These past few days, the servants had been busily moving and carrying furniture.
‘Well, the Duke does pay special attention to Clemens.’
Even in the original work, the Duke spared no support for Clemens.
If Clemens had black hair or resembled the Duke even a little, people might have thought him to be the Duke’s biological son.
‘In the original, Clemens would even bake bread from beans if the Duke said so.’
Perhaps the Duke significantly contributed to Clemens becoming a villain.
Objectively speaking, the magical abilities the twins possessed were more precious than those of Clemens.
Clemens may have been proficient in interpreting ancient languages, but that was a skill commonly found among bright children.
On the other hand, the twins were born with an unprecedented amount of magical power.
Yet, the Duke chose Clemens as his successor.
‘Probably because Clemens was more submissive than the twins.’
The twins were difficult to control.
Having been born with so much magical power, there were few who could casually handle them from birth.
As a result, they grew up as loose cannons, causing endless troubles like reducing their surroundings to ashes or collapsing buildings when things didn’t go their way.
That said, it wasn’t that the twins defied the Duke’s orders or disrespected him.
The twins took great pride in the fact that the Duke had chosen them as his adoptive children.
Still, it seemed the Duke thought Clemens to be more suited for succession.
‘Not that the twins had any interest in that position anyway.’
If there had been a struggle between the twins and Clemens for the successor position in the original work, it might have actually been advantageous for the male lead.
He could have just sat back and watched the villains destroy each other.
Unfortunately, the twins were fond of the Duke as much as they were fond of Clemens.
As for Clemens, he had no reason not to be kind to the twins, whose magical powers were unparalleled.
‘Of all things, why do the villains have to get along?’
I grumbled as I moved along.
Returning to the room, I took a nap and woke up.
My throat was dry, so I went to drink water, only to find the bottle in the room completely empty.
‘Water…’
It wasn’t yet evening, so Sophia and Delma had not yet arrived.
Reluctantly, I had to rub my halfclosed eyes and leave the room.
I stepped out of the kitchen after having a cool drink of water with the help of the servants, and noticed a group of people gathering at one end of the spacious living room, displaying clothes.
It was the same man I had seen earlier with a slender build, all dressed in white.
“Madam Basil!”
It seemed she had not met Clements yet as she was still in the living room.
“My, you’ve brought a lot of clothes.”
Hessera was a city even larger than the capital. Its resources were abundant, and it had high potential for development. The city had been neglected solely because of the threat of monsters.
Ever since the Duke drove all the monsters away, Hessera had noticeably developed over the years.
Thanks to this, many people even from the capital had frequently migrated to Hessera.
“Especially those who’ve made mistakes in the royal court, or those who’ve fallen out of favor with the Emperor.”
As far as I knew, Madam Basil had also left the capital for a similar reason.
Though she was skilled, she was also vain and hottempered.
The reason she migrated to Hessera was due to her being caught gossiping behind the Emperor’s back, resulting in a hefty fine.
She felt extremely wronged upon her return.
“Seriously, can you call it treason just because I criticized a woman who isn’t even real royalty?”
Regardless of how wronged she felt, it was only natural that she couldn’t operate her shop in the capital anymore.
“She seems to be adjusting well here, too.”
I knew about this because she would later make clothes for Eliazer and reenter the capital.
“In the original work, her skills were considered among the best in the empire.”
As I walked through the living room, Basil barked orders at her entourage in a sharp voice.
“The young master will be down soon; get ready quickly!”
“No, no! Set it up so the young master can comfortably browse, won’t you?”
“Place the catalog there in front! Lay it out just like I have drawn!”
However, busy as he was, he hadn’t noticed me yet. The whiteclad man stopped abruptly in front of me, holding clothes.
“Oh my, how surprising!”
His robust voice startled me as well.
“What’s this child doing here?”
He briskly moved his hand as if annoyed and walked past me.
“I should avoid being a hindrance.”
I moved aside to let him pass without colliding. But then, suddenly, people started busily going up and down the stairs, setting out fabrics.
I had no choice but to carefully maneuver through the crowd when a man holding a clothes rack suddenly whizzed past me, not seeing me.
“Ah!”
I didn’t collide, but my balance shifted backward. Unknowingly, I stumbled and fell backward, and I heard someone gasp in surprise behind me.
“Ah, could it be…”
Feeling the ground, I realized I had landed on something extremely soft.
As expected, when I glanced back, I found that I had sat down on the fabrics that people had been diligently stacking.
Then, a long cane abruptly appeared next to me.
“My goodness, have you lost your mind?”
The slender cane swung in front of my eyes.
“How dare you sit on my clothes with your filthy bottom?!”
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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