“You can’t be…”
Count Heidern realized the moment he saw Lea’s halflidded eyes. She was in the same condition as ‘that night.’
“……Count, sir……”
A voice mixed with half moan, and two eyes carrying intense heat.
‘And above all.’
The man’s brows twitched as he scanned Lea’s figure sitting in the bathtub.
The woman’s body was plainly revealed, soaked in water. It was said that discreet exposure is more arousing than complete nudity.
The wet chemise accentuated her pale skin, irritating his nerves.
‘Does she even realize her current state?’
She only looked at Count Heidern as if pleading for something.
“Sigh……”
Akikia let out a deep sigh, seemingly suppressing something. It felt as if he knew what Lea was yearning for.
‘Did she take medication again? I told her not to go through clinical trials ever again.’
Akikia, who had been biting his lip, made a resolute step toward the bathtub. Then he leaned down as if answering the woman’s desperate call.
“Lea.”
He called her in a lowered voice. Only then did Lea look up at Count Heidern with a smile.
“……Count.”
Her eyes were pure and clear. Though their current situation was far from it.
Their bodies overlapped across the bathtub. Due to Lea being soaked, Akikia’s shirt got damp as well.
“……Lea.”
Akikia, who had embraced Lea, whispered softly in her ear.
“It’s going to hurt a bit.”
And before Lea could react to the man’s words
[Dash] Thud.Suddenly, a force was applied to her nape, and Lea closed her eyes.
(This is a time separator.)
The next morning. Awakened by the chirping of birds, Lea softly opened her eyes.
“I feel good…….”
Basking in the warm sunlight coming through the window, Lea buried herself deeper into the blanket. It had been a long time since she felt this refreshed. She couldn’t remember the last time she had such a peaceful morning.
‘Maybe I should sleep in some more.’
Just as she closed her eyes to savor the feeling a bit more
A sudden cold sensation made Lea open her eyes again. She then cautiously looked around the room.
“Where is this……”
Although she had been staying at the townhouse for only a few days, she knew. At least, the bed she was lying in was not her own.
Jumping up from the bed, Lea started to frantically look around.
“What, what is this……!”
No matter how much she inspected, the room she was lying in wasn’t the one she had been staying in. Confused by the situation, she rapidly reviewed her past memories.
“Last night I had a fever again……and to cool down, I went to the bathroom……”
Just as her face began to stiffen, recalling the slowly emerging memories, the sound of footsteps accompanied Count Heidern, who walked in toweling his wet hair.
“You’re awake?”
“Count……?”
Why was that man coming from there?
‘What’s more, “You’re awake?”‘
What could it be? As if a man who had spent the night together would say such tender words.
Lea’s words trailed off, flustered by the man’s toonatural behavior.
“Why are you here, Count……”
“Because it’s my room.”
The moment she heard those words, she felt her blood run cold.
‘What? Count’s room? Why am I in this room……’
Her eyes darted around as if trying to assess the situation, but they froze when she heard Akikia’s next words.
“I hung your clothes there. Take them when you leave.”
“Huh? Clothes? What do……ah?”
Following Akikia’s gaze, her eyes caught the chemise she had been wearing last night.
‘Could it be.’
Stiffening her neck, Lea looked down at her clothing. A shirt clearly too large to be her own.
And as she looked at the shirt, her memories of last night flashed through her mind. How she couldn’t bear her heated body and had immersed herself in cold water.
‘Damn.’
Lea, head lowered in disbelief at the grim reality, softly murmured to herself after her desperate calls to the Count had ended.
“Count, did we…?”
Lea’s eyes trembled as she looked at the man.
“Did we do it…?”
He tilted his head, observing Lea.
“Well.”
And then, he slightly lifted one corner of his mouth as if amused.
“We did exert some effort yesterday.”
Spitting out words that anyone would doubt,
“It’s ruined.”
Lea’s face turned even redder than the previous night, thinking Akia’s words were affirmative. She wished she could disappear into a mouse hole.
“Um, ah…”
Lea, only managing nonsensical sounds, couldn’t utter any words. Ultimately, she rushed out of the room, collapsing to the floor as soon as she entered.
“I’ve gone mad. I’ve gone mad!”
She pulled at her hair and writhed in agony.
“Wasn’t the side effect supposed to end that day?!”
It was the worst. Experiencing such side effects twice.
And what was even worse was,
“It could happen again…”
There was no guarantee that it wouldn’t happen again in the unpredictable future.
“Ha.”
It was hopeless.
How many more times would such symptoms come? Could it be for the rest of her life?
“Absolutely not.”
Lea suddenly stood up as if she had imagined something horrifying.
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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