The eyes of Marquis Haribo were tightly filled with pain.
‘Will Cedric end up with eyes like that?’
Even the momentary thought pricked like a sharp needle, piercing her heart.
“How long do you plan to hide it?”
“……. ”
“Or do you plan to say nothing until the end?”
With a faint smile lingering around her lips, Lamein lifted her head.
“I have to, right?”
“……. ”
“But not now.”
As if asking for a reason, Marquis Haribo raised his eyelids.
“First, I have to finish what I planned.”
“Is it about developing medicine?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Lamein replied with an unwavering voice.
The Marquis, who had been looking straight at her, slowly spoke.
“Even before your mother passed away, she also made efforts to develop medicine, just like you.”
“Because of Lady Haribo, I suppose.”
“Yes, that’s correct.”
“I also decided to start this for my sister Lily.”
If she couldn’t treat herself directly, she needed something to do it for her.
“And I want to help people who are sick like Lily.”
No one forced her, and she didn’t wish for it.
“It hurts me just to watch those people.”
That was what Lamein wanted.
But it wasn’t just for that reason.
Recalling her appearance before possession, she smiled bitterly.
The guilt for the warm people she had to leave behind due to the weight of reality.
The guilt for not fulfilling the duty of a doctor.
She wanted to pull out the memories deep in her chest that had become entangled.
At that moment, when she thought that maybe becoming Lamein was her destiny.
“When I see the lady, it feels like I’m looking at my mother.”
Marquis Haribo’s voice called her out from the thoughts.
What do you mean? She looked at him as if asking.
“Your mother also said the same thing as the lady.”
“……. ”
“She said she wanted to help sick people.”
Marquis Haribo, who explained the reason, had a faint smile on his lips.
Lamein, who had been silent, raised her eyes as if she remembered something.
And she turned her head to look at the portrait on the wall.
‘Suddenly, a young lady who visited us in the past comes to mind.’
‘She came to help us. She wanted to make medicine for sick people.’
‘According to my husband, she was a beautiful lady with red eyes.’
She remembered what Mrs. Potter had told her.
“Lady, why are you like this?”
Lamein, who lightly smiled, turned her head back to its original position.
“Now I understand why you willingly accepted my proposal.”
“……. ”
“You resemble my mother a lot.”
“I resemble my mother a lot?”
She nodded her head, hearing his voice filled with puzzlement.
“More than anyone else, you have a kind and warm heart.”
“……. ”
“Others may not know, but now I’m sure.”
A beautiful smile blossomed on Lamein’s lips.
Marquis Haribo’s eyes, which had been fixed as if frozen, subtly flickered.
“Hmm. I made the proposal first. It was also for Lucia, and it’s a business that can bring in a large sum of money.”
Marquis Haribo, who finished speaking at a faster pace than usual, subtly turned his gaze outside the window.
“Anyway, if it weren’t for the Marquis, I wouldn’t have been able to do anything.”
Hm. Marquis Haribo, who briefly cleared his throat, stood up from his seat.
A beat later, Lamein, who rose from her seat a bit late, continued to gaze at the man looking out of the window.
Did her words somehow anger him?
Marquis Haribo’s neck and ears were tinged with red.
At that puzzled moment, Marquis Haribo turned his head and met her eyes.
“I feel like I’ve taken away too much of the lady’s time. Shouldn’t you go now?”
“No, I have plenty of time today.”
“…What?”
Why is he so flustered?
Did I do something wrong again?
Lamein blinked her eyes quickly.
“Cedric is probably waiting for the lady.”
“Not at all. Cedric is busier than me. He said he would come home late today.”
“Ah… yes. Late… I see.”
She tilted her head slightly while looking at the man mumbling to himself as if talking to himself.
Due to an accidental injury to her hand, they hadn’t discussed the things they were supposed to proceed with.
‘Now that I’m about to start, I have to go back.’
If making big money was like this, it would be difficult.
“Then from now on…”
Shall I start talking about the matter? When she was about to ask.
“Actually, I’m not feeling well.”
Marquis Haribo interrupted.
…Just like that?
Lamein, squinting her eyes, looked at Marquis Haribo’s face with a suspicious gaze.
The man’s face was even redder than a little while ago.
‘Is he really sick?’
Lamein, who raised her eyebrows a little, quickly smoothed her expression.
“Well, today might be more difficult to share. I should go now.”
“I’m sorry, but it seems necessary.”
“No, it’s fine. Let’s schedule another appointment soon.”
“Yes, let’s do that.”
Having finished the conversation, Marquis Haribo quickly moved towards the door.
Lamein, looking at the back of the man, tilted her head slightly.
For some reason, it felt like she was being chased away.
‘Did I really make a mistake?’
I went over all the things I said, but there wasn’t anything particularly wrong.
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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