“Did you rest well yesterday?”
“…….”
Belia, sitting in the garden of the 1st Prince’s palace with a splendid red teacup in front of her, glared at the smiling face of Raul.
She had just arrived at the study and was about to start her work when Raul suddenly appeared, requesting a visit to the 1st Prince’s palace. It was a very polite invitation, but that was just the surface.
Both Belia and Raul knew well what hidden meaning lay within.
‘If you’re curious, come and find out.’
Belia twisted her lips while looking at Raul in front of her.
“You must be quite curious.”
“You used to be so quiet, but now you’re raising your voice again.”
Raul burst into laughter, mocking her swiftly changing attitude. Then, he casually brushed his hair back and stared straight into Belia’s eyes.
“As you said, I’m not the emperor yet.”
“So, what do you want to say to me?”
“That’s something you should ask me. I’m sure you have more questions.”
Raul seemed relaxed.
But Belia matched his ease and continued the conversation.
“It’s amusing. Right now, it seems like His Highness, the Prince, is the one feeling uneasy.”
“Belia.”
“Didn’t you call me here to show me something?”
Her voice was scornful.
“So, go ahead and say what you want. I don’t even need to ask to know that you tried to harm Khalid, right?”
“Hahaha. I haven’t done anything.”
Indeed, he had simply arranged their schedule so that they would pass through that place.
In essence, Raul had taken no action to cause the landslide. So, although she was furious, Belia couldn’t express her anger towards Raul immediately.
“It was a strange affair. Princess Veronica, who seemed to like me, and who seemed like she would tell me she loved me at any moment, suddenly turned cold and rejected me, saying she’s Khalid’s lover.”
Raul said, brushing his chin with his hand.
“Moreover, she abruptly became Khalid’s lover. Now that I think about it, I was stupid to get involved in that play. But….”
A cruel laugh spread across his face.
“All the things I did, constantly hindering you. Spreading various rumors to change Khalid’s reputation. It all feels quite dirty now that I think they were plots based on future information.”
“If you know, you should use what you have, shouldn’t you?”
Belia replied with a nonchalant expression.
The situation was such that they both knew they were using information from the future. There was no need to hide it anymore.
Initially, she considered pretending not to know anything, but Raul seemed convinced of Belia’s regression from her various actions. So, it was better to confront him and find out how much he knew.
“Ha. Yeah. I should have believed that ridiculous dream from the beginning. If I did, I wouldn’t have moved so late, and I wouldn’t have been fooled by you.”
Raul sighed as he spoke.
‘What?’
The hand that Belia had been holding chilled down suddenly.
There was something strange in his words.
‘…A dream?’
What on earth was he talking about?
“You fell asleep in the garden of Princess Veronica’s palace, right? That day?”
“I don’t want to answer.”
She couldn’t express her current doubts.
Perhaps there might be a clue that could strangle him. A small hope arose.
As Belia, with her slightly lowered hand, sat still without moving, Raul casually lowered the table and asked awkwardly.
“Hmm. You haven’t taken a sip of the tea. Do you dislike what I gave you?”
“I have no intention of drinking the tea you gave me.”
The person who made her drink poisoned tea.
How could she share tea with such a person again?
Belia, who had been sitting like someone devoid of any emotions, looked at Raul with disdainful eyes for the first time.
In response, Raul smiled.
“Is it a problem that I’ve neglected you? Or is it because of Erzhe? But Erzhe, didn’t you kick him out splendidly?”
“Ha……!”
“I admit I’ve been neglectful of you.”
Belia couldn’t take it anymore.
With a snarl, she shouted with a trembling voice.
“Admit? Did you just admit it now? Do you know how cruel and ruthless Her Majesty was to me…!”
How dare he admit to such things.
The one who killed family members, trampled on the homeland, and even killed himself, had no right to speak.
Even in the midst of her heated emotions, tears welled up in Belia’s eyes. But she held them back. She absolutely didn’t want to cry in front of him. That was the one thing she despised the most.
Raul, with a tender smile, opened his mouth.
“Belia. Nothing has happened yet. I understand if you find my feelings suspicious. But the me from back then is different from the current me.”
He stood up, knelt in front of Belia’s feet, and firmly held her cold hands.
“I won’t disappoint you. I promise to make sure nothing like that ever happens. So, Belia, please let go of your feelings now.”
Raul held Belia’s hand against his cheek, a gesture he often did when they were dating.
“It must have been horrifying for you, as the dream was so vivid that you might have mistaken it for reality. But I will make you believe it was just a dream, so…”
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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