Despite the tension, Shar-ti, clenching her fist tightly, didn’t stop trying her best to converse with him, even if awkwardly.
Watching her, Ren reached around her back again.
“I was worried because the light was off.”
“I often wash without lights when I’m alone.”
Continuing to respond to Shar-ti’s words, Ren playfully commented.
“I see. But why didn’t you just say it out loud earlier? I was even considering breaking the door.”
“Every sound echoes in the bathroom.”
The bathroom was a place where horrifying sounds echoed more loudly and severely.
Ren closed his mouth with a puzzled expression.
Blaming himself for being oblivious, Ren swallowed his curse, considering whether he should break the door.
Silence lingered between the two, avoiding eye contact.
Then, in Ren’s gaze that was occasionally glancing at Shar-ti, the damp curls of Shar-ti’s hair caught his attention.
“For now, go in quickly and dry your hair.”
Only then did Shar-ti become aware of her condition and headed to the bedroom.
The body that had been relaxed after the bath now felt cold again.
Although the bedroom door was broken, and there was no separate locking mechanism, thanks to Ren entering the bathroom, Shar-ti felt relieved and removed her hood to dry her hair.
However, due to the wind coming through the window, she gave up and crawled into the blanket, feeling cozy inside.
“Ah, it’s warm.”
Despite the annoying damp hair, just getting inside the blanket made it cozy. Until a while ago, the heart that was pounding anxiously was now beating calmly.
Shar-ti murmured to herself.
“Really… We had a normal conversation.”
In fact, throughout the conversation, Shar-ti wanted to block her ears.
No matter how much she strained or relaxed her throat, the terrible voice did not change.
But even after hearing such a voice, Ren had no reaction.
To him, it was just a conversation.
“This should be enough.”
Shar-ti smiled bitterly.
This should be enough for a conversation.
As Shar-ti comforted herself, saying it was an appropriate conversation, a knock was heard.
“Shar, can I come in?”
Shar-ti hurriedly flipped her hood.
After adjusting her posture, Shar-ti lay down, waiting for him.
“…….”
However, Ren still didn’t enter.
Shar-ti, who was trying to signal him to come in, bit her lip.
“You can come in.”
“Okay.”
As soon as permission was granted, Ren casually opened the door and entered.
In his hands, approaching with a composed expression, was a bowl filled with small green fruits, each the size of a fingernail.
“They were near a tree, so I picked them.”
“…….”
“I tried them, and I made sure birds eat them, so they should be non-toxic.”
Watching Ren confidently speak, Shar-ti looked at him with a perplexed expression.
‘He picked these?’
Around this time, Shar-ti recalled the height of the tree bearing fruit.
It was tall enough that one had to strike it several times with a long pole to occasionally drop one or two fruits.
And Ren had brought a bowl full of such fruits.
Shar-ti’s gaze quietly shifted to his hands.
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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