The snake, which used to wake up with just a touch, now didn’t move even when I poked it.
“Silver snake, stop sleeping and wake up.”
I shook it a few more times, but the snake showed no sign of waking.
‘This is really strange.’
I had never read anything about the sacred beast sleeping in the original work.
‘There mustn’t be any problems.’
I was worried but couldn’t tell anyone else about the abnormalities in the sacred beast’s body.
I carefully put the silver snake back into my bag and left it next to my bed.
The dark moonlight filled the room.
Lying on the bed and blankly staring at the ceiling, I suddenly realized.
‘Come to think of it, the twins are also at the mansion.’
All the villainous family members were gathered in one place, meaning all the conditions for the original work to begin were met.
The next day, Dayban, who had been hiding in a corner of the hallway, yawned widely.
Actually, Dayban had been busy since the day before. He had stayed up late setting traps of his own around the mansion. Those traps were for my younger sibling, who had recently arrived.
‘You, a weakling like you, aren’t needed in our family.’
Dayban was planning to personally let the kid know that fact.
Though there were endless ways to tell the kid using magic, the rule was not to use magic inside the mansion unless it was a special situation.
Even if he could use magic, seeing how much Father and Brother doted on the child, he couldn’t directly use magic on them.
Instead, he decided to lay traps that resembled childish pranks.
That’s why he dropped a banana peel on the floor of the hallway Diane frequented.
Dayban was certain Diane would trip on it and burst into tears.
‘Here she comes!’
Diane appeared in the hallway, bag slung over her shoulder. Soon, her foot stepped on the banana peel.
Diane, stepping on the banana peel, staggered and was about to fall backwards. Dayban’s eyes sparkled.
“Ah, Miss! Are you alright!”
Just then, a bulky knight appeared from somewhere and grabbed hold of Diane’s bag. Dangling from the knight, Diane was carefully set back onto the hallway floor.
“Wow, thanks, Bart! That was a close call!”
“Thanks! This is my job!”
The knight shouted boisterously and vanished, taking with him the banana peel he had deliberately left in the hallway.
‘Tsk, what a waste.’
Dayban continued to stalk Dianne, surveying the location of the traps he had set.
The second thing Dayban prepared was a large earthworm right where Dianne usually laid out her mat.
‘She’d definitely be scared of such a huge bug, right?’
It was an earthworm the size of his palm.
He imagined Dianne stumbling backward in fright, bursting into tears right on the spot.
It wouldn’t be a bad sight to see. Maybe it would even make him forgive her for monopolizing his father and brother’s attention.
‘Maybe Father and Brother would grow tired of her crying.’
If that happened, it would be incredibly satisfying.
Dianne took a mat out of her bag and unfolded it. Then, she suddenly picked it up again.
‘She finally saw it.’
He had actually worried what he’d do if she didn’t notice the large earthworm and spread her mat over it.
Fortunately, that didn’t seem likely to happen.
‘She’s about to scream now.’
Heehee, a stifled laugh came from Dayban when he heard an unexpected line.
“Why are you there? It’s dangerous.”
Curious, he peeked and saw Dianne carefully lifting the earthworm with a long tree branch.
“This is a busy place; it’s dangerous here, so go hide over there, okay?”
The earthworm was relocated into a safe bush and seemed to nod its head, as if thanking Dianne.
Dayban gritted his teeth.
“Hey, you!”
Finally, Dayban couldn’t take it anymore and approached Dianne. Dianne’s eyes widened at his sudden appearance.
“Huh? Where did you come from?”
“Why do I have to tell you?”
Dayban replied irritably, crossing his arms.
His secret plans to trick her had all failed; the only thing left was to confront her directly.
“You see, that day we met at the auction house,”
“Ah, yes! I didn’t say anything that day!”
“…What?”
“I didn’t tell Dad anything about seeing you at the auction house!”
Dayban frowned. He had found that out later anyway.
He hadn’t known until he was punished. Sophia told him later during a lesson on magic manipulation.
‘That day, I sensed Dayban’s magic. I had just set a tracking spell because we were looking for the baby.’
Whatever the case, Dayban still believed they were caught because of Dianne.
Sophia had placed the tracking spell there to find Dianne, who had suddenly disappeared.
Well, that didn’t matter now.
“It’s irrelevant. I’m not here for that.”
“Then?”
“The problem is that you’re a weakling who spills coffee.”
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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