‘If you stay in warm water for a long time, you’ll feel dizzy.’
Worried about the weasel, Hadel carefully examined the weasel and asked.
“Don’t you feel dizzy?”
“Kyuu kyuu.”
Far from being dizzy, it looked very satisfied.
“You like warm things.”
“Kyuu.”
This time too, the weasel answered diligently. It meant that it felt really good.
Hadel frowned with one eyebrow. It was something he couldn’t understand, but this weasel definitely liked the flames.
‘Is it because Kyuu Kyuu’s body is cold?’
Anyway, the weasel submerged in the water looked like a jellyfish floating around.
‘No, it really seems to be floating on the water.’
It couldn’t swim earlier because it was startled, but wouldn’t it be able to swim well now?
Thinking so, Hadel slightly lowered his hand that was holding the weasel. The weasel, which seemed to be floating around, sank into the water as much as it was lowered.
“Bubble bubble bubble!”
The foam was noisy. Hadel quickly picked up the weasel. The weasel, soaked and shriveled from the water, hit Hadel’s hand with its small front paws, getting angry.
“Kyuu kyuu kyuu!”
And before Hadel could apologize, it got startled on its own.
“Kyuuing?”
As if it was embarrassed to make eye contact with Hadel.
And while floundering around as if looking for a place to run away on its own…
Splash!
“Bubble bubble bubble!”
It fell into the water again.
Hadel fished out the weasel again. The weasel, coughing and spitting out water, started crying again as if it was sad.
“Kyuuu…”
When the other party cries, you should normally feel sorry for them, but why does a corner of his heart tremble finely at the crying sound of this small creature, and why does he want to kiss it?
‘Cute.’
But he couldn’t kiss it. Because the weasel, whose eyes met Hadel’s, got startled again and closed its eyes.
‘Is it feeling shy?’
Hadel, who had been carefully taking in every detail of the weasel without missing a single moment, made an embarrassed expression on his own.
Kisses and loveliness. They were all emotions in a realm that he didn’t know. Because he couldn’t even be close with his parents since childhood due to his fire attribute.
‘But to have such feelings for a mere creature.’
It was ironic that he was realizing the affection he had never received through raising this small creature.
“…”
Hadel, who had been feeling a mix of complicated emotions and a strange sense of fulfillment for a moment, slowly stood up holding the weasel.
“Let’s go out before you catch a cold.”
The weasel, which had been keeping its eyes tightly closed until he wrapped his body in a robe, suddenly went limp as if tired.
As he carefully wrapped it in a towel and brought it out, the butler who was preparing clothes for him to change into outside the bathroom saw it and dropped his jaw.
“Your Highness? Did you bathe together with the weasel?”
Hadel tilted his head at an angle. It might seem strange to others, but he had a clear reason.
“It sank the moment I put it in the water.”
“Pardon?”
The butler, who was dumbfounded by Hadel’s answer, glanced at the weasel and muttered.
“Weasels should be good at swimming. Their toes are shaped to be suitable for swimming.”
“Hmm?”
Hadel looked down at the weasel as if asking if that was true. The weasel, as if startled itself, shook its head wildly, then looked at its front paws and screamed.
“Kyuuk!”
As the butler said, the weasel’s toes were spread wide, but the space between the toes was connected as if flippers were attached, making it look like it was wearing duck feet.
Oh my. Even though it was born to be good at swimming, it can’t swim.
“…Is it a bit lacking?”
“Kyuu kyuu kyuu!”
At Hadel’s murmur, the weasel got fiercely angry. The butler, who was looking at the weasel with a disturbed expression, held out a towel to the master who looked very familiar.
“First, dry yourself off.”
Hadel was only focused on drying the weasel, so water was dripping from his hair.
[This is the timeline separator]Hadel, who had changed into comfortable indoor clothes, sat down and dried the weasel’s fur fluffy.
It wasn’t very difficult. His hands are always warm, so all he had to do was wrap the weasel well.
As he meticulously enclosed it up to the tip of its tail in his palm, he naturally felt the weight of the weasel. Hadel frowned.
“Why aren’t you gaining weight well?”
“…”
Somehow, the weasel in his grip felt like it was getting very tense.
