Afterwards, Koon bit everyone including Callis, except for his own knights.
Chloe, who was left all alone, looked around. The number of people had drastically decreased, but the tension had only thickened.
One person.
A mere single person’s gaze could be this burdensome. Even the combined stares of the knights who had left would not be as intense as that of the man before her.
“Lift your head. Princess.”
At the Emperor’s command, Chloe lifted her head.
Come to think of it, that title was one she had not heard in a long time. Since her marriage, she had been called not a royal, but a person of the Duke’s family.
Chloe was curious about the Emperor’s intention in calling her differently than the usual “Lady.” It wasn’t to mock her.
But the atmosphere was not one in which to ask, so she held her tongue and waited for the Emperor’s next words.
“Come to think of it, this is the first time we’ve had a conversation.”
“Thank you for sparing me a moment of your glory.”
“Not at all, some time ago a maid was seriously injured in the forest, and she seems to be one of your subjects.”
“A maid?”
Chloe immediately retorted.
According to Koon’s explanation, the situation pointed to only one person.
Her maid, Jane, who had left the Duke’s family not long ago.
‘But Jane has no reason to be injured in a forest near here…’
Jane’s hometown was not far from the north, quite far from the Empire.
Would there be a reason for her to be found in a forest near the Empire?
“Perhaps Your Majesty has heard the child’s name?”
“She has been unconscious for days. Her identity is still unknown.”
“Ah…”
“In the same forest, a bag was found, and it contained jewels with the Duke’s name. So I guessed it might be the Princess’s maid.”
Jewels with the Duke’s name.
If a brave maid did not rob the Duke or his wife’s safe and flee, it really referred to Jane.
Chloe had stuffed a bunch of jewelry into Jane’s luggage and sent her away.
For a moment, Chloe’s blood turned cold. It was too compelling evidence that it was not Jane.
“……The maid is so injured that she hasn’t regained consciousness?”
Chloe mumbled in disbelief. Her eyes, shocked one after the other, were unsteady.
“Will you go see her?”
Koon, who had been carefully watching her reaction, interjected.
“……Yes?”
“If the Princess wishes, I’ll guide you there.”
A suggestion as if reading her mind.
Chloe looked at the other’s expression and eventually nodded her head.
“Then hold on.”
“…….”
“Your feet have gone weak, haven’t they? Princess.”
He, who had descended from the throne, held out his hand to Chloe.
Chloe looked at the hand approaching her sight and then quickly glanced at her leg. Her leg, which had been neatly kneeling, was now extended outward. She had lost strength and couldn’t maintain her posture.
“I will… gratefully accept your grace.”
As soon as she grabbed his large hand, her strength drained. Thanks to that, she could easily stand even with her weakened legs.
Chloe, accompanied by Koon, wandered the busy corridor and stopped in front of the door where she was guided.
The room where Jane was lying was very lavish. It was an unusually generous treatment for taking care of an injured person.
Chloe headed straight to the patient’s bed and immediately checked her face.
“……Jane?”
As the Emperor said, the wounds were so many that it was hard to recognize her face. But considering her body and simple appearance, the patient sitting on the hospital bed was definitely Jane.
Furthermore, the bracelet engraved on the patient’s arm.
Although it was in a broken state, Chloe, the original owner of the bracelet, was certain.
That was the bracelet she had given to Jane.
Having grasped the situation, she immediately contorted her face.
Her maid, who had hidden her sorrow behind a bright smile and turned away, why was she in this state?
She had chosen to part with her to protect her maid, so why was this child standing at the crossroads of life and death?
“……Jane.”
Her trembling, powerless hand hovered around Jane’s face. She wanted to caress her cheek, but she feared even that might hurt her.
Chloe, who finally stopped working, quietly placed a pillow by the bed. She wished that Jane would wake up and embrace her as soon as possible.
“I wanted to protect you, but I wanted to protect you…….”
Unlike her wish, the other person lay like a corpse trapped in the sarcophagus.
Having cared for knights on the battlefield before, Chloe knew how to gauge a patient’s condition.
In such a state, it’s a miracle if Jane regains consciousness. In such serious injuries, the patient’s breath usually stops within a few days.
In this desperate situation, there was nothing Chloe could do but ask the heavens to let Jane endure a little longer.
“I’m sorry. Your Majesty. I’ve shown you a sight I shouldn’t have.”
Chloe, who came out of the room, apologized to Koon.
He stared at her teary eyes. Whether it was the aftermath of crying or something else, Chloe’s eyes were swollen and stinging.
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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