“That’s because of their origin; the ancestors of Bergamot were once a royal family ruling the outskirts of the empire.”
This can’t be. I was surprised at the unexpected information inside.
‘So, Calaile is a royal bloodline that I subjugated?’
Several questions continued to arise.
‘So that’s why Calaile was more mature than his peers? But why does Duke Youngsik live in a Count’s family?’
I thought there would be some situation from the beginning, but I never imagined this background.
‘It’s really strange.’
As I saved words and became confused, Lillith slowly resumed the explanation.
“Bergamot is also the last place to become part of the empire. Naturally, they couldn’t build a solid power structure like Vladimir.”
Why does her expression change again? I looked at Lillith’s face.
“A few years ago, there was a poisoning incident.”
With a sunken face, Lillith told of the poisoning incident, being accompanied by a knight from the Hecate and Fleur family at that time.
According to the snake bastard, they moved quickly upon hearing the news, but when they arrived, everyone in the mansion had become cold corpses.
Soon after, amidst the deep smell of blood spread throughout the mansion, Hecate led the search for survivors and soon headed to where a newborn’s cry was heard.
Eventually, they found a baby bed in the room they entered, and inside it, a very young Calaile was crying with a babyish noise.
Hecate watched Calaile cry helplessly for a while…
‘Your Majesty, we can’t delay any longer.’
‘But how can we leave this young one behind? Since Count Fleur has no children, entrust this child to him.’
‘Yes, Your Majesty.’
Hecate, who couldn’t bear to leave Calaile alone, entrusted the child to the Fleur family.
“Only the son of Lord Bergamot survived. The Empress felt pity for him.”
Such a thing… I became mute as if I had eaten honey.
“So the Fleur family will manage the Bergamot family until Youngsik Bergamot comes of age.”
What, isn’t that a bit wrong? I immediately objected.
“Shouldn’t the Bergamot family’s descendants manage it?”
I had to question it because it was different from what I knew.
‘Even if all direct descendants have died, it doesn’t make sense for a Count’s family to represent a Duke’s.’
When I slightly frowned, Lillith smiled with her eyes and said.
“A few years before the poisoning incident, most of them either died or were exiled on an island.”
The Bergamot family was virtually a family in name only, added Lillith.
“It’s as if one of the only two Duke’s families in the empire is gone.”
“That means the family with the highest trust of the royal family is continuing the Bergamot lineage.”
The Fleur Count’s family, who received deep trust from Hecate and Jeff, was a natural conclusion.
Snap!
“Indeed. You’re insightful.”
No, it’s something you can understand if you just listen.
Clap, clap, clap!
“Well done!”
I was irritated, looking at Lilith who even laughed and clapped her hands.
‘I had a rough idea that there was a situation with Carlisle, but I didn’t know it was so complicated.’
The young lad’s fate is quite curious. I clicked my tongue internally and continued to concentrate on the following class.
“If there’s anything you don’t understand, please let me know.”
And so a long time passed, and the awaited time arrived. The theoretical class had ended.
“Nothing.”
It was all knowledge acquired through many lives, except for Carlisle’s background.
“Indeed, Your Highness the Princess~.”
Then the snake touched its lips with its hand and spit out a heart as it praised, wasn’t my whole body shriveled up!
‘Ugh.’
I immediately recoiled my body back in shock.
“Ah! There’s one thing I forgot to tell you.”
Whether or not. Lilith put her chin on one hand and revealed a new fact.
“Your Highness the Princess really…….”
Striding up to me, Lilith placed both hands on the desk with a thud.
“Are hated by an interesting being?”
Why does her slight bow with a following smile feel so ominous?
“Who dares to hate me?”
What are you talking about? I felt my mood sinking as I asked. My face soured at the words that someone didn’t like me.
“Oh my, you didn’t know?”
Then naturally lowering her body and bending her knees, Lilith leaned on the desk with her elbows, matching my eye level.
“Then, as your longtime friend, I should tell you.”
Who’s your friend? I was annoyed at Lilith, who was defining it arbitrarily.
“Would you lend me your ear?”
Still, I was curious about who hated me, so I did as I was told.
‘Why is she dragging this out?’
Is this, again, a tease? I doubted it since I’ve been fooled so much.
“That’s none other than…….”
Then, like a ghost, Lilith licked her lips. I swallowed my saliva and paid full attention.
“It’s the being that God created first.”
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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