“Good idea, milady.”
“Well, on the way, we can stop by the bamboo forest for a moment.”
Mild Kyeong nodded.
“Oh, by now, they should be cutting down the bamboo forest. It would be good if the neighboring building has also been acquired.”
“Yeah, so maybe the day after tomorrow? Shall we go back?”
“Why the day after tomorrow? Wouldn’t it be better to go right now?”
“Even so, Mild Kyeong needs to recover a bit more. If you could endure and move a little tomorrow, even if it’s tough…”
I was about to suggest a compensation for his hard work.
Admit him to the hospital immediately upon arrival for intensive treatment, and after about a fortnight of vacation, wouldn’t that be sufficient?
However, Mild Kyeong, as if he had been anxiously waiting for my intention, cleared his throat and stood up.
“I’m fine now. Let’s go right away.”
“What?”
His words were unbelievable.
Didn’t the doctor say that Mild Kyeong needed more stability?
But Mild Kyeong spoke as if nothing were wrong.
“I’m fine with the medicine, and thanks to the special fatigue recovery potion from Vermilion Shrine, my condition is very good.”
“Are you really okay? You’re not in pain?”
“I’m fine.”
“You don’t look well.”
“I’m really fine. Anyway, in a few hours, the wounds can be treated back at the estate. I’ll get ready then.”
After changing into casual clothes, Mild Kyeong went out to prepare the carriage.
There was something strange about the feeling I got from Mild Kyeong’s back. I called the maid who had been taking care of him.
“What happened to Mild Kyeong while I was away?”
The maid answered without hesitation.
“His Highness Prince Alexander of Bourbon Kingdom came to visit Mild Kyeong.”
“What? Tell me more.”
Seeing that I was probing, the maid’s complexion changed. She hesitated with an embarrassed expression.
“I apologize, milady. When I was serving tea, he immediately fell silent, so I don’t know anything more. However…”
After Alexander left, the atmosphere around Mild Kyeong became like this. I didn’t know well, but it seemed like Alexander had done something wrong.
‘Did Alexander pressure or intimidate Mild Kyeong?’
At that moment, Mild Kyeong returned.
“Milady, the carriage is ready.”
“Mild Kyeong, did Alexander come and go?”
I asked without much thought.
“Did Alexander cause trouble?”
“…”
A surprised Mild Kyeong tightly pressed his lips together. He didn’t look very well.
“What did he do to make you so surprised?”
“…”
“Is it something difficult to talk about?”
“I received a reprimand for not being able to protect milady.”
“What?”
It was beyond my comprehension.
“No, if he’s a prince, that’s his status. Why would he be the one to reprimand and not someone else?”
Mild Kyeong looked surprised at my sudden grumbling.
“Is there something that he did that was so shocking?”
“He reprimanded me purely out of concern for milady’s safety. He even gave me medicine, telling me to recover quickly.”
“…?”
I couldn’t understand Alexander’s actions. Or was he originally someone who took good care of subordinates, and I had misunderstood?
“Then let’s depart right away.”
As we came outside, Domingo, bewildered, followed.
“Milady, are you really going?”
“I should go; work has piled up.”
“Um, may I invite you to wait for a moment? I will bring the carriage for you.”
He said I should greet Philip and then come.
“No, it’s okay.”
Philip was with me until this morning and was summoned by the king.
It was two nights after we entered the sunflower garden. As I subtly took a break, I couldn’t call him in the middle of work.
“Tell him separately with a letter.”
Domingo nodded, showing that it couldn’t be helped.
“Then please wait a moment. I will prepare some snacks so that you won’t be hungry on the way.”
“It’s okay. There’s no need for that.”
I plan to buy snacks in the city anyway. It’s also for the employees working in the bamboo forest; they need something to eat.
But Domingo didn’t withdraw.
“If you can’t even do that, the owner will surely scold you.”
Having said that, there was no choice but to wait.
After Domingo brought a basket of snacks and loaded it onto the carriage, Mild Kyeong sat next to the driver.
However, Mild Kyeong’s posture on the coach seat looked somewhat unstable. Looking closely, his face seemed a bit pale, and cold sweat was trickling down.
‘Could he get dizzy and fall off the carriage like this?’
There are no safety belts in the carriage in this world, so I became worried unnecessarily.
“Mild Kyeong.”
“Yes?”
“Come here and get on the carriage.”
As I gestured, his expression surprisingly stiffened.
“Yes?”
His questioning look seemed to doubt his ears.
“Leave the carriage to the coachman and come here to get on the carriage.”
When I instructed again, Mild Kyeong’s face turned as red as a radish.
“H-How can I…”
“Don’t say anything and come quickly.”
Slightly annoyed, Mild Kyeong climbed onto the carriage hesitantly.
To give him a forward-facing seat, I sat facing backward.
“Mi-Milady?”
Mild Kyeong’s voice tone rose unusually, very surprised.
“Sit facing forward.”
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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