Late at night, Leia, who had gone to bed early, tossed and turned in her bed all night.
“So hot…”
When did summer end, and why was it still so hot? Moreover, the air felt uncomfortably stuffy for some reason.
Even with her eyes tightly closed, Leia’s forehead wrinkled in discomfort due to an inexplicable sense of unpleasantness.
“Why is my throat so dry?”
She tried swallowing several times, but her throat felt scratchy, as if she hadn’t had water for a while.
However, Leia, who didn’t want to wake up from her deep sleep, was struggling to fall back asleep when…
Bang! Bang!
The sound of someone vigorously knocking on the door echoed.
“What is it?”
Why were there so many things disturbing her sleep today of all days? An annoyed Leia sat up.
“Who… cough.”
As she got up from bed, a thick smoke stung her nostrils.
“Cough, why is there smoke…”
Before Leia could figure out what was happening, someone forcefully opened her door.
“Lady of the mansion!”
“Cough, Edward, sir? Cough.”
As the door opened, the smoke that had slowly seeped in poured into the room like a waterfall. The thick, stifling smoke, coupled with the oppressive heat that made sweat bead on her forehead.
‘No way.’
Leia’s expression stiffened as if she had realized something. Edward, startled, grabbed Leia’s arm.
“The mansion is on fire! There’s no time to explain now; you need to leave the mansion!”
“Alright…!”
She had no presence of mind to gather her belongings. The flames were larger than expected, and the black smoke was rapidly engulfing the corridors.
Leia, with a wet towel handed by Edward, covered her nose and mouth as she crossed the corridor.
“What about the lord?”
“He has already escaped. So don’t worry.”
Thank goodness.
Leia, breathing a sigh of relief, followed behind Edward.
“Huff, huff…”
Running for quite some time, Leia, who barely managed to escape the mansion, sat on the ground, panting heavily.
“Oh dear, Miss…, no. Lady of the mansion!”
The housemaid who found her rushed over with a blanket. Leia, fixing the blanket she was given, looked around.
“Are the others safe?”
“Yes! Fortunately, it seems everyone managed to escape unharmed. But…”
The housemaid hesitated, glancing at Leia.
“Lord Heydern has not yet…”
“What?”
Akhia hadn’t managed to escape yet.
Leia stared blankly at the housemaid, unable to comprehend her words.
“Because the fire started spreading towards the room where Lord Heydern was…”
It couldn’t be. Edward had said that the lord had already left the mansion…
Leia, as if she couldn’t believe it, frantically moved her eyes around, searching for Akhia. But there was no sign of the lord.
‘Then is it true that Lord Heydern…’
The moment Leia was convinced that Akhia was still inside the mansion, she rushed into the mansion without any hesitation. Soon, however, her movement was stopped by a man’s touch.
“You can’t go in!”
“Let go of this!”
“No, you can’t! If you go like this, even the lady will be in danger!”
Despite Leia’s struggles, she couldn’t enter the mansion due to Edward’s restraining touch.
“Akhia!!”
Her desperate cry echoed pitifully.
The imperial garden was bathed in the brilliant hues of blooming Torenia as the evening sun cast a warm glow. The Empress sat at the central table, sipping tea.
“Seeing Torenia, it feels like autumn is in the air.”
Connected to the Empress’s palace, the garden was resplendent. The Empress, leisurely enjoying her tea, was approached by a eunuch who whispered in her ear.
“Everyone, please withdraw. Do not allow anyone near.”
Hearing the eunuch’s words, the Empress surveyed her surroundings. As the attendants retreated, a profound silence settled over the garden.
Pay attention to translate the names and genders of the following characters accurately and consistently.
Now translate the following Korean paragraph verbatim into English.
And just give me English translation in the output.
The Empress, confirming that the surroundings were empty, set down her teacup. At that moment, a man emerged from the shadowy darkness near the Empress’s palace.
‘Jakkal.’
Jakkal, the leader of the assassin group, kneeled before the Empress and expressed his respect.
“Yes. What happened?”
“A fire broke out at the Belaruse Duke’s mansion. It happened in the early dawn, and though there seems to be no significant damage…”
While listening to the report from the man, the Empress tapped her fingers on the table impatiently. The report she most wanted to hear had not yet come.
The Empress’s cold gaze fell on Jakkal, who was kneeling.
“Duke Heydern has died. The duke and an impostor were found dead. Rex confirmed it.”
Rex was a member of the assassin group. The Empress rose from her seat and approached the man, her eyes sharp, as if ready to devour him.
Then, with a gaze that could swallow a man whole, she asked sharply,
“Are you sure? Jakkal, I won’t tolerate a second mistake.”
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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