Diana’s orange eyes glared ominously at Luigi. Somehow, the raw vitality felt like a greenhouse plant. Luigi, grown in the greenhouse, put down the fan and stepped back, feeling intimidated.
‘S, scary!’
It was truly a gaze that might kill her.
“Ar, are you going to attack me with force again?”
“I just wanted to correct a misunderstanding that Luigi seemed to have. I accidentally put force into my fist, and I’ll compensate for the broken fan.”
Clang, clang!
One of the noble young ladies, sensing an uneasy atmosphere, struck the bell on the table twice. It was a signal to call the knight.
“Isn’t what the princess did now just one of her mistakes?”
As soon as her safety was secured, anger surged from within Luigi.
‘How dare a princess from the borderlands intimidate me?’
Hitting someone’s cheek without hesitation is an impolite act, even if it was committed by the Empire’s princess. Luigi, the undaunted daughter of the countess, demanded confidently from Diana, clenching her fist.
“If you want to apologize, do it properly. Especially since the princess, lacking nobility, couldn’t control her emotions and slapped my cheek.”
“What compensation do you seek?”
“For now, isn’t it reasonable to apologize to the extent that satisfies the victim, which is me?”
Diana furrowed her brow slightly. One of Luigi’s closest noble friends stepped forward and asked.
“Luigi, do you have anything else in mind?”
“Since Princess Diana acknowledged that it was her personal mistake unrelated to the Roylum Kingdom, I, too, will understand that part. Moreover, considering the relationship between the princess and me, I don’t want to demand a merciless price.”
Luigi’s green eyes sparkled maliciously.
“So, kneel before me, bow your head, and apologize.”
“……Excuse me?”
Even Luigi’s closest confidante was surprised and mumbled. Bowing the head was a posture usually reserved for when a slave addressed their master.
“Lu, Luigi. We agreed to move on with good intentions.”
“That’s why I’m letting it slide to this extent. Princess Diana decided on a suitable apology without needing to seek help from the kingdom. How merciful is that?”
“That’s true.”
“Moreover, did I ask her to do it at a formal gathering? I’ve been insulted here, so if she apologizes here, I’ll smoothly let it go. I think I’ve been quite considerate, don’t you?”
However, Princess Diana’s apology would become a rumor throughout high society. Luigi would ensure that the rumor spread.
‘If that happens, Princess Diana will be completely buried in high society.’
‘There won’t be anyone willing to associate with royalty who behaved like a slave.’
Especially since Princess Diana had acted recklessly regarding Miryu.
‘Of course, the situation was resolved because Lady Blanshet and the Roylum Kingdom were doing well.’
This incident was several times more serious than the previous one.
At that time, her status as a knight helped understand her actions, but now Diana didn’t even have that knighthood.
“What are you doing? Surely, you don’t mean you can’t apologize to me?”
Luigi raised her chin and sneered.
Diana bit her lip and looked down at the floor.
‘In the end, it turned out like this.’
Despite her emotional actions, Diana, who had lived as royalty, had somewhat anticipated that this incident would escalate.
‘But it had to be like this.’
If it were her mother, she would scold her for not handling the situation more cleverly. Estelle, who recently became close to Diana, might feel sorry for Diana’s actions.
Even without the title of a knight, Diana was a knight at heart.
She couldn’t stand by and watch Estelle, who had done nothing wrong, be insulted. Even if she herself suffered harm, she had to step forward, correct the false rumors, and defend Estelle.
It was an apology for her past actions, where she indiscriminately criticized Estelle.
“I understand. My actions were too rash.”
Diana nodded earnestly and knelt down. Seeing Diana like that, Luigi sneered.
“Straighten up a bit. So I can feel it’s a proper apology?”
At that moment, the door opened slowly.
“Oh my.”
Entering through the door was not the palace knight but Saint Stella and Prince Carlos.
“Saint Stella!”
“Luigi. Can you explain the current situation to me?”
“Princess Diana is apologizing to me by assaulting me without any reason.”
Luigi, pretending to be pitiful, pointed to her swollen cheek with her index finger.
“Saint, you know, how fragile I am. Yet, I received a slap from the princess who even had the title of a knight. Do you know how carefully I’ve preserved this skin?”
“Oh, that must have hurt a lot.”
The saint took Luigi’s hand, treating her cheek with sacred power. As the sacred power touched Luigi’s cheek, it returned to its original fair state.
“Luigi’s cheek!”
“It seems better than before, doesn’t it? Truly, the saint’s sacred power is amazing.”
The noble young ladies applauded, and the saint smiled graciously.
“Luigi, are you feeling better now?”
“Yes. Of course. The saint is truly amazing.”
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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