Mayana, who had been hesitating, clapped her hands and spoke.
“That is, uh… dust! I tried to remove the dust that was stuck.”
Ariante’s pupils moved as if spinning. As they caught the sunlight, those mysterious blue eyes sparkled even more strangely.
No matter how you looked at them, they did not seem like real human eyes. They looked like glass or a gem that had been very intricately shaped. You couldn’t feel any warmth or emotion from them….
‘No, what am I thinking! She’s just a child. She might just have unique eyes. Maybe she resembles the Duchess.’
Mayana forced herself to calm down.
Then, Ariante jumped down from the bed.
At first, she hadn’t realized it, but the bed’s height was still too high compared to Ariante’s stature. Though the carpet on the floor was soft, fortunately, she worried that jumping down like this might cause an injury to the fragile ankles.
Staring blankly at the scene, Mayana quickly picked up the slippers next to her and handed them over. But Ariante, without even turning her head towards Mayana, trudged barefoot across the bedroom.
A bewildered Mayana followed Ariante, shouting,
“Princess! You have to wear your slippers!”
“No, it’s hot.”
Mayana looked at the slippers she was holding again. Both the sole and the part that touched the top of the foot were made entirely of soft feathers. Wearing such things in the summer would indeed be hot. Especially since children have more heat in their feet….
“Then I’ll comb your hair for you. Come here.”
“No.”
“Then your clothes…”
“What’s wrong with these clothes?”
At Ariante’s question, Mayana was once again at a loss for words. There was nothing wrong, but the problem was…
“Princess, that’s… your pajamas. You can’t go outside in pajamas.”
“Why? Will I freeze to death if I go outside in my pajamas?”
Mayana’s lips fluttered like a goldfish’s a few times. She already felt the sensation of cold sweat running down her spine.
“No, that’s… You won’t die. Of course, you won’t die, but… It’s broad daylight now, and you must wear proper clothes in broad daylight, right?”
“Why? Why do I have to wear proper clothes during the day?”
“That’s…”
Ariante snickered. As if about to leave for the living room, the small body suddenly turned around. Bending her knees dramatically, she approached Mayana.
Although she seemed to want to make stomping noises, she couldn’t because of the carpet. It seemed rather regrettable.
Ariante came right in front of Mayana, raised her head high, and said,
“I hate you.”
“……Excuse me?”
“I hate you, I said I hate you! I hate you to death. I’m going to get you kicked out in a week. Just watch me.”
After laying down the law, Ariante, not wearing slippers and still in her pajamas, stormed off somewhere.
“Wait a minute, Princess! Princess Ariante!”
A beat too late, Mayana, realizing what had happened, threw down the slippers she was holding and began to run after Ariante. At that moment, the only thought that came to her mind was,
‘I’m going crazy.’
(This is a time separator.)
Ten days into her new job, Mayana could keenly realize why none of the maids in the Duke’s house wanted to take care of Ariante.
Describing Ariante in a single word was a very difficult task. No, it might be more accurate to say that no adjective in existence could describe Ariante.
A mischiefmaker? That’s too weak.
Then a troublemaker? Ariante’s ‘trouble’ far exceeded the frequency that could be described as merely a ‘troublemaker’.
Valterminster’s mad calf. That was the expression that could accurately describe Ariante. Considering Ariante’s noble status, it might seem rude, but no one in the Duke’s house said that the nickname was ‘exaggerated.’
“I told you I hate this rusticcolored ribbon! Bring something else!”
It was already the fifth rejection. Mayana sighed as she saw the frightened expression of the maid hurriedly putting away the box with the ribbon.
From the moment she opened her eyes in the morning, the maids who attended Ariante’s room had to wage a war with a sevenyearold that wasn’t a war.
Though she was still only a child, dressing and bathing the only daughter of Valterminster Duke was no easy task.
So there were two or three more maids to help with the adornments, but Ariante fussed, picking on everything from the ribbons to the stockings, lace shawl, and dress. She never once quietly wore what she was given.
Today, just when she seemed to accept the stockings, the trouble started with the ribbon.
“Your Highness, it’s time for breakfast soon. You liked this purple silk ribbon last time, didn’t you?”
“That was last time. I don’t want it today!”
“How about yellow then……”
“No! I’m not wearing a ribbon today.”
The maid reeled, putting her hands out.
“You can’t do that! You must dress like a proper lady. Look, this yellow one is really pretty. Can’t you see the butterfly embroidery at the end?”
“No! I said no! Get out!”
Having breakfast on time was out of the question today, Mayana thought.
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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