“Hmm.”
“The negotiations with Agael regarding iron ore are already finished, and all the smelting experts have moved to the Tagar land. While one might criticize Prince Greian’s recklessness, no one can ignore the achievements he has made. Instead, the people will admire his decisiveness and courage.”
“……”
“The hero of Amataeon continued to engage in heroic battles even after returning.”
I looked at him intently and asked, “So, will you withdraw from me now?”
Prince Caidel had an expression that seemed to want to counter my words, but after a while, he opened his eyes wide as if realizing something.
“Was everything Prince Greian’s heroic plan?”
“Kalin Ancard willingly risked ten million gold for the Empire’s benefit.”
A sly smile appeared on Prince Caidel’s lips, tinged with a conspiratorial laugh.
“Then Ancard will be rejected by Prince Orril. Whether it’s true or not, as long as people believe that Ancard supports Prince Greian, Orril won’t be able to keep her by his side.”
“And Prince Greian seems to treat her like hell! If I have to say it explicitly, you claim that Prince Greian, for the sake of revenge, took care of the pirate you’ve been tracking. It’s true, isn’t it?”
“Like hell…?”
“Ignore it! Kalin Ancard and others like her will roll in their bedsheets in anger, unable to sleep, right?”
I let out a sigh of relief as he accepted my proposal. However, he continued, “But I told you before. I have a bit of an obsession.”
“Your whereabouts after this competition will be mine, I know that.”
“Wait. Prince?”
But Prince Caidel turned around, raising a gust of cold wind with his departure.
“Haah.”
I sat on the bench, feeling relieved, and a nervous laugh escaped me.
Mountain breeze, clear sky, cheerful chirping of birds.
The messy conspiracy only prevailed in the human world.
As I walked back to my room, Eria informed me of Princess Hwanye’s summons.
I took a deep breath in the hallway to compose myself. Although I had finally separated Prince Caidel, there was no sense of relief.
“Did you call for me, Princess Hwanye?”
She sat on the sofa, casting a sidelong glance at me. I felt slightly tense because I had never seen such an expression after our recent improved relationship.
Seeing me being cautious, she spoke.
“You look tired.”
“No, Your Highness. I’m fine.”
“If you went to your family for personal matters, you should work diligently afterward. What are you doing?”
“I apologize, Your Highness.”
I tried to recall if I had made any mistakes, but nothing came to mind. However, in such situations, it was more comfortable to apologize first.
“So, how was Misha Loar’s coming-of-age ceremony?”
“It was splendid. Misha even played the violin.”
“Oh, really? By the way, why did Misha get angry because you and Prince Caidel didn’t come to her ceremony?”
“……!”
Princess Hwanye tossed the envelope containing Loar’s letter in front of me.
Opening it, I found a letter from Misha, expressing her anger that Prince Caidel and I did not attend her coming-of-age ceremony.
With criticism about whether I taught you dance for this purpose, along with inquiries about the two of us being absent together and the guests’ reactions, and suspicions about the integrity of my mental health, I didn’t forget anything.
Miliara spoke with a trembling voice, “Prince Rocared? What did the two of you lie about and do together outside the palace? It seems you even rode a carriage together!”
“Well, since we had the same destination, for the sake of saving resources……”
“Lorisha!”
I looked up at the sky in panic.
I had just successfully separated Ancard from Prince Caidel and was pleased, but now Misha threw a bomb!
Suddenly, I thought of my mother.
I quickly nodded and said, “Princess, please understand. The situation is complicated…”
“Speak up, tell me about this complicated situation.”
“……”
Under the sharp inquiry of Princess, I tightly sealed my lips.
The incident where Prince Caidel defeated the remaining pirates on the outskirts of the capital would soon be reported in the newspapers.
But I couldn’t say that I was there.
If I mentioned that I was involved in what Prince Caidel did, Greian would send an assassin after me, the one he was planning to send to Kalin Ancard!
Moreover, I couldn’t predict how Princess would react.
I would have to endure suspicions that I, in a state of panic, had an illicit affair with Prince Caidel overnight.
“Do you know about the rumors circulating about you?”
“……!”
“I found out because it seemed suspicious. Do you know how messed up it was? It’s so messed up that I can’t even say it out loud. The reason he didn’t attend Misha Loar’s coming-of-age ceremony is said to be because you seduced him, trying to ruin the coming-of-age ceremony for the princess?”
“Me?”
I was dumbfounded, and Princess Hwanye was scornful.
“I’ve never believed that you could seduce Prince Caidel, Lorisha. You and he are as different as heaven and earth. But now, I’m not so sure.”
I felt so unjust that tears welled up unknowingly.
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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