Misha seems to have gone mad.
I stood there with my mouth open, unable to come up with any words. Meanwhile, Misha disappeared.
I attempted to change into dry clothes, dampened by Misha, but fatigue overcame me, and I sprawled on the bed.
“Could it be that Misha praised me?”
I absentmindedly pinched my cheek. But it hurt to the extent that it was irritating.
After chuckling lightly and taking a deep breath, the room seemed to be slightly smaller than before.
Perhaps I had unknowingly become aware of a broader world.
That naive Misha also grew up amidst hardships, wars were fought in far-off places, and the nobles were struggling for their destinies—a real world happening somewhere out there.
I slept in until the next morning. I didn’t know I could sleep so well.
In the palace, with so many eyes watching, I naturally woke up on my own. I must have been tense all this time.
While having the meal that Teria brought to my bed, I chatted with her. Like ordinary people, Teria was curious about the happenings inside the palace.
While having an interesting conversation, suddenly Teria’s eyes widened as if they were about to pop out.
“Teria, why… Kuk!”
“Miss, miss?”
“Get out, get out. Teria, don’t tell anyone about this! It’s okay. Well, not okay, but anyway!”
“Really? Should I call someone…?”
“Teria, please! Absolutely don’t say anything, understood?”
Even in this situation, Teria exhibited a sense of professionalism. Probably the reason she whispered the question instead of screaming was that her eyes were wide open, likely caught off guard.
“Yes, yes! So, about tea…”
Meanwhile, Kaidel Gongja, who had jumped off my balcony, answered while brushing off his clothes.
“Just make it simple. Thanks.”
“Yes. There’s something I brought in yesterday… Well…”
After Teria left, I was still sitting there blankly.
I just gripped the tray in front of me tightly. There were a few things I wanted to do, but none of them were non-violent.
Kaidel Gongja, after glancing at my tense eyes and arms, subtly stepped back behind the sofa.
“Breakfast is late today. Miss Loar.”
“Am I Loar today?”
“I want to give you some distance. Considering the time and place, isn’t your outfit inappropriate?”
He even blushed slightly and averted his gaze while saying that.
A wry smile escaped from me.
“Me? Am I inappropriate now?”
“Wear a gown. It will be much more helpful.”
“What does it help with?”
As I retorted, he averted his gaze and cleared his throat as if it were nothing.
“I want to see less of your figure given the current time and place. Isn’t that a reasonable request?”
“Reasonable? What did you just say…?”
As I raised my voice, he averted his gaze and coughed as if he had done something wrong.
“In the current circumstances, I’d like to see less of your body. Isn’t that a reasonable demand?”
“Lower your voice.”
He sat on the sofa, crossed his legs, and unfolded the newspaper I hadn’t read yet.
Anyone who saw us might think it was a peaceful morning for a couple.
‘What in the world…’
I continued my meal, trying to control my breath.
Perhaps he wanted to live. If I didn’t completely fill my stomach, I wouldn’t be able to handle the energy needed to fight with Kaidel Gongja later.
Kaidel Gongja glanced at me from time to time. Occasionally, he looked at the door, seemingly waiting for Teria.
Is it because of a hungry stomach? Is it because it’s before a meal?
Why would he jump over the women’s room window in the pre-dinner breeze…
The eagle spitting fire, the great successor of Kaidelga.
After a while, Teria knocked on the door.
“Miss…?”
Kaidel Gongja, looking pleased, put down the newspaper when Teria entered and placed a tray on the table.
“I prepared a little… snack.”
A snack!
Teria giggled admiringly at Kaidel Gongja’s face and stumbled over her words.
What could I do seeing that? I could only force a bitter laugh.
After glancing back and forth at us, Teria left, and silence fell in the room.
However, he enjoyed tea and cookies on my sofa with great satisfaction. Humans can be so carefree.
After finishing the meal, I carefully put down the spoon. It seemed much easier to suppress the excitement now that my stomach was full.
And after somewhat accepting this horrific situation.
I pushed the dining tray aside and said.
It was time to start.
“Good morning, Kaidel Gongja.”
“Good morning, Miss Loar.”
“Loar?”
“Seeing you now, you seem much calmer. Can I call you Risha now?”
“No.”
“My teacher said that women like nicknames. Looks like he was wrong.”
“Just kill that teacher of yours.”
He blinked for a moment before speaking.
“That’s difficult. Because he’s an instructor.”
“Ah, Kaidelga’s gift. That teacher.”
“Yes.”
“What did he say about me again?”
“He doesn’t know about you. Knights surprisingly don’t talk much about women… Hmm, anyway, he came in through the balcony because he thought you might want to explain our relationship to the Countess.”
Explain? Explain? Ugh…
“You’re very considerate, Gongja.”
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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