Listening closely to her surprise, fortunately, the child was breathing evenly.

‘……Fell asleep? Suddenly? Is this how children are at this age?’

Though Lucia, with good stamina, had not noticed, this 5yearold had not eaten or slept since dawn.

Even though protected by divine power, a child was still a child.

“I’ll take him to the bedroom for now; you guys should wait here quietly.”

At Lucia’s warninglike words, those left behind began to tremble.

“Damn, the captain seems really angry. What should we do……!”

“See, that’s why you shouldn’t have done that with the child… Gillyana. May your soul rest in peace.”

“……Fools?”

Only then, looking at the flustered troupe members, Lucia went up to the secondfloor bedroom.

Laying the child on the bed, the long black hair, haphazardly covering the face, made him look even more exhausted.

She brushed aside the hair near the child’s plump forehead and took his temperature.

Fortunately, perhaps because he was a saint, his body seemed robust, and there was no fever.

“……Uung.”

She quickly withdrew her hand at the child’s stirring.

About to turn away after watching the child fall back to sleep,

“Lusha…….”

In the end, the awakened child mumbled.

“Yes. Well done. That’s my name.”

“……My name…….”

The child mumbled, fighting against the heavy eyelids.

“Ah.”

Lucia recalled someone before saying the name.

A name she had longed for all her life, though she had never seen. Lavinia Cluer.

“Your name is, Nia.”

“……Nia, Nia.”

The child mumbled the name derived from Lucia’s mother’s name for a while, then fell sound asleep.

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“So, you can’t tell me about the husband. You only have the child?”

Vernon said, as if he couldn’t believe it.

It was the emperor’s thought.

In his thought, rather than making an excuse involving herbs seven times or more, it would be better to say that he couldn’t tell.

Lucia, sitting on the sofa, nodded.

The Black Knights’ aces were sweating.

They were serious.

The frail Hiss soon collapsed on the floor.

As Hiss fell, Vernon and Gillyana cried out to Lucia with desperate faces.

“Chief……!”

“Captain!! Please……!!”

The reason they were so desperate.

It was because of Lucia, who had commanded them to assume horse stance until the bee that had carelessly flown in through the window left.

“Hiss. You come here. It’s enough now.”

The collapsed Hiss opened his eyes at Lucia’s command, and annoyingly, he sat on the plush sofa to catch his breath.
“You sly fox!! Captain! Why only Hiss……!”

“Yeah!! We’re all knights, aren’t we!? It’s discrimination!”

At their resentful cries, Lucia came up with a good method.

“Stop being a baby. Then change to position 2.”

“No!”

“No!”

The united cries of Vernon and Gilliana, for once.

“……Heh.”

Their lively appearance, not seen in a long time, amused Lucia, and a deflated sound escaped her lips.

“……Wow. Our captain, I thought you knew nothing about men.”

“Yeah, already a parent. The captain is now a life senior. Haha.”

“What?”

Even as she was sweating, Lucia glared at the teasing Vernon and Gilliana.

“Ah, I was just thinking…… Ah, haha.”

“Heh, heh.”

The members who were trying to lighten the atmosphere with a joke broke into a sweat, avoiding Lucia’s dry eyes.

“But, Captain. How did you raise her so quietly? I don’t see a nanny.”

“Is that so? Captain. Was the child somewhere else before coming here?”

Despite the apparent agony, their curiosity was first, and they began to walk around the house again in a riding posture.

Those shameless ones seemed to think that as long as they maintained their posture, they could do anything.

No matter how much they looked around, the training center only had many weapons hung on the walls, a formal reception room, and just a few drawers. There was nothing else.

So, as Lucia had thought, the environment was not at all suitable for raising a child.

‘……Somewhere else?’

“……Yes. The child’s father has been raising her until now.”

She felt proud, as if her reflexes for lying had improved since the herbs.

“I see. Then you should hire a nanny? You’re not someone who can raise a child, are you?”

It was something she had already worried about herself.

But hearing it from someone else was not acceptable.

As Lucia’s eyes flashed at Vernon, he quickly corrected his relaxed posture.

“Heh, heh. No, what I mean is, it’s hard. Alone……”

“No. No need for a nanny or maid for the time being. What’s so hard about raising such a small child?”

Lucia’s bravado made even Hiss, who had been playing dead on the sofa, shake her head.

“……Captain. I’ve never said this before, but really. I respect you.”

It was an unexpected confession from Gilliana. And then……

“But this is not it. You’re going to kill the child before even sending her to the Academy’s kindergarten!?”

I saw it for the first time.

Gilliana’s face, always brimming with energy, had no trace of a smile.

And so, she pointed to the piledup dishes, dried out only a day after the maid left.

Timedried food ingredients, a bathroom filled with dirty scrubbing water, and stained floors.

Of course, it hadn’t been long since she had rescued them from the dirty storage room, and it was going to be the nursery for the time being, but to tell the truth, she had no intention of cleaning this herself.

Since her personality didn’t really care about a dirty environment, it was her plan to leave it to the child for a while.

That way, if it doesn’t get cleaned, she wouldn’t have to think of another excuse to keep the child here, which would be even better.

But to actually raise a child, this environment wouldn’t do.

At their reasonable scolding, Lucia was cornered to the point where she couldn’t come up with any other excuses.

“Sigh, it can’t be helped. Gilliana. How about being in charge of cooking? I’ll take care of the child’s care and education.”

“Okay. Is Hiss in charge of cleaning?”

“……Yeah.”

They were assigning roles to each other with serious faces, as if planning a strategy.

Watching them, Lucia, with an expression of disbelief,

“You talk nonsense well. I don’t allow it. Now go.”
Her cold reaction; Vernon knew this would happen and pulled out a trump card from his pocket.

What Vernon handed over was a paper covered in luxurious gold leaf.

[You. Have you been employing very loyal members? Your members came to me in a group saying they would rest while you were on leave, and it’s giving me a headache. The talented knights are all resting, and it seems like the empire will be ruined, so take responsibility.]

A handwriting that was clearly scrawled roughly, beneath it, the Emperor’s seal.

So this was precisely the Emperor’s handwritten letter saying he would send the Aces to the training camp accommodation.

How on earth did the Emperor, who clapped like a seal, write such a letter himself?

Even though their foxlike intentions were clearly visible, the members, as if they knew nothing, faced him with an innocent smile like a child.

At that sight, something dark and deep in Lucia’s heart slowly began to boil up.

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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