Somehow, Betty seemed to have become even more attentive to my needs. Even after dinner, she promptly prepared my dessert.
“Madam. Would you like me to bring you more of your favorite dessert?”
“But I’ve already had dinner and dessert.”
“Then would you like something simple like a cookie?”
“Yes, please.”
Thinking about it, Betty seemed to have always been insistent on feeding me. Could this also be Johan’s command?
‘It would be troublesome if the target of revenge were to starve to death.’
But it was nice to keep eating delicious food.
When I lived in the Duke of Libertan’s house, I thought I didn’t like eating much. I didn’t have a favorite food and I didn’t have much appetite either.
But that was because I hadn’t tried really delicious food.
‘I didn’t know food could be this delicious.’
I thought that I might not be able to eat like this again, so I made sure to eat every meal.
‘Dinner was delicious tonight.’
In particular, the scallop grill, which the chef paid special attention to, melted in my mouth.
Betty seemed to have prepared in advance and quickly brought snacks.
But the smile on Betty’s face that had been lively just a moment ago seemed to have darkened a little.
“Betty, is something wrong?”
“No, nothing, Madam.”
Having said that, Betty asked me.
“Did you say earlier that you were going to the library before bed?”
I nodded my head.
“Yes, I heard that I can go wherever I want in the mansion. Did the duke dislike me going to the library?”
Unlike ordinary noble wives, I, a fake wife, had nothing to do in this mansion. Everyone knew that we weren’t actually married, so I didn’t have any authority.
‘But I have to do whatever it takes to escape.’
So my choice was to go to the library in the annex. The Duchy of Blanchett, which the villain carefully rebuilt, had a large library even in the annex.
‘I don’t know if I’ll find the information I want.’
But it’s better than doing nothing.
I could make the excuse that I came because I wanted to read a book. But moving without the villain’s permission for no reason, so I asked once before.
“If that’s the case, you can tell me honestly.”
Come to think of it, a fake wife wandering around freely could be annoying.
“No, that’s not it. The master also allowed it.”
Betty, who hesitated for a moment, slowly opened her mouth.
“……It’s just that if you meet someone in the library, please ignore them.”
“Why, who is this person?”
“He’s known among the servants for having a nasty and strange personality. So please ignore him if he says something strange.”
“How strange must his words be for you to say so, Betty.”
“He’s probably the best in the mansion at speaking unpleasantly.”
I didn’t know who it was, but I nodded at Betty’s kind warning.
‘Is he a character I saw in the original work?’
But thinking about the original, there didn’t seem to be any characters appearing in the library.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]But contrary to Betty’s words, I didn’t feel a big crisis. Honestly, the reason I was going to the library was to get information. Specifically, to find information about the black wizard.
‘Johan is a black wizard.’
The only way for a boy who had lost everything to take revenge was to become a black wizard, which was taboo in the empire.
So Johan became a black wizard by sacrificing everything with the help of his reclusive black wizard grandfather. Then, he slowly destroyed the Libertan Duchy from the bottom up, disguised by black magic.
‘Was it magic that interfered with facial recognition?’
If the Duke of Libertan recognized Johan from his first appearance, there could be a hitch in his revenge.
He probably had the spell to prevent that.
‘He must have lifted the spell now.’
Anyway, black magic was a very important tool in Johan’s revenge.
And I didn’t know anything about this black magic that was going to continue to appear. Even in the original, since it wasn’t related to me, the part about the black wizard wasn’t well described.
‘I need to know about black magic if I want to escape.’
It would be easier if I could find out even a weakness of a black wizard.
‘But if it’s not in the library, there’s nothing I can do.’
Despite what I thought of the arrogant villain, it seemed likely that he would have left a book about black magic in the library where I could go.
Johan’s library was the biggest room one floor below. It was easy to find because the door was so big.
Squeak
As I tried to open the door, I almost bumped into a man trying to leave.
“I apologize.”
He was a handsome man with a tall stature, eyes of a grayishblue color, and long dark hair tied in a ponytail. He started to apologize and make way for me, but he froze when he saw my face.
“Nice to meet you for the first time. Are you the new mistress who came this time?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
He calmly placed his right hand on his chest and bowed his head slightly.
“It’s an honor to meet you. I am Erich Blonew, the baron who serves as the mistress’s assistant.”
He was a handsome man overall, looking more pretty than masculine.
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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