I descended from Hadel’s hand and settled into my comfortable bed. Hadel removed his wet robe. The butler dried his body with a towel and assisted him in putting on a shirt as he discussed today’s agenda.
“Prince of the Birds, we are ready to welcome you. You might arrive as early as this afternoon.”
“I see.”
Hadel nodded, and for some reason, his face looked somewhat dark. I peered my head out from the bed.
“The Prince of the Birds.”
A man with silver hair and blue eyes, identical to Esphen.
Hadel’s younger brother.
I listened to their conversation, but both of them closed their mouths as if they noticed I was eavesdropping.
“I’m curious, but they won’t tell me more.”
I wiggled my ears and eventually crawled out of the bed. While showing me his back, Hadel, who had felt my movement like a ghost, called me.
“Kyu-kyu, where are you going?”
“Kyu.”
I’m going somewhere to find out who the Prince of the Birds is.
The informants who would provide information about the Prince of the Birds were none other than the maidservants of this castle.
“Kyu-kyu, are you here?”
“Kyu-kyu, you look cute today too.”
As I stuck my head out, the maidservants, who were doing cleaning, welcomed me with big smiles. Feeling their hands stroking my neck, I made a relieved expression.
“Ugh, it would be better to call me Sparrow Lord.”
It’s not that I like the name Kyu-kyu any better than Bbakki or Meongmeong. But Kyu-kyu is still better than those names.
“Hadel’s naming sense is really bottom-tier.”
Thinking of Hadel’s distinctive, deep voice calling me ‘Kyu-kyu,’ I shook my head, trembling. The problem lies in the name Kyu-kyu itself.
“Hadel also has an excellent figure… Oh my, what am I thinking?”
Unintentionally thinking about Hadel, I shook my head, shivering. Maybe it’s because we kissed, but whenever I let my guard down, my thoughts tend to go in strange directions.
Anyway, I was swaying my tail while receiving the maidservants’ cuteness all over my body. When I felt comfortable, words that had been pent up inside me started flowing out naturally.
However, just as I was enjoying it, one of the maids who had been petting me began to speak.
“Prince, he’s coming soon, isn’t he? They’re making us clean so thoroughly.”
“Don’t want to be caught by the prince in the capital, huh?”
“What caught by the prince? Are they even interested in us lowly people? It’s about the higher-ups.”
I nodded in agreement with their observation. It’s not the lower-class people like us who are worried about being caught by the prince. Clearly, it’s Hadel, who’s ignoring the Prince of the Birds, that the lower-class people are concerned about.
Another maid chimed in.
“But I heard the Prince of the Birds is very kind and gentle. They call him the Prince of Spring in the capital.”
Prince of Spring.
I widened my eyes at the nickname I heard for the first time. Another maid spoke with a dreamy expression.
“Prince of Spring. I can’t wait to see how wonderful he is.”
“He must be a real prince.”
“What are you saying? Lord Duke is a real prince too, you know?”
“They mean it in a different way.”
Listening to the girls’ cheerful laughter, I summarized the information I had just picked up.
“The reputation among the common people seems to be good.”
Prince of Spring, a nickname that’s somewhat unfamiliar.
He looks identical to Esphen, but his personality seems to be completely the opposite. Esphen had a cold and unapproachable demeanor, which suited his ice attribute.
“But he’s a different person, so it’s only natural.”
I found it amusing how I kept getting caught up in memories of my past life. I shook my head to clear my thoughts of Esphen. It had been a long time since I died, and Esphen and I would never meet again. I began to think about the Prince of the Birds once more.
“It seems like this is not an ordinary guest, judging by how the butler is so tense. In cases like this, there’s only one conclusion: Hadel and the Prince don’t get along.”
Just hearing the name “the Prince of Birds” brought up a vivid image of Hadel’s stern face. I couldn’t help but worry about Hadel.
“Hadel should not get hurt.”
I prayed deep in my heart for him to be as kind as the rumors said. And so, the storm that everyone in the castle had been waiting for arrived in the late afternoon, just as the butler had predicted.
“Oh, our child. You look truly radiant after dressing up so nicely.”
To welcome the guests, Hadel put on a splendid jacket and shirt with the kind of style that princes wear, something he hadn’t done in a long time. He used pomade to neatly style his hair, revealing his symmetrical forehead.
I admired Hadel with joyful eyes.
“Still, I think it would be better to leave the forehead exposed rather than combing the hair neatly. It looks difficult to manage with such a neat image from head to toe.”
Maybe because I considered Hadel as my distant descendant, I enjoyed dressing him up as if he were my own child. Well, there wasn’t much I could choose from, to begin with.
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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