‘I’ve caught those bastards who spread ice monsters in the North. I even taught them how to make Hwinari bullets and came up with a hot spring business.’
They worked incredibly hard.
Surely, at first, I only followed Hadel because I wanted to eat white bread occasionally. I don’t know why it turned out like this. I gave Nella a very practical advice.
“If you don’t want to work, instead of being the poor Northern Grand Duchess, you should enter as the second or third concubine of some rich noble. Preferably someone close in age who also has children.”
This formula was perfect even 100 years ago. There had to be a successor in the family already, so there was no pressure to have a son, and the internal affairs were taken care of by the successor’s wife.
At my response, Nella’s face wrinkled in disgust.
“Don’t say horrible things.”
I shrugged.
“In the end, there’s no way to return without working. Anyone can play and eat. That’s easy to replace.”
There’s only one thing a person can inherit during their lifetime: their parents’ fortune. But I knew it wasn’t a cure-all.
‘Even though I was born a princess, I died on the battlefield.’
Wait a minute. Isn’t this a bit too much? Could I have been born with some weird aversion to not being able to withstand without working?
‘Is there something wrong with me?’
While reviewing my life again, the bowl hit the bottom. Out of the habit from the battlefield, I tried to get up to hand the bowl to the dishwashing duty, but a large hand snatched the bowl away. It was Hadel.
“Don’t get up. Call me.”
“Thank you.”
It was the perfect timing, as if he had been watching to see when I would finish.
‘Good, be grateful.’
I usually didn’t act like this, but when I received such consideration, I became strangely grandmotherly. When Hadel, who was usually rough, was called my child or my baby, it seemed like that.
As I smiled contentedly, Nella pouted her lips and said.
“You two are strange.”
“What now?”
“Prince seems to be unsure because he likes you, and you feel like an old couple who’s been married for 20 years.”
Even though she hadn’t seen us much, her analysis was quite accurate.
‘Sharper than I thought?’
Then she probably knows a lot about things I don’t know, right? To test her knowledge, I adjusted my posture and asked her.
“Tell me about the capital now. Since we’re in this situation, it would be beneficial for me to adjust the situation in the palace as much in your favor as possible. Wouldn’t it be necessary for you to know about the current palace situation?”
“The palace situation…”
Nella looked as if she had nothing to say. I tried to lead her in various ways.
“Did the king send any messages? If he’s engaged to the Grand Duchess, he must have met him, right?”
“I did meet them, but they didn’t say a word. The one who gave orders was clearly Prince Saedul, and King, and Queen just sat on their chairs.”
“They just sat there?”
Could that be possible? It seemed unnatural to anyone who looked at it.
‘Prince Saedul is leading for sure.’
He resembled Esphen in appearance and mana attributes. It felt unusual in many ways. Nella, who had difficulty opening up at first, started to talk smoothly about the court.
“You two are on the modest side, and except for hosting a ball on the border day, you don’t hold any other events separately. The Queen’s salon is maintained, but the Queen rarely shows her face, and it’s mainly overseen by Lady Saeil, who is Prince Saedul’s fiancée.”
At the unexpected news, I couldn’t help but exclaim.
“Fiancée? Prince Saedul has a fiancée?”
No way, he, with such a bad personality, is engaged?
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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