After the fitting was done, the assistants, observing proper etiquette, left the dressing room one by one. When only Mikhail’s assistant remained, she handed a note to Blair.
“I have sent a reply to Mikhail through the assistant who brought the dress from Gabon last week. The plan remains unchanged.”
And what she received today was exactly that reply.
Blair immediately unfolded the note.
“Then I’ll see you at the Gyeonguk International Reception.”
Although he was not a noble and had no invitation, Blair wondered how he would enter the palace. However, if he was the Guild Master, she thought there must be a different way.
Blair handed the note to the assistant.
“Thank you. Take care of this on your way.”
The assistant took the note again.
Blair, along with the assistant, came out of the dressing room and received the final check in front of Lady Sionel. As they were about to finish the fitting, Melly, who had left for a while, returned and delivered the news.
“Madam, His Excellency has returned.”
Haldin left in the morning to hunt deer for the evening picnic.
Now that he was back, it was time to start preparing for the picnic.
“Then I’ll see you at the Gyeonguk International, Duchess.”
“Safe travels.”
After bidding farewell to Lady Sionel, Blair, Melly, and Lina began choosing outfits for the evening picnic.
“Still, it might be a bit chilly in the evening, so wearing a shawl would be a good idea.”
As they were about to finish the preparations, the evening twilight had already spread outside the window.
“I’m ready now. You two go and get ready.”
“Yes, Madam.”
Excited, Lina and Melly approached the door to leave. At that moment, there was a knock, and before they could open the door, Haldin entered.
Lina and Melly greeted him with respect and quietly left the room.
Blair, checking her appearance in front of the dressing table, turned to look at him reflected in the mirror as he approached.
“Did you have a good trip?”
“Yes.”
Haldin, dressed in a simple shirt and trousers, but the gradually intensifying scent of soap indicated that he had just bathed.
Approaching her, he leaned against Blair’s dressing table at an angle, watching her search through the jewelry box.
Blair, concentrating and slightly narrowing her eyes, was choosing a necklace and earrings. The slightly narrowed forehead and the tightly closed small lips were cute.
After rummaging through the jewelry box for a while, Blair took out two necklaces and showed them to Haldin.
“Which one looks better?”
It was a necklace crafted with amethyst resembling her eye color and another with aquamarine.
It was a meaningless question because jewelry like necklaces and earrings wasn’t something important to him.
“Well, both seem fine.”
With his insincere answer, Blair’s lips curled slightly.
After contemplating for a moment, Blair chose the refreshing aquamarine necklace that suited the summer.
Seeing it, Haldin’s lips curved up in satisfaction. He liked the fact that a gem similar to her eye color hung around her neck.
Blair, now wearing the complete set of earrings, stood up.
“It’s all set now. Let’s go.”
As Blair lightly pulled her hand towards the door to leave, Haldin grabbed her hand, turning her towards him.
To Blair’s puzzled eyes, an unexpected request came.
“Give me a kiss.”
With his mischievous eyes.
Blair widened her eyes at the sudden request. Her reaction stirred the curiosity that had been dormant within him.
“Lady, I presented the deer as you wished, but isn’t the price quite steep?”
“…You were the one who suggested holding the evening picnic first.”
“Who was the one excited last night, saying they preferred deer meat over wild boar? Oh, right, it was you.”
At his words, Blair, who had been moving her body cautiously, as if avoiding a predator, hesitated. However, his innocent wife did not yield as expected.
“Everyone is waiting.”
Of course, he had no intention of stepping back either.
“So, hurry up.”
Haldin’s hand, holding Blair’s hand, was firm.
Blair, realizing that she couldn’t win unless she approached him, pretended to be unable to resist and came closer to him.
Approaching him and hesitating for a while, she, fortunately, cautiously met his lips before Haldin could swallow them up.
As if saying he had been waiting, Haldin embraced Blair’s waist. Finally, his satisfied smile emerged as he obtained what he desired.
Though those lips were quite expensive, they were equally sweet and soft. In the moment of kissing and blending their breaths, any faint irritation was forgotten.
He couldn’t help but think that his current appearance was somewhat insane, but at this moment, embracing her in his arms, he didn’t care what others thought.
In this way, it was a perfect moment.
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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