The man’s voice sounded like a growl.

“Oh, is that so? Are you close? Then what is the Emperor’s ideal type?”

“Not you.”

“…”

Suddenly, I was hit.

Wow, I’m about to have a national marriage with the emperor of this country, I can’t even say it!

I was so irritated for a moment that I jumped up from the sofa.

How arrogant must he be, that he’s not even satisfied with the informal language from the start?

Should I take off that guy’s hood, huh?

“Here’s the treatment you reserved.”

Then Vic’s assistant brought me a bag made of flexible material.

“Thank you.”

Yeah, let’s just go.

Don’t mix words any longer with such a cheap guy who uses informal language at first sight.

However, I felt bitter to just go out, and while walking to the clinic door, I looked at the man and muttered softly.

“The emperor should be different from such a rude man. Otherwise, the empress who came from afar will be pitiful. I really hate rudeness……”

“Ha, you also speak as if you’re very close to the empress. You talk like you know the empress’s ideal type?”

Surprisingly, the man, who had heard my muttering, asked sarcastically.

“I know. I know it well.”

“What is it?”

“Not you.”

“!”

“Absolutely not.”

I returned the words the man had said earlier and even hammered the final nail.

I feel so relieved.

As I opened the clinic door, the man took off his robe in a sidelong glance.

I sneakily twisted my waist back to check the man’s face.

Gosh, what did I just see!

There was a face in the hood that I couldn’t have imagined.

I was so startled that I hastily closed the clinic door and fled.

Although he… had committed the rudeness of using informal language from the first meeting, among the beautiful men I’ve seen in my life, he was very beautiful.

Oh my god, my ideal type was right in front of me and I didn’t know it!

“Do you seem to remember now?”

Emperor Rinel asked, crossing his arms as if interrogating.

“Yes… Yesterday, I failed to recognize you and committed a great rudeness…”

‘I responded in informal language because Your Majesty spoke to me in informal language first.’

The words were waiting on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn’t dare to say them.

“I take it that I’m not the empress’s ideal type, but let me ask again. Wasn’t today your first night?”

I quickly shook my head left and right.

“No! Your Majesty is exactly my ideal type, and I was also… for Your Majesty… my first…”

I left my words hanging there, purposely flushing my face.

I could easily control the blush on my face to this extent.

I’m not sure if this could be called a skill, but it’s one of the things that happened after getting burned on the right side of my face.

Emperor Rinel’s face softened slightly.

“But, you know, I heard before that in the Empress’s country, they can have free relationships from the age of 20 when they become adults. Is that true?”

“Yes, Your Majesty. There are glittering encounters. Ah, but mine was a pitifully modest life. Ahaha.”

I responded with a burst of laughter.

In reality, after my debut, I was out of the interests of the young men because of the burn scar.

While the speaker is laughing so brightly, the emperor’s expression was getting worse and worse.

He squirmed from time to time, making a face as if he was about to express something, but there was no sign of a smile.

“Hmm, should I be relieved about that…”

His hand reached towards my right face.

The burn scar wouldn’t have been visible to him, yet I reflexively avoided his hand.

Despite my obviously impudent action, he didn’t say a word.

A moment of silence passed.

Desiring to change the awkward atmosphere, I blurted out the first thing that came to my mind.

“I’ve heard you have a grand duke with whom you share a significant age difference.”

Upon witnessing Emperor Rinel’s complexion darken considerably, I felt this may not have been the best choice.

“Come to think of it, it’s been a while since I’ve had a conversation with the lad.”

“Is the Grand Duke somewhere far away?”

I didn’t recall seeing anyone at the wedding who could be considered a grand duke.

“He’s in a cold place. He probably won’t even see the Empress. It’s a relief not to have to meet my headacheinducing younger halfbrother.”

He had a smile on his face, but his eyes looked sad.

“He’s somewhere out of my reach, even if he’s near. Because if I approach him, he’ll freeze even more… so I can’t visit him.”

“Where exactly is he…”

I asked him, my eyes wide in surprise.

“Joseph also received the same curse as me. I can use magic, so I didn’t have my body temperature completely stolen by the curse wave sent by the magician, but Joseph was different.”

I wanted to ask what ended up happening to the Grand Duke, but I couldn’t ask so casually.

To me, who was just reading the room, he added something unbelievable.

“Joseph is currently trapped in ice.”

Good heavens.

“By any chance, is he inside the imperial palace?”

When I asked carefully, he didn’t confirm or deny, but simply laid back down on the bed.

“You should get some rest. Starting tomorrow, the empress will also have a lot to do.”

That was a sign to stop asking.

“Yes, Your Majesty….”

Anyway, why would I need to know all the details? I’m just temporarily in the place of the empress.

Even though that’s what I was thinking, seeing his sorrowful face made me feel uneasy.

“And about yesterday. It’s about when I went to the clinic.”

“Ah, yes.”

“I went there to buy a magic potion that raises body temperature. Only those close to me know about the hypothermia curse, so I had no choice but to wear the robe like a criminal, as you said.”

As I was about to lie down, he chuckled and said.

“It’s fortunate in misfortune.”

I stole a glance down and replied.

“The empress already knows.”

“Knows what?”

“That there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the place you just looked at.”

“!”

“You’re not bashful, are you?”

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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