“……I don’t know what to say first. So please go ahead first. I will be guarding the entrance.”
Howard spoke in a cracking voice. Despite the quivering sound, there was not a single shake in his bowed posture.
A little while ago, after confirming that Edwin, who had passed through the mine entrance, was fine, Howard froze on the spot, his face filled with confusion, going back and forth inside and outside the mine entrance several times.
Each time he went back and forth, Howard, with a disbelieving face and an expression ready to cry, finally chose to bow his head without showing a crying face.
Olivia, who had been watching him, naturally thought her place was beside Howard.
“Edwin won’t be disturbed while he’s looking at the mine. So, just this once, come with me.”
I’ve told Edwin several times not to disturb him while he’s looking at the mine.
So my role was to deliver the magical necklace to Edwin, and calm my startled heart while waiting for him.
It was when Olivia was about to raise her hand once again to remove the necklace.
A large and sturdy hand carefully grabbed Olivia’s right hand. Inside the touching palms, the pulse throbbed quickly.
She couldn’t even tell if the erratic beating sound was her heartbeat or Edwin’s.
Startled, Olivia, unlike the affectionately smiling Edwin, twitched the corners of her mouth.
“Then wait here for a while.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
Edwin leaned slightly towards Howard and added something.
It was a voice so low that even Olivia next to him couldn’t hear, but Howard seemed to understand and nodded slightly. Howard’s clenched fist trembled.
The cold moonlight briefly illuminated Howard’s face. The redhot tip of his nose was still a tearful face.
Olivia pretended not to see and looked inside the mine. The dark inner path that she had passed by last time vividly came to mind. Maybe it would be better for me, who knows the way well, to go with Edwin alone.
“Shall we go?”
“Together?”
“Of course.”
The fact that he held my hand meant he really wanted to go with me. I was a little flustered by something I had only thought about internally.
Edwin lightly led Olivia. As Olivia stepped into the mine, she spoke very softly to Howard.
“……Don’t worry, Interfield Knight. We’ll be back soon.”
It was a word for Howard, but at the same time, a word for myself.
I knew this crystal mine better than anyone. Even where the bottom of this mine is slippery.
Leaving briefly, now it’s natural to say I’ll be back wherever I go.
Here is where I will return, Vicander.
As Olivia was about to move again, a gloomy voice, carried by the wind, reached Olivia.
“……Yes, Miss. Have a, safe trip.”
(This is a time divider.)
Olivia remembered how bleak and chilly this mine was inside. This place, so icy, felt warm as if it wrapped around her body today.
It must be because of the magical necklace that keeps the body temperature.
Olivia fumbled for the clasp of the necklace behind her neck with her free hand. Perhaps because she did it with one hand, the clasp did not catch properly.
“What’s the matter? Are you uncomfortable?”
“No, it’s just that,”
The clasp came loose with the hand fumbling behind her neck. And at that moment, Olivia’s eyes widened.
The magical necklace certainly fell into the palm of her hand from her neck, but there was no chill, and her body was still warm.
“Edwin, is this mine… not cold?”
“Were you cold? Just a moment.”
Misunderstanding her words, Edwin was about to take off the robe he was wearing with his free hand.
Olivia quickly extended her left hand, holding the magical necklace.
“That’s not it, the mine should be a little cold…….”
Olivia recalled a year ago, but Edwin, smiling broadly, shook his head as if thinking of a universal mine.
“Seems like it’s always been this way here. Although I couldn’t come back since I was too young, unlike other mines where I wore a thick robe, here I just used to go in.”
Always?
Olivia looked into the crystal mine with confused eyes.
Something was different from a year ago. What could be happening?
Olivia soothed her heart where excitement and anxiety coexisted, and holding Edwin’s hand, she walked into the mine along the path she knew.
The deeper they went, the greener the magic stone in Olivia’s tightly clenched left palm glowed.
The sparkle of the magic stone resonated as if with something and grew faster, but the light hidden by the palm went unnoticed by anyone.
.
.
.
The mine branched into a total of thirteen passages.
The stone path stretched straight until the branching point appeared. Somewhere, the clear sound of dripping water echoed.
The deeper they entered, the moonlight at the entrance diminished and finally disappeared. Even when eyes got used to the darkness, walking adeptly inside the mine was almost impossible.
So Olivia naturally thought that she should lead the way.
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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