I stared at Johann with wide eyes.
“Du, Duke?”
“……Ah.”
Johann let out a languid sound as if he had just come to his senses. His lips curved smoothly upwards.
“My lady, were you changing clothes?”
“Ye, yes. So…….”
“What’s that then?”
Johann pointed with a glance at the slip in Betty’s hand. Betty quickly hid the slip behind her back, but it was too late to conceal it.
‘She’s really crazy!’
I inadvertently flipped over the quilt that had been in front of me.
‘How did it come to this?’
I could hear Johann’s approaching footsteps.
(This is a time separator.)
It was when the tea party was over, and we had returned. As we entered the room, Betty rushed up to me, furious.
“My lady, I’m so angry.”
I had never seen Betty use an expression of anger in front of me before.
“Did something happen?”
“Yes. That crazy, no, that insane Count Hettel came looking for you and the master in the night!”
“Betty, did you hear about it too? How?”
“I, of course, coaxed it out of the servants around here…… No, that’s not what’s important now.”
Betty then shook her head vehemently and clenched her fists.
“If we stand still, really unthinkable things keep happening. What kind of family is this?”
“Anyway, we won’t see them anymore after we leave tomorrow.”
The rain had stopped, and the muddy ground had dried. Now, we could finally leave this tiring Count Hettel’s estate.
‘We stayed way too long.’
But it wasn’t without profit.
‘I’ve got the key to the central bank’s vault of the empire.’
Honestly, slush funds were needed, but now there was money that no one knew about. Looking at the documents, the amount seemed substantial.
“That’s true, but…… Hmm, still, it’s unforgivable. Come here for a moment.”
Betty took me to the room and gave me something. It was an item I didn’t even know existed.
It was translucent slips with a faint color.
“This is……. a slip?”
“I took them just in case. But my lady, do you know that that crazy woman wore a slip even thinner than this?”
It was a slip so thin that the flesh seemed visible. But she wore something even thinner.
“That’s almost like not wearing clothes.”
“Exactly. That’s why I’m even angrier.”
Betty handed me the thin slip she had been holding.
“But my lady, how about waiting for the master in this slip tonight?”
I almost absentmindedly nodded but then slowly blinked my eyes.
“……Why are we talking about this all of a sudden?”
“That’s because I’m a kindhearted maid who wishes for the master and my lady to get closer.”
“I have scars, so…….”
The reason for hiding the scars was not simply that they were unsightly. They were everything that explained my situation.
A daughter unloved in Libertan, a fake who couldn’t even be a target of revenge.
‘Then Johann would find me useless.’
Then the reason for Johann and me pretending to be a couple would be gone.
Betty spoke with a forced, cheerful voice.
“Just wait with the lights off! And you’re so beautiful that the master won’t even notice a scar like that.”
“Betty…….”
“I’m sorry. I spoke too eagerly. I’ll take this.”
Betty spoke with a sheepish expression. After a brief moment of consideration, I grabbed Betty.
“We, well, I’ll try it on just once. But I’ll really just try it on, then put my dress back on.”
“Yes! Alright!”
And I really did change into the slip once, as I had discussed with Betty, intending to put my dress back on. Seeing my urgency, Betty quickly grabbed the slip and tried to disappear.
What was unexpected:
Sudden[Dash]
At the moment when I was wearing the dress, Johann suddenly entered. Beside him, I saw Betty with the slip.
(This is a time separator.)
Again, I blindly hid and was lost in thought.
‘What do I do? Really!’
My heart pounded excessively. I continued to clutch the quilt I had covered myself with as if it were my last lifeline.
The sound of footsteps stopped.
‘Is Johann in front of me right now?’
Thinking that Johann might be standing in front of me, my face heated up even more.
Johan, who had been waiting quietly, embraced me as I flipped over the blanket. He then remained silent without saying a word.
“YYour Grace. Will you continue to do this? I need to get dressed now.”
“You plan on continuing like this?”
“Then I won’t be able to change my clothes.”
“You can change in front of me. What’s there to be embarrassed about, huh?”
A sweet whisper from Johan came through the blanket that lay between us. Not being able to see the other person made it even more nervewracking.
But it seemed Johan could see inside the blanket, as he found my hand and tightly grasped it.
“If you want something, you have to set a condition. If you want me to leave, tell me something my wife can do for me.”
“What can I possibly do for Your Grace?”
“There must be plenty. If you can’t think of anything, I’ll tell you what I want.”
I swallowed hard, wondering what he would ask for.
‘Is it about revenge?’
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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