While Alexander was contemplating this, suddenly footsteps were heard again.
“Make sure to keep the door open, you two.”
William quietly warned and left the reception room again. Larisa, staring at the open door with a puzzled expression, apologized.
“Sorry. Lately, I’ve been wanting to act more like an older brother.”
“It’s a natural expectation between men and women.”
“It sounds weird when you say it. It doesn’t suit you, especially when you bring a bouquet.”
At Larisa’s words, Alexander awkwardly scratched the back of his head.
“Since it’s a get-well visit, I thought it would be courteous to bring something. But did you really get hurt?”
Larisa lifted her bangs and said, “Look here, got a scar?”
“Where?”
As Alexander inquired, Larisa leaned her body and said, “Here.”
Upon closer inspection, there was a mark where the flesh had knitted. Alexander asked with a concerned expression, “It’s not fully healed yet?”
“It’s almost healed. It will completely close up in a few days.”
“…That’s a relief.”
Larisa giggled and said, “It’s fun because you’re worried. I almost passed out, so it didn’t hurt as much as getting hit by you.”
“…….”
“Oops, just kidding. Are you mad?”
Alexander avoided Larisa’s gaze. Seeing the beautifully done Larisa, he keenly felt the reality that he had hit a girl.
“I won’t spar with you anymore.”
“Don’t sulk, Alex. If not you, there’s no one who can properly spar with me.”
“There are plenty of other classmates.”
“They don’t really spar with me seriously.”
Alexander couldn’t say anything in response to Larisa’s words. Looking at Larisa’s somewhat sulky face, Alexander began to find words of comfort.
“It’s originally difficult to make friends.”
“That’s true. Alex, you don’t have friends other than me, right?”
Upon hearing this, Alexander burst out emotionally, “I do! There are plenty in the territory!”
“But in the academy, there’s no one but me.”
“You’re not there either.”
“No, it’s not like that. Juliana DeMoore, who entered the liberal arts department as the top student, is also my close friend. Oh, and I decided to be friends with Princess as well.”
Alexander sighed at the feeling of being teased.
“It’s all your fault that I don’t have friends.”
He was surrounded by guys who were jealous of his friendship with Larisa wherever he went. Even that James Dylan from earlier was the same.
Alexander grumbled with a subtle feeling. Then Larisa smiled and said,
“I know, so I’ll take responsibility.”
Alexander’s ears turned bright red. He muttered to himself that this girl talks strangely.
James had something to say to William.
“Are you really not going to engage in social activities?”
“Why again? I’m busy.”
“While you’re keeping to yourself, misunderstandings keep piling up, you know?”
William wondered what was at stake. Misunderstandings surrounding his mother were deepening day by day, and he didn’t feel the need to go out and explain.
“This time, it’s really unusual. Since the magic professors who used to receive support from the royal family resigned one after another, Rodante’s influence in the magical world has increased even more.”
“And?”
“Also, you’re attracting the attention of ordinary people who can’t do magic with your alchemy.”
James sighed because William couldn’t grasp the situation. He leaned close, whispering,
“There are rumors circulating that Rodante might declare independence at this rate.”
“…Ha.”
“So, they’re trying to restrain even in the royal family… You knew about it, huh?”
James was quick-witted. William spoke with a troubled expression.
“I knew.”
“But allowing someone from the Belvaror family into the house? Are you okay with that?”
“He’s Larisa’s friend.”
Then James stepped back with an expressionless face. After staring at William’s face for a while, James spoke.
“I mentioned that there’s no groom for Larisa other than me, didn’t I?”
“…”
“There’s no one as suitable as me, right? As capable, good-looking, and with a wealthy household. Isn’t that Belvaror’s third son from earlier? He’s not even the heir. I’m the future owner of the Dylan family.”
“Larisa is still young. And I’ll respect whoever she chooses as her partner if that’s what she wants.”
James sighed and said, “Do you seriously think someone better than you exists?”
“You?”
“Someone as handsome, capable, and wealthy as me. Where can you find such a person worldwide? Is it that third son of Belvaror from earlier? He’s not even the heir. I’m the future owner of the Dylan family.”
“Larisa is still young, and I’ll respect whoever she chooses. Anyone.”
“Sure, just marry her for a lifetime. Just like that.”
William chuckled at James’s exaggerated statement.
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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