“Would it really be okay to follow?”
After the sudden zombie incident, Latil had thought it would be too much to ask for Hyacinth to come directly to Tarium, but Hyacinth had said it would be okay. It was unexpected.
“There’s no need to apologize, or thank me excessively. I also have a grudge against Lean now. Stopping Lean is also my revenge, Latil.”
“If, by any chance, while you’re away…”
“Rather, even if I leave my position now, Duke can’t move.”
“Well, if that’s the case, I’m relieved.”
[This is the time separator]As soon as the delegation was formed to go to Tarium, the servants started loading luggage onto the carriage, and the engineers began to check for any problems with the carriage.
On the surface, Hyacinth was going to Tarium ‘to return the favor for sending Sadi to help’.
In Tarium, while they would be confused and ask ‘Who is Sadi?’, they wouldn’t dare to overthrow the Emperor of Karisen.
The same would go for her older brother and mother. The two of them wouldn’t even know for sure whether ‘Sadi’ was a special envoy sent by Latil to Karisen before things blew up.
“You seem to be looking forward to it.”
While standing on the terrace looking outside, Latil was surprised and turned around. Carlein had somehow come to her side.
“You’re too quiet.”
When Latil grumbled, Carlein stood next to her. Carlein’s gaze naturally stopped at the sight that Latil had been watching. People moving busily, the already splendid carriages becoming more and more splendid…
“When we return…”
“Hm?”
“We probably won’t be able to travel together again.”
While Carlein was looking down at the carriage, Latil looked at the side of Carlein’s face.
“Are you disappointed?”
“You should come often.”
“Where?”
Feeling Latil’s gaze, Carlein slowly turned his head toward Latil. The moment their eyes met, Carlein answered in a whispering, faint voice.
“To me.”
At the quiet whisper that tickled her ear, Latil’s face flushed, and she answered in a quick voice.
“Of course. You’re the one who came all the way here for me. And even got falsely accused of eloping with a maid.”
However, despite the promise to visit often, there was no sign of joy on Carlein’s face.
He turned his head forward again, and as he stared off into the distance, Latil became curious about what he was thinking. ‘Are you thinking about Domis right now?’ she wanted to ask.
You have things you want to say to Domis, but you’re telling them to me because you came into the harem? Does it feel weird? So, you’re looking far away?
Then, Latil remembered Aini. Aini, who had believed so strongly that she and Carlein were lovers in their previous lives.
She was calm and collected, but strangely, when it came to matters involving Carlein, that rational side of her disappeared.
“The Empress Aini…”
When Latil stopped in midsentence, Carlein looked at her again. Latil shook her head. For a moment, she was about to ask, ‘Could Empress Aini be Domis?’.
But she can’t. Carlein doesn’t know that Latil knows about Domis.
“She seemed to have some misunderstanding.”
“Well. If it’s a misunderstanding, it’s a misunderstanding.”
“It’s unfortunate, but it has nothing to do with me.”
At that moment.
Hearing footsteps approaching, the two of them stopped talking. Turning around, someone was crossing the corridor past the stairs.
The approaching person was one of Aini’s maids, who, upon arriving nearby, stood a bit away from Latil and spoke.
“Miss Sadi. Her Majesty the Empress wishes to see you.”
Not Carlein? Why all of a sudden? Latil gave a gleeful look at Carlein. However, Carlein looked completely disinterested.
Perhaps knowing that Aini was strangely interested in Carlein, the maid looked offended by his reaction.
Originally, the relationship between the Empress and her maids was tighter than anyone else’s, so her reaction was not excessive. Before the atmosphere could become tense, Latil quickly nodded her head.
“I see.”
[This is the time separator]In the Empress of Karisen’s room. As she stepped inside, Latil quickly looked around the room. Gold leaf patterns were splendidly engraved on the walls and pillars, and even the curtains were dazzlingly shiny gold when hit by the sunlight.
The golden candelabrum seemed to belong in the mansion of the gods, and a gloss came from the large mirror. And thanks to that mirror, the chandelier appeared doubly splendid…
She felt strange. A few years ago. Latil believed she would become the owner of this room. As if it was a given, to the point she couldn’t even doubt it.
Now, someone else was using this room. She had been invited to his room. Was there anything as ironic as this? Actually, she wasn’t in a good mood.
“Do you like my room?”
Queen Aini asked.
Latil turned towards her. Aini was leisurely sitting on a long sofa. Due to the incident at the banquet hall, she still looked pale but she maintained a tidy appearance.
“I heard you called for me.”
“You’re of high status, aren’t you?”
Latil waited to see what Aini would say and was taken aback. It was abrupt but true.
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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