Of course, all the eggs were broken, but Sicar made something resembling toast and placed it on Kian’s plate.
It was regrettable that Durian and Bica couldn’t see this, but it was a very heartwarming sight.
After breakfast, since the snow was still falling, Sicar couldn’t play catch with Kian and instead decided to participate in Bica’s spirit play.
“I’ve been curious about how to do it, can I watch too?”
“Of course.”
With Sicar’s cheerful permission, I quietly sat in the chair placed in a corner of Kian’s room so as not to disturb.
I thought spirit play with Bica and Kian would be fun before I saw it in person. But seeing it with my own eyes, I realized it was a very complicated and hard game.
This thing called spirit play wasn’t a game, it required a huge mental effort.
“Master. I told you. If your posture is even slightly off, the spirits don’t gather.”
Bica was sitting in her usual lopsided posture on the chair, but Kian was sitting still without a single shake.
I thought it would be hard to keep such a posture for more than 30 seconds, but Kian was holding up quite well.
In short, Kian was cool.
In the midst of all this, Kian seemed to be worried that I would be disappointed and kept sneaking glances at me.
I found his behavior adorably faintinducing but didn’t want to disturb his concentration, so I kept a serious expression on my face.
“Master. Your attention is too dispersed today. Focus. Focus.”
“I am focusing.”
At Bica’s nagging, Kian furrowed his brow a bit, but soon looked back at Bica with serious eyes.
Sicar was also watching with focused attention as if this was his first time seeing such a spectacle.
Focusing his mind, Kian was creating sparks around himself. This time it wasn’t a small flame like before. It wasn’t even the small fire butterfly he showed me.
Little by little, fire spirits gathered around Kian until they completely surrounded him.
‘Has he grown this much already?’
Although Kian was still young and small, he looked so cool with the fire spirits swirling around him and him summoning them with his eyes closed.
I looked at Kian with a rapturous expression and our eyes met as he happened to glance at me.
At that moment, Kian’s face turned red as if embarrassed, and all the fire spirits around him went out in an instant.
I knew it. Usually, when kids are curious if they’re doing well and our eyes meet, they get shy and hide. It’s a common occurrence.
When all the summoned fire spirits disappeared, Bica looked drained.
“Master. You’re too distracted today. Is it because your mother is here?”
“No, it’s not.”
“Then don’t waste my time and focus again. Even the peacock promised to help today. You should do better, right?”
Kian closed his eyes once, straightened his posture, glared at Bica with eyes that seemed ready to eat her, and said.
“Let’s do it again.”
This time, the fire spirits gathered around Kian a bit faster than before. Bika roughly estimated the number of spirits and nodded.
“Good. The number of spirits increased today. Let’s get started.”
Just when I wondered what they were starting, Bika summoned a dark spirit, and the fire spirits Kian summoned followed the dark spirit. However, it was common for them to not be able to follow well, suddenly disappear, or return.
“So, can you avoid the Duke’s interference?”
Kian gritted his teeth and summoned the spirits again, and once again chased Bika’s spirit. It’s said that a lot of mental strength is consumed in summoning and using spirits, so it would be quite a strain for Kian.
“Duke, you start too.”
Although Sicar couldn’t summon spirits, he was able to control the spirits summoned by the spirit users. It was one of the characteristics of the Sitar tribe who dominate the spirit’s mind, and one of Sicar’s outstanding abilities.
However, he couldn’t interfere with the royal family’s mental power, so he couldn’t control the mind of the spirit Kian summoned.
That’s why in the original, Kian had no choice but to be stuck helplessly. Besides, as Sicar was cursed by Agashion, he had to face the misfortune of being powerless against Kian who became an adult in the original.
So, what he tried to help with was, as he couldn’t move Kian’s spirit, he helped Bika to make the movements of the spirits Bika summoned faster.
Naturally, since it was two rather than one, the movements of the dark spirits Bika summoned were very active.
Kian struggled quite a bit to follow it. Even amidst that, if I made even a small mistake, he used to watch my movements. I couldn’t help but be touched by his attempt to look good to me in his young heart.
Sicar restrained Bika while watching Kian struggle.
“Stop it now. He’ll faint if we continue.”
“No, I can do more.”
“Stubbornness for no reason is reckless.”
Watching Kian and Bika use spirit magic was a very cool thing, but I couldn’t just watch Kian struggle.
“Kian. Let’s stop playing with spirits and plant some rosemary seeds together?”
“Rosemary seeds?”
“Yes. The Duke bought rosemary seeds yesterday. Won’t you plant seeds with me?”
Kian, who had been passionate about spirit magic until just a moment ago, opened his mouth wide at the idea of planting seeds, and his interest quickly changed.
“Sure!”
After changing Kian’s interest from spirit play to seed planting, our three family members sat side by side in the living room and planted seeds.
Bika was excluded from planting seeds because she might want to trample on them while planting, and Durion sneakily escaped, saying he wanted to watch our three family members get along.
So, in the end, the three of us planted the seeds.
“Is it really that pretty rosemary grows from this small seed?”
“Of course. Just like Kian is small now but will grow very big like the Duke later, plants grow from small seeds. Isn’t it amazing?”
“Yes. It’s so amazing.”
Kian, who was planting seeds in the pot, looked at the fully grown rosemary once and then hugged my waist.
“Mother. Can I plant carnation seeds here too?”
“Uh?”
“I want to grow carnations too. I want to give Mother a carnation that I’ve grown myself.”
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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