“And Lucius seemed to be completely disregarding such circumstances of Reneve.”
“Do you really understand my situation? It’s suspicious.”
“I’m just concerned about your well-being as someone who almost became my fiancée.”
Lucius spoke in a tone that seemed to be teasing.
“Fiancée? Whose decision is that?”
Reneve clenched her fists tightly.
Liking and disliking are just a sheet of paper apart. Showing a strong rejection to Lucius’ advances was a blow to her pride, and Reneve spoke as calmly as possible.
Now, she hoped that Lucius would smartly realize that she no longer cared about him.
“Your Highness, I think my concerns are sufficient on my own.”
So, it meant not to worry about her. Lucius’ expression twisted as if he understood Reneve’s intention.
“What…?”
“And, Your Highness. Please be cautious with statements that may cause misunderstandings around.”
“Reneve…”
When Lucius tried to grab Reneve’s hand, a familiar voice intervened.
“Yeong-ae? Is the person there Lady Siren Yeong-ae?”
Duke Belkein, on his way up the grand staircase for the National Foundation Day ceremony, spotted Dehan.
Dehan was standing on the stairs, giving some instructions to the timekeeper.
“Dehan Kyeong, good evening.”
As Duke Belkein greeted, Dehan reciprocated the greeting.
“Oh, good evening.”
It was a moment when Dehan, who seemed busy, was about to pass by.
A guard who ran towards Dehan said, “I haven’t seen any guests from Paradisium. It just finished changing the shift…”
When Duke Belkein turned to Dehan with a question, Dehan’s face showed a troubled expression.
“Well…?”
“And, where are you headed?”
Soon, Dehan’s voice came from behind.
Duke Belkein, who was suddenly turning his body to go, seemed puzzled.
“I suddenly remembered leaving something in the carriage.”
“Ah…”
As if telling him to go, Dehan nodded lightly, then resumed his conversation with the timekeeper.
Taking his eyes off the two, Duke Belkein walked through the grand hall. The garden, adorned differently from the day of the Emperor’s birthday, caught his attention.
Usually, Reneve enjoyed strolling in the garden.
She might have come to breathe in the fresh air.
Walking along the path, Duke Belkein suddenly discovered footprints on the dirt ground.
One was pointed at the tip, and the other footprint was quite large.
‘A pair of a man and a woman seems to have walked this way.’
Duke Belkein hesitated for a moment.
Usually, when a man and a woman sneak out of the hall to a secluded place, there must be a reason.
For example, they might be having a secret meeting.
Thinking that he might be interfering unnecessarily, Duke Belkein was about to turn back on the path he came.
A slightly agitated voice reached his ears.
“As someone who almost became my fiancée, I’m just concerned about your well-being, Reneve.”
Duke Belkein quickly walked toward the direction where the voice was coming from.
‘Reneve? Moreover, as an almost fiancée?’
At that moment, another voice was heard.
“Your Highness, please be cautious with statements that may cause misunderstandings around.”
It was Reneve’s voice, but it was much colder than what I knew, so Duke Belkein wondered if he had misheard for a moment.
‘And calling him Your Highness?’
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Excluding Emperor Icar of Baskerk, there were no other nobles from the Baskerk Empire. So, when it came to a prince, it would not be from the Baskerk nobility, at least.
‘A prince from another country…’
The nearby empire was Paradisium, and naturally, Duke Belkein speculated that the person with Reneve would be the prince of Paradisium.
Duke Belkein quickly walked in the direction of the voices he heard.
The voices of the two became closer.
Not wanting to eavesdrop on their private conversation, Duke Belkein cleared his throat to make his presence known.
“Yeong-ae? Is the person there Lady Siren Yeong-ae?”
Soon, the woman turned her head towards Duke Belkein.
“Oh, you’re here. I hope I’m not interrupting your conversation…”
Duke Belkein said so, looking at the man’s face.
He wasn’t bad-looking, not to mention that he was handsome enough to rival Emperor Icar of Baskerk.
And the man, overtly displaying his displeasure at being disturbed, didn’t hide his obvious discomfort.
“I apologize for interrupting your conversation. I am Duke Belkein of the Venistan Kingdom.”
Quickly introducing himself, Duke Belkein gestured to the man. Identify your status.
Actually, since Reneve called the man “Your Highness,” Duke Belkein knew his status.
Provoking a prince was a bit daring.
The half-raised lip of the Paradisium prince twitched.
“Ha… Whatever.”
He passed by Duke Belkein.
‘He’s trying to catch Siren Yeong-ae.’
If my understanding of the situation is correct, Lady Siren Yeong-ae seems to be refusing the prince.
Duke Belkein hurried his steps to reach Lady Siren Yeong-ae.
“It’s getting a bit chilly in the evening. Are you okay?”
“I’m fine. Are you not cold, Your Excellency?”
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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