“Where are you going?”
“I’m going to order a hunting outfit. I need to make sure Your Highness looks like the goddess of the hunt that day.”
“Oh my? Have you gone mad?”
Princess Miliora, for the first time, smiled brightly and gestured for me to leave.
And I detested the character ‘철’ (iron).
On the day of the third competition, I also wore a newly tailored hunting outfit and mounted my horse.
My hunting outfit was a gift from Princess Miliora, and after learning its price, I didn’t want to wear it. However, considering the tremendous cost as a measure of her guilt, I found it somewhat bearable.
Rond Gong followed us today in full riding attire, and seeing him on horseback was truly imposing.
Thinking about how he used to sweep through battlefields with such vigor, I wondered how difficult it must have been for him recently. It was a significant mental strain.
It wasn’t just me who felt that way; I saw Princess Miliora glancing at him as if in admiration.
However, when Rond Gong approached her, she looked ahead quietly.
“I’ll be right beside you, so don’t worry, Your Highness.”
“Alright. I’ll do that. Definitely.”
I heard a slight quiver in the voice of Princess Miliora as she spoke. She was scared, and she was relying on him.
Looking at the two, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of pity and wondered what I could do today.
I had often hunted small animals near Tunbar Mountain and was confident in my horseback riding. However, such experiences were worlds apart from the hunting of the imperial family. Today, there was no need for me to take the lead.
So, today, we had to rely on Rond Gong. But I fervently hoped that such a situation would not arise.
When we arrived at the imperial hunting grounds, any forced enthusiasm I had evaporated. We all fell silent without discussing who should go first.
The only presence there was a group of imperial children. Emperor’s presence was absent, and there was only one imperial court musician standing alone, ready to announce the start of the competition.
“It’s just us, Loria. Only our brothers and us are here!”
The fear in Princess Miliora’s voice was contagious even to me.
‘Only us.’ That meant that even if the imperial princes did something violent here today, there was no one to stop them. Whatever happened, the court musician would say he saw nothing.
Without realizing it, I found myself thinking of the tragic history of the elder brothers of the previous generations. The feeling at my fingertips became cold.
‘What on earth is the intention of the Emperor?’
I noticed that Rond Gong was also groping the hilt of his sword while looking at the scene. Far away, the expressions of Kaiadel Gongja and Grand Prince Gracian were not different from ours.
Although they were the strongest in terms of military power, they seemed uneasy because they couldn’t understand the Emperor’s intentions.
My gaze spontaneously shifted to the person who seemed to be standing alone, away from the tense atmosphere.
Orel Gong, adorned in the most splendid hunting attire among the men, sat on the horse with an elegant demeanor, his expression exuding calmness.
He looked at the 2nd Prince and our group in turn, but his gaze felt uncomfortable, as if he were scrutinizing objects. Remembering the provocation Orel Gong had directed at Princess Miliora last time, I tensed up.
In the meantime, Rond Gong shifted his horse to stand in front of Princess Miliora, shielding her from Orel Gong’s gaze. Watching him directly face Orel Gong’s scrutiny, I broke into a cold sweat.
However, Rond Gong maintained a poker face. He seemed unafraid of Orel Gong.
“Nice to see you again, Rond Gong!”
As I looked at him admiringly, I felt a gaze directed at me and turned around. Kaiadel Gongja was staring at me.
“What’s up today?”
I turned my head as if shrugging off the question, and then realized his gaze held concern.
Even this confident man seemed tense now; I couldn’t help but feel a sense of fear. Damn.
Princess Miliora spoke, “With the Emperor absent, what should we do among ourselves? Maid, speak.”
“Your Highness, please calm down.”
“Am I calm now? Now, what does the Emperor want from us…”
He might be pushing us into the circular arena.
I filled in the words she hesitated to say.
Is it a beast hunt or a brother hunt?
At that moment, Orel Gong’s group entered between Grand Prince Gracian and us.
Orel Gong spoke with a powerful voice, “It seems today His Majesty wants to see only the results, not the process. Isn’t that right, Gracian?”
“Your Highness is correct. Since he commanded us to participate in the hunt, it would be appropriate to go hunting.”
“Uncle is right.”
Princess Miliora, trying not to appear intimidated among the imperial princes, spoke boldly.
Grand Prince Gracian asked, “Then, what do you suggest we catch today, Your Highness?”
Orel Gong then gazed sharply at Princess Miliora.
“You decide, Miliora. Today, the most disadvantaged is you.”
“But I have Rond Gong with me.”
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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