“If you’re aware of this, it’d be better for you to sit down.”
Despite deciding to resolve things amicably, this happened again. Again.
I clenched my teeth and whispered softly to Sicar as if casting a spell.
“We agreed to talk nicely, right? And what you should say now is not that. Follow the plan. As planned.”
Sicar glanced at me once, brushed his hair back, and said in a languid voice.
“My wife sees the future. That’s why I’m saying this, sit down.”
Even then, Rinel Gideon Edipa must have understood that Sicar was speaking rather kindly.
Rinel Gideon Edipa looked back and forth at us a few times, shaking his head as if he was dazed from hearing such nonsense.
His eyes seemed to ask if we were out of our minds.
“Are you saying I should believe that she sees the future?”
“You might not believe it, but yes, that’s right. Do you remember when I brought Lucy a while ago? That was not a coincidence.”
“It sounds like you’re saying you incited Lucy to run away.”
“I knew that Lucy would be loitering around that place after she ran away. You probably can’t believe what I’m saying. But in exactly three days, Lucy will leave home again.”
Rinel Gideon Edipa looked at me with a face that couldn’t trust my words at all, because he was certain that such a thing would absolutely not happen.
“Do you really think so?”
“I know that on the day we found Lucy, you told her that her mother has become a star in the sky and that’s why Lucy will not run away again.”
For the first time, a change appeared on Rinel Gideon Edipa’s face, which had been showing a clear attitude of disbelief. He must not have expected me to know that.
Again, Rinel Gideon Edipa wore a face of disbelief, but it was completely different from before. It was a look of how could you know such a fact.
“But Lucy will roam around to find her mother. Lucy believes that she will meet the star that is her mother. That’s why she will wander outside at night from now on. That’s all I will say today. If you ever feel like hearing more from us, feel free to send a letter to the duke.”
I told him only up to this point. So that we could look forward to our next meeting.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Though I didn’t show it on the outside, I was so tense that I gulped down water as soon as I got on the carriage.
“You really can’t break that habit.”
“This is not something that can be fixed or changed. You have no idea how nervous I was.”
If it weren’t for the repetitive practice that Sicar had ordered, I wouldn’t have been able to speak so calmly.
Sicar was sitting with his arms crossed, seemingly reflecting on the conversation with Rinel Gideon Edipa.
“I don’t think Rinel Gideon Edipa will believe what we’ve said. He’s probably skeptical. Maybe he’ll believe a little bit after Lucy definitely runs away next time.”
“I think Lucy will have to try running away a few more times for him to believe… But I don’t think we can just let Lucy run away.”
“That’s likely. He might even assign someone to watch her.”
“But if he sees Lucy continuously trying to run away, he’ll come to us. Whether he believes us or not, Rinel Gideon Edipa is someone who would do anything for his daughter.”
“That’s true. The problem is that I hope it doesn’t take that long.”
“For now…….”
“That’s right. Now I remember. A short time later, a boy’s mother with blonde hair and blue eyes is to die in Yukanadar. There’s an incident where Gillian’s guards end up killing the wrong person while looking for Kian, and because of that, Leydoks becomes angry at Gillian. We could use that. We’ll have to wait until that kid’s mom dies.”
That’s right. That’s when the child’s mother died. If I didn’t know, I wouldn’t know, but once I remembered that fact, I couldn’t leave the child’s mother to die.
“Ah, no. Sicar. We need to save that woman.”
“Why?”
“Because I can’t just leave her to die knowing she’s going to die!”
“You want to save the bait while we’re trying to catch a fish? You’re talking nonsense.”
This coldhearted jerk.
“We just need to think of a way to save her and make Leydoks bite the bait.”
“That reason alone can’t convince me. If you really want to save that woman, try convincing me with a clear reason.”
A clear reason…
“That’s it! I told you I can see the future. If I just stand by and let that happen after I said I can see the future, Leydoks won’t trust me anymore! When that woman died, Leydoks thought of his own wife and was furious. Looking at the child who would grow up alone, he thought of his own children. That’s why he couldn’t forgive Gillian. If I just let that woman die, I’ll become the same as Gillian in Leydoks’s eyes!”
I wonder if Sicar was swayed by my persuasion.
I anxiously watched his expression. Sicar, who usually has no expression, had a blank face so I couldn’t tell what he was thinking at all.
He simply looked at me with indifferent eyes and said clearly.
“You’ve convinced me well.”
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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