“I didn’t expect to dine with you again. You wouldn’t know how happy I am right now.”
“I’m sorry. I can’t remember anything.”
“No, it’s okay. You will remember in time. We have plenty of time, so don’t rush.”
“Thank you for saying that.”
When Liviana smiled faintly, a happy smile spread across Bake’s face.
It had been a long time since Liviana had smiled at him.
“You can ask me anything you’re curious about. And if there’s anything you want, just tell me.”
“Can I?”
“Of course. We are a couple.”
Bake cut the meat for Liviana, claiming to be a caring husband, and changed her plate.
At his consideration, Liviana’s eyes widened slightly, but soon she smiled again.
“I’m glad you’re a caring person.”
“I’m far from it compared to you.”
Bake said, glancing at Margaret.
Liviana no longer showed hostility to her, but it was unclear how much Margaret had appeased her.
That alone was enough to give Margaret credit.
But she couldn’t keep her by his side any longer.
There was no woman as devoted and comfortable to be with as Margaret, but now it was time to focus on Liviana.
He couldn’t lose Liviana to the same mistake, given the opportunity.
“…Actually, I’ve been wanting to ask something.”
“What is it? Feel free to speak. I told you, we’re a couple. I will answer you without a single lie.”
“Did we not have a child?”
“….”
“….”
As if coordinated, a silence fell.
Bake licked his lips and watched Liviana’s reaction.
“We didn’t.”
Margaret answered first.
Bake belatedly regained his senses and quickly nodded his head.
“But why do you ask?”
“I found this when I was having trouble opening the drawer of my vanity.”
What Liviana brought out was a small doll the size of a palm.
Margaret stared at the handsoiled doll and looked back at Liviana.
She wondered if Liviana’s memory had returned, but there was a lace ribbon tied around her neck.
“I don’t want to bring up a sad story, but you two have been waiting for a child for a long time. Unfortunately, you didn’t have a child.”
“….”
“Maybe that’s an object that contains your wish. You’ve always wanted and waited for a child.”
“…I see.”
As Liviana’s shoulders dropped, Bake’s face turned gloomy.
He had to somehow divert his wife’s attention from the child to something else.
“It seems you’ve been liking lace lately. You wear it often.”
“Oh, this? I intended to wear a necklace, but I couldn’t find one, so I tried using lace temporarily.”
Liviana casually touched the lace around her neck, and Bake and Margaret silently watched her.
Originally, Liviana had a pathological dislike for anything touching her neck.
There were no necklaces, even dangling drop earrings were not in Liviana’s jewelry box, for that reason.
‘Well, it wasn’t always like that with Liviana.’
Even a decade ago, there was never a day when Liviana’s neck wasn’t adorned with jewels.
The affluent Craiton family spared no expense in maintaining their daughter’s dignity, especially since Liviana liked to wear dresses that exposed her neck and shoulders, she paid more attention to necklaces.
There was even a joke in society that a jewel could be called a jewel only when it hung on the neck of the noble daughter of Craiton.
“You didn’t have a necklace, you should have told me earlier.”
“I’m sorry. I’m not used to this yet.”
“I’m not blaming you. It’s my fault. It seems that the necklace wasn’t organized when I was cleaning the room last time, I must have missed it.”
There were no unorganized necklaces, but it was easy enough to buy more. The wealth of the Craiton family was overflowing.
“Then I just have to trust and wait.”
“There’s no need to wait. Let’s buy a new one. Your taste must have changed as you lost your memory, so let’s take this opportunity to buy a new one.”
“Can I?”
Margaret’s eyes subtly twisted at Bake’s declaration, but Bake had no interest in such trifles.
What caught his attention was Liviana’s bright smile.
Even after nearly a decade of marriage, she was still young and beautiful.
If she made up her mind and dressed up like the old days, everyone would surely admire the return of the socialite’s white deer.
Was it for that reason, Margaret felt all the more in love with her husband in front of her?
Riviana was always beautiful, but she meant more to the Duke in the past.
“If only you could treat me as casually as you used to.”
“Casually?”
“I’d prefer if you didn’t use formal language with me. Every time you do, it feels as if you’re keeping your distance from me.”
“……”
“Is that not possible?”
“It’s awkward, but I’ll try. No, I will try.”
Riviana’s cheeks flushed as if she was blushing.
Unable to resist, the Duke concealed his smile with his hand, unable to take his eyes off Riviana.
He thought everything was over, but in the end, Riviana was in his hands.
[This is the time separator]“You’re right. It’s a good thing I listened to you.”
“Don’t credit me. It’s all thanks to your efforts.”
Margaret held her hand, looking at Riviana who was leaning on her shoulder, with a smile.
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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