“K…”
Without malice, Lishi narrowed her forehead and lightly tapped his chest.
K chuckled and kissed Lishi’s cheek.
His soft lips pressing on her cheek created a strange sensation.
“We haven’t seen each other for too long.”
His lips, whispering softly, slid down her cheek to her neck. The hand that had been holding her wrist now rested on Lishi’s waist.
Closing her eyes, Lishi accepted the sensation he created.
He caressed her back, and, pulling the neckline of her dress with his teeth, revealed Lishi’s white shoulders.
When her shoulders were exposed, he asked in a voice mixed with a sigh, “Does he know? Your shoulders are the prettiest in the world.”
“I didn’t know.”
“Really. They’re truly beautiful, Lishi.”
His voice, heard after a long time, was sweet, and even his body temperature seemed to melt.
“Not the right time for this.”
Lishi was surprised to hear her voice sounding coquettish.
“Yeah.”
He replied but didn’t lift his lips from Lishi’s shoulder.
The heat that started where his warm and moist lips touched gradually flowed down.
Pressing Lishi tightly against him, K laid her down on the sofa. His lips overlapped with Lishi’s plump ones.
Closing her eyes, Lishi enjoyed his skillful touch.
At this moment, she didn’t want to think about Brittany or Mary.
She just wanted to immerse herself in K’s scent.
+++
After experiencing passionate moments on the sofa and the bed, Lishi lay completely relaxed.
Unlike the panting Lishi, K’s breathing remained steady.
Considering how he ran non-stop from a distant place to here, where did this tireless stamina come from?
Sensing Lishi’s gaze, K grinned.
“Why? Still not enough?”
To his teasing question, Lishi wrinkled her nose and lightly punched his bare chest.
Smiling, K pressed Lishi’s nose with his index finger.
“Do you know, Lishi? The wrinkles on this nose are really pretty.”
“Do you say ‘pretty’ too often?”
“Don’t you like it?”
“No. I might become overly proud, thinking I’m the most beautiful in the world.”
“You can be proud. Because it’s true that you’re the most beautiful in the world.”
K hugged and comforted Lishi.
Resting her face on his firm chest, Lishi took a deep breath.
Her heart still pounded at the scent she hadn’t smelled in a long time.
‘I missed this man.’
Despite the various incidents, she didn’t realize how much she longed for this embrace.
It hadn’t been such a long time since they lived together, but lying in his arms, it felt like the most natural place for her.
“Now, tell me. What’s the problem?”
K remembered the words Lishi had started but stopped earlier.
Unable to recall the conversation she had with him, Lishi paused for a moment.
“The problem is that you owe your life to Princess Ketven.”
“I’ll take care of that part. Is that the only problem?”
“There’s one more. There’s no evidence linking the princess. Even if Brittany and the princess held hands, the princess would deny it.”
“Hmm… The identity of the poison the princess drank is unknown to the physicians too, right?”
“Yes.”
“Alright. Then let’s borrow the power of the maid we hired for times like this.”
Lishi stared at K with an expression of incomprehension.
A maid hired for times like this? Did I have a maid I didn’t know about?
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In the renowned scholarly household of the Luteck family, Erwell was a sudden anomaly.
Like most members of the Luteck family, Erwell also possessed a genius brain. She could read before speaking and acquire more knowledge than most professors before entering the academy.
Up to this point, Erwell was no different from other members of the Luteck family. However, Erwell revealed another aspect of her genius.
Swordsmanship.
She showed interest in swords before walking, and before entering the academy, she acquired enough skill to engage in one-on-one duels with knights.
During her travels accompanying her wandering scholar father, Erwell did something different. Instead of acquiring vast knowledge, she learned combat techniques from traveling mercenaries and occasionally learned assassination skills from encountered assassins.
Thus, when Erwell was about to graduate from the academy several years earlier than others, she had become an excellent weapon of war. Possessing the skill to be the commander of the Imperial Knights if she wished, her sword could contain the Emperor’s power.
The problem was that she belonged to the Luteck family.
The Luteck family had never produced a ‘fighter.’
When Erwell said she wanted to become a knight or join a mercenary band, her father fainted, and her mother fell ill.
The only thing they allowed was to become a professor of swordsmanship…
‘Professors are a pain. They have no interest in teaching those little rascals.’
While lying on the bed, Erwell threw and caught a small bottle.
Inside the violet bottle was the antidote for the poison Mary had drunk.
When Erwell collided with Jane, Mary’s maid, before the party, she stole it.
‘I suspected when I saw that toad. It was true.’
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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