Herdim took out the pipe he had in his mouth.
“I was so preoccupied at that time that I couldn’t properly check on the Duchess, and it bothers me—”
“Reverend.”
“Yes?”
“I appreciate your concern, but it doesn’t seem like the right time for casual greetings now.”
Herdim gestured with his eyes toward the place where the injured were gathered due to the recent incident. Mirella’s face showed a bewildered expression.
“Oh… I’m sorry. I got carried away in my joy…”
Mirella, who hesitated for a moment without immediately stepping back, bowed slightly and added.
“Well, then, until we meet again.”
As she turned away, unable to take her eyes off Herdim until the end, Ruth looked at her retreating figure with a poignant gaze. It was a sight he had witnessed countless times as Herdim’s aide.
“But unlike with other people, I feel a bit regretful about that woman…”
The point was her being a priestess with divine power.
Anyway, someone with divine power is precious, and having her close could be helpful.
Yet, my lord, despite her extraordinary usefulness, didn’t spare her a single glance.
“Still, she did treat the Duke, so you could have been a bit more gentle with her, don’t you think?”
“So, I told her what to do before she was taken away for negligence on duty.”
Ruth was flabbergasted by Herdim’s unexpected response, but it was already a thing of the past.
“Yes, yes. You’re terribly affectionate.”
Ignoring Ruth’s dry response, Herdim moved away, leaving behind the tied-up horse.
While waiting for the situation to settle, the thirst for the woman in the mansion had reached the limit of patience.
Blair, who returned from Herdim’s private study to the bedroom, handed a letter from Mikhail to Lina.
“Lina, burn this for me.”
“Oh, sure.”
Leaving Lina, who was lighting a candle, Blair approached the window. Her gaze, looking at the scenery outside, was shaking with uneasiness.
[I have found the origin of the sentence you told me to investigate.The sentence is engraved on the dagger bestowed upon some knights by the Duke, your husband, after the war, who shared life and death together.]
‘So the man who killed me was a knight of Delmark…’
And he was one of Herdim’s personal knights…
Blair recalled the memory of checking the faces of the knights at the training ground right after the wedding.
‘But I didn’t see a man with a scar on his nose.’
Did I miss something?
Restlessly pacing around the room, Blair checked the clock and immediately left the room, heading down to the first floor of the mansion.
At this time, the knights would be practicing lunch training at the training ground. She wasn’t a meticulous hostess who took care of the knights, but it wouldn’t be strange for the hostess to check on them.
As Blair descended the stairs and turned towards the back door of the mansion, she heard bustling sounds from the entrance.
‘Has Herdim returned?’
While she was contemplating, she coincidentally encountered Mason coming down from the first floor.
“Oh, madam. You came down just in time.”
“Who has arrived outside?”
“Some guests from Bornmark have come. They probably want to greet you. If you’re not too busy, could you spare a moment?”
Although she wanted to go to the training ground right away, turning away directly in front of them seemed odd.
‘It won’t make a difference if I’m a few minutes late.’
Blair nodded slightly.
“Sure.”
Blair and Mason went to the entrance of the mansion together. Five knights who had dismounted came forward and stood in front of her and Mason.
They were all covering their faces with cloaks to shield themselves from the sharp winter wind.
A man standing in the middle approached, shaking off the snow.
“Oh, I never imagined that you, madam, would personally come out to welcome us from our first meeting… This is truly an honor. If I had known, I would have bought a gift on the way.”
Blair, who had been casually watching the man approaching with his face covered, paused. The eyes visible beyond the cloak were familiar.
‘This person is…’
Blair’s pupils, recalling those eyes, trembled intensely.
It was the eyes of the assassin who had killed her.
Though there was no distinctive scar on his nose, it was undoubtedly him.
“Nice to meet you for the first time, madam. I am Caligo Elphandria, a knight of Delmark.”
He playfully kissed Blair’s hand. The touch of the man’s lips on her hand was dreadfully eerie.
‘I didn’t consider the possibility that he might be a Bornmark knight.’
Blair’s hand, caught by him, trembled. She needed to say something, but it felt like someone was strangling her, making it hard to breathe.
At that moment, the approaching sound of hooves was heard. It was Herdin, Ruth, and a few knights. They were the first to return with Herdin.
Upon seeing Herdin, Caligo released Blair’s hand, feigning surprise.
“Oh, welcoming us even to this extent, Your Excellency.”
However, ignoring Caligo’s remarks, Herdin passed by him and approached Blair directly.
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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