latil had to go up the mountain, so she couldn’t ride the carriage.
But selling or leaving the carriage somewhere was not convenient while climbing the mountain, so out of consideration, she suggested it to Hyacinth.
She could buy another horse when she returned.
“Going up the mountain, huh.”
As soon as Hyacinth heard Latil’s suggestion, he inferred her destination and nodded.
“I’ll take it then. Thank you, Latil.”
“I just don’t like being in debt for helping with the wheel repair.”
“What about the debt of letting you sneak this far?”
“I took the initiative.”
As Latil retorted and got off the carriage, Hyacinth was naturally about to follow, but soon changed his mind and only opened the window wide.
He wasn’t sure why, but he deliberately didn’t get off, worrying that if he followed, Latil would get anxious.
Latil, too, knew why Hyacinth was acting like that, and turned away with her lips tightly sealed.
‘Will we ever travel in a carriage like this again? Could that just now have been the last moment in our lives when we could face each other and travel?’
Suddenly, she was distressed by these thoughts, but Latil quickly expelled any weakening sentiments.
Instead, she passed a note that she had prepared in advance through the window to Hyacinth on the journey in the carriage.
“What is it?”
“Read it on the way.”
The letter suggested that she had her own suspicions about what Aini was up to, and if the situation was serious, they should join forces.
It was also a note written to Hyacinth, putting aside personal feelings and writing as an emperor.
“Alright.”
Hyacinth looked awkwardly at the note that Latil had carefully folded and handed over, then tucked it into his possession and nodded.
Should I say goodbye or not? After a moment of hesitation, Latil turned away without a word.
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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