Thus, Larissa hid the keepsake in a secret space in the house, unknown to anyone.
Well, not entirely unknown as she once told Jeje, who was like family to her.
At just 7 years old, Larissa had already learned a harsh reality.
‘The truly precious things must never be revealed to anyone.’
Larissa wore the locket around her neck and firmly resolved.
Then she remembered her mother’s voice.
‘Larissa. Make a good impression on Lady Guinevere. But don’t just do as you’re told. Always listen to your heart and strive to live the life you want.’
Her mother worried about Larissa until the very end. Larissa decided to honor her mother’s last wish.
‘To live the life I want, I need to know what Lady Guinevere’s price is! If it’s something like my heart, that’s a big problem!’
Larissa quickly headed to find Guinevere. She knocked firmly on the door of Guinevere’s study and shouted,
“Lady Mother! I’m here! It’s Larissa!”
“What……. Larissa?”
Guinevere opened the door with a baffled expression.
Larissa didn’t know, but there was an unspoken rule in Guinevere’s mansion: anyone who disturbed her research could never leave.
‘But it would be too cruel to throw Larissa, who can’t even use levitation magic, out the window.’
“Why are you here?”
“Lady Mother, thank you for feeding and sheltering me all this time. I will definitely repay this kindness later!”
Guinevere smiled warmly and said,
“You should.”
“So, I will be leaving now.”
“What?”
“I’m going back home.”
Guinevere asked with a dumbfounded look,
“What? Why?”
“If I owe more, I won’t be able to repay it.”
Larissa used the debt as an excuse, but it was somewhat true. Considering the clothes, food, and accommodation she had received, she might not be able to repay it all even as an adult.
Guinevere quickly said,
“Just wait, owing a debt? I brought you here upon a promise with your mother. You must be under my protection until you become an adult.”
“But you didn’t tell me what the cost would be?”
‘Goodness… What kind of child…’
Could it be that this child also has the lost 50 years of memory? Is that why she’s so unnaturally mature? Guinevere momentarily entertained this absurd thought before remembering that even William, the one who reversed time, lost all his memories.
It was impossible unless someone had immense magical power like herself to protect their mind. Guinevere sighed and said,
“The cost is nothing significant. It’s something you can handle easily.”
“Then please tell me.”
“…….”
“Please tell me.”
“….That, that is…….”
Guinevere bit her lip. As Guinevere’s contemplation deepened, Larissa’s lips also stubbornly tightened.
Larissa didn’t come to leave home without a reason. She came to find out what that ‘cost’ was, as it bothered her.
Though she didn’t know for sure, she was certain that the deal between them wasn’t ordinary.
“If you don’t tell me, I’ll just go back.”
‘I have no choice but to tell her.’
Guinevere hardened her expression. Even though her cold beauty turned into a grim face, Guinevere spoke seriously.
“The cost is… for you to bear a child with my son.”
Indeed! It was an extraordinary cost. Larissa asked with a frightened face,
“What, what are you going to do with the child?”
Various rumors flashed through her mind. Removing the heart of a newborn baby… But at the same time, she remembered William’s words that a crone’s magic was more potent than a baby’s.
Gradually, her fear dissipated. Gathering courage to look into Guinevere’s eyes, she too spoke quietly with a distant look.
“That child will be happier than anyone else.”
Her voice was firm yet tender.
“So happy that not for a moment would they want to turn back time. After all, they would be the grandchild of Guinevere Rodante.”
Larissa felt Guinevere’s sincerity. But what was strange was…
“But why me, of all people….”
“It’s because you and William are destined.”
Had she read the stars? Larissa swallowed hard.
“Destined?”
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.”
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
