“Can’t it be just for tonight…?”
“Is that possible?”
The crown prince scratched the back of his head awkwardly.
“Is it too much of a nuisance for newlyweds?”
“You know very well.”
The crown prince looked at Arien with a seemingly aggrieved expression.
“Do you really have to be so upset? You are with the lady every day. Can’t you give me just one day?”
Such a ridiculous comparison.
“You’ve been with His Highness, the crown prince, for the past five years.”
“That won’t be the case in the future. Aren’t you upset?”
“It’s getting old. I don’t understand. Why do you want to be with me?”
Marina’s pupils wavered.
Is it okay to say that to His Highness, the crown prince?
As if to prove his words, Arien bluntly turned his head and spoke to Duke Lionel, who was standing awkwardly behind him.
“Please tell the Duchess that His Highness, the crown prince, has arrived and request a guest room.”
The crown prince hurriedly caught Duke Lionel and shouted at Arien.
“Ah, really, this is too much! Do you think I would do this if I really had nowhere to go? I want to have a drink with you one last time, and say a few words to your wife, like, ‘Please take good care of him,’ and say my final goodbyes. That’s why I’m doing this!”
Arien coldly refuted.
“What is there to ask for? Have you ever taken responsibility for me, Your Highness? You just want to delay the day you return to the royal family by even one day.”
The crown prince grinned shamelessly.
“You know very well. Please spare me just once.”
Arien rebutted without hesitation.
“Do I have to spare you again?”
“Just one more time.”
Arien’s face contorted ruthlessly.
“What changes if you delay it? Please just leave!”
Marina was frozen.
Is it because he saved my life that he can do this?
No matter how much he saved my life.
Or is it just the brothers’ nonchalance?
“!”
The crown prince changed his strategy and turned his body towards Marina.
And with a smile, he gave a politely serious voice.
“Lady.”
Without a moment’s delay, Arien stretched out his arm to block in front of Kevrant.
“Don’t bother my wife.”
The crown prince asked politely.
“Lady, are you uncomfortable?”
Without giving Marina a chance to open her mouth, Arien answered.
“This is what you call bothering. You’re making it impossible to refuse with the power of hierarchy.”
The crown prince retorted as if wronged.
“Where do I have power by hierarchy? It doesn’t work on you either.”
Arien spoke while tapping on his furrowed forehead.
“Why are you playing ignorant? Kevrant, the power of your name as crown prince is…”
“That power has long been crushed before the ‘brilliant morning star.’ Are you the one playing ignorant?”
Marina’s heart sank and her face hardened.
The crown prince saw that news report.
Although the crown prince spoke nonchalantly, Marina felt a chill down her spine.
Because she had seized all the news she could find about Arien, she understood well enough about the political difficulties Arien faced.
‘The shining morning star of the royal family’ or ‘the rising light of the royal family’ were phrases often used to compare Arien here and there.
The praise for Arien could easily sound like mockery against the crown prince, so it was expressed metaphorically.
However, there were occasionally those who used dangerous expressions even with the metaphors.
Like ‘the next sun of the empire’ losing its light in front of ‘the dazzling morning star.’
If His Highness, the crown prince, saw that, he would certainly have been upset.
“……”
Marina was restless, looking at the reactions of Arien and the crown prince.
“Keep your dignity!”
“Who is being disrespectful!”
“……”
Is it okay to do this?
Crown Prince Kevrant saved his life thanks to Arien, but certainly saved his face.
And the illegitimate child Arien was rather in a difficult situation because he saved him.
Overwhelming fame and popularity surpassing the crown prince, and the ensuing restraint of the queen’s family.
From the position of a bastard with no hidden hills, it was a difficult situation where he had to receive words of gratitude on the outside, but inside he had to doubt their sincerity.
Marina didn’t know if it was okay to just listen to this dangerous conversation.
Shouldn’t she somehow intervene as ‘Christina’ to smooth the atmosphere?
Or is it okay to speak so candidly?
Perhaps Duke Arien is making a difficult refusal to the crown prince because I’m a ‘fake Christina’?
Following the rules, here is your translated passage.
Would I have refused so recklessly against Crown Prince Kevrant if I wasn’t pretending?
Prince Kevrant kept nagging at me with a friendly face.
“Just one drink. It’s really the last one.”
I looked at the prince with a disdainful face and spoke.
“You gave me a royal decree to drink last time, saying it was the last time. Is it a royal decree again?”
The prince denied it with a flushed face.
“No, no. I told you there won’t be such a thing again. It’s just a suggestion, a request, an invitation, something like that…”
I refused, cutting off each word with force.
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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