Kun.
It was a name she had heard often somewhere.
Chloe, who mulled over the man’s name several times, soon found out its origin.
It turned out to be pronounced exactly the same as the Emperor’s name.
Judging by the age, it would not have been named after the Emperor’s, and it seemed like a name born from coincidence overlapping with coincidence.
“Nice to meet you, Kun. I look forward to spending the day with you.”
Calling his name so nonchalantly felt awkward to Chloe. She felt as if she might be arrested for lesemajeste at any moment.
“I as well.”
Now it was Kun’s turn to greet. He combined a simple reply with an uncomfortable smile.
Whether it was fun to spend time with someone, or even more fun because it was with Kun, Chloe had a more enjoyable time than ever.
Kun guided her only to the things she liked, as if he had fully grasped all her tastes, to the point of amazement.
They stopped at a garden full of blooming flowers and even made small teacups at a pottery workshop.
She had always used the artisan’s products but had never made one herself. Although she couldn’t make them as beautiful due to clumsiness, the crooked teacups suited Chloe’s taste.
Next, they watched a clown with a silly disguise in the square. Chloe even received a balloonmade flower from the clown.
They played hide and seek with the village children who asked to play, and went treasure hunting.
Time flies when you’re happy. The sun was setting before they knew it.
“What shall we have for our last meal?”
At his question, Chloe opened the map.
They decided to go to a sandwich shop among the popularly marked restaurants.
The two ordered a tuna sandwich and a bacon sandwich as recommended by the staff.
The thick scent of tuna was very savory. Besides, lightly charring the skin brought out the rich oil, and the crispy vegetables added a refreshing finish when bitten.
Although not that hungry, she ate both sandwiches before she knew it.
Chloe usually didn’t prefer to feel full, but she was satisfied since it was filled with delicious food.
“Here’s a freshly baked waffle. Please enjoy it with tart strawberry ice cream.”
They were getting ready to leave when suddenly a staff member approached with the dessert plate.
The two exchanged glances. Neither had ordered dessert.
The staff member stepped in right away.
“So……. It’s a small gift for you two. Please enjoy.”
“Thank you for your kindness. We’ll eat it deliciously.”
Usually, Kun would be the first to step forward, but this time he was silent.
Chloe extended a formal smile and a thank you.
“Ye, yes! Ha, have a nice day!”
The employee’s face turned red as he faced her. Even after the conversation ended, he lingered in place and only retreated after a while as if fleeing.
Chloe didn’t realize it.
That the dessert offered as a gift was laden with ulterior motives.
That eating a dessert laden with someone else’s interest was unacceptable to someone.
“We had looked up a separate place for dessert, so it would be better to move there.”
Kun unexpectedly suggested moving just as her white hand holding a fork approached the plate.
“Umm……. This also looks quite tasty.”
“It would be rather a pity to end everything here. We don’t have much time left, do we?”
“But you clearly said it was the last meal earlier.”
“Dessert is separate.”
Could it be that he really wanted to take her somewhere?
Chloe, who had been suspicious, finally decided to follow the guide’s wishes.
“Alright. Then let’s get up.”
The two who stood up from their seats went straight to the exit.
After seeing Chloe off first, I was about to go outside as well. Kun noticed the employee who was regretfully looking at the remaining dessert.
Was it because of the intense spirit that could be felt even from afar? The employee naturally turned his head toward Kun.
Soon after, what he came across was a face ferocious enough to easily kill a person, as if it were nothing.
Then the opponent smiled brightly at me. It was an obvious mockery that a predator would show to something like prey.
(This is a time separator.)
“Cotton candy?”
The two people arrived at the dessert truck in the square. The merchant was selling large cotton candy.
The colorful cotton candy looked like clouds at sunset. And it was so massive that the cotton candy was bigger than her face.
She took a bite, and even the taste was light and airy. The sweet candy that disappeared instantly in the mouth felt like a toy.
She tried putting a chunk in her mouth and rolling it around, and also tried tearing it thinly like a thread and eating it.
“Is it good to eat? You seem to like it quite a bit.”
“The texture, the taste, it’s fun, so I like it.”
Chloe encountered the mystery of the human body that day. It was fascinating that food kept going in even though she was full.
As she enjoyed it diligently, the cotton candy came to an end.
“Ah, I was going to take a big bite, but…”
Chloe showed regret. She had completely forgotten that she was going to fill her mouth with a bite.
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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