In pain, Askan clenched his teeth, curling his body into a ball. He gripped his fist so hard against the ground that it turned pale.
[This is the time separator]There was something I wanted to discuss with Orland and Barne, anyway.
I brought up the topic about the Ightion Merchant Guild wanting to support me, as I heard from Decain, when we all gathered together.
“What do you think about getting support for magical engineering research from the Ightion Merchant Guild?”
“What? Really? You received such a proposal?”
Barne asked with a flush on his face.
Unlike him, Orland asked as if he was puzzled.
“What’s the reason the Ightion Merchant Guild suddenly made such a proposal to you?”
“I asked them too, it seems like the Regent Empire is interested in magical engineering weapons lately.”
According to Decain, it was to keep the Calua Empire in check, but since I promised to keep the secret, I couldn’t tell them honestly.
Upon hearing my story, Barne seemed to have thought of something and opened his mouth.
“Oh, come to think of it, the Regent Empire also proposed to support me a while ago. Did they ask you to come to their country and do research?”
Orland seemed to have hit upon something after listening to that, and he stroked his chin and murmured slowly.
“It’s because of the Calua Empire.”
Hearing his words, I thought to myself while remembering Decain.
‘It’s not what I said. My father guessed it on his own.’
Orland, being a high noble of the Arwen Empire, seemed to have a lot of insights into information.
Looking at me with a wide smile, Barne said,
“I agree. No matter how much support we get from the Breloff family, the more investment, the more helpful it is for research.”
Barne thought the same as me. It was true that the more abundant the research funding, the more diverse experiments could be conducted.
Orland, unlike us, opened his mouth with a careful expression.
“There’s no way a business group would make such a proposal to you without any benefit, did they tell you what they want from you?”
“They didn’t want the K01 I made this time. They seemed to want to support and distribute the weapons I will make in the future.”
“Huh, how do they know what kind of weapon you’ll make in the future?”
Orland was surprised, but Barne laughed heartily and was delighted.
“Duke, they see Tanashia’s potential. If their eyes are not just decorations, it’s only natural that they would want to invest and build a relationship from now on. It was the same in my time.”
Magical engineering was a fringe field, but when something critical happened to the country, it became a weapon. If recognized as a genius, you received support from many places.
Barne also had a hard time before he made a name for himself in the field of magical engineering. But after he was widely recognized as a genius, he never lacked experimental funds.
Orland, with a careful face, pondered for a moment and soon opened his mouth.
“The Breloff family can provide adequate support, but if you’re not doing this as a hobby, you’ll eventually have to select a distributor. Otherwise, you’ll continue to be bothered from all sides like now. If it’s the Ightion Merchant Guild… it’s not bad.”
“Do you view the Ightion Merchant Guild quite favorably, father?”
“It’s a reputable guild representing the Regent Empire. They won’t go back on their word without good reason, but the important thing is to look at the contract.”
“The contract?”
“You need to check carefully how much they’re supporting, how exactly they’ll distribute your weapons, and various other details. As long as you set that right, there won’t be a loss for you.”
Taking Orland’s words to heart, I nodded.
The distribution of magical engineering weapons started by appointing an intermediary company to negotiate the best conditions for the deal.
For example, if I established Egtion Top as the distributor, they would sell weapons to the individual or country I desired, taking a commission in the process and providing managerial supervision.
Therefore, I chose a distributor with a broad reach and solid reputation. To which empire they belonged was not of great significance.
Though my weapons would not directly pass through Egtion Top to the Regent Empire, there were conditions to be set in advance for precision.
Orland seemed to have all this in mind when he spoke. He was indeed reliable.
“So, if you agree with the contract, father would support receiving aid from Egtion Top?”
“Yes.”
“And the Master is……”
Before I could speak, Varne was already nodding, eliminating the need for further inquiry.
“Yes. Since Master also agrees, next time we receive a contract from Egtion Top, let’s review it together.”
“When the distributor is determined, we might make a large sum of money. Do you want to manage it yourself this time?”
“Me, personally?”
“Yes, I believe you can handle it.”
At Orland’s words, I pondered for a moment before nodding emphatically.
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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