“Young lady! Come over here!”
As I approached the gazebo, one of the young ladies quickly came to my side. I casually initiated the conversation.
“What were you all doing?”
“We were discussing the Duke’s garden. How can there be so many beautiful flowers? It seems meticulously decorated.”
“I’m glad everyone likes it!”
Originally, I wasn’t very fond of this gathering. It wasn’t familiar to me, except for my family members. However, engaging in conversations with peers now made the event not as bad as I initially thought.
Especially, I liked Miguela, the young lady of Viscount Javel’s, who laughed heartily by my side.
“So, there are things like that in the capital too. I sell information I know for money. After confirming the truth of the rumor, I can receive payment.”
“Oh, I see!”
Miguela seemed to notice my increased comfort and casually shared various stories from the capital with me.
“In fact, I was quite surprised when they said there would be a party in Hesera. People only talked about this party when they gathered, and it’s funny that those who said they wouldn’t attend are all here.”
“It seems people in the capital care a lot about appearances.”
Listening to Miguela, it seemed like people in the capital were concerned about maintaining their dignity. She subtly hinted that the hesitation to attend the Hesera party might be due to the fear of being ridiculed.
“Of course, our family has been excited to go since we received the invitation! Our family motto is ‘Go wherever the money is.'”
“Oh, that’s a good motto!”
“Right?”
Miguela and I had quite a lot in common. We chatted amicably and returned to the party. However, unlike before, the atmosphere had become quite serious.
“Perfect timing! Everyone, please look over there at the Lady!”
Aesilwood Jajak, standing among the nobles, accused me. All eyes turned to me.
“Lady, aren’t you carrying the bag alone? There must be my magical stones in the Lady’s bag! Did you see Lady holding my magical stones?”
Aesilwood Jajak rambled while glaring at me, and my father emitted a menacing aura as if he would kill him at any moment.
Clemens and Dayvan noticed my entrance and came closer, blocking the way. It seemed they didn’t want me to get involved in the commotion.
“Diagne, let’s go up to the room together.”
“Yeah, kid, there are too many noisy folks here.”
However, I had actually come expecting something like this to happen.
“I’m fine; I’ve already heard the story. So, Jajak-nim’s words imply that I stole something?”
“Nonsense. We all know you didn’t do that. So, don’t worry about it.”
“But it might not be the same for others.”
The people who would believe me in this situation were only my family and the Duke’s employees.
Just by glancing around, most of the capital nobles seemed skeptical of Aesilwood Jajak’s claim without any reason.
“I’m fine. It’s related to me anyway.”
Upon my words, reluctantly, Clemens stepped aside. Dayvan followed me, muttering harshly.
“Don’t worry, Diagne. We can just kill the brat before he causes any trouble.”
I pretended to be surprised, widened my eyes, and turned around. Upon this, Clemens wrapped his arm around my shoulder and warned Dayvan.
“Dayvan, I told you not to say that kind of thing.”
In response to Clemens’ words, I nodded vigorously.
Clemens, emboldened by my reaction, continued confidently.
“Diagne is scared of such words. I told you to use kind words, didn’t I?”
Kind words?
“Oh, right. Um, then, Diagne, I’ll just break the kid’s arms and legs before he causes any trouble!”
“Yeah, that’s okay.”
“…….”
She seemed terrified of killing people, but it appeared to be fine as long as it wasn’t that.
‘What should I do with these villains…’
I sighed deeply. I had to tell them everything from the beginning.
First, I firmly held Dayvan’s hand with my other hand and walked towards the crowd.
I had to deal with Aesilwood Jajak first.
In fact, I naturally expected that Jajak would know that I stole the magical stones.
‘Because I cast a tracking spell on the magical stones.’
I could know that through Eunbae.
Eunbae, who easily brought the magical stones using invisibility, had been bobbing her head with a puzzled expression, saying:
[Miss, does this seem strange?]‘What is it?’
[There’s magic on it. Hmm… It seems like someone wanted to monitor it.]Hearing that, I immediately thought of the tracking spell. Then, I promptly smashed the magical stones.
The only way for me, who couldn’t handle magic at all, to remove a tracking spell was to destroy the magical stones.
‘Although it was a bit troublesome because Eunbae made a fuss, asking for a new shiny in return.’
Aesilwood Jajak’s gift to my father was enchanted with a tracking spell.
It meant that Aesilwood Jajak had either intended to monitor my father or that someone around Aesilwood Jajak had wanted to keep an eye on my father.
And, it also meant that Aesilwood Jajak had realized right away that I was the culprit.
‘This also means that Jajak also knew that there was a tracking spell on the magical stones.’
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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