“No fever? Could she be drunk?”
I removed my hand from Rozie’s forehead, pondering.
“But, is there a better excuse?”
From Lionel’s perspective, it might sound a bit suspicious.
“If my lie about being sick gets exposed… use the cat excuse.”
“Oh, the white kitten I saw earlier?”
“Yes. So, if my deception is revealed, I’ll show you the cat I’ve been secretly raising. I wanted Empress to permit me to raise a cat, so that’s the story.”
Seeing Rozie speak like that, it seemed she hadn’t submitted the report about raising a cat to the administrative officer yet.
Hmm, not a bad excuse, right?
“But, I’m worried that your image might be tarnished because of me.”
Anyway, since Rozie was also a concubine of Lionel, even though she usually sang songs claiming she had no interest in Empress’s favor, from my perspective, I couldn’t help but care about her image.
“Don’t worry! Even if my image goes down the drain, Empress will probably be fine with it, considering that the orange-haired fool has always been a bit unreliable.”
“…What did you say?”
Rozie cheerfully laughed, calling herself the ‘orange-haired fool.’
“Hahaha, even if things go wrong, Rozie’s image will be okay.”
Wasn’t that something only Melanie did?
“Rozie… Are you really not hurting anywhere?”
“Not at all! Rozie is just a corpse with a healthy body and eyes for reading books, except for that!”
She answered boldly, widening her eyes with her index and thumb.
“…Uh, okay. Anyway, thanks for helping. And again, just part ways in front of the temple building. Go straight back to your quarters that way.”
“Huanghou Peye, I also want to go with you…”
“I told you before, that’s difficult. Please understand.”
“Yes… I understand.”
Rozie, who had been persistently asking to go together, suddenly changed her mind and nodded without any fuss.
It was a bit strange how neatly her attitude changed, but I let it be.
After coordinating with Rozie, I went to Lionel and asked for permission with her.
“Do you really need to go to Rozie’s quarters at this hour? Is she in a lot of pain?”
Lionel looked at Rozie standing behind me and asked with a slightly displeased expression.
It was certainly an uncomfortable atmosphere.
However, whether it was because she knew that I was the only one who had been close to Rozie among the concubines, she eventually gave her approval.
Before leaving the main palace, I took Rozie and her attendants, including Sharon, to my bedding room and had them move the unnecessary belongings. When I told Commander Macron, who had been by my side, to help the attendants, he readily went with them to the Western Palace.
Having dispatched Commander Macron and the attendants, I hastily left the main palace with Rozie alone.
If it weren’t for her, it wouldn’t have been easy to escape.
Finally, I parted ways with Rozie, whom I needed to avoid, in front of the garden path leading from the temple building to the Western Palace.
Waving my hand to Rozie, who kept looking back, I observed her disappearing figure from afar before turning around the corner of the temple building.
“Hasn’t he arrived yet?”
Although I looked around the promised meeting place, the temple sponsorship, there was no sign of Prince Tesler.
I anxiously paced around the area near the back door of the temple, waiting for the prince.
For now, all I needed to do today was to confirm whether Prince Tesler had prepared the pink diamond earrings as a gift.
I wouldn’t mind shooting away such a gift with a slingshot. If he had done something to Bonnis again, I felt like I could kill Prince Tesler on the spot.
The location was a bit shady, but originally, all murder within the temple was prohibited.
However, this was outside the temple, and it was retribution at the sponsorship, so would the gods turn a blind eye?
“What are you doing here?”
While looking up at the temple building, a familiar voice reached my ears.
I was just about to turn around, feeling the presence, when unexpectedly, it wasn’t Prince Tesler’s voice.
Oddly enough, the person who appeared at the promised location was Prince Norton.
“What are you doing here?”
As soon as I confirmed Prince Norton’s face, the same words popped out of my mouth.
Was he just passing by?
…I was thinking that when two champagne glasses held by Prince Norton caught my eye.
“Prince, why are you here… perhaps you’re on your way back to the Star Palace?”
This path starting from the sponsorship at the Opera Palace was a shortcut to the Star Palace.
However, it bothered me that Prince Norton kept holding two champagne glasses.
“That’s true, but I had something to attend to briefly in the middle.”
“At the temple sponsorship?”
“Not here, but at the back gate of the Opera Palace… It’s the path from there.”
Prince Norton looked back at the path he had walked, pointing towards the Opera Palace with his finger.
“Who… did you arrange to meet there?”
I gestured toward the champagne glasses in Prince Norton’s hand and asked.
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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