As I hurried outside, the entrance was crowded with numerous merchants, porters, and carriages.

“Oh, Lady Aileen. Good morning. Today, there’s a bracelet made of diamonds and a hair ornament made of highpurity rubies.”

“A hundred pairs of shoes and seventy dresses. These are tailormade just for you! They will suit you very well! Here, try on this lace made by a craftsman!”

“It’s a box filled with gold coins. The box itself is made of highpurity gold…….”

As soon as I emerged, the descriptions of the gifts flooded in.

I silently waited for them to finish speaking. I realized from days of accumulated experience that they wouldn’t stop anyway.

Eventually, a moment of silence allowed me to ask,

“……So, who sent them?”

I knew the answer would be obvious, but I still couldn’t believe it.

The merchants, with wideopen eyes, spoke in unison,

“That is.”

“Of course.”

“It’s from Duke Kashar.”

I wanted to believe I’d heard wrong, but the stacked gifts in front of me told an unbelievable tale.

I averted my eyes from the sparkling glares.

‘What on earth is happening?’

I thought Kashar was dead when he left.

He must have been so surprised that he even brought a baseball bat from a dream mart.

However, the next day’s arrival at the cold palace was not blades but luxurious gifts.

‘No, was he that moved just because I prepared breakfast?’

It was possible to fall in love with food at first taste, but this was too much.

The gifts piled up from morning till night.

At first, I tried to send them back, but,

‘The Duke has sent a letter.’

The letter Mikhail handed over read,

It was a gift I couldn’t refuse from the start.

And so, on the third day.

Today, too, Kashar’s gifts were pouring out like bulk freight deliveries.

“Be careful! It’s a silkmade dress!”

Mrs. Marlong of the dress shop was shouting, and her assistants were pulling out armfuls of dresses from the luxurious carriages.

‘Somehow, the tailor measured the size on the first day.’

But was the dress made this quickly?

The fluttering hem was adorned harmoniously with gold leaf, silver thread, and colorful gems.

I’d seen so many dazzling things for days that now, anything that sparkled made my eyes spin.

‘How much is all of that worth? The gems that Aileen has saved up are incomparable.’

Sell that and make pretty clothes for our princes, gourmet food, hire people to make the palace shiny…

I felt like I had involuntarily drooled.

That’s when one of Mrs. Marlong’s helpers asked me,

“Where, Lady Aileen, should we put this?”

“Ah, the room at the end of the corridor on the left should be empty.”

He didn’t see me drool, did he?

As I awkwardly covered up and pointed in the direction, a mountain of dresses was moved inside.

At this rate, the remaining rooms would be filled with gifts.

‘I may be tempted.’

I disciplined my mind and body with a meditation technique I’d seen somewhere.

With a bit of imagination,

‘I’m in a pyramid ruin. Touching gems there would ruin my life; I’ve seen it in series of movies.’

Ruining life took only a moment.

And I seemed to be on the brink of ruin.

‘It must be a new kind of torment. Or the foundation for enforced debt. Or has he hit his head and gone mad? Then, do I have to pay for the treatment?’

I became more troubled, but couldn’t find a solution to this situation.

‘I hope I don’t have to meet him to talk about this.’

His chilling voice seemed to linger in my ears.
I didn’t want to meet him in person. Though he was a character I liked, he was excessively handsome and excessively terrifying.

‘I might have a heart attack if I see him again.’

I did want to see the muscles under his shirt just once, but that didn’t mean I wanted to die.

‘It will end eventually.’

Later, if asked to return it, I could simply give back everything I had.

I decided to think simply. Otherwise, I felt I wouldn’t be able to live in this world.

“Aileen, young lady.”

“Yes?”

I was so perplexed that I hadn’t even noticed someone approaching me.

The one who addressed me was Baron Shoppen, who had brought me jewelry for the past three days.

“I have placed all the gifts inside. But there is something I would like to ask you.”

“What is it?”

Shoppen rubbed his palms together and lowered his voice.

“By any chance, what is your relationship with the Duke?”

Suddenly, the surroundings fell silent. Everyone was listening for my answer.

Everyone seemed to be itching to ask, their faces full of curiosity.

“There’s no relationship at all.”

I don’t know why Kashar is doing this either. Can you please ask him for me? But be careful, you might lose your head.

‘I want to say that.’

I was one hundred percent sincere.

“Oh dear, you can speak honestly.”

“Really, there’s no relationship at all.”

Though I explained both inside and out, no one seemed to believe me.

‘Just ignore it and go inside.’

No matter how much I tried to explain, the gifts were going to arrive by sundown anyway.

I was about to turn around.

“Wow, so many people today!”

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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