Ella, who was nearby, also raised her eyebrows.
She rarely missed social gatherings, but the dress Nia was wearing wasn’t made by her.
Feeling annoyed that the dress was deliberately entrusted to another designer, Ella snorted.
From her perspective, it was the most splendid and eye-catching dress, but when Asha lowered her gaze, she noticed faint bruise marks on the exposed arm.
Whether aware of her gaze or not, Nia awkwardly smiled, slightly moving her arm back to hide the injury.
Upon closer inspection, she was beautiful, but there was something ailing her.
Asha could see it at a glance.
Those who had experienced pain instinctively recognized others who had suffered similar pain.
Asha greeted her casually.
“Nia Yeonga, nice to meet you.”
“I’m truly honored to meet Baronessa. So, I’ve prepared a gift.”
Nia extended a gift box with a smile full of pretense.
“What’s this?”
“Oh, a gift! How thoughtful. We’re so curious about what the gift is. Baronessa, please open it!”
Noble young ladies also gathered around with curious faces, urging her on.
Asha, surrounded by them, opened the box.
But her expression stiffened as the revealed gift was a ‘bow.’
Nia smiled and said, “I heard Baronessa was part of a hunting group before becoming an imperial butterfly. Perhaps you’re more interested in hunting than crafts?”
The surrounding noble young ladies stifled coughs.
There was subtle disdain and contempt in her words.
Hunting was considered an ignoble hobby for noble ladies, and there had never been a empress with such a hobby in history.
Thinking another interesting incident was happening, other young ladies burst into laughter, joining in.
“I didn’t know Baronessa liked hunting!”
“I heard she likes horseback riding too. It must be a bit inconvenient without that gray horse by your side.”
They seemed to have said it too blatantly, but their eyes widened, and soon, they burst into laughter among themselves.
Asha was the only one standing still without laughing.
Because the blatant intention to openly announce that she had left the emperor and played with wild horses was evident.
From the beginning, this tea party was never meant to find a maid.
By the expressions alone, it was evident that no one here wanted to be her maid.
Or perhaps, they didn’t even know who would be chosen as the reluctant maid, turning her daily life into an enjoyable conversation spot each time.
Asha tightly grasped a bow made of luxurious wood in her hand.
The bow deliberately had a gray hue, as if intending to evoke the image of a Shapie.
If she lost her temper and expressed her anger to them now, she would become the only woman agitated by anger.
In a situation where everyone was in agreement, it was an easy task to make one normal person appear insane.
But although she was accustomed to insults directed at herself, enduring being scorned and ignored due to her own actions was unbearable.
At the moment when she was about to speak with a resentful look…
“…Everyone, evacuate now!”
The Duke’s guards urgently ran from a distance.
However, he quickly screamed, blood splattering, and fell.
In the abrupt situation, everyone froze for a few seconds, then soon screamed loudly.
Asha looked in that direction with trembling eyes.
Behind the guard, a monstrous creature, resembling a giant tick, clung to his body, sucking his blood.
The creature’s abdomen wriggled each time its mouth moved.
This shocking situation had never happened in the past.
While there were occasional rumors of monsters being found in the empire, they had never appeared in the capital.
Even though it hadn’t blossomed into a full flower, it was still Karaf’s protected land.
One of the main reasons the flower empire had to bloom was precisely to be safe from attacks by monsters.
Especially in Etsheim, the Empire of Flowers, monsters mainly manifested in forms that harmed flowers like aphids or pests.
The noble young ladies, faces turned pale, rushed mindlessly to the mansion.
Some of them were so startled that they stumbled and fell, but there were no young ladies helping each other; each was focused solely on escaping.
At that moment, another type of disgusting insect-like monster, seemingly targeting Nia, appeared, quickly running over the fence.
The sight of its creepy legs moving aimlessly sent shivers down the spine.
Perhaps due to wearing an extravagant and uncomfortable dress, Nia’s running speed was slower than the other young ladies.
She seemed to be caught by the monster in no time.
Asha calmly aimed the bow she had received as a gift toward her.
Honestly, it was annoying, but leaving her to die was also unpleasant.
If she died, Kiam Delphinium would openly become an enemy of the empire, shooting herself as an enemy.
She was tired of avoiding troublesome situations.
Asha shot an arrow towards where Nia was.
The arrow, surrounded by golden wind, created a whirlwind and accurately pierced the monster’s throat as it flew towards the mouth.
Simultaneously released from the monster, Nia collapsed on the ground.
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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