Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 165
After Prince Alfonso left, Ariadne lived even more diligently than before.
She woke up precisely on schedule every day and forced herself to eat, whether her stomach felt good or not. If she vomited later, that was a problem for later.
She adhered strictly to her timetable, completed the day’s duties, attended every indispensable social event, and carved out the remaining time to study.
Recently, she had been looking into sections of theological texts concerning miracles and wonders. Though often dismissed as mere anecdotes or tales intended to instruct children and the unlearned—lacking scholarly value—she wasn’t reading them for theological enlightenment anyway.
‘A soft, bright glow resting on the tip of my finger.’
The sparkling light Ariadne had seen continued to faintly shimmer even after settling on the tip of her right hand—a weak glimmer so subtle that, to anyone else, it would appear as if she had sprinkled decorative diamond dust on her fingernails.
Yet, no one besides Ariadne could see this light at all.
“Huh? I don’t see anything different between your right and left hands, miss…”
Starting with Sancha, she had shown it to her own people like Anna and Giuseppe, priests from San Ercole Cathedral—even tried with the old Gypsy woman renowned for her wisdom in Campo de Spezia—but deliberately avoided showing it to Cardinal de Mare, who clearly lacked any trace of piety. None of them could see the glow on her fingertip.
‘What could have caused this?’
It caused no pain or discomfort, yet she felt it must have some purpose.
‘If it’s white and shimmering, it must be healing power!’ With that thought, she went to the stable and held her fingertip toward an injured horse, but nothing happened. It didn’t seem to help her bond with animals either—on the contrary, she nearly got kicked by a horse annoyed by her sudden intrusion.
She gave up on becoming a fairy-tale princess and decided to set aside this unsolved mystery for now.
‘While Alfonso is away, I’ll just do what I can.’
He would fight his battles. She would fight hers while waiting for him. Ariadne resolved that when she saw Alfonso again, she would have nothing to be ashamed of in his eyes.
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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I’m still curious of what Alphonso meant by the last chapter
I’m still curious of what Alphonso meant by the last chapter
So Alphonso is misunderstanding now?