“Princess, Duke Piamondo has also come to visit.”
Upon the maid’s announcement, Maeri rose from her bed.
“Duke Piamondo too?”
“Yes. He wishes to greet the princess and mentioned he is handsome as the rumors say.”
“Is that so?”
Maeri had heard rumors about Duke Piamondo, who inherited the position of Duke at a young age. He was considered a good lover but not an ideal marriage partner. Nevertheless, the ladies’ evaluations seemed to be positive.
“Duke Piamondo came all the way to see me?”
Maeri didn’t know that Mir had returned with Jamie and the others after dealing with the Lamba tribe issue.
“He’s interested in me?”
So, Maeri mistakenly thought that Mir had purposely come to see her.
The Duke of Gabiar had as much power as the king of Minasarik.
“I could make good use of this.”
Maeri instructed Mir to wait in the main reception room.
While inviting him into her room wouldn’t be a bad move, she didn’t want to appear as an easy woman right from their first meeting. It might be good to play hard to get a bit.
Maeri selected a dress that highlighted her beauty, carefully adorned herself. She applied light makeup and wore not too flashy but expensive jewelry. After finishing her preparations, more than an hour had passed.
“He must be nervously waiting for me.”
Maeri considered making him wait a bit longer but gave up, heading to the reception room on the first floor.
In a place where the Duke was, there were usually advisers or knights who should be present. But there was no sign of them.
“Did they all withdraw to give us some privacy?”
Maeri gestured with her eyes, and the maid knocked on the door of the reception room. There was no response.
The maid knocked a bit harder.
“Duke Piamondo. Princess Maeri Kaitven has arrived.”
The maid raised her voice.
At that moment, passing by, Green Ga’s steward stopped, turned around with a puzzled look, and said,
“Duke Piamondo waited for about 5 minutes earlier, then left, saying he didn’t want to keep you waiting too long.”
“What did I just hear?”
Maeri’s head spun.
“5 minutes? He waited for 5 minutes?”
It was considered a virtue for a man to wait for a lady. Regardless of whether it was an hour, two hours, he should wait without complaint. For Minasarik’s princess, who was not an ordinary lady, a few hours of waiting should not have been a problem.
But 5 minutes?
Maeri was too bewildered to even remember she should control her facial expression.
Seeing Maeri’s face turning red, the steward slightly bowed his head and quickly left as if fleeing.
The maids were stunned by Maeri’s expression.
This was the first time they witnessed their mistress being treated like this, and they were at a loss.
Regaining her composure, Maeri commanded the maid,
“Find out where Duke Piamondo is right now.”
“The Countess Green is in the stable with her.”
Maeri’s eyes gleamed with a sharp glint.
With Iris.
To meet Iris after exposing myself to the wind.
Maeri forgot that she had kept Mir waiting for a long time. All of this seemed to be a trick orchestrated by Lishi.
“Countess Green is causing me embarrassment in a very unsophisticated way. Sending a Duke all the way just to expose me to the wind.”
Maeri’s delicate voice was loud enough for the Green family’s employees nearby to hear.
Feeling the gazes of the Green family’s employees, Maeri continued speaking.
“I just wanted to get along, but Countess Green seems to detest me horribly.”
+++
Windy couldn’t hide his horn yet, so Lishi had to prevent Mir, who suddenly appeared, from showing interest in the unicorn’s stable.
Fortunately, Mir seemed to be more interested in Kay’s Black, the dark horse.
“I saw him riding this guy on the battlefield. Countess Green should have seen that too.”
“Was he impressive?”
“Not as much as me.”
“I see.”
Thinking it might be a joke, Lishi examined Mir’s expression, but he was dead serious.
“By the way, the Countess is still beautiful. It would have been nice if you met her before meeting Kay.”
“…Mir. I forgot I’m here right now.”
Kay, standing next to Mir, said.
Mir laughed heartily.
“Oh, oh. I got blinded by the Countess’s beauty, and you need to catch my attention, right?”
“Is your eyesight too weak? Why don’t you go see a doctor and get some good medicine for your eyes?”
“Are you saying that your wife’s beauty is not dazzling enough to blind you?”
“No, that’s not what I mean…”
Lishi had never seen Kay so embarrassed. It seemed that Kay would not be able to beat Mir anytime soon.
“Anyway, Mir. You went to see Princess Maeri and came back already?”
“Oh, Princess Maeri. I personally went to her room, and she told me to wait in the reception room. So, I waited for a long time, but she didn’t come, so I left.”
“How long did you wait?”
“About 5 minutes.”
“…Ah, I see. You waited for an eternity. You have incredible patience.”
“You’re really good at dealing with people. That’s why I like you.”
“Sure. I always felt like I would burn to death because of your passionate love. So, will you let me not burn to death?”
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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