It was right then as he was muttering faintly.
A scene suddenly flashed through Adenmir’s mind.
Elodie’s wrist wrapped in bandages, and the vivid scar beneath it.
‘……Surely not.’
No, it couldn’t be.
That selfish woman he alone knew wouldn’t have poisoned herself.
But thoughts already flowing in one direction continued to rush that way.
Even in that moment, Adenmir didn’t realize.
That he had begun to think about his fiancée, whom he had not cared about for a long time.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Rattle.
Inside the irregularly swaying carriage, Danmokbi and I were sitting alone.
Danmokbi, who accompanied me as a guard on my outing, looked quite displeased.
Alternating between nervously shaking his leg and looking out the window, the restless fellow suddenly yanked the curtain and glared at me.
“You keep taking away my training time because of you.”
“Then next time, I’ll just ask Brother Yansi. If it’s one of you two, Father will let it go.”
“No, don’t, ……don’t interfere with my brother!”
Danmokbi jumped up and interrupted me.
When had he loved Yansi so much? Anyone would think they were very affectionate.
Leaning back against the carriage’s backrest, I shrugged my shoulders, and Danmokbi asked,
“Where are you going today?”
“Why do you care?”
“I need to know the route of the person I’m guarding. You might run off somewhere again.”
“I won’t run off.”
‘Of course, I will.’
Currently, I was heading to the South Magic Tower located on the outskirts of the capital.
It was quite a distance away since it was not in the city center and required crossing a mountain.
I remembered hearing that the magic tower’s mages generally liked isolation, hence its location.
Though it was the same magic tower as the previous West Magic Tower I visited, each directional tower had an independent character, so they could be seen as different entities.
I was planning to invest the funds I had received from the Duchess in the South Magic Tower this time.
Investments should be diversified, after all.
When I refused to tell Danmokbi our destination, he started to stubbornly probe me.
“Where is it? Where are you going?”
“You’ll find out when we get there.”
“It’s not some weird place, is it? Where is it?”
“If you’re the guard, just follow quietly.”
“Shall I stop the carriage now and ask the coachman?”
Danmokbi looked at me earnestly as if he was genuinely curious, threatening me.
Ugh, what a childish guy.
Annoyed, I just told him our destination.
“South Magic Tower.”
“Why the South Magic Tower?”
“Just going to look at some magical tools.”
I brushed him off and closed my eyes, signaling I didn’t want to talk.
But, unlike what I expected, Danmokbi was silent.
When I quietly opened my eyes, Danmokbi’s face had turned grim, unlike before.
“Wait.”
“What?”
“……Don’t get out. Just stay inside and don’t move.”
“What?”
Before I could respond, Danmokbi roughly opened the door and jumped off the moving carriage.
And not long after.
Kwaang!
A tremendous roar shook the earth, and the carriage shook violently in response.
Neigh!
Startled horses neighed and jumped.
I, too, in the carriage could not avoid the shockwave.
“Ugh…!”
Thump! I violently bumped my shoulder against the swaying wall of the carriage.
I grimaced in sharp pain, clutching my shoulder.
Yet outside the carriage, the sounds of thundering crashes and heated metal clashing continued.
‘A raid?’
There were many enemies in Ferdia. Though I never had been attacked, having mostly stayed inside the annex, the Duke and his two sons often encountered assassins.
A sudden attack, but with strong magic and the forces to back it up, I thought we could handle it quickly with Carlott.
So I just waited for the chaos to end amidst the jumbled noise.
Soon enough, all was quiet around us.
‘Is it over?’
But Carlott didn’t return to the carriage.
An ominous feeling struck me in an instant.
“…Carl.”
I drew back the carriage curtain, only to behold an impossible sight.
Carlott, his sword stuck in the ground, was barely holding on, covered in blood.
Numerous masked assassins lay fallen around him, but they weren’t all taken care of.
Still surrounding Carlott were two untouched assassins, glaring ominously.
“This can’t be.”
It was none other than Ferdia’s direct line, Carlott.
He was not one to fall to mere assassins.
Before I could deny the situation, my body moved on its own. I rushed out of the carriage and hurled the Duchess’s poison towards the two remaining assassins.
“Ugh!”
“What, what’s this!”
Among the poisons, some had intoxicating effects just by their scent.
That was what I had thrown.
Although the intoxicating effect wasn’t as strong as drinking it directly, it bought enough time.
Supporting the staggering Carlott, he rasped out words.
“Those bastards, a magical tool that nullifies magic.”
“Quiet, move!”
The intoxicating effect wouldn’t last, so I didn’t know when they’d attack.
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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