I was pushed back a few steps, unable to handle Kirian when he suddenly hugged me.
“Nuna!”
If I were to spend a hundred years with the protagonist of the novel, supporting his flawed character, Kirian’s eyes sparkled excessively.
“You like it that much?”
“Uhhuh!”
“Sigh, in the future, if you try to propose by tossing a few snacks instead of proposing, you’ll become a miserable thing.”
I imagined it. The future Kirian, tossing a cheap gift with an arrogant expression, arrogantly saying, ‘Shall we marry?’.
I clicked my tongue and sent a bland word of comfort to the future female protagonist.
“Heh heh.”
Kirian, not understanding my words, just giggled.
“Marriage? What does that mean?”
At that moment, a resolute voice came from behind.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]The Duchess came closer, carrying a door with a hole in it.
The hole was just big enough for a small child to pass through.
The floor vibrated when the Duchess put down the door, showing how thick and solid it was made of wood.
“Oh, Mother. I’m sorry.”
Seeing the broken door, Kirian fumbled with his fingers, unable to stay calm.
“I was so hasty, I didn’t realize…”
Perhaps finding Kirian’s appearance cute, the Duchess chuckled. She soon composed herself, offering a benevolent smile.
“It’s okay. A small mistake like this can happen. I believe our clever Kirian will remember the existence of the doorknob next time. Fixing the doorknob is simpler than fixing the door.”
The state of the door with a hole didn’t look like a small mistake, but the Duchess was generous.
“However, I’m curious what you two were talking about. I thought I heard the word ‘marriage’.”
Worried that I shouldn’t have made such a statement to Kirian under the serious gaze of the Duchess, I began to worry.
Given that he’s the only son of a noble family, there’s likely nothing more serious than marriage, so
Even if it’s a white lie, I thought it might not be so pleasant from the Duchess’s perspective.
But Kirian, unaware of my hesitant heart, proudly declared with a beaming face, clinging to my side.
“I’m going to marry Nuna.”
The Duchess’s eyes narrowed.
“Oh my. Kirian, you know family members can’t marry.”
Kirian’s eyes began to tremble anxiously.
“Huh?”
The Duchess smiled and confirmed with a smile.
“Even if you love your sister, a sister and younger brother can never marry.”
Kirian’s face twisted in shock.
“I, I can’t speak…!”
As befitting a family with a deep and illustrious history, they seemed to make sure to even acknowledge and dismiss the innocent dreams of children when it came to the serious matter of marriage.
I found myself unknowingly nodding in agreement. I understood the Duchess’s perspective completely.
It was a sensitive and important issue for a noble family, so it needed to be taught no matter how young.
But rather than explain the duty of the future Duke or the traditions of the family, the Duchess began a completely different story.
“Reina sister must marry a man from a good family who is perfect in every way.”
At this, Kirian’s eyes, which seemed they couldn’t possibly get any wider, did.
“You, you’re going to marry another man?!”
“Yes. She should marry the best man in the world.”
The Duchess was consistently serious, but I was able to detect her intent. She wanted to completely cut off Kirian’s dream by making an excuse.
I felt a little embarrassed and covered my ears.
He would meet the heroine later and fall in love like fate, so there was no need to discourage Kirian with such a trite story.
“Ah, no!”
Kirian glanced back and forth between me and the Duchess.
In an instant, I was suddenly lifted into the Duchess’s arms, and Kirian was rolling around in the spot where I had been standing just a second before.
“No way!!”
Thump.
With tears in his eyes, Kirian ran sobbing out of the library.
Through a window, not the door.
I stared blankly at the high window that had been left gaping open.
It’s the third floor here.
But strangely, I wasn’t too worried. If anything hurt, it would be the window that was more painful.
The Duchess seemed to feel the same way, as she muttered briefly, “I’ll have to tell the butler to get a new window,” and set me down.
And, as if she had thought of something, she clapped her hands once.
“The upcoming founding festival will be just right to look for a man who could be our Reina’s husband.”
The Duchess, who would have sent Kirian running again with what she had said, was now talking.
Maybe it was a good thing that Kirian had jumped out of the window. At least there was no way he could hear from the first floor what was being said on the third.
The Duchess was lost in thought, stroking her chin.
“All the imperial nobles will attend, and quite a few will come from abroad, so there will be plenty of choices.”
Seeing her so serious about this, it seemed that her talk of marrying me off was not just to discourage Kirian.
Thinking about it, I realized that I might have been adopted as a pawn for a strategic marriage.
Although I didn’t seem to be a very useful pawn with my ordinary appearance and commoner background, this added one more reason to seek independence sooner.
The Duchess was still muttering to herself.
“No, no. If it’s a child of the same age, you don’t know the future yet. First, you have to explore. Will there be one that fits the bill……”
The Duchess sighed deeply and stroked my head.
“How did we bring our Reina here.”
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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