It was about 6 years ago, or maybe 5 years ago. I can’t even remember. Anyway, it was some time in between.
In the days when there was no such name as ‘Rud’ and Nari wasn’t even aware that her own skill could have such a negative impact on others, there was a time.
Unable to control the suddenly acquired power, following the advice of the Chaos Master, Nari created a sub-character avatar, turned it upside down, and practiced skills in an empty gate.
A gate exploded inside a school, and since it was late at night and no one could report it, only Nari could be present at the scene.
Since it was a midnight school, there were no survivors, so the Chaos Master specially sensed and informed, allowing entry into the gate.
Rud, who was testing his strength by cutting monsters as he pleased in the cave-shaped gate, at this point, encountered a boy lying quietly inside as ‘Nari’s sub-character.’
Wearing a neat black vest with a blue tie. The name engraved on the nameplate was hidden under the jacket.
“What’s this, a corpse? Am I seeing a kid’s corpse as soon as I enter the gate?”
As Rud cautiously approached, wondering why there was a corpse, the boy suddenly opened his eyes.
“Ah!! Oh, my. S-Scared me! Jeez, my heart. You startled me!!”
The man who let out a surprised scream grabbed his heart and leaned against the wall. The boy looked at him with a blank expression.
Under the jet-black hair, the blue eyes shone unusually, but the male student exuded a strangely gloomy and somber atmosphere.
“What’s with you, Snow White? Why are you acting like that?”
Rud, wiping his face once, claiming that his heart almost dropped, sighed as if spitting out words. The boy still silently stared at him.
“If you found a gate, report it and run away. What’s this nonsense? Are you doing this because you’re a high school senior? If you want to sleep, go home and sleep. I’ll send you off.”
“I don’t really care if I die here.”
The male student spoke while closing his eyes again. His calm voice had an indifferent tone.
“It’s so difficult, and I don’t know why I have to live like this. I don’t even know why I was born. So, that’s how it is. Don’t bother about it.”
Rud opened his eyes slowly. With a tsk, he clicked his tongue and scratched his sideburns with a frown.
“Some people live without knowing about that kind of thing. Just live.”
“No, I feel like I was born wrong.”
“Why?”
“All the adults say that. I need to be fixed. But I don’t know how to fix myself. So, it’s clear that I’m fundamentally wrong.”
Although clearly immature, the hollow voice echoed around the cave. Accompanied by a creaking sound, the shadow of a large soldier ant loomed behind Rud.
The soldier ants swarmed in, pushing their sharp mandibles forward and staring at the two. The boy closed his eyes as if sensing imminent death.
“So, being discarded is the answer. Everyone will surely like it. Because if you die in the gate, there won’t even be a corpse….”
Although he said that, perhaps fearing death, the male student’s hands, placed on Na-ri’s abdomen, exerted force, visible in Na-ri’s eyes. Moreover, his voice trembling as he uttered the last words.
Thinking about the gruesome fate of being bitten to death by soldier ants made it horrifying.
Considering how painful it would be to die with the upper and lower body separated by a Dungang bite, the boy exerted more force until his fingertips turned white.
“Oh?”
To confirm the situation, the boy, who had opened his eyes cautiously, suddenly stood up. A hunter in an unfamiliar black color emitted psychic power, and the soldier ants were cut into pieces.
The boy stared at the man with vacant eyes. Wiping the black half-scissors covered in ant bodily fluids with a cloth, the man looked at the boy.
“You’re a really kind kid.”
“Uh… huh? Yes? Yes?”
The boy’s expression, convinced that the man, judging by his physique and skills, was a supporter-class hunter who couldn’t help him, wavered for the first time. The man’s indifferent eyes pierced through him.
“I haven’t lived for a long time, but you know what I’ve felt in the 19 years I’ve been alive? Oh, of course, I’m about to turn twenty.”
“You’re nineteen?”
The man, despite looking like he could be in his early to mid-20s, blinked as if the boy couldn’t believe him.
He had thought the man was an adult, but it turned out they were both high school students. The man made a somewhat irritated expression.
“Did you commit a crime?”
“No.”
“Did you curse at or hit someone else?”
“No… I haven’t seen that.”
“Then just ignore what others say and live. If that’s the extent, your personality seems fine. What’s the problem?”
The boy blinked his eyes several times at the neat man’s words. Then, he spoke urgently.
“No, it’s not like that. Just… everyone says that! How can you ignore it?! They’re adults!”
“What do you want to do then? Can’t change it. Do you want to kill those who say such things? You don’t seem like the type for that.”
“…Kill them? No, not to that extent.”
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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