“I didn’t know. A princess? Everyone in the empire knew.”
“……”
“The reason the princess’s mother died.”
“……”
“Because of that greeneyed woman.”
The princess’s eyes sparkled wickedly as she whispered. At the same time, one of the axes of the world that made up Esella collapsed.
[This is the time separator]“Even if the chandelier falls in Chandler Theater today, it won’t take the front page news about you.”
“That’s, going too far.”
“Of course it’s more than that! You are the lady who was honored by the war hero himself!”
Olivia smiled a little at Sally’s excited words. Of course, the social circles would be noisy, too. That the crown prince’s fiancée had received a vow from another man.
“You didn’t see it earlier, but the delivery men who came today were all huddled at the back door, and they wouldn’t leave. Thanks to that, I became a star since morning! Look at this. Stableman Patter got me these business cards from the reporters to pass on.”
Sally excitedly held out a bundle of cards. They were all gossip papers. Olivia joked,
“So, you plan to contact them?”
“Hey, never! I really trained hard as a dedicated maid.”
Olivia softly smiled at Sally’s vehement head shake. The carriage entered the Ruhayrun street. Olivia listed what she needed to do.
Write a letter to Esella, check for mail, and buy a present for the duke to replace the jewel pin.
Olivia recalled the letter she ended up not writing, feeling awkward to speak about the jewel pin and imagining giving something enormous like a sword.
Whatever it is, it would be nice to ask with a present. What to buy to exchange with Esella’s jewel pin.
As she pondered, the carriage stopped. Olivia tried to get out, but Sally quickly caught the door and spoke with a worried face.
“Lady, of course the knights will be around, but still, many people might crowd around you today. Of course, I’ll protect you!”
“Why be so cautious?”
“Ah, Lady. Seriously.”
Olivia stepped out of the carriage, not taking Sally’s concerns seriously. When she was exactly five steps away, she had to admit Sally was right.
About half of the usually hostile people were looking at her with unfamiliar eyes. Unfamiliar with the gaze, Olivia swallowed her surprise and only looked forward, walking while thinking about something else.
What would a man who had everything need?
It wasn’t a joke; Duke Vicander had everything.
Honor and position, and vast wealth on top of that.
Olivia thought of the taxes that increased every year in Vicander’s domain. Despite increasing taxes from jewel mining, there had never been a delay.
What would really be good? While walking deep in thought, it happened.
“Excuse me, Miss.”
A timid voice called out, and Olivia looked down in surprise. A small girl, about six years old, was looking up at her.
The street became as quiet as if cold water had been splashed on it in an instant. Feeling that silence on her skin, Olivia looked at the child.
The brownhaired child gazed at Olivia with admiring eyes, holding a pretty flower. Sally, who was behind, hadn’t even approached the child when the child spoke with wide eyes.
“Miss, you are the princess, right?”
“The princess?”
“Yes! A princess as pretty as a fairy!”
At the innocently shouted words of the child, Olivia unconsciously covered her face with her hand.
A princess as pretty as a fairy.
Her face flushed at the title she heard for the first time. What did she hear to be called like that? Embarrassed but amusingly, the corners of her mouth kept rising.
It felt as sweet as if honey had been poured in. There were people other than Esella and Sally who found her pretty.
While Olivia didn’t know how to react, the child handed over the flower she was holding. A pink wildflower that seemed to be picked somewhere. Just a single flower, but Olivia took it with slightly trembling hands.
“……Thank you.”
She wanted to say more, but even this word choked in her throat. Somewhere a tense part of her heart melted away.
The child smiled and ran off in the distance. Other children followed, shouting “wa” and the bustling returned to the Rueheiren shopping street.
Olivia stared quietly at the flower. Though she was only holding a single flower, her body no longer shrank from the gazes. Sally looked at Olivia with a sneaky smile.
“You must be pleased. A princess as pretty as a fairy. When will I ever hear such a story?”
“……It’s just something the child said.”
Even clueless Sally knew that the earlobes of the lady speaking nonchalantly were turning red.
Olivia’s eyes rounded like halfmoons. It felt as if a gentle breeze had blown in, and for some reason, her heart was tickled. The pink wildflower in Olivia’s hand fluttered.
“……It’s better to have the same jewel, right?”
“Huh?”
Olivia walked ahead with a bright smile. Towards Madam Deton’s jewelry shop.
.
.
.
The brownhaired child ran into the alley. And spoke to the brownhaired man standing in the alley as if complaining.
“I gave the princess the flower!”
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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