Even thinking about it now, it was too pathetic a letter.
However, at that time, I believed that the prince was my last salvation. So, I continued to wait for the prince’s letter. However, as if trampling on my expectations, the letter did not come back.
‘Ah, I had another foolish thought.’
That way, I could organize everything that happened between the prince and me. And I decided to make a new plan to survive.
That was it.
It was amusing to see the prince looking clueless and making a painful expression.
‘Both Leandro and Prince Carlos are really strange.’
I hadn’t changed much from before, but they acted as if I had become an incredibly different and precious gem that they must possess.
“Yeah, it was my mistake not to save you. I thought I could live without you. I thought you were just one of the many women passing by.”
“Did that actually happen?”
“No.”
Carlos spoke with a hoarse voice.
“No other woman could fill the moment I spent with you.”
“What are you saying?”
“Seeing your face like this made it more certain. I thought you were nothing special, but you turned out to be someone I shouldn’t have let go.”
Carlos’ eyes reddened, and tears welled up. The prince, even shedding tears, was looking at me.
“I blame myself for being late, but I couldn’t help it. I need you.”
“But I don’t need Your Highness.”
I looked around, trying to find a place to escape. Now that I looked, the unusual scenery around me caught my eye. A large magic circle was beneath the prince’s feet.
‘Magic circle?’
A magic circle, as if engraved on the stone floor, covered the entire ground. The peculiar thing was that red blood flowed between the drawings of that magic circle.
‘That blood…’
Surprisingly, at the starting point of that blood, there was Prince Carlos.
I hadn’t noticed the prince’s behavior was strange due to his words, but it seemed that until I arrived, the prince had been making wounds to pour blood onto the magic circle.
‘What on earth is this place?’
Even now, blood was flowing from the prince’s body.
“Are you sure you don’t need my help?”
Carlos focused only on me as if it wasn’t difficult for him.
“Are you not aware that your rumors as a villainess are still intact?”
Carlos’ voice subtly became thinner. It was full of an intention to coax me gently.
“Blanchett Viscount can’t grant your wishes. But if it’s a country with great influence in high society, it might be possible.”
“…”
“If it’s me, I might be able to move to save the Libertà Viscount. So that the viscount couple can escape from prison again. The wish of Viscountess Blanchett is something I can never fulfill.”
“What nonsense…”
The Carlos, who seemed to be lost in his thoughts for a moment, heard my voice and looked surprised, opening his eyes wide.
“Sorry, but my connection with you is over. If this is difficult to understand, I can say it in a different way.”
Carlos seems to be under the illusion that I loved him. To that extent, I tried my best to conform to what Carlos wanted.
‘But after meeting Johan, I understand.’
I never loved Carlos. I merely deceived even my own feelings to make myself look good to him because I thought he was my only salvation.
“I, whom Your Highness knew, have died.”
Carlos’s handsome face crumbled as if collapsing.
“Why to me…”
Kiing[Dash]
A bizarre sound reverberated throughout the cave. Carlos, who had a shocked expression from the echoing sound, staggered.
‘The atmosphere is getting a bit strange.’
An ominous energy spread from the magic circle.
‘What, what is that?’
Carlos leaned against the floor.
“Fairy.”
Carlos’s golden eyes were dyed with a violet light.
“The last fairy, you were here.”
Black energy rose slowly to the cave wall where Carlos had anticipated. And it formed a picture. It was an image of a demon, haphazardly putting together all kinds of monsters.
‘That’s not Prince Carlos.’
Chilled to the bone, I started running without looking back.
“I want that sacrifice.”
Shadow-like entities crawled up the cave wall like dancing shadows.
“Sacrifice yourself to me as the last victim.”
Luckily, I started a little faster. I circled around the corner of the cave, avoiding the touch of the monstrous shadow.
‘But it won’t be long before I’m caught like this.’
I needed to find a way to escape from here.
My breathing became increasingly rough. The shadowy hand, rising from the cave ceiling, reached out towards me.
At that moment, a low voice, which I never expected, echoed in my ears.
“Estelle?”
Just as the shadow hand was about to grab me.
“Why are you here?”
Johan appeared in front of me and shattered the shadows. I looked at Johan with wide eyes.
“Johan, how did you…?”
“You were supposed to go to the temple today. And where did you put the bracelet I gave you?”
Johan, squinting his agile eyes, checked my wrist with red marks.
“What happened to you?”
Thud! Thud! Thud!
From behind, the sound of giant footsteps could be heard. Johan, who had frowned for a moment, hugged me tightly and pushed me inside the cave.
‘We’re going to collide!’
Prepared for the impact, I opened my eyes in bewilderment when nothing happened.
‘Is there such a space inside the cave?’
It looked like an ordinary cave wall, but it was a concealed wall with a space where only two people could hide.
Johan pressed his index finger to my lips.
“Shh, be quiet.”
The monsters outside made thumping noises and gradually moved away. I finally regained my breath, following Johan’s guidance.
‘But why is Johan here?’
Just like today when I said I would go to the temple, Johan also said he would go to the palace today.
Erich spoke coldly.
“What will you do now?”
Erich warned the high priest and the priests, growling.
“If our lady does not wake up, the Lord will never forgive the Empire.”
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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