It was a fleeting moment of consciousness and unconsciousness.
Struggling, I lifted my heavy eyelids and asked,
“Did you cry?”
“…How did the conversation get here?”
“Why, did you cry?”
“I don’t think I said I cried.”
Rinel ran his fingers over his eyes and chuckled quietly.
“Oh, did you say you wanted to cry?”
“…I probably said I felt like crying?”
“I’m sorry, I dozed off…”
“I’m sorrier. How dare an emperor disturb the empress’s sleep.”
“Hehe.”
Despite the onset of sleep, his joke caused me to smile.
“But you woke me too.”
“Did I? Did I perhaps talk in my sleep?”
“No, I mean you woke all my senses. It was the second time in my life I had felt that.”
Rinel spoke solemnly, as if he was receiving a god.
“When was the first time?”
I forced open my heavy, nonfunctional eyelids and asked him.
I asked the question, but I felt like I would fall asleep before hearing his answer.
I was drained of all energy, unaware of what he had done to me.
“The first time I felt all my senses awaken was while fencing.”
“Oh, fencing…”
Despite my drowsiness, I tried my best to respond to his words.
“There was a moment when I felt like I was climbing one step, one step at a time, and suddenly jumped over many steps.”
“Yes, stairs… you should be careful.”
Hearing his words, I saw Melanie rolling down the stairs in my mind.
The sound of Rinel’s laughter was faintly heard.
His laughter reached my face with a refreshing breath.
“After waking me up completely, it seems like you’re falling asleep now?”
“Yes…”
“Huh, anyway, you wouldn’t know that feeling, would you? It’s impossible for a woman who can’t even wield a sword.”
A sword…!
I heard my favorite word from my favorite voice.
Even as I was falling asleep, whenever I heard ‘sword’, I woke up for a while.
“So, you’ll have to take responsibility for me forever. The sword that woke my senses is always with me, stuck to my waist. You should do the same.”
I felt Rinel’s hand stroking my head.
I wanted to stroke it too. The sword…
“Answer that you’ll do so for a lifetime. You’re dozing off, so use your feelings.”
“Yes, for a lifetime… use…”
“Do you even know what you’re saying? Well, that’s okay. I just need to figure it out.”
Chuk.
“I will cherish and use it well for a lifetime.”
I felt his lips touch and leave my forehead.
Forcing open my halfclosed eyes, I tried to keep up with his conversation by moving my lips.
“A sword?”
“You. More preciously in bed.”
“A sword…?”
“The sword can be used roughly in the training hall. Huh, you don’t even know what you’re asking now, do you?”
“Where… is the training hall?”
“Why are you suddenly looking for the training hall?”
“When my body… gets so hot I can’t stand it…”
When I lived in the Château Neil royal palace, I did that.
When my fever didn’t subside even with cold water.
When I couldn’t control the terrible feeling of standing alone in the fire.
I would run to the training hall in the middle of the night.
I swung my sword for hours until the morning sun rose in the training hall.
After dedicating my burning body to the sword for a while, the fever that had heated my body suddenly disappeared.
But why did I just mention the word training hall?
Oh, Rinel must have mentioned it first?
Yes, he must have. So I was answering and asking.
“When you get hot and excited, you go to the training hall…”
I seem to be babbling something just now?
Once the words came out of my mouth, they disappeared from my memory.
“Zelda, you should come to me when that happens, why are you looking for a training hall?”
“Because it’s worth looking for…”
“Do you want to kiss in the training hall, something like that?”
“…”
“Let the subconscious of the empress answer. Quickly.”
I didn’t hear his words properly because my consciousness went dark for a moment and then lit up.
Well, I don’t know.
When you don’t know, the right answer is always a positive response.
“Yes? Yes… that’s right.”
“!”
I answered him with proper respect until the very end.
I was proud of myself before I fell asleep again.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Rinel continued to look at Zelda’s sleeping face.
Before he knew it, dawn had broken.
He felt a fresh feeling for her spring up with every blink of his eyes.
He was increasingly attracted to her.
The more he touched her, the more he trembled.
The more he saw her, the more endearing she was.
Whether it was her calm and composed gaze,
or when her eyes and mouth were both closed,
or when she looked straight at him, the emperor, and contradicted him,
or when her pink eyes moved about in confusion,
or like now, when she was sleeptalked without knowing what she was saying,
Every facet of Zelda was always new and refreshing.
In fact, he wasn’t initially attracted to her.
He felt a slight pity for the woman who was married to an emperor she had never seen and was in a strange country. This feeling arose right before their wedding night.
On their first night, she acted like she had never heard about the Laphion royal family.
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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