“It’s strange; there’s no way you wouldn’t know.”
He mumbled with a slightly offended expression and fell silent.
“Am I the target for Her Majesty? You didn’t hide an arrow-like thing somewhere on your body, did you?”
“You’re talking about an arrow-like thing. It’s about the heart, the heart.”
“…The heart?”
As I tried to glance at him, he said,
“Yeah, a heart frozen solid! What are you looking at? Look ahead!”
Ah, that startled me.
Rinelle quickly gathered his hands politely in front of him and commanded me.
I suppressed a laugh and turned my gaze toward the target.
“Now, pull the bowstring and try shooting for real.”
His voice, softened again, reached my neck.
Because of that, one shoulder twitched, but my eyes had already finished exploring where to shoot the arrow.
The center of the target had to be avoided, of course.
Yeah, I should completely move out of the target area to avoid suspicion.
A small, long wooden board set to the left of the target caught my eye.
There would be a suitable spot.
The point I chose was the middle of the wooden board at 7 o’clock.
I haven’t lingered after pulling the bowstring for a long time since a long time ago.
Aiming is finishing while pulling the bowstring.
Twang!
With a cheerful sound, the arrow flew.
As expected, the arrow hit the target point I had chosen.
Before turning toward him, I secretly smiled with satisfaction.
“Well, it’s like that because it’s the first time. There’s no need to be discouraged.”
But Rinelle, who didn’t know this fact, patted my back.
‘Did you plan to shoot there from the beginning?’
Internally responding like that, externally, I looked at him with a face that seemed quite disheartened.
“Uh, I guess I don’t have talent for archery.”
“No. You did well for the first time.”
“Really?”
“No.”
“…….”
What is this, Emperor Majesty?
“In fact, my skills are terrible, but I even disturbed you from behind. Just the fact that the arrow didn’t head toward my face is commendable.”
He vigorously shook my shoulders, boosting my courage.
“If you practice, you’ll improve, right?”
“It seems wiser not to create occasions to shoot arrows, rather than that.”
“……Ah.”
He had an excellent ability to hit people with words.
“If you continue, there might be progress… But still, don’t harbor unnecessary hope.”
After comforting me, in the end, he gave an honest assessment.
In a word, it meant my skills were terrible.
I pretended not to be able deliberately, but it still feels subtly unpleasant.
I glanced at his peculiar consolation.
“Are you saying that my skills won’t improve?”
“Yeah. They won’t improve.”
Firmly stated.
“But, what occasions would there be for you to shoot arrows in a hunting ground?”
Rinelle gently laughed as she brushed my hair behind my ear.
Her gentle face was so beautiful that I wanted to capture her expression in a painting, something only I could see, her smile meant for me alone.
Suddenly, I wondered what I could do for her.
Compared to what he could do for me, there was almost nothing I could do for him.
“What are you thinking?”
He asked, taking the bow from my hand.
Although I wanted to shoot a few more arrows, I didn’t feel greatly disappointed. Shooting at the strange target I had set wouldn’t change anything, and it was more of a hassle, especially having to act disappointed each time.
“I was just thinking that there’s almost nothing I can do for His Majesty.”
I expressed the thought that had crossed my mind a moment ago.
“Why did you suddenly think of such an obvious fact?”
He asked, caressing my back.
“Just, you know, it crossed my mind.”
“So, what’s the conclusion?”
“There’s nothing.”
At my honest answer, his eyebrows narrowed.
“That’s disappointing.”
He walked over to the weapon rack and hung up the bow again.
Suddenly, his emotions seemed to shift from disappointment to anger. He turned his head towards me abruptly and, as if throwing a tantrum, asked,
“Is there nothing? No, there is.”
“Yes?”
“The one thing you can give me, the biggest thing.”
Linel said with an expectant look.
…What could that be?
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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