In the midst of growing up, Nazhi stuffed bread into his mouth and immediately stretched out on the load, falling asleep.
Jackal thickly laid wolf fur on the floor and said to Asha,
“You should close your eyes for a while. You must have been very tense today.”
“Ah, yes. Thank you……”
Asha lay down using the load as a pillow.
Everyone had to replenish their strength as much as possible to fend off pursuit, so they went straight to bed without any chatter.
But Jackal, in order to protect the members of the organization, did not sleep alone but leaned at the cave entrance and quietly watched the outside.
The knights would probably be taking turns keeping watch and searching the surroundings even at this time.
Even in a cave, there was a high probability of being detected if a fire was lit.
A single flicker of light, reacting even to smoke, was a hunter’s instinct.
To escape pursuit and run away as safely as possible, this level of discomfort had to be endured.
The members of the organization, despite shivering from the cold, did not complain and forced themselves to sleep.
Asha, too, shivered between dreams and reality, but suddenly felt an extra blanket thrown over her.
Without looking, she knew by the familiar feeling that it was Jackal.
When Asha’s body warmed up, she finally fell asleep as if fainting.
Jackal confirmed that she had fallen asleep and then walked back to the cave entrance.
He sat with his back against the wall and one knee up, his arm resting on it, as the lieutenant quietly approached.
Jackal looked out and said,
“Lieutenant.”
“Yes. Speak, Captain.”
“What are your thoughts on men who risk their lives for women?” Jackal asked so seriously that the lieutenant answered with a suppressed smile,
“I think it’s foolish.”
“……”
“But I don’t think it’s worthless.”
Jackal turned his head and looked at him sharply. The lieutenant said with a faint smile,
“The value of life changes depending on what it is based on.”
Somehow, he was saying something similar to Asha.
Jackal withdrew his gaze and said,
“That helped.”
“Is that so? I’m glad.”
The lieutenant grinned.
Jackal looked at him intently and opened his mouth heavily,
“Lieutenant. Though it’s late, I have something I must say to you.”
“What is it?”
“Follow me.”
His eyes were so serious that the lieutenant followed him out of the cave without a word.
[This is the time separator]Asha stood alone, dazed in the midst of a vivid yet unreal landscape, unable to distinguish whether it was reality or a dream.
Arrows rained down like showers, and the oncewhite snowfields were filled with bright red blood, looking like the midst of hell.
Around her, the knights’ shouts and the screams of the Lycaons constantly rang in her ears.
‘Sister! Quickly, over there……!’
Nazhi’s urgent voice came from somewhere.
But the moment she looked in that direction, as if time had slowed, Asha’s eyes widened slowly.
A long arrow flew right before her eyes, piercing Nazhi’s face, going right through it…
Nazhi’s eyes widened as he fell to the side with his mouth agape.
Asha covered her ears with both hands and let out a sharp scream.
Soon after, the lieutenant and Gebve were pierced by the knights’ spears and swords, and many Lycaon bodies rolled at her feet.
Asha could not move from her spot.
At that moment, she suddenly saw a man fighting fiercely against a group of knights in the distance.
It was Jackal.
He turned to look at her and shouted,
‘Run, Asha……!’
But at that moment, a long arrow flew into his chest, deep, and stuck.
His body staggered, and blood dripped from his mouth.
‘No……!’
Asha screamed and then opened her eyes, returning to reality.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw the dark cave wall, and tears flowed down both sides of her eyes.
Asha looked at the ceiling, panting heavily.
She was still lying on the cave floor, and the surrounding area was filled with sleeping members of the organization.
In reality, she hadn’t screamed, fortunately, it seemed no one had awoken from their sleep.
But the scattered sleeping figures here and there reminded her of eyes rolling around in the snow.
Asha quickly shook her head, trying to completely escape from that scene, but the vivid dream’s ominousness spontaneously overwhelmed her.
In fact, in her past life, Rikaon had faced a miserable end, being punished by the Cactus Knights.
Maybe that time had come a little earlier.
Because she had entered Rikaon…
If it was once a minority village, this time, Rikaon might be annihilated.
Death’s shadow always followed her.
Asha wrapped her body with both arms and shivered. Despite the cold, her body was filled with cold sweat.
Then suddenly, the sleeping Jackal caught her eye.
He had covered her with all the extra blankets, and himself had fallen asleep with only a thin cloth.
The sight of him curled up and asleep in the cold looked pitiful.
Asha’s eyes drooped sadly as she reached out to him.
Then, at that moment, a voice came from the cave entrance.
“… Are you awake?”
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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