Finally, Rosé, who had not been able to buy anything, spoke towards Seren in a seemingly absentminded manner.
It would have been nice if he had lied and said ‘No’ at this time, but Seren was still a novice knight with little experience in social life.
“Yes… Don’t worry, ma’am. No matter what happens, I will protect you.”
Does Seren know? His comforting words feel harsher to Rosé. Rosé’s face became even more tearstreaked and she let out a deep sigh.
“I hope there’s no need for you to protect me.”
Seren, not hearing Rosé’s murmurs, tilted his head towards her and asked.
“But why did you say it’s a fake? The auctioneer is someone who is trusted enough to do business with nobles. He’s been running the auction without any problems for years.”
“Because someone swapped it with a fake, not that the organizer intentionally sold a fake.”
“What?! Really? How did you know that?”
At Seren’s voice, Rosé regretted her words and quickly covered her mouth. She didn’t mean to speak, but in her disoriented state, she spewed unnecessary words.
She doesn’t know when, where, or who swapped it with a fake. Why? Because she didn’t read the book in detail.
‘I could have spoken confidently with just this information.’
Realizing that there was no good in speaking from a state of ignorance, Rosé awkwardly smiled in a late attempt to rectify the situation.
“In a dream.”
“……”
Seren, who had been looking at Rosé with sparkling eyes, awkwardly looked away at Rosé’s mention of a ‘dream’.
“By the way, ma’am. It’s okay that we didn’t buy a gift for Count Wens?”
Seren changed the subject of the conversation and forced a smile. He seems to be having a hard time believing what Rosé said.
At Seren’s words, Rosé shrugged her shoulders and spoke casually.
“Do we really have to give a gift?”
“What?!”
Seren’s eyes bulged at Rosé’s words.
‘Every year on the Count’s birthday, people made such a fuss.’
In fact, there were rumors that Rosé, who was not foolish, intended to ruin the Count’s household by draining its finances through their marriage.
But for such a woman to say this. Seren couldn’t hide his surprise.
“The Count doesn’t even remember my birthday.”
Rosé spoke calmly, not paying any mind to Seren’s reaction. Count Wens was a man who couldn’t even remember Rosé’s birthday, let alone celebrate it.
Every year on her birthday, Rosé waited with high expectations for Count Wens, but the Count never came to see Rosé. Instead, he spent the night frolicking with other women and came home the following day.
“Well, that’s true.”
Seren nodded in agreement with Rosé’s words.
“So I’m not going to celebrate his birthday starting this year.”
Rosé, with an innocent smile like a child, got on the carriage. Seren, watching the leisurely walking Rosé’s back, murmured softly.
“Has Rosé… changed?”
Rosé, who would rush headlong into anything related to the Count, seemed to have let loose somewhere.
“Is she trying to get the Count’s attention by pretending not to care……”
However, Seren thought that this might also be a strategy of Rosé’s. He thought that Rosé wouldn’t give up on the Count in a moment.
“Poor Rosé, so beautiful and young……”
Seren’s chest ached.
“He will surely regret it later if Rosé’s heart goes cold.”
Seren shook his head and got on the horse. The carriage rushed vigorously towards the Count’s mansion.
Even in the running carriage, Rosé felt uncomfortable as the gaze of Grand Duke Artyom, who had been glaring at her, kept flashing back.
“Don’t worry. After all, he’s someone I won’t run into again.”
“Luna’s Tear” is definitely a fake, so there will be no need for him to express his anger towards me. Even knowing that, Rosé’s heart kept pounding.
“And since he’s going to die soon…”
Rosé trailed off at the end of her sentence. It felt somewhat uncomfortable thinking that he, whom she’d only met once, was going to die.
However, she soon shook her head and muttered,
“I shouldn’t care.”
It was better to worry about how she was going to survive in this world than to care about someone who was soon to die.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Having returned to being Countess, Rosé spent her days uneventfully, forgetting about her meeting with the Grand Duke. She spent every day learning about this world and studying.
She heard rumors that Eric and Doana were sharing a bedroom every day, as if they were in sync. Everyone shushed in front of Rosé, but there was no way it wouldn’t reach her ears.
Doana often visited Rosé brazenly. Although she was supposed to work as Eric’s maid, in reality, Doana didn’t work. She was simply wearing a uniform and staying by Eric’s side.
“What are you always looking at like that?”
“Just, I’m bored just being still.”
Doana’s voice came, not knowing when she had come in. Rosé quietly organized her documents, looking at Doana who had entered her room without even knocking.
At Rosé’s words of ‘I’m bored’, Doana chuckled and smirked.
‘Well, there’s no one here to deal with you. You must be bored.’
Doana laughed at Rosé, swiftly brushing her long hair behind her ears. After a while, she showed an innocent smile and talked to Rosé.
“I’m glad I’m here, right? There’s no one to talk to you. It would be nice if the Count was a little kinder to you.”
Rosé didn’t find Doana, who pretended to worry and tried to scratch her with words she didn’t mean, funny at all.
Doana played with the earrings she had received as a gift, flipping her hair from side to side as if to show them off.
‘It must be from Eric.’
It was obvious without seeing it. There’s no way she could afford those expensive sapphire earrings with a maid’s salary.
At the sight of Doana trying to show off in front of her, Rosé smirked and asked her as if she didn’t know.
“What’s with the earrings?”
“Pretty, right? It’s a gift.”
Doana brazenly boasted about the earrings she had received as a gift from Rosé’s husband, showing her superiority.
“I got a boyfriend.”
Doana couldn’t hide her glossy lips. She wanted to tell Rosé the truth right away.
Your husband is my lover.
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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