Lavish redgold hair and violet eyes.
It was impossible not to recognize him, a face so similar to the current Empress.
“What? The Crown Prince comes without even hiding his face, and on a white horse at that?”
Even the white horse was extravagantly adorned with red seals and jewels.
I knew from the original work that he was arrogant, but this was a whole new level of flamboyance.
“I greet the small sun of Reinhart.”
Still, he was the Crown Prince, so manners had to be maintained.
As Jiana and I bowed, Valented leapt down from his horse.
The Crown Prince alternately looked at Jiana and me, then gave Jiana an inscrutable smile.
“I was unaware you two were acquainted.”
His hint was blatantly obvious.
“I just happened to run into Lord Enders. I offered compensation because something stained my dress because of me.”
I sighed and pretended to fix my dress.
It was clear what the Crown Prince would say to the Empress later. The damage would entirely fall on Jiana.
“Are we done? I’m really sorry, now please go on your way.”
At my words, Jiana avoided my gaze.
She seemed hesitant, but finally said her goodbyes to the Crown Prince.
“I shall take my leave, Your Highness.”
“Go ahead.”
The Crown Prince readily nodded.
Jiana immediately turned around and brushed past me.
“Be careful.”
The whisper was soft enough for only me to hear.
Jiana acted as if she knew the Crown Prince was a dangerous person.
Soon, Jiana disappeared beyond the alleyway.
I prepared to leave as well.
“Then I should also take my leave.”
What would a Duchess’s lover be doing with the Crown Prince?
‘Bad rumors will spread.’
There was no doubt that Valented approached me with that in mind.
It felt regrettable to lose a shopping friend for nothing.
However, Valented didn’t allow me to leave.
“I have a proposal for Lady Hallen.”
“A proposal?”
His imposing frame stepped closer.
The Crown Prince leaned down and whispered into my ear.
“Aren’t you curious how to break Kashar’s curse?”
My body froze instantly.
I quickly pushed him away, putting distance between us.
Murmurs rose from the surrounding crowd.
As spectators gathered, a thick smile spread across Valented’s lips.
“Shall we move to a different spot?”
I had no choice but to accept his offer.
He left his white horse with his hidden guards and led me to a café’s tea room.
“This is my private room. Please enter.”
Having a private room in someone else’s café, how fitting for the Crown Prince.
As Ludvion tried to enter with me, the Crown Prince’s guard stopped him.
“I’ll be out soon.”
“…Alright.”
Ludvion looked concerned, but what could possibly happen when he was waiting right outside?
The room we entered was truly lavish.
‘Ugh, so dazzling.’
It was so filled with decorations that it was hard to say it was beautiful; it was just ostentatious.
My eyes would go blind if I stayed here for too long.
As soon as I sat on the sofa, I got to the point.
“A curse? What are you talking about?”
“You should already know.”
Unlike me, the Crown Prince leisurely sipped his tea.
His attitude made me want to slap his forehead.
‘Only a few people know Kashar’s illness is a curse.’
Kashar himself, his close associates, and those who cast the curse and their children—that was all.
The irony was that the Emperor, who had Kashar on a leash, didn’t know his delirium was due to the Empress’s curse.
“I know how to lift the curse.”
It was a line not even in the original work.
‘He probably had no intention of lifting it in the first place.’
So what was his intention in approaching me to talk about this?
Noticing my suspicious glare, the Crown Prince arrogantly lifted his chin and spoke.
“I’ll tell you after we date.”
…What nonsense is this?
I nearly dropped the cup I was holding.
‘Are you meeting with that illegitimate brother of yours? Your mother even tried to kill me, you know.’
Nearly whipped thirty times back then.
Even now, thinking about it sent shivers down my spine.
“Ah, if it’s because of the Empress Mother, you don’t have to be too scared.”
The Crown Prince spoke in a surprisingly tender tone, perhaps misinterpreting my disbelief as astonishment.
“My mother will understand the rudeness at that time if she meets me.”
“Rudeness? It’s my fault?”
I was so dumbfounded that I didn’t even realize I had cut him off.
He continued, unabashed, despite my incredulous expression.
“It’s true, she is a bit touchy about manners. But if the Empress of the Empire doesn’t maintain discipline, who will?”
As I lost my words, he spoke even more.
“Her heart is actually very tender. It was even wounded by Harlen’s grace that day. However, with a sincere apology, she will understand….”
“Hold on, just hold on.”
I couldn’t listen any longer.
I touched my forehead in front of the Crown Prince.
‘Is this guy insane?’
So, it was normal for me to beg his mother, who had tried to kill me, for forgiveness?
‘Now I understand why Elsius rejected him.’
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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