“Well… I did tell you not to appear before me again. I only did what Jane asked.”
Hesitant, Seren gazed at Jane while fiddling with his fingers. The innocent demeanor was a far cry from the fierce threat he initially posed.
Jane sighed as she looked at Seren.
‘Which side is the real him?’
The venomous severity or the calm and innocent appearance? She had no clue about his true nature.
But one thing was certain—he wouldn’t kill his own child.
With a composed expression, Jane confronted Seren.
“Why don’t you just let me go?”
“Uh…?”
“Seren, you heard everything. What I said to Lady Rose.”
“…!”
Seren, taken aback by Jane’s unexpected words, opened his eyes wide.
“If you heard everything, why let me go?”
Looking at the speechless Seren, Jane continued casually.
“I understand clearly from today’s events. You don’t have any intention of getting rid of me. Rather than killing me, you only made threats.”
Jane, even though she lacked vitality, was still somewhat intimidating, she said with a smirk.
“It was so confusing all this time. It was hard to believe that you betrayed Lady Rose and me.”
“…”
“Where is sincerity, and where is falsehood? Who exactly are you? If you tell me everything, could I forgive you…”
At the mention of ‘forgiveness,’ Seren’s pupils noticeably dilated. He looked at Jane with a gaze mixed with anticipation.
“I don’t understand everything, but I know one thing for sure. You won’t kill me, right?”
“How would I kill you…”
As Seren weakly murmured, Jane opened her narrow eyes.
“Who was the one threatening with a weapon?”
“T-That… It was just for your sake…! In case revealing your secrets to the master would put you in danger, I wanted to give you a little fright.”
Jane questioned why a person as pure as someone of her age was watching Cedric’s back. She was curious about his circumstances.
“Can I tell you? Your story. Why did you deceive us?”
Seren couldn’t easily respond to Jane’s question. To confess everything meant revealing his past, and he didn’t want to bring up his dark history.
However, seeing Jane looking at him with warm eyes made him weaken.
It felt like he could lay bare everything to her.
Even though Seren remained silent for a long time, Jane didn’t rush him.
She quietly waited for Seren to open up his heart.
Perhaps Jane’s heart reached him. Gazing at Jane with a gentle look, Seren slowly opened his mouth.
“…I’ll tell you.”
The moonlight reflected on the rippling waves of the lake, spreading tranquility as they swayed gently in the breeze. The lakeside, feeling the cool night air, was quiet and beautiful.
“I lived alone with my mother until I was twelve. We had nothing… but we were happy.”
Seren’s voice, gently audible, was like calm lake water.
“My mother was very frail. So, I earned money for medicine since I was young. I learned to work through difficulties, receiving treatment worse than that of a human… but it was okay. As long as I could earn money for my mother’s medicine.”
Seren dredged up memories of his harsh childhood.
Having no skills, earning money against adults was not an easy task. Being cheated out of money was a common occurrence, and there were times when he was beaten for no reason. However, thinking only of his sick mother, he endured it all.
“It was terrifying when my mother wandered into difficulties. Being left alone at a young age was too frightening. At those times, she used to call for a father whose face I didn’t even know… I really resented the author who abandoned us like this, our so-called father.”
Seren, speaking about his past, seemed remarkably indifferent outwardly. However, his inner self was profoundly disturbed.
“One day, my mother called me quietly.”
‘Seren.’
He recalled his mother’s figure, gesturing to him with her oddly thin arms.
‘This… your father left this for you.’
She hesitated for a moment, then handed him a necklace.
“Something left by my father…”
Seren put his hand into his shirt and gently pulled out the necklace hanging around his neck.
“She gave me this.”
“This… this is!”
Jane looked at the necklace and covered her mouth in surprise.
Recognizing the familiar pattern at a glance.
It was the crest of the Wens Viscount family.
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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