Leane spoke calmly with lowered eyes.
“…After finding you in that dimension, I brought you here.”
The story Leane told me was enough to shock me.
Because it was a story that denied everything I had believed in until now.
It was a shock as if my life was being overturned.
‘Is this not a world inside a book?’
If that’s the case, is the content of the original, which I believed to be the events of the world before turning back time?
But then, why do I remember the previous world in print?
It was confusing. I sighed like a breath, holding my head with one hand, tangled in confusion.
“Wait a moment. Give me some time to think.”
Already, Leane’s words would be hard to accept, no matter what he said.
In fact, memories of my past life as Yun Gaeul were blurry. Considering that I am now 19 years old, my past life memories are from 19 years ago.
So, what I could recall were only impressive, significant events.
‘It wasn’t a particularly happy past life…’
If I had to be picky, I didn’t want to dwell on Yun Gaeul’s life because it was tough.
But still, in those memories, there was no memory of meeting Leane.
There were more than a few points to consider.
‘Is what Leane said true?’
To sum it up, Leane from a distant past met me, who had transcended time and space. In order to meet me again, he took on an undying body, met my birth mother, wandered through dimensions, and found my soul at the end to return to the original world… or so.
Now that I knew all the circumstances, when I first met Leane, I could understand why he held me so desperately and why he seemed to see someone else through me.
The reason why Leane, who had lost his family, fallen from grace, and survived alone, could endure so fiercely for my sake.
Leane called the person who appeared before him, offering care without any cost, salvation.
But can the person named ‘Liri’ in Leane’s story be me?
The future me that Leane met is not the current me.
So, if the reason for his unconditional devotion is that I am ‘Liri,’ it can be burdensome.
There were not only points of doubt.
“Leane, did my birth mother tell you that she is ‘Isshtar’s librarian’?”
“Yes.”
Suddenly, I recalled the time when I saw the memories of my birth mother at Saveress Mansion.
Mom said that to the closing-eyed birth father.
“Wait a little, Riheart. Our child will save you. So don’t worry about anything…”
“…”
“Sleep well, Riheart.”
What Mom said to the birth father at that time seemed to have the same context as what Leane heard from Mom.
“I will turn back time and prepare a safe environment for the child in a new world. That child will be the savior to save this world.”
“Why are you so sure?”
“I am Isshtar’s librarian. I can foresee the future.”
The information that can be commonly known is about this much.
First, Mom can see the future.
Second, that I am a being that can save either the world or my birth father.
‘Understanding the part about saving the birth father. But what about the world?’
It reminded me of the time when the priests of Isshtar called me the savior, making me feel uneasy.
It made me wonder if my plans for an independent and comfortable life were just a delusion that was about to burst…
“Isshtar’s librarian…”
A librarian. Perhaps it was related to me thinking of this world as a book.
Just when it seemed like the questions were being answered, curiosity arose again.
There was only one person who could solve this puzzle.
Mom.
“Do you know where my birth mother is?”
I had always assumed that Mom left me in Ferdia and disappeared.
But seeing the situation now, I thought it might not be the case.
I thought Leane might know something, but he didn’t.
“I don’t know. I’ve been investigating since then, but haven’t found anything.”
“I see…”
Leaning my chin on both hands, I let out a deep sigh.
For a moment, I stood up straight, clenched my fist, and shouted.
“Aaaah!”
“…”
“I just wanted to live my life freely!”
It was so frustrating that I couldn’t stand it without screaming.
Leane, who was waiting for me to organize my thoughts, asked.
“Are you okay?”
“No!”
“Oh.”
Unable to say it was okay, Leane sighed with a sigh and fell silent again.
I stared at Leane with a gaze that couldn’t help but pity the heir of the prestigious southern nobility who lost everything in an instant and was left alone.
Perhaps he longed for human warmth as much as he felt lonely, having grown up as the heir of a great aristocrat, only to lose everything in an instant.
In the memories of wielding a sword for survival at a young age, and the memories of being cared for, watching Leane, who had lived for a long time to meet that person again, my heart felt heavy.
But Leane was worried about me, not himself.
Comparing me, who only had memories of my past life, and Leane, who remembered everything, it was clear who would be more tormented.
“Leane, are you okay?”
“Yes?”
“You were always alone.”
“…”
“I wish you had told me without hiding it.”
Then I could have understood Leane’s feelings a little more quickly.
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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