Daisy, who wanted to accommodate Larisa’s every whim, couldn’t help it in this case. With a firm voice, Daisy said, “Miss, I cannot speak informally to the person I serve.”
“Sniff.”
Larisa tried to hold back her tears, but it didn’t work well. She missed her mother. Eventually, due to Larisa’s loud sobbing, Daisy had to quickly finish the bath.
Larisa eventually cried herself to sleep. Daisy, who had gone through a hard time soothing the child until late at night, went to find William the next morning after much contemplation.
“Um, young master…”
“What’s the matter?”
Surprised at the serious expression of Daisy, who was Larisa’s maid, William asked.
“Well, I’m not sure if I should say this, but these days, Miss seems to be having a hard time with her studies…”
“Having a hard time?”
“Yes. She cried a lot last night.”
“She cried?”
William asked with wide-open eyes. Larisa was a brave child who rarely cried over trivial matters. So, if Larisa cried, it wasn’t something ordinary.
“I see. I’ll talk to the professor about it.”
“Thank you!”
Before the class, William went to see Siod with this information. Upon hearing that Larisa had cried, Siod also wore a serious expression.
“She seemed to be keeping up well with the classes, though.”
“Still, can we give her a break today?”
“Let’s do that.”
The two pondered on how to comfort Larisa’s mood for the day. When Larisa arrived for class, Siod spoke to her.
“Larisa, how about going to eat something delicious today?”
“Huh?”
“What do you want to eat?”
“…”
Seeing Larisa’s silent response, Siod was slightly taken aback. Larisa never refused food.
“Okay, how about the place we had cake last time? It was delicious, wasn’t it?”
“Are we studying tea time today?”
“No!”
Siod, surprised, hugged Larisa.
“Today, I just want to play with Lara. Or maybe we should go somewhere?”
Even with Siod’s friendly smile, Larisa didn’t smile.
“I want to study.”
Siod was flustered. Cold sweat trickled down his back. Crisis had come. In that moment, Ginevra’s voice echoed in his mind.
‘For that girl Larisa to live happily for a long, long time…’
No, revealing this could potentially break the oath if Ginevra found out. Of course, Ginevra’s criteria for happiness were likely very different from his own, but still, Siod didn’t want to leave a risk.
At that moment, William suggested, “Lara, we talked about going on a trip together last time. How about going today?”
“A trip?”
“Yeah. You and Mom went alone before, right? I said I wanted to go with you next time. Let’s go today.”
Larisa responded with a grin.
“No, I want to study.”
“Lara…”
As Larisa’s determination was firm, Siod had no choice but to start the class. William couldn’t do anything and had to sit in a corner.
Siod swallowed a sigh as he listened to Larisa’s piano performance.
‘Practice… She practiced a lot.’
If it were the past, he would have praised her without hesitation, but now, he couldn’t decide whether to praise her for it or not.
“Come to think of it, for a 7-year-old to put in this much effort, it must be tough.”
When Siod didn’t praise her as usual, Larisa looked at him with an anxious expression. As their eyes met, Siod reflexively smiled.
However, the words of praise still didn’t come.
“If you want, should I play it again?”
“No?”
“…….”
“Oh, well. Your performance was so perfect that the teacher was pleasantly surprised, you know.”
“Really?”
Siod refrained from sighing inwardly, feeling relieved as he saw Larisa clapping happily. She was an overly diligent child. Seeing her quietly endure and achieve so much, he had overlooked it.
“Lara, wasn’t practicing hard for you?”
“It was fun.”
“Teacher thinks it might be challenging to master one piece per week. How about practicing one piece per month?”
“Why?”
Larisa’s expression turned gloomy.
“Well, you see…”
“I want to catch up with Julia quickly.”
‘Julia? Who’s Julia… Ah.’
Juliana DeMore, the daughter of a fallen noble attending school, recently became friends with Larisa.
It seemed like she even had a sense of competition with that child.
‘How can I talk to her without making Larisa feel burdened and still make studying enjoyable?’
Siod began contemplating the concerns that every parent might have about the past and the future.
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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