The news of the second child of the Elendria family entering the school created a stir.
As the descendant of the legendary family, there was already Nellusion Elendria, a person befitting the family name. He was humble, cautious, and intelligent. One of the three legendary warriors, a boy whose name, “Honest Elendria,” suited him like a painting.
If there was any regret, it was the fact that he was too rational.
Children of the high nobility usually exhibited conspicuous consumption compared to other non-noble children. While Nellusion’s lifestyle was dignified, it wasn’t extravagant. So, he hadn’t been much of a source of amusement for people.
Therefore, people were ecstatic about the news that the Elendria noble couple brought their beloved daughter with several luxurious carriages.
Students enthusiastically discussed how Valentin Elendria, always accompanied by her maid, wore such expensive clothes. Nellusion was oblivious to such stories.
Nellusion was probably the only person in the school, apart from Valentin, who knew well about Valentin’s extravagant lifestyle. And Nellusion would probably know better than Nellusion about how much Valentin allowed her maid, Delma, to have.
Around the time when Nellusion was adopted into the Elendria family, the outfit Valentin was wearing was worth the combined amount of about twelve outfits of the clothes worn by other noble children. Lady Elendria always complained about her daughter’s luxury, and Nellusion believed that her adoptive mother was genuinely distressed.
So, even if only the clothes that Valentin couldn’t wear anymore were given to her, she accepted them quietly. Sometimes, among those clothes, there were also clothes that Delma was not allowed to wear.
Either way, it was more expensive than any clothes made for Elendria’s noble heiress, meant for showing her to the royal family, excluding those ‘wrappings.’
Such Valentin, just before she was about to kill her sister with her own hands, ironically wore the clothes of the princess that her sister used to wear.
During the few days it took to come to the academy by carriage after returning, Nellusion felt like her chest was burning with a sense of betrayal and hatred towards Valentin.
If Valentin had appeared at that moment, she might not have been able to resist slapping her.
But now, a year after the regression, Nellusion was ready to act more rationally.
‘It’s not necessary to directly hit her to get revenge.’
The indifferent expression of the little girl sitting in the upperclassmen’s classroom seemed quite cute to others, as if the child were imitating an adult.
The older students, much taller and bigger than the delicate-looking girl with blond hair and a ribbon, pretended not to care.
There were more famous people in the Elendria family than just Nellusion and Valentin.
Nellis Trude, a distant relative of the Elendria family, but more famous for her genius brain and mysterious maturity than that, entered the same classroom as them as a second-year student.
The upperclassmen at this time last year didn’t know well what kind of child Nellis was. They just thought of her as a child who luckily entered the school due to being born as a relative of the Elendria family, unlike a commoner.
But now, there was no one in the entire school who didn’t know Nellis Trude’s name.
Even those who didn’t know that Nellis took all subjects except for first-year mandatory subjects would have heard at least once during this summer vacation, “The Elendria duke’s son and the McKinnon viscount’s daughter are fond of that child, so take care for your future,” a plea that they should live well.
So, at least one or two of the upperclassmen actively approached Nellis with the intention of talking to her.
However, she didn’t want to give the impression to her peers that she was flattering a younger child, and above all, the peculiar aura that she seemed to exude, making it difficult to casually open the door to conversation, made her hesitate.
If Nellis could read their minds, she would have thought, “Of course,” and smiled wryly. The princess of the Imperial Vista wouldn’t appear as an easy target for anyone to approach.
Even if she were just a fake princess, Nellis, who had been sitting in that position for a long time, had her own atmosphere that teenagers couldn’t casually approach.
The strange and dense silence that had formed around Nellis was broken with the arrival of one person.
Thud. The classroom door opened, and after Nellis became a second-year student, the teacher for the first class of the ‘International Resources and Trade’ subject entered.
Like many other teachers in various higher-grade subjects, he was someone who had been active in his field but took charge of teaching at the academy at the request of the student council.
He gave a strict and businesslike glance, scanning the students. His gaze paused on Nellis for a moment.
“…I read Voltaire Kye’s recommendation carefully. According to his evaluation, you’re quite an excellent student, right?”
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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