Unfortunately, in this situation, Aidan was a person with no room to turn away from Brody. Of course, if he intended to keep it a secret, he would have come up with a different answer, even if it seemed like a lie. However, he felt the burden of having to reveal the truth someday, so he confessed.
Brody, hearing his words, raised her eyebrows and looked up with her eyes, as if pondering the meaning of what she had just heard.
“What do you mean you can trace the surroundings with the protection of the Ice Spirit?”
Her eyes widened.
“Since it’s the North, even without ice, you can trace the entire North…?”
This time, she blinked her eyes as if surprised by its power.
Only now did Brody understand how he had tracked down her escape the day after spending the first night in this world.
Questions began to unravel in succession.
“Because it’s the North… does that mean it doesn’t matter if there’s no ice…?”
And after uttering the last words, Aidan’s expression became thinner.
Brody realized.
How Aidan found her in the South.
“Ice coffee…”
At her murmur, Aidan’s shoulders twitched. It was the moment when the suspicion became certain.
And she seemed to understand why he had apologized.
“In the South, Jax came with me.”
If Aidan hadn’t found her with his ability, there was a possibility that Jax couldn’t find her either.
Aidan, caught in her speculations, just stared at her, his face and body showing no expression or emotion. But cold sweat dripped down his back.
“Hmm? Come to think of it, when I asked for some time to think, you could chase after me because of that ability, right? Even there, in the South… What’s this? There was no ice back then? Ice, ice, well…”
As Brody skillfully probed, Aidan gloomily watched her.
“Ice sea… stone?”
Once again, it was the correct answer.
Ice Sea Stone. The jewel that Aidan gave Brody the night before, a gem only the Grand Duchess of the North could possess. He said it was a bracelet embedded with Ice Sea Stone.
Now it was one of the tokens of their union ceremony.
The Ice Sea Stone became a clue for Aidan to find Brody wherever she was.
“What’s this, now. So, the gift you gave was like a location tracker?”
Brody, releasing Aidan’s clothes that she had been pulling for a threat(?), looked at her wrist.
The beautiful gem with a mysterious blue light sparkled peacefully.
Brody looked at the Ice Sea Stone several times, alternating with Aidan.
Knock, then a signal came from outside.
“Your Grace. Lady Connie has advice to seek about the scrolls. Are you available now?”
“Oh, I’ll be out soon.”
Aidan hurriedly replied, turning around with a hidden pleasure.
It seemed best to avoid the situation for now.
“Oh.”
However, before leaving, he turned back towards Brody.
Brody, still confused and unable to organize her thoughts and emotions, looked at him in bewilderment as he suddenly approached.
“Ah.”
In the next moment, Aidan’s lips touched Brody’s cheek.
The lips moved to various places.
Soon, a cool energy spread, and the wounds disappeared.
Until now, she had resisted.
‘What is this? Is it because he’s sorry, he’s bending his pride?’
Although her mind was uneasy, the warmth that touched each other was so close that Brody couldn’t say anything with her body stiffened.
After a moment, when Aidan’s lips left, Brody looked at him with trembling eyes.
But Aidan, without meeting her gaze, muttered.
“First, it seems like the bleeding has stopped.”
“……!”
Having completed the treatment like that, he briskly walked outside.
The closing sound of the door sounded oddly.
Left alone behind the door, Brody, in a state of not knowing which emotion to choose among the rising ones, absentmindedly wiped her cheek.
As the smooth sensation without wounds was felt, she suddenly came to her senses.
She uttered rough words with a sigh.
“No, what should I do with this? It’s strange to suddenly have no wounds. And the Chief of Staff doesn’t know!”
Mumbling like that, she attached a bandage to the presumed wounded area. She did it thoroughly.
Caleb’s seizures and fainting continued to repeat over time.
During that time, River, undisturbed by the turmoil, continued to review documents.
Brody, watching River closely, began to wander around.
“What are you doing?”
River looked at Brody with an unpleasant expression and asked. Brody replied grumblingly.
“Teach me something, Chief of Staff.”
“What?”
River raised his tail as if he were surprised. Then, without thinking twice, he answered.
“No. Above all, her Grace doesn’t have the qualification to view these documents yet.”
He intended to say it nicely, but when River mentioned qualifications, Brody’s mood soured a bit.
“What is this ‘qualification’?”
“She hasn’t become the Grand Duchess yet.”
“Oh, so you mean the qualification comes after marrying her Grace, right?”
River raised his eyebrows slightly, looking annoyed. Without much thought, he replied.
“Yes. After all, she hasn’t become the Grand Duchess yet.”
“Oh, I see. So, after marrying, the qualification comes?”
River, looking somewhat annoyed, nodded slightly. Then Brody raised her chin and said.
“What should I do? It seems like I already have that qualification.”
Brody shoved her arm between River and the documents, shaking it.
Then the Ice Sea Stone bracelet on her wrist shook.
“What is this…”
“As the Chief of Staff expected. In the direction you wouldn’t have expected, right?”
“Unexpected? Already…?”
“Yes.”
Sigh. River sighed deeply, burying his face in the stack of documents. His head boiled with confusion.
‘No, these nobles. Without discussing a national-scale matter with me, they just quickly dealt with it as if it were none of my business? Are they crazy, even though they’re not the Yeomjeu couple?’
Having never caused any trouble before, River couldn’t adapt to the national-scale incident he was involved in.
Suppressing the boiling emotions, Brody, who watched River, said as she pulled out the documents from under his face.
“The documents might get all crumpled. Be careful.”
“Is that what matters now!”
“Now, that’s the problem. My marriage might not be a problem of the past or the future.”
“…….”
Oh my. If you can’t say anything. River bit his lips and muttered with a frustrated voice.
“Leave the documents alone. After checking the marriage contract, I will talk to her Grace, hear about the child, and make a decision.”
The word ‘child’ was discreetly hidden in a very small voice. It seemed that they were holding back from saying something like ‘brat.’
Brody shrugged as if to agree with that.
River decided to face Idan directly right away. It seemed like they had to clearly discuss the postponed matter now.
Instead of calling a servant, he shouted loudly.
“Oh! My lady! Are you okay to fall like this! Your blood is flowing! Isn’t your forehead broken!!”
What’s this? Did he go crazy with anger? Brody was surprised by River’s loud exclamation, which seemed untimely, meaningless, and filled with lies. However, the next moment, as the door opened with a bang, Brody could understand his intention.
“Why are you saying my forehead is broken just because I fell!”
…Between the doors, Idan stood confidently.
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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