“What are you curious about?”
Elina’s expression became noticeably firm compared to a while ago.
“Cedric, why are you so concerned about investigating Lamein’s incidents when you’re talking about divorcing her?”
With a somewhat tense voice attempting to be calm, her words seemed to slice through the air.
“…”
“And if you catch those who did such things, it will help my image regardless of the relationship with Lamein.”
Cedric smiled satisfactorily, gazing at Elina.
Above the confused eyes, a subtle crack began to appear.
Perhaps her head became complicated with his statement about investigating the incident.
‘By now, I should be making some moves. Does he need more time to think?’
At that time, spending time in silence.
“Uh… Cedric.”
Did she find a way to escape?
Elina, who twitched the corner of her eye, slowly spoke.
“Yeah, tell me.”
“Well, I know who did such things to Lamein.”
As she slowly uttered her voice, her lips trembled.
“… You know who did it?”
Cedric asked, grabbing thick wrinkles between his eyebrows.
“I don’t know where to start with this… But that is…”
Now, her voice, even, started to shake, and she bit her trembling lips.
“Elina, it’s okay. Calm down and tell me.”
Speaking in a reassuring tone, as if to put her at ease, Cedric’s lips slowly parted.
“In fact, Lamein is deceiving us.”
Instead of responding, Cedric raised an eyebrow.
“Lamein hid her true identity and married you. All the terrible things happening lately are because of Lamein.”
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t know if you’ll believe me, but…”
Elina swallowed her saliva as if taking a moment to breathe.
“Lamein is from the Myers family, who the previous king ordered to be killed.”
Cedric’s gaze, which was straightened, trembled slightly.
He hadn’t expected such a revelation to come from Elina’s mouth.
To keep her quiet about the investigation, he had thought to temporarily tie her down.
Or he had planned to quietly instruct someone to watch her if she moved.
‘Is she trying to flip the situation and escape completely?’
Elina changed her approach.
“Elina, how do you know that?”
“…What?”
“How do you know that fact that no one else knows?”
Her eyes widened, and her eyelids aimlessly dropped.
“Did you, by any chance, know, Cedric?”
This time, she truly seemed surprised.
“How did Cedric know?”
“I did an investigation into Heter Calypso.”
Cedric released a deeply laid voice.
“It seemed strange that a man who could doubtfully hold a sword could be a war hero.”
“…”
“Even I, who faced countless battles against the Lator Kingdom, have never seen that man wield a sword on the battlefield. Isn’t that strange?”
A sneer appeared over Cedric’s face.
“And then, I learned about the investigation you knew.”
“…”
“At the moment I learned that fact, I understood how Heter became a war hero.”
“…”
“Lamein was Heter’s greatest weapon.”
Cedric, growling, raised his eyes slowly.
“For Heter, the marriage to calm the noble’s disputes gained him the king’s trust, and now he’s trying to obtain the Security Guard authority.”
“…”
“But that’s only possible if Lamein’s true identity isn’t exposed.”
Cedric’s frosty blue eyes stared directly at Elina.
“Even if that means exposing the truth and trying to eliminate Heter right away, it could be dangerous for me. So, I’m thinking of another way.”
Elina, who had been staring motionlessly, slowly spoke.
“If it’s another way, what do you plan to do?”
“If I eliminate both of them at the same time, I can get what I want.”
“Are you saying you’ll kill Heter and Lamein?”
Cedric nodded slowly.
As if pondering something, Elina’s eyes took on a gloomy light.
To give time for thoughts to settle, Cedric waited for a moment.
Elina slowly raised her gaze, which she had momentarily dropped.
“Then, did you also know that I was shot with an arrow instead of Lamein during the hunting competition, and that I went to the villa to save Lamein?”
“Because it shouldn’t have been revealed that I was in danger.”
Cedric responded as if it were the most natural thing.
“And it was to prevent Lamein from suspecting me.”
“…”
“Now, she has to believe that I love her deeply.”
Cedric twisted his lips slowly.
“Of course, that won’t be the case, but if she sacrifices herself and reveals everything, everything will be ruined.”
“…”
“To move as I want, I have to make Lamein completely mine. And then, I need to move slowly depending on the situation.”
Cedric’s eyes, which had been gazing sharply, twitched slightly.
Tears began to well up in Elina’s eyes as she faced him. And…
“Heuk, Cedric… I didn’t know that either. Heuk.”
Big tears rolled down.
“Oh no, Elina. Why are you suddenly crying like this?”
He offered a handkerchief in a very surprised voice.
“Heuk, as Cedric said… I misunderstood everything. Heuk.”
A mist of tears that one couldn’t bear to see began to form.
“I was afraid that not only Cedric but also my family would get hurt… So, I couldn’t say anything.”
“…”
“I thought Cedric would know. Heuk.”
“Oh, Elina. So that’s how it was.”
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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