“No way.”
As Lucia spewed out the intense energy from the sword and rushed to stab him,
“Please save me!! The child is at Geracci Orphanage!”
?”
Geracci?
At the familiar name, Lucia’s sword struck him right above his upper lip.
The moment the tree split abruptly, releasing the rope that bound him, he fainted.
[Star Icon]A glamorous carriage and a well-dressed, large-sized noble.
Kneeling masked figures surrounded by a strict guard, enveloping them.
The leader among them, who seemed to be a noble, spoke with a deep leather hat and an imposing voice.
“Are you ready?”
“Yes, just give the order.”
A black-masked figure shouted in one voice.
They were the Special Elite Forces of the Imperial Commander.
When they gathered, thoroughly veiled, it was a time when they had to spend all their resources to resolve a major crisis affecting the entire continent.
However, now they had assembled for a different reason.
“I summoned you today to take a precious child. Also, I must keep my identity hidden. Understand?”
“Understood!”
Why?
Because she was not only the most precious saint in the world but also her granddaughter’s way back home.
At the same time.
Eldarion Kindergarten’s playground.
The children who intentionally waited until Nia’s mother arrived, despite a friend who had been gloomy all day, had resolved to reconcile with their mothers.
As a result, the previously quiet way back home became lively with carriages and maids.
However, as time passed, Ivanus, who had been waiting for Nia’s mother with clenched fists and tapping his little feet, shouted.
“Nia’s mom, it’s not working. The snow is falling!”
At that, Nia mumbled sadly.
“…… Mom might not come anymore.”
Roy, who was oblivious to Nia’s melancholy, stepped on her feelings unintentionally, and eventually, tears burst out.
“Ah! Roy! What are you saying!”
“Hey! Roy! Don’t say things like that! It’s a business trip, you know!”
“…… S, sorry! Nia!”
When Charles and Ivanus scolded him, this time, tears welled up in Roy’s eyes.
“Don’t cry! Thud! Ah, I waited for nothing. Anyone would have come to pick us up. Nia, stop crying.”
“Yeah, when the business trip is over, she’ll come to pick us up. Nia, let’s go home now.”
As Ivanus and Charles stood up, dusting off the dust from their dresses, it happened.
[Dash]Footsteps, rustling.Suddenly, masked figures appeared from nowhere and started to surround the children.
“Who are you!”
As the head butler shouted, the knights of the princess surrounded the children and drew their swords.
Seeing the clean movements of the knights without any clutter, they thought that something serious had happened.
Just as they were about to use a magic scroll to move the children to the palace,
“Calm down.”
At the sudden appearance of someone, all actions stopped abruptly, and the knights, with their heads bowed, stopped everything, holding each child’s head.
“Have you come! Commander Helbert…”
Helbert raised his hand.
He stopped them to prevent them from revealing their identities.
However, observing this situation, Princess Shal stepped forward, standing in front of the children with sharp eyes.
The knights following her bowed their heads in front of others.
“I am Princess Shal of Eldarion. Who are you exactly?”
As befitting the royal bloodline, Shal remained unfazed by the imposing figure and intimidating presence of the masked man. However,
“…Grandpa…!”
“Oh, our little one!”
As Nia rushed and embraced him, the fearsome-looking man casually lifted the child, breaking into a hearty laugh. Even the masked figures following him seemed startled by this unfamiliar sight.
“I greet you, Princess. I am the strongest man on the continent and Nia’s grandfather.”
As he respectfully took off his hat, the elite force members who accompanied him also bowed their heads. It was an unbelievable event. No one could have imagined that Nia, as gentle as a lamb, had such a wild bear of a grandfather.
He wore a shiny top hat, stylish leather boots, a splendid topcoat, and a thin muffler draped over his shoulders, a stark contrast to his rugged face and strangely well-fitted clothes. Somehow, he managed to evoke a single word in people’s minds.
That word was soon revealed and exclaimed by the bright-eyed and cheerful Roy.
“…Boss!”
Upon hearing Ivanus and Roy’s conversation, Charles widened his eyes.
“What? The boss? What is that?”
“Cousin says so. Shal Amun, the strongest man in the underworld, is the most powerful person in the back world! He is called the boss!”
In their conversation, all the children in the kindergarten, who were present, stared at Helbert.
Then, raising their small hands, they pointed at Helbert.
“Boss!!!”
“It’s the boss!!!”
Startled by the sudden attention, Helbert, with Nia in his arms, whispered to his granddaughter.
“…Little one. They’re calling me the boss?”
…!
Helbert was dumbfounded by his granddaughter’s innocent question.
In response to her gentle inquiry, Helbert was at a loss for words.
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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