It felt a gentle pressure as if a wide band was wrapped around her thigh. The source of that pressure was the end of the cloth pressed by his knee.
“I had no intention of marrying originally……”
Smack. The sound of a kiss resonated in her ear. The place he touched was her hand beside her ear.
“To think I would marry someone so tempting.”
Thus speaking, he looked at Beril, who suddenly gazed back. He did not seem displeased. Rather, he looked elated.
Can she rest easy for now?
In her past second life, as soon as the wedding was over and night fell, the dukes would reveal their true colors.
Now that all the paperwork was done, as if they could do as they pleased.
‘You’re no longer a maiden now that we’re married, are you?’
As if her life had fallen into his grasp.
‘Will you allow me this much as a reward for being mistaken as a demon? Right?’
So he said. But Belled was still polite.
No, rather than polite, he had a little more…… a power to captivate people.
Is this the ability of a demon?
“……Were you not uncomfortable with being accused of being a demon?”
The other dukes were, but you’re different?
However, Belled said something contrary to her expectation.
“I was surprised, but isn’t it an opportunity to prove my innocence?”
There was no urgency or tension in Belled’s voice.
Even if I’m a real demon. Is it that it doesn’t matter if I’m caught, or that he doesn’t think he’ll be caught?
……Do demons really think they can hide their identity? Even when suspicious monster traces proudly hang on the walls of this mansion as soon as one leaves the room?
“Why did you agree to this plan? A nonsensical plan to marry a demon to find a demon.”
Then, suddenly, Belled asked. Beril looked up at him.
Their eyes met very close. His green eyes still seemed to pierce her with an odd gleam.
“That’s.”
Because I want to live. Because I hate the other two families, was a meaningless answer.
She could have refused the plan itself to choose a family, marry, strictly monitor, and ultimately expose the demon.
If she took the risk of being expelled from the temple, being accused of losing her holiness as a fallen saint.
“…….”
Beril closed her mouth. Of course, the priests would have somehow persuaded her or, if that failed, forced the plan through by shouting, ‘Have you lost your holiness?’
But if she had been more proactive in the temple. If she had asserted herself a little, despite the fear of possibly being expelled from the temple again.
If she had run away anyway, if she had…… would the future have changed?
Beril shook her head slightly. It was already a past event. But what was certain was.
No one had asked her this question in her previous two lives. Not only that, no one in the temple cared about her because no one was interested in her.
“You could have refused, couldn’t you? Of course, this is probably a sure method……”
He narrowed his eyes.
“This is a way to pledge your life, isn’t it?”
Beril thought shadows were cold things because they block light. However, her shadow was emanating a strange heat that was making her burn.
What he said reached her mind a beat later.
“What if, I really am a demon?”
At those words, Beril held her breath.
It would be dangerous, this person whispering might really be a demon. But.
“Because I can’t do anything if I stay in the temple. And.”
She spoke sincerely.
“It seems better than the other two dukes.”
Not only them but also the temple. She swallowed the rest.
So I came here.
It was true. If you were not a demon, it would have been the best choice, but still, it was the best choice.
Rather than going back to those hells.
The memories seemed to pass by. Then, Belered’s eyes, which met hers, gleamed strangely.
“So the best of the three men was me, you mean.”
The man chosen by the saintess. Belered’s lips twisted as he said this.
At that, Beril, who had forgotten her reminiscence, gave him her gaze.
“So, you measured the future by looking at the three brats, you mean.”
Which one was better.
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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