Despite hurrying, her clothes were already soaked as she looked up at the heavily clouded sky.
The moment he entered the love pavilion, Eom Sanggung’s thoughts turned into a sigh.
“Your Highness! Why are you coming now!”
As Eom Sanggung had never seen her like this before, she urgently asked what was going on.
“Madam… Madam is not visible.”
“What do you mean she’s not visible, how is that possible?”
“Since going to the love pavilion during the day, she hasn’t been seen.”
“Not in the main room either?”
“I’ve searched everywhere, but she’s not there. It’s not someone who moves without saying anything… I don’t know where she went.”
After stepping out of the love pavilion, did she go outside the palace? I don’t understand what happened.
“Maybe someone saw her going outside the palace.”
“I asked Chief Choe and the steward, but they said they didn’t see her. I don’t know where she went, or what happened…”
Without listening to Eom Sanggung until the end, he jumped into the rain.
Even when Eom Sanggung called me from behind and said something, I didn’t hear it.
He searched every corner of the branch and the lotus pavilion.
However, Eunsul was nowhere to be found.
“Yun Eunsul, where are you.”
As the image of her that I saw during the day came to mind, I sighed unknowingly.
I turned away from her, who looked at me with a wounded face.
There’s no way she left me for that reason.
The belief that it wouldn’t be for that reason stopped.
It was because I knew the sharpness of the blades I spat out.
Could she have had a bad thought? My heart started to pound as if it would burst.
He suddenly ran somewhere with his wet hair brushed roughly.
No, it won’t happen. It won’t happen.
“Eunseol!”
Calling her as he ran into the courtyard, he knew she wouldn’t hear him.
I don’t know what state of mind I was in to run to the front of Dowonjeong.
With the belief that it wouldn’t happen, his steps headed towards the pond.
And then, he called her again.
“Eunseol!”
His voice trembled and didn’t come out properly.
Even though he knew she wouldn’t hear him, he called her as if his throat would burst.
He didn’t know what state of mind he was in as he ran to the pond.
In case, he went into the water and searched even inside.
Looking around like a crazy person, he called her name.
“Please… answer.”
At that moment, somewhere faintly, a human voice was heard.
“Your Highness… I’m here… right here.”
When he approached the pavilion, a very faint voice mixed with the sound of rain reached him.
Without hesitation, he stooped down and went under the pavilion.
In the darkness, he saw Eunsul lying flat on the ground, trembling.
More than the thought of ‘why,’ his body moved first.
He quickly lifted her up, held her in his arms, and went outside.
“What on earth are you doing here!”
“The sound of thunder…”
She couldn’t finish her sentence and lost consciousness.
Eunsul’s body, touched by his hands, was as cold as ice. The thought that leaving her like this could be dangerous came to him first.
He immediately held her in his arms and ran into the rain.
Upon reaching the main building, Eom Sanggung and Geumok saw Eunsul in his arms and became distressed.
Eom Sanggung called to him with a trembling voice.
“What is this, how did this happen?”
“We’ll talk about it later. Please bring warm water and towels. Prepare clothes for her to change into. Hurry!”
Without waiting for an answer, he hurriedly went into the room. As soon as he entered, he laid Eunsul down and removed her wet clothes.
A while later, Eom Sanggung came in with a basin, towels, and clothes.
“I will wipe it for you, Your Highness. Please change into dry clothes first.”
“I’ll do it, just leave.”
At his firm voice, Eom Sanggung stepped back and gave him space.
He took off Eunsul’s wet clothes and changed her into dry ones. Then, he wiped her face and hands with warm water.
Her cold body gradually returned to normal. He covered her with a blanket and stared at her sleeping face for a long time.
“Eunseol, Eunsul… Please open your eyes.”
While waiting for an answer that didn’t come, he held Eunsul’s hand and kissed the back of it.
“Please come to your senses and open your eyes. Eunsul… Don’t be in pain.”
He sighed deeply, uttering words that could be confessions or complaints.
After confirming that her color and breathing had returned to normal, he stood up from his seat.
When he came out, Eom Sanggung was glaring at him with a deeply furrowed brow.
“Why?”
“Why are you saying that now? Why are you acting in a way that hurts Madam without any reason? How much will you regret later!”
“What did I do? I’m the one being rejected by that person, and I’m the one getting hurt, not that person.”
At his words, Eom Sanggung looked at him with an incredulous expression and burst into bitter laughter.
It felt pathetic even as I said it.
“Then, why did you call Sohyang?”
“That… I didn’t call her, well, why am I making excuses now, 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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