“Madam.”
“……”
“Madam, we have arrived. Would you open your eyes if you’re feeling okay?”
Bianca’s eyelashes quivered at the gentle whisper that tickled her ears, and her big eyes soon revealed themselves.
“Will you get up now? We have arrived at the duke’s estate.”
What did he say?
“Arrived……?”
Bianca, who finally understood Gillian’s words after a while, let out a small moan.
“Ah……”
Fell asleep?
“I can carry you, but I’m sure you’d be bothered by that.”
Gillian added, putting his hand behind his neck to lift Bianca up.
The blanket that had been covering her body slipped off, and Bianca instinctively clung to Gillian, a chill running down her spine.
Hmm.
It was only for a moment that she tensed up at the small, slender body that touched her, as Gillian naturally wrapped Bianca in the blanket.
He could have held her in his arms, but he seemed to think that Bianca wouldn’t want that.
Because.
“We have arrived at the duke’s estate. Everyone is out to greet you.”
“The duke’s estate?”
Focus returned to the still halfasleep Bianca’s eyes.
Gillian opened the carriage door with a short laugh.
As soon as the door opened, a breathstopping cold wind rushed in, but instead of shivering, Bianca calmly took his offered hand and stepped down from the carriage.
It was surprising enough to wake up, but to receive the greetings of the servants as soon as she opened her eyes!
She might not have shown it, but Bianca was quite tense.
She had been trained in social etiquette while living as a princess, but otherwise, she might have been embarrassingly babbling.
Barely standing straight next to Gillian, it seemed someone was approaching.
“Welcome back, Your Grace.”
“Yes, Madam, this is Heiley, who manages the duke’s estate.”
“Nice to meet you.”
“I am Heiley Armer, the steward in charge of the ceremonies. It is an honor to serve you, Madam.”
It wasn’t too smooth, but with a sufficiently formal and friendly tone, Bianca nodded slightly.
Judging someone by a mere greeting is foolish.
But Bianca quite liked this neatlygroomed steward with brown hair neatly twisted up.
She didn’t even glance around, nor did she subtly sneer.
Her posture was straight, her pronunciation was clear, and her movements were dignified.
She hadn’t seen anyone like this in the imperial city…
“Ah!”
Suddenly, Bianca realized something important.
This was not the imperial city.
There was no reason to mock her here.
But also, this was Barlock’s land.
There was no reason to be friendly to her, the daughter of an enemy.
“Madam. Shall I guide you to your bedroom?”
Bianca stiffened at Heiley’s following words.
With Gillian blatantly by her side, the steward had offered to guide her to her ‘bedroom’?
“That’s……”
“Let’s do that, Madam.”
It was Gillian who stopped Bianca from refusing Heiley.
Words of ‘why’ rose to the tip of her tongue, but Bianca swallowed them down.
Hadn’t she experienced it in Warpjin?
‘It means it’s not a nasty joke to humiliate you.’
“Is it difficult for you to accompany me?”
So, Bianca carefully asked for his explanation.
Could he really not have known that he would surprise her?
He was briefly startled, but Gillian smiled as brightly as if his eyes were not visible.
“Yes, I’ll probably be called soon.”
There was no need to ask for an explanation of the strange answer.
“Your Grace! Monsters have been found on the outer wall of the 7th castle!”
Gillian tapped his ear, looking at Bianca, whose eyes were wide in surprise.
“My ears are a bit sharp.”
Was this considered a little bit?
She hadn’t heard any noise until just a moment ago.
The knight wasn’t even in sight yet.
He must have been shouting as he ran.
Wow.
Bianca was purely astonished.
She thought she knew about Barlock’s abilities that far exceeded those of ordinary people, but hearing it and seeing it firsthand were very different.
Her eyes wide in wonder, Bianca did not know what else to say, but she was sure of one thing: this land, these people, and their extraordinary abilities were unlike anything she had ever experienced.
“Take care on your journey.”
Bianca stepped back from Gillian.
The urgency of the situation was clear.
But Gillian stood still, not moving an inch.
Though it was only a brief time, the Gillian that Bianca had known was a clever and meticulous man.
‘Is it difficult for you to go with me?’
He must have recognized the anxiety in her words.
It was not the time to be playing around when the monsters had appeared.
Bianca took another step back.
Splash.
With the sound of treading on water, her thin shoes quickly began to soak.
“I’ll go in with the bishop. Hurry back. Isn’t the situation urgent?”
“It’s not urgent.”
“But you have to go, right?”
Gillian did not respond.
Bianca waved her hand towards him.
“Come back soon.”
“What on earth is happening that Blat has sent a knight?”
As soon as Bianca was out of sight, Gillian began to ride with the knight.
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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