Stunned by the unexpected secret of my birth, I opened my mouth wide.
‘The opposition from the surroundings must have been no joke, considering a person of a lordly status took another race as a companion.’
Dad had two marriages before meeting Mom, who was his companion, but they were merely strategic marriages out of necessity.
Actually, Wilhelm and Luca’s mother, who led the family, did not bear the title of consort or concubine and was not forced to carry out her duties as the lord’s wife.
It was a marriage solely based on their needs and choices.
But the consort, the only legitimate queen in the Kingdom of Tzepes, was different.
As a position that gets equal treatment with the race’s ruler, the lord, it was a position that occasionally exercised royal power when the lord was absent for long periods due to a hibernation period.
Handing such an important position to another race would have been a very humiliating event for some.
“Only a small number of nobles know this fact besides Walter and me. There are many people who know but keep quiet.”
“Uhm.”
“If it’s known that you, Bella, have fairy blood flowing in you and can command a fairy, it may not have a good influence. Until you grow enough, it should be hidden…”
I nodded in understanding of her feelings and replied.
“Arato. I’ll do that.”
When I sharply and decisively said that no explanation was needed, Sione sighed in relief.
Apparently, she was worried that I would be hurt by hearing about Mom.
“I will teach you magic from now on, Bella. Handling magic is different from sprite art, and it puts a considerable strain on the body. Although it’s a bit early, think of it as gifted education.”
“Woah, Sione is my magic teacher?”
“Yes. Is that okay with you?”
“Yeah!! So good!!”
I was so happy that I jumped up and down on the spot, smiling brightly.
In the Tzepes Kingdom, he was the best highspec mentor. There was no reason to refuse.
So, I, who started learning magic from her, began to acquire magic at an incredible speed.
From the basic, lifefriendly magic that the lower wizards mainly used to the fairly advanced level of attack magic, I learned it all at once, but Sione actively recommended training the power of ice first.
“Cold nature magic is also the Lord’s specialty. I also want to recommend Lady Bella to learn this line of magic first.”
“Why? Fire magic is big and delicious.”
“Flames can easily leave traces by burning the surroundings, but ice doesn’t. Depending on the method, you can also tie the enemy’s feet or pose an appropriate threat.”
Aha.
So it’s a smart magic that can protect oneself and annihilate evidence.
‘Plus, it’s surprisingly lethal.’
In fact, there were few methods as optimized for killing people stealthily and cleanly as ice.
If you shape it sharply, you can use it like a knife or an arrow, and if you melt it, that’s it.
Sione seemed to think there was no reason to add such an explanation to someone as young as me, but when I knew one, I understood ten, so there was no way I wouldn’t catch on to that much.
Thus, focusing mainly on ice magic, I had a great time for a while, making snowmen with the soldiers when I got bored, and having snowball fights with the maid sisters.
Of course, the fact that the snow I summoned for practice was a secret between Sione and me.
There’s no good in rumors spreading about using magic early.
‘I’m having so much fun these days.’
I was growing my ability to handle magic little by little, and since I was enjoying peaceful times, soaking up people’s interest and love in the palace, every hour was joyful and satisfying.
If there was such a thing as happiness in the world, it felt like a dreamlike moment.
It was also the first time I learned that a sip of hot chocolate shared in the cold could be so sweet that it would freeze your tongue, and that a fur hat and scarf put on by someone could be so warm.
On one day when peaceful days were passing, on a morning when I had a lesson with Sione.
As always, waiting in my room for her, I found a curious part in the book I was reading.
‘Why not ask about this, and go to her myself today?’
No matter how high my status, there’s no reason I can’t go to my mentor first.
Almost arriving at Sione’s room, carrying the conspicuously thick and heavy book compared to my body.
I was suddenly attacked by a strange pain I’d never felt before.
‘What’s wrong with my body… Why?’
Thump, thump.
A rapidly beating heart, and constricting vessels all over my body.
‘I’m dizzy. I can’t breathe at all…….’
Soon after, I staggered from the intense anemia that came on and collapsed on the spot.
Thud.
In my receding consciousness, only the cold of the brick that touched my cheek and the sharp scream of someone who found me were clear.
The next moment, I lost consciousness.
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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