“So, shall we run again? There’s not much left until Level 4. It was hard to get here, but we have to reach Level 5.”
Kite, who had exhausted his strength and was panting, had no choice but to pick up his sword again at the relentless urging. However, he still grumbled.
“Can’t we take a break?”
“What are you talking about? Before the day breaks… Ah, it’s always dark here, so it doesn’t matter, but we have no time to rest if we want to return to the mansion. You’ve regained your strength. Start quickly.”
“I’ve regained my energy, but I’m mentally exhausted. It feels weird to keep looking at these grotesquelooking creatures.”
“Then look at me.”
“What?”
At the unexpected comment, Kite tilted his head, and Luella clasped her hands. She looked straight at Kite with her pretty aquamarine eyes.
“My beauty doesn’t fit this dreadful place overrun with monsters, right? It’s for cleansing your eyes before hunting again.”
At her completely unexpected selfpraise, Kite let out a hollow laugh.
“You can actually say that about yourself.”
“What’s the problem? Beautiful things deserve praise. If I feel depressed because of this gloomy atmosphere, I look at Gilmanim, you know?”
“……”
Look at her? Kite was at a loss for words at the absurd confession. However, her subsequent words…
“It then becomes as bright as if my eyes were opened.”
“……”
…left him unable to retort.
Wasn’t he momentarily entranced by her beautiful features when he first saw her at the party?
Even now, as he looked at Luella Rominin’s tantalizing and softlooking pink hair, and her beautiful eyes beneath it, it became hard for him to get angry.
“So, shall we start again?”
When he showed signs of actively moving, Luella quickly pointed into the forest.
“Very good. Over here, over here, there are many.”
He somehow felt that he was being played by this little woman, but his mood wasn’t that bad.
If other women had used him in this way, he wouldn’t have let it slide. Of course, he wouldn’t have allowed such a situation in the first place.
Afterward, Kite hunted monsters mechanically, consuming the potions Luella Rominin continuously provided.
Thanks to her, Luella’s experience points shot up. Past Level 3, Level 4… and just before Level 5.
Just by following him, an exhausted Luella panted heavily.
“Ththis time, let’s go over there.”
Luella pointed weakly in one direction, but Kite shook his head.
“I want to catch more, but it seems like there’s none left.”
As he said, the surroundings were suddenly scorched. Luella mumbled, worrying about what to do.
“But we need 0.03% more experience to reach Level 5 even after completing the quest… Ah, that’s right. We can get it by picking herbs. There’s a rare herb nearby.”
“Does the soul middleman tell you that too?”
“Well, you can say that. Now, this way. Oh, it’s a swamp?”
Heading towards the spot marked on the map, they came upon a bubbling, stickylooking swamp that resembled lava. The unidentified liquid was undoubtedly unpleasant.
There were large stones like stepping stones to cross, but they hesitated, fearing what might happen if they slipped. Then, Kite came close behind her.
“Excuse me.”
“Huh? Ah……!”
At the sudden sound, Luella stiffened for a moment, and Kite picked her up, supporting her shoulders and legs.
“……!”
Startled, Luella’s eyes wavered. Her heart beat strongly.
Thump, thump…….
She had thought his back was cool when she first saw him, but now she noticed his firm, muscular arms. Luella unwittingly stared up at him, watching him effortlessly lift her.
Why was his face so handsome?
A veillike jawline, sharp nose bridge, and a sturdy neck made her heart beat uncontrollably. Even the angle of looking up from below, called a humiliation shot, was perfect.
He gently lowered his head and looked at Luella. Kite, who stared at Luella with fascinating winecolored eyes below the eyelids with unexpectedly long lashes, asked,
“Why have you suddenly gone quiet?”
“Just because.”
The words “handsome” did not come out this time, unlike when she had casually said it before. It was when Luella was holding back the breath that was about to burst out. Kite, who had crossed the swamp, was about to put her down.
“Hold on. Please go all the way in there. There are herbs on that side, and there are strange things in the middle of the way too.”
In fact, there were herbs right across the swamp, but Luella deliberately pointed further in. It was because she wanted to buy a little more time, for some reason.
However, when Kite seemed to be hesitating, Luella couldn’t endure any longer and finally shouted,
“Here.”
“Here?”
As if to confirm if he had come to the right place, Kite looked down at Luella.
“Yes. Put me down quickly.”
She hurried, floundering as if her face had turned red.
“Why are you acting like this all of a sudden after I’ve carried you here so well?”
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.”
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
