The next morning, I met Zhep and Hecate in a notsorefreshed state. It was because I had a fitful sleep, affected by the auditory terror from last night’s lullaby.
“You don’t look good.”
With a sullen face and a passive response, Zhep worried, holding his chin with one hand. He had no idea why I was in such a state.
“You went to bed early yesterday… Are you sick somewhere?”
No one could match the sincerity of the two, who would talk at every opportunity and try to spend a lot of time, as if they were doing the role of parents.
“No, I’m perfectly fine.”
And today, I really wanted to sleep in.
“Your Majesty, you might have been restless at night.”
I hated to look weak in front of the talents I had nurtured in my previous life, so I desperately pretended to be okay.
“So how about singing a lullaby every day?”
But whether my act was poor or not, Hecate, who was sitting right next to me, looked at me and made an outrageous remark.
‘What? Sing a lullaby every day?’
For a moment, I was stunned and stood still. It’s like telling me to die. If I had to listen to Zhep and Hecate’s lullabies every day, I wouldn’t only lose sleep, but insomnia would surely develop.
In a word, the gates of living hell were opening.
“Wait a minute, I’ve got a great idea!”
The thought of being tired to death was suddenly forgotten, and I woke up.
“I saw the protagonist turning an music box before going to bed in a book.”
I desperately waved my hands and feet, trying to appeal that this was better than a lullaby.
“She met a fairy in her dream, and I was so jealous.”
Of course, it’s all a lie. I just wished desperately that this excuse would work so that I would never have to hear a lullaby again.
“Then prepare the best music box in the world.”
Meanwhile, Zhep, not knowing my true intentions, took it at face value.
“I must send someone to inquire right away!”
Hecate was the same, and I could feel my anxiety washed away by a refreshing wave.
Knock, knock[Dash].
“Emperor Your Majesty, Empress Your Majesty. Sir Esian has come to see you.”
“Let him in.”
Soon after, someone came.
“Emperor Your Majesty, it is time for the meeting, so I have come to get you.”
A familiar face, Esian appeared. Upon discovering me and Hecate, he smiled and bowed.
“Additionally, I have been informed that the prototype of the cooling device is complete.”
As soon as the greeting was over, Esian recited the report and waited for Zhep’s reply.
“That’s good. We will be able to keep crops fresher now.”
I didn’t know what it was, but I was curious when he had developed such a thing. It felt like he was taking care of the country in many ways, even though I thought he was only free when he came to see me, trapped in his office all day.
“But it’s already meeting time. I wanted to spend more time with Dazzling, how unfortunate….”
Zhep added a few words with a gloomy face, saying he didn’t want to part with me.
“Cooling device? What’s that?”
Come to think of it, I was personally interested in the cooling device, so I quickly asked Zhep before he left for the meeting room.
“That’s a good question. The cooling device is a magical box filled with cool energy.”
Zhep gladly explained, seeming very pleased with my interest.
“It was created so that crops grown from the ground do not collapse from exhaustion in the heat.”
Technology seems to have advanced considerably over time. I nodded my head, munching on a biscuit, as if I understood.
‘If crops can be stored longer without spoiling, there are many advantages.’
I thought of the purpose of the cooling device manufacturing that Zhep mentioned later.
If this device is distributed throughout the empire, not only will the quality of the people’s lives improve, but there will also be more abundant food to support the poor.
“Dazzling, by the way, is there anything you particularly want to do lately?”
What I want to do… Honestly, there’s nothing, but I can’t just say that.
I fell into thought at Hecate’s sudden question.
“Too mature an idea might look suspicious, so let’s think of something a 3yearold would come up with.”
After a few seconds of hesitation, he concocted a childlike idea.
“Um… How about we all go on a picnic?”
“A picnic? That’s a really cute idea.”
He was fortunate that his desperate suggestion had an effect since nothing else came to mind.
“Make time with your father next week. There’s a perfect place for a picnic in the southern garden.”
No, but he thought it wasn’t that cute to speak while cupping his cheeks with both hands. He was sweating as he felt that Hecate was reacting too sensitively.
“A picnic… Suddenly, memories with His Highness the Emperor come to mind.”
In the meantime, Jeff brought up old memories, and Hecate initially looked nostalgic but then wore a sad expression.
‘He still remembers.’
He vividly remembered as he had personally taken the two of them on a picnic in his previous life.
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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