“Somehow, I feel like I know a bit. The Duchess of Craiton really maintains her lines well.”
“……”
“And someday that will be a problem. The more perfect it seems, the bigger it looks when a flaw occurs.”
“Is it a piece of advice?”
“No, it’s more of a warning than advice. If that happens, I think you’ll regret it inevitably.”
The emperor lifted his glass. His gaze, gently looking, felt strangely different from before.
But it wasn’t a hostile feeling. Rather than that……
I quickly emptied my thoughts into deepening thought.
It was an absurd thought. And as if to scold my thoughts, there was a rustling from outside.
The visitor was the emperor’s aide.
“Your husband seemed to be in a hurry. Judging by the way he ran like a burning squirrel.”
The emperor, who winked rudely contrary to etiquette, got up from his seat and offered his hand to me.
“I can’t leave the lady alone, so I’ll escort her as it is.”
“……”
“Why do you hate it?”
“No, I don’t.”
It wasn’t pleasant to see the man who seemed to be enjoying this as a joke, but I had no choice. I still held his hand with a smile.
[This is the time separator]The way back to Craiton Manor was quiet.
All the way in the carriage, Margaret kept her head down and said nothing, and I just worriedly looked at her, and Bake kept an eye on my mood.
How long had it passed? In the silence that continued for a while, I took a slow deep breath and carefully opened my mouth.
“Don’t worry too much, Margaret. Everything will be okay. His Majesty said he would take measures to pass as quietly as possible.”
“……His Majesty?”
“Yes, His Majesty.”
“His Majesty will take care of it well.”
Margaret raised her head sarcastically and mockingly.
It looked like she would attack at any moment, with poison filled in Margaret’s eyes, which had been lost and empty.
“Margaret.”
“Why, pretend not to know? You did it on purpose.”
“Deliberately. What are you talking about?”
“You knew it from the start. That’s why you said that. Memory is.”
“You seem to be harsh. Duchess Fisher.”
Bake, who cut in, extended his arm in front of me firmly. It was an act of protection.
“……Are you harsh?”
“Let me make it clear, it’s hard if you continue to rudely attack.”
“……”
“No matter how close a friend’s wife, there’s a limit to the rudeness you can accept.”
For a moment, the gaze quickly passed between the two. And finally, a long sigh flowed from between Margaret’s lips.
So, I held Bake’s hand as if to show off.
At that moment, Margaret’s eyelashes fluttered.
“Stop it, Bake. Margaret is having a hard time now.”
“……”
Margaret had a lot to say, but her mouth could not open.
Her suspicious eyes didn’t change, but because she knew she would face Bake’s backlash if she misspoke here.
I gently stared at Margaret.
At first, I thought it was a great love, but as I watched, I realized it wasn’t.
Margaret was always looking at Bake’s face. The relationship between the two was heavily biased on one side.
It wasn’t hard to break up the two. It was enough to let the side that wasn’t sorry give up the other first.
“Do you understand?”
“Of course, if you say so……”
Just leaning a little, the man’s face looked like a boy in his first love.
Even while licking at that disgusting face, I grabbed his hand more firmly.
Whether Bake truly loved me or wanted to have me in rebellion against Duke Pieren was not important.
What was important was the fact that he wanted me.
That fact was very sweet to me. Because I knew it was an unpleasant fact to others.
[This is the time separator]“How about now? Have you calmed down?”
“……”
“Are you still struggling?”
“……Why, are you doing this?”
“When something happens to a friend, I naturally have to care.”
Hand in hand with the emperor, and now you’re saying you’re a friend after making me a spectacle?
Margaret looked at Livianna with a mocking smile, not holding back.
Without Bake, there was no reason to endure. She was going to take off that disgusting mask and force Livianna herself to reveal the truth.
“Stop being nice. It’s just the two of us here. You can be honest.”
“Honest?”
“Do you remember everything? When did it start? No way, you didn’t lose your memory from the start, did you?”
“Margaret.”
“Stop with that disgusting face! Do you think I’d be fooled? You were trying to kill my baby then! So the emperor gave me a tea mixed with dylan!”
Margaret sharply shouted, striding towards Liviana.
Even on second thought, something hot welled up inside her. If something went wrong, her unborn child could have lost his life for nothing.
“The matter of the child, I understand why you’re sensitive. But Dylan is commonly used in tea. You can’t grasp at straws like that.”
“Straws?”
“The emperor is not a bad person.”
Liviana lightly avoided Margaret’s outstretched hand.
Margaret tried to reach out a few more times, but in the end, she couldn’t catch Liviana, her eyes just widened. At that moment, Liviana’s neat face was calm without much emotional turmoil, which made Margaret even more annoyed.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
