Being tied up, the anxiety only grew.
“I guess I should really keep an eye on them.”
The heavy voice that couldn’t shake off the worry echoed in the room.
The next day.
Having finished preparing to attend the party, Lamane, along with Jane, headed to the mansion entrance.
Two carriages, already waiting in front of the entrance, were visible.
Servants were busily loading luggage onto one of the carriages.
‘Are these gifts to offer to Duke Rosette?’
Even with a glance, it was an enormous amount of gifts.
After a while.
“Are all the gifts loaded onto the carriage?”
The Duchess walked out and asked Marco.
“Yes. However, there’s not enough space in the carriage due to the unexpectedly large quantity.”
“Is that so?”
The Duchess approached the carriage and peered inside.
Then, she turned her body and approached Lamane and Jane.
“Jane, you should stay at the mansion today.”
“Yes?”
Jane widened her eyes.
“Oh, there’s not enough space in the carriage. Anyway, since Marco is going, one person should be enough.”
“Yes, I will do that.”
Jane, who quickly responded, subtly looked at Lamane.
“Has Ellina not come out yet? Lamane, get on the carriage.”
“Yes, mother.”
Lamane, who answered lightly, locked eyes with Jane, who was looking at her.
“May I not go?”
Jane asked cautiously.
“There’s no space. Just rest comfortably at the mansion today.”
“Ah, yes.”
Jane’s expression seemed a bit strange.
“Why do you have that expression when I told you to rest?”
“Yes? No, it’s nothing.”
Jane clapped her hands in front of her chest.
“Madam, please take care.”
“Sure, I’ll be back soon.”
Lamane, who casually exchanged greetings, boarded the carriage.
A while later, Ellina appeared and got on the carriage.
The carriage, carrying the three, departed.
Lamane, looking at the mansion getting distant through the carriage window, slowly raised her eyebrows.
Cedric’s room.
Cedric, standing in front of the window, looking at the carriage, is visible.
They haven’t had a conversation since he spoke his wish and rushed out of the room yesterday.
‘I should probably move quickly.’
Lamane began to plan for the future in her mind.
‘First, let’s meet Mrs. Porter and get the list and recipe for the medicine developed at the guild.’
The eyes below her lowered eyelids moved here and there.
‘After signing the contract with Duke Haribo, I should make the medicine immediately and go to Traum Village. How is the situation there right now?’
Although she could hear the conversation between the Duchess and Ellina, she continued her thoughts without paying attention.
‘Now that it’s like this, there is no other way but to divorce Cedric even if he doesn’t receive the title of Duke.’
Lamane, who was biting her lips, bit them even harder.
‘I’m sorry for not keeping the promise. But this is the best option.’
She, who had firmly laid out thick plans, now gazed at the mansion outside the window, which now looked like the size of her palm.
‘How long will I be able to live from now on?’
Everything under the bright sunlight seemed colorless.
She knew.
That if she didn’t use her healing powers for a long time, she would lose her life.
But even though she didn’t use her abilities, the reason was.
‘If I get caught using my abilities, not only me but also my family will be killed. There was no other choice.’
The previous king exterminated everyone with abilities, including their families.
It was probably to prevent any resistance.
‘It’s too cruel. There was no need to kill innocent people.’
The endless war.
Cruel decisions made under the pretext of fair victory and peaceful diplomacy.
In front of situations that were difficult to accept rationally, she was a powerless existence that couldn’t do anything.
Lamane didn’t want innocent people to suffer cruelty because of her.
The moment she entered Duke Roger’s mansion,
she felt a sense of relief that she would no longer be tormented by Heter Calypso.
At the same time, she was seized by anxiety that Cedric and his family might be harmed because of her.
She only thought about leaving that place as soon as possible.
The reason she treated Cedric coldly and didn’t show affection was also because of that.
Lamane slightly wrinkled her slow-blinking eyelids.
‘But why suddenly refuse to divorce? I didn’t just say let’s do it quickly; I even said we should do it as soon as you receive the title of Duke.’
I just can’t understand.
Lamane pursed her small lips.
‘I hope he divorces me and marries a woman he truly loves and is happy.’
Glancing at Ellina for a moment, who was talking absentmindedly with the Duchess, radiating a sunny smile.
‘But it would be better if it’s not her.’
Erasing the sudden intrusive thought, she plunged into contemplation again.
‘After the party, when we return, I should immediately talk about the divorce. There’s no time to wait until he receives the title of Duke.’
This is for everyone, not just me.
She, who firmly reiterated her determination for a quick and safe divorce, blinked her eyes.
After a while.
“Oh my, look there. It’s so beautiful!”
Ellina shouted, cheering while looking out of the carriage window.
“Yes, indeed. It’s truly beautiful.”
Following the voice of the Duchess heard afterward, Lamane looked out of the window.
A lake sparkling like embroidered jewels with emerald light.
And in front of it, a magnificent yet peaceful building that instilled a fairy-tale-like beautiful scene.
Seeing the picturesque landscape, Lamane, too, couldn’t help but admire.
“They’ve also prepared a garden party. As expected, it seems like we made the right choice to come.”
Ellina commented while looking at the party venue arranged in a large garden.
‘Indeed, parties hosted by the Duke are different.’
Seeing the tremendous scale of the party, Lamane understood why Ellina was so eager to come.
However,
‘Everything must go according to my plan.’
To Lamane, who was engrossed in only one thought, the party was not essential.
The carriage carrying the three sped through the picturesque scenery.
A sky so beautiful that you wouldn’t want to look away.
But from a place tens of kilometers away in the sky, massive clouds were approaching, seemingly ready to devour the world in an instant.
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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