After parting ways with Duke Martins in the greenhouse, I returned to the Hwanghu Palace.
My uneasy feelings about the news of Bonis and the discussion about purchasing the magic potion were somewhat alleviated.
“But my nerves couldn’t help but be on edge as the Shattoneel royal siblings stayed in the palace.”
When we arrived on the bedroom floor, we saw Sollie and Theresa standing midway in the corridor.
Sharon and I looked at each other simultaneously.
Sharon, feeling something odd, called out their names. Then, as if they had been waiting, the two of them walked towards us.
“Why are you like this? What happened?”
Sharon, glancing at me, asked Sollie and Theresa.
“Well… Her Majesty, the Princess of the Motherland, has been in the bedroom since a while ago.”
“Princess Lesilia?”
I reacted nervously without realizing it.
“Yes, Her Majesty…”
“What were you doing? You should have taken her to the reception room. Why did you let her go into the bedroom when Her Majesty isn’t there?”
Sharon scolded the two.
“I apologize. We did tell her that, but…”
“She just opened the bedroom door and walked in without hesitation…”
As the two bowed deeply and spoke, Sharon’s voice grew louder.
“No matter what! It’s like that!”
“Fine. I’ll go inside and check. Is she waiting in the bedroom right now?”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
I calmed down the excited Sharon, then walked towards the bedroom door.
Today is quite a hectic day.
I armed myself mentally before entering the bedroom.
Encountering Princess Lesilia’s face on a day like today required extraordinary patience.
Being able to flip people’s minds with a cheerful smile was a talent possessed by Prince Tesla and Princess Lesilia.
Prince Tesla, while provoking the situation, assessed the other’s anger, but the princess was the type to pour oil on the fire without hesitation.
I took a deep breath and opened the bedroom door.
Contrary to expectations, the bedroom was quiet even with my entrance.
Normally, Lesilia’s voice, cheerfully chatting away, should be heard, but there was no response.
Moreover, her figure was nowhere to be seen.
I slowly looked around before stopping in the middle of the bedroom.
“Ha.”
Princess Lesilia was asleep on my bed.
It was truly an action that lacked any sense.
Even though I am the acting empress, that is a fact known only between us. Isn’t there any consideration for the gazes, especially in the imperial palace where there are numerous eyes?
Moreover, it’s quite uncommon for the princess of the kingdom to come into the bedroom, waiting in the absence of the empress. Princess Lesilia, napping on the empress’s bed, was quite a sight.
Princess Lesilia was sleeping exactly on the side where I usually lie.
I quietly gazed down at the face of the sleeping princess, imagining Lionel lying next to her.
From the bed where we laughed, talked, and shared love together, the thought of him with another woman, and that too with Princess Lesilia, made my heart ache.
“Hmm? When did you come?”
Princess Lesilia woke up.
She rubbed her eyes with both hands like a child, yawned, and sat up.
“You were waiting in the reception room.”
Asking why she came was a pointless question anyway.
“Why, feeling bad? Coming into an ownerless bedroom on your own?”
If she had asked with a sharper tone, I might have been less upset, but the princess’s innocent tone felt like she was teasing me.
“It’s not that. You should be careful; there are many eyes watching. Even if you’re the princess of the Motherland, if the attendants see you entering and taking a nap in an ownerless bedroom, won’t they think it’s strange?”
“Hmm, sorry! Anyway, did the attendants who will later serve me think so? It felt friendly for some reason. And I just lay down on the bed for a moment and accidentally fell asleep.”
“….”
I held back from speaking.
I simply kept my mouth shut.
“Where does Your Majesty sleep? Any sleeping habits?”
“…What?”
“You should know in advance. Oh, and most importantly! Are you really okay? Any issues?”
“Issues?”
“In bed…”
Princess Lesilia asked with a dead serious expression.
I was so stunned that I stared at her face with my mouth wide open.
“There are rumors that there’s a problem with the function, so they say he avoids women. How is it when sleeping together? Tell me. Ah, I completely understand.”
“What exactly do you understand?”
I forced a smile, feeling absurd.
“As a reward for taking my place, do you understand sleeping together with Her Majesty in one bed? I mean, I’m naturally cool.”
The princess said, getting up completely from the bed and stretching.
“Ha.”
I wanted to tell him that I spend every night with him, and I also want to take a nap like you do.
“Instead, are you properly using contraception?”
“!”
“Oh right. You don’t have to worry about that part, they say.”
When I widened my eyes and looked at Princess Lesilia, she reopened her mouth with a look as if she knew I wouldn’t know.
“There’s contraception in the magic potion, too. Didn’t you know?”
“…Did Prince say that?”
“Yeah. If you get a chance, make sure to thank him to Uncle. Taking care of even those small details. How considerate.”
“Considerate…? Hahaha.”
Among the things I heard, it was the funniest.
Laughter didn’t stop from my mouth.
Actually, the day I left the Shattoneel royal family to come here, I brought contraceptive pills separately.
Since I heard from Prince Tesla that Lionel had problems functionally and avoided women, I thought such a pill would not be necessary.
However, Bonnies unexpectedly brought me contraceptive pills through a maid, saying it might be something unknown.
And after the day of the engagement, after unexpectedly having a relationship with him, I have been taking the contraceptive pills that Bonnies provided.
As a surrogate empress, getting pregnant could complicate the situation, so it was a natural choice from my perspective.
However, Prince Tesla had already made a move beforehand… Should I express my gratitude for his thorough preparedness?
“If you look closely, it seems that brother-in-law cares a lot about you. Sometimes even more than me, his younger sister.”
“I can’t believe that.”
I still couldn’t stop laughing.
“Oh, it seems like someone who’s used to just receiving doesn’t know much, huh?”
Princess Lesilia gave me a disdainful look.
“What are you saying?”
“Especially when you were young, he took care of you more. Even to the extent that I felt jealous.”
Even though Prince Tesla took me around the royal family places when I was young, it didn’t lead to jealousy.
But for her, who always had to monopolize everyone’s love and attention, was it irritating to receive just that level of favor?
“Oh, by the way, Zelda… The burn scars have completely disappeared like magic.”
She exclaimed while inspecting my face up close.
“But I miss the old you.”
The moment I heard those words, chills ran down my arms.
In Princess Lesilia’s words, there was a feeling as if a sinister blade was hidden.
“You should really be grateful to brother-in-law. Look, he has perfectly fixed what I did. See, he corrected the burn scars on your face so flawlessly.”
She pointed to the area of my burn scars with her finger.
“Do you remember that day? The day you got a burn on your face, we were playing hide and seek.”
Her tone made it seem as if what happened that day had no relevance to her.
I gathered my last bit of patience and warned her.
“Please… that’s enough for today.”
However, Princess Lesilia continued without any consideration, starting to recount my worst day in life as if it were an insignificant memory.
“But, you know, on that day…”
Unaware of the fact that she was stirring up a hornet’s nest right now.
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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