Initially, Adenmir didn’t even believe the words that he had found someone he liked for Elodie.
He thought it was clearly a ploy to attract attention, but….
“Beltran Lok Willeunt. He’s out of his mind.”
Was he aware of his position? The thought of the Duke Ferdia’s daughter associating with the second prince was preposterous.
Ferdia was not just any duke to watch, and for Adenmir, it was not a matter to stand idly by.
It was wellknown that Beltran was favored by all sorts of families, but why Beltran of all people?
The women’s partiality for the second prince, Beltran, was famous.
There was a rumor that there wasn’t a single lady among the debutante ball’s families that he hadn’t touched at least once.
Is that all? There were also torrential reports of him hanging around the pleasure district, heavily drunk, wandering around recklessly.
In a word, Beltran was human trash.
If the reason for breaking off his engagement was Beltran Lok Willeunt, he couldn’t even consider Elodie’s request.
He was not so heartless as to just watch his fiancée walk into the garbage dump.
As Adenmir’s gaze remained fixed on the distance, his attendants murmured and called to him.
“Your Highness? Are you listening to me?”
“Can you be quiet for a moment?”
“Yes? Yes…….”
The conversation was too far away to hear what was being said, but what was clear was that Elodie was responding to Beltran’s words with a smile.
The more this happened, the more Adenmir resolved strongly.
‘I must never break off the engagement.’
For Elodie’s sake. And for himself and Duke Ferdia.
Knowing Beltran’s filthy character, it would be like rescuing Elodie from harm.
Yes, that’s why it was.
That he didn’t grant the request to break off the engagement.
Repeating the reasons for not breaking off the engagement several times in his heart, Adenmir finally decided he couldn’t stand it anymore.
With the first and second princes opposing each other, everyone at the banquet would see it, but getting Elodie away from the scum was a more urgent matter.
“I have somewhere to be.”
It was the moment Adenmir took a step towards Elodie.
“……!”
Someone had already intervened between Elodie and Beltran.
Recognizing who it was, Adenmir was quite surprised.
It was a truly unexpected person.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Normally, the second prince, who never even spoke to Elodie, greeted her with a cunning smile.
“I’ve often thought that I would like to have a deep conversation with Lady Ferdia, so I’m glad to have this opportunity.”
‘Not really.’
Hiding her displeasure, Elodie smiled insincerely and nodded briefly.
“Haha, yes.”
“Your Grace. I’ve heard you like opera. How about we go to the opera together sometime?”
‘Ugh, why with someone like you?’
Again, suppressing her inner voice, she responded ambiguously.
“I don’t know.”
“It wouldn’t be bad to rent out my regular restaurant nearby and have a meal after watching the opera.”
‘Eat all you want, you jerk.’
Hahaha……. She brushed it off with a noncommittal laugh.
She thought he would get the hint and leave if she made it clear she wasn’t interested, but the second prince was surprisingly persistent.
His efforts to keep the conversation going, despite Elodie’s attempts to break it off, were truly commendable.
Even though she had found out that his aide was a traitor, and the second prince no longer had any use to her.
Meanwhile, Beltran was under a great misconception.
‘She must like me, and she said she would break off her engagement with my brother. How fun it would be if that damn brother of mine and Duke Ferdia found out.’
He never thought Elodie was setting a trap, and firmly believed she liked him.
What Elodie thought of as a rotten smile, appeared to Beltran as a shy smile hiding her affection.
Was she feeling shy?
Her humble responses were quite, no, rather pleasing.
He had always thought of Elodie’s appearance as his taste itself.
But he had not dared to touch her because of the rumor that she was of a foul temperament, and because she was his brother’s fiancée.
But since Elodie liked him, and if she blushed and behaved modestly in this way, there was no reason not to take her in.
“Anyway, brother, you’re quite indifferent. To leave such a beautiful fiancée alone and go. How about it, Your Highness? I’ll honor you with a dance with me.”
Just as he was arrogantly smiling and about to request a dance.
Someone’s voice interjected between the two.
“The conversation seems to be over.”
A lazy and low voice.
You had to look up quite a bit to see the face, such was the height.
The first thing that caught Elodie’s eye was the sharp golden eye glow. Elodie’s eyes widened.
“Father?”
“I have something to talk about with my daughter. I will take her.”
Duke Ferdia took Elodie’s hand and left the spot.
‘Is it a dream?’
Elodie, who followed him, pinched her cheek just in case…
“Ouch.”
It hurt. It was not a dream!
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]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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