The memory of the divine beast, as I looked at the unfamiliar scene unfolding before my eyes, I recalled a scene I had read in the original work.
“El, Elaijah! Please listen to me first! The author is lying in bright red now! You’re not believing the raw words of that male author, are you?”
“I do not believe the author’s words, Uncle.”
He was once the emperor of this empire. He was the highest being, having everything in the world under his foot.
Also, he was his only blood relative.
Now, such a person was desperately begging me to believe his words. Elaijah looked down with an emotionless gaze.
“I believe in what I saw that day.”
Behind Elaijah, a faint smoke rose. Through the foreign smoke, red eyes appeared first, followed by a face covered in silver scales.
“Th, that…!”
“It’s a divine beast!”
“His Highness the Crown Prince was a contractee of the divine beast!”
The divine beast manifested. As a contractee, Elaijah stood behind, extending its head, staring at the emperor as if to pierce through him with its eyes.
The emperor, who faced the gaze of the divine beast headon, was stricken with shock. The emperor’s legs gave way, and he collapsed to the floor.
“Did you think, Uncle, that I wouldn’t know about it?”
It was the scene when Elaijah, who had made a contract with the divine beast, tried to punish his uncle, who had tried to kill him.
At that time, Elaijah had caught evidence using the memory of the divine beast, just like now, to find evidence that his uncle had tried to kill him.
‘In the original, people who saw the manifested divine beast were all said to be trembling.’
The appearance of the divine beast that came to me…
‘Well, it doesn’t look like that now because it’s not the main body, right?’
I pushed aside the sudden doubt for now.
Meanwhile, my vision was swiftly moving.
[Look, look. Here are the guys I told you about!]When I landed lightly on the floor, to my surprise, more people were gathered in the basement.
And, as the divine beast said, they all had brown hair and were dressed in black.
‘You’re here? What’s the job?’
‘Do we have our antidote?’
‘Antidote? What’s the antidote all of a sudden?’
‘Bring out the antidote quickly!’
‘Tsk, why is this guy making a fuss as soon as he comes?’
The assassin rummaged through the antidotes his colleagues brought.
Then, he picked up one, quickly rolled up his right sleeve.
‘Give me the one that fits this.’
‘Uh, what is all this? It doesn’t seem like the poison we manage?’
‘If you don’t know, move, I’ll eat it myself.’
The assassin dumped the antidote into his mouth carelessly.
He chewed the pills with a clunking sound, grinding his teeth.
‘Damn, is this all the antidote?’
‘That’s all… but you’d better go back today. The boss is here too.’
‘What? Why are you telling me that now…!’
‘Why, what if I come? Do I have to run?’
Smoke puffed out from the side. The view turned to a man holding a cigarette.
The assassin who saw him showed a noticeably frightened expression.
‘Tw, Boss!’
‘I told you many times, expensive things have a high cost.’
The man called the boss walked towards the assassin. Soon, he grabbed the assassin’s collar.
‘Kuk!’
‘Tsk, if you’re going to die, die alone. Why crawl back here?’
‘Tw, boss, that’s, that’s what I’m saying!’
‘You should have died when you were caught. Huh? Don’t you know that’s the least courtesy to your remaining colleagues?’
That’s when it happened. A loud bang sounded from somewhere.
‘What, what’s that?’
‘What’s this noise?’
‘Can’t be…!’
The man called the boss suddenly turned his head.
During that time, the assassin, who had been caught in his hand, quickly shook off his hand.
‘That bastard!’
The others tried to chase him, but soon everyone stopped as if on cue.
‘Uahaha! You wretches! I’m here!’
The booming voice echoed through the basement. Behind it, someone’s grumbling voice was heard.
‘Can’t we leave that guy out next time?’
‘Sneaking in, what if that brat finds out? Can you handle that? That brat will be sulking for at least three months if you don’t include him.’
‘What, what is this!’
A large man in a black hood blocked the assassin’s way.
‘Damn it, where did these things come from?’
The surprised assassin drew a dagger from his bosom. It was an amazingly quick movement.
Before the assassin’s sword could stab his opponent, another person’s blade pierced his body first.
“Don’t overdo it, and finish quickly, I have to return before sunrise.”
“Well, that’s no fun.”
The large man, who seemed to be joking, quickly changed his expression at the words of his agile colleague who had swiftly dealt with the assassin.
‘Damn it, run!’
At the shout of the assassin’s leader, everyone belatedly realized the situation and began to run toward the exit.
The men in black hoods also scattered and began to chase them.
‘That voice earlier……’
At the moment of trying to recognize the man with the familiar voice, his vision suddenly twisted.
‘I want to see who it is!’
The vision was drawn to the fallen assassin’s bosom.
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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