I looked forward with a hollow feeling. The redhaired man eagerly waved his hand.
“Ah? Miss! Nice to see you again!”
I, who had been staring at him, couldn’t help but give a slight wave of my hand.
The sky today was a little brighter with the sun and a little fainter with the moon than yesterday.
And I had just walked out to the front gate. Alone, with my backpack firmly strapped on, I tiptoed through the corridor as empty as yesterday.
But why are the Duke and his subordinates standing there again?
“Miss! Have you come to see us off again today?”
The redhaired knight approached me with an excited expression. Now I knew the name of this knight. This knight’s name was Bart.
Yan was not seen today. Instead, Chrisi, who was standing next to Bart, greeted me familiarly.
“Miss! You haven’t forgotten my name, right? It’s Chrisi!”
“Miss! I am Bart. Bart!”
“Eh? What are you all doing! Our Miss is surprised!”
A bluehaired man intervened between the arguing knights.
It was fortunate that he seemed to be trying to quiet the other knights….
“Miss, I am Phyllen. Phyllen. I am often at the mansion, so it will be more convenient to remember my name.”
“No, Sir Phyllen! Isn’t that too much!”
… I wish they would all just disappear because they’re so noisy.
“See you again.”
A chilly voice was heard. It was the Duke.
The feeling of goosebumps ran down my neck as our eyes met.
“Are you going to say you came to see me again today?”
The Duke asked bluntly. His expression did not believe a single word of mine. The suspicion in those eyes made me feel like cold sweat was dripping.
Then Phyllen intervened between us.
“My Lord, you should not lead the young Miss with suggestive questions.”
‘Is that a leading question?’
I looked at Phyllen incredulously.
The Duke glared at Phyllen with cold eyes. From the looks of it, he seemed to think it wasn’t worth answering.
‘He hasn’t noticed, has he?’
“Excuse me, but please be quiet, everyone. Today, the Miss came to me. She even greeted me first?”
“Bart, don’t force it.”
Whether they chatted or not, I became anxious.
Nobody should know the real reason I came out at dawn.
“Miss came to see me. She even waved only to me when she entered the mansion yesterday.”
Chrisi asserted confidently. It was a level that made the momentary tension over absurd words insignificant.
‘…Did I do that?’
Thinking back, it seemed that I had briefly turned around to reassure the Duke before entering the mansion.
Anyway, they are all wrong; they are all misunderstanding.
“That’s not true!”
My words made the surroundings instantly silent. Everyone’s eyes were fixed on me.
Their eyes were filled with question marks.
‘Why did you come out at this time?’ it seemed they were all asking.
I put my bag down with an awkward feeling and hesitantly pulled out a cookie and approached the Duke.
“What’s this?”
The Duke bent down to meet my eyes. I handed him the cookie, saying,
“This is for you, Duke….”
“I suppose so.”
The Duke calmly accepted the cookie. As he took it, other knights crowded behind him.
“Miss, what about mine?”
“Miss, I like cookies too!”
“Nothing beats a daughter after all…”
I couldn’t hear what the others were saying.
I, who had my precious cookie snatched away by the Duke for the second time, turned around weakly.
“I’ll be going now…”
Then the Duke’s voice was heard again.
“Chrisi, go and see if she’s going properly to her room.”
“Yes, I understand!”
A knight of slender stature approached me at the Duke’s command.
“Shall we go together, Miss?”
He had a handsome face that anyone would find attractive.
“I would have thought the Duke’s family must choose the knights based on their looks,” I might have thought at any other time.
But I had no time to think such things now.
“I’ve been wasting cookies for two days.”
That was the only thought that floated around in my head.
[This is a time separator.]The place where Kylius headed early in the morning today was the Wisted Guild, managed by the Duke’s house.
The Wisted Guild, organized by Kylius, included both the noble families under the Duke and the commonborn merchants who had been living near Hesera.
The establishment of the guild was for the efficient management of Hesera’s resource production rights. Therefore, regardless of one’s status, anyone could call a meeting if there was a suitable agenda.
In principle, that was the case, but in reality, meetings were rarely called. As soon as the meeting was summoned, the Duke would have to attend.
Naturally, the merchants were extremely reluctant to fall out of favor with the Duke, even a little.
However, unlike such people, Count Rife, who suddenly requested a meeting from dawn, showed no signs of watching the Duke’s face.
“So, Count Rife, what’s the reason for conducting this meeting?” the Duke asked in an indifferent tone. Count Rife cleared his throat and opened his mouth.
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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