‘Was the raw fish too shocking?’
Hadel, who had no idea that the weasel was afraid of him skinning it, tilted his head.
‘Then what should I feed this one?’
Hadel stared blankly at the weasel. Just then, the butler asked in a cautious tone.
“Your Highness, what about dinner…?”
“Does it like cake?”
“Pardon?”
The butler’s face crumpled. Is he talking to the weasel? But putting the conversation aside…
“Weasels are probably carnivores.”
“Is that so.”
Following the knight, the butler also said that. Hadel made a serious expression.
‘Everyone says it’s a carnivore, so it seems this one is too young to know what it eats.’
Should we try raw fish again?
As if reading Hadel’s thoughts, the weasel desperately scratched Hadel’s palm.
“Kyuu, kyuu kyuu!”
It was a hand movement that showed the will to definitely eat cake. After a brief contemplation, Hadel immediately ordered the butler.
“Prepare a cake.”
“…Pardon?”
“Bring it to the room.”
“Yes.”
The butler tilted his head. It was unclear whether he was really going to feed the weasel or eat it himself.
‘In the first place, a weasel wouldn’t be able to eat such food.’
Maybe he’s just using the weasel as an excuse to order food he wants to eat?
‘That could be the case.’
The butler nodded with his chin resting on his hand. Hadel didn’t particularly enjoy sweets. Liking sweets didn’t really suit his status either.
‘So he’s been refraining, but now he’s using the weasel as an excuse to eat a little at a time.’
Thinking that way, all of his puzzling behaviors had an answer. Even the bag of cookies he suddenly asked for in the middle of the night!
‘I should bring a very large cake.’
With that thought, the butler’s steps to the kitchen were much lighter.
And thanks to the butler’s misunderstanding, the cake that came out for dinner tonight was very large and sweet.
The weasel was happy biting into the large chocolate decorations on top of the cake.
“Is it delicious?”
Hadel, who was watching it with a satisfied look while resting his chin on his hand, asked. Then the weasel turned its body again with a whoosh.
‘It must be very angry.’
I thought feeding it something delicious would appease its anger. The shock of the raw fish must have been significant.
‘It’s all because I’m clumsy.’
I had forgotten the fact that this baby weasel couldn’t properly become independent as a weasel. A large fish might have been too much for such a creature.
‘I should have started with small minnows.’
It was my mistake to think it would instinctively know how to eat even if a large fish was placed in front of it.
Still, the weasel finished eating the large cake. It was puzzling how it all fit into that small body. I wanted to press on its belly, but I couldn’t because the weasel disliked it.
The weasel’s anger lasted quite a while. Now, at bedtime, the weasel lay on the floor instead of the bed.
“Are you going to sleep there?”
The cushions were also cleared into the office, so it was bare floor. But the weasel was steadfast.
“Kyuu!”
It would be cold. I was worried, but soon Hadel shook his head.
‘It will probably sneak back up again.’
“Then sleep well.”
“…”
The weasel lowered its head and didn’t answer. Hadel let out a small sigh, then turned off the lamp by his bedside.
‘Somehow it feels empty.’
Lying alone in bed wasn’t the least bit awkward, but today, a corner of my heart felt empty. There was no need to look for the reason.
‘To think this small creature would take up such a large space within me.’
How long has it been by my side? It was when Hadel himself made an awkward and displeased expression. The sound of small footsteps was heard, and a small animal curled up like a snake by his bedside. It was the weasel that said it would sleep on the floor.
“Are you cold?”
Even though he asked, there was no answer. Hadel sat up and examined the weasel. Its small eyes were tightly closed, and its body was slowly rising and falling with its breathing.
It had come all the way here while half-asleep.
‘Do weasels get sleepwalking disorder too?’
Come to think of it, it also crawled into his shirt while sleeping.
Weasels and sleepwalking disorder, his brows furrowed in worry for a moment, but the only place this weasel went while half-asleep was Hadel’s embrace. Then there’s no big problem, right?
‘…I’m sleepy too.’
Thinking it wouldn’t be warm just by being near his head, Hadel carefully picked up the weasel and placed it down near his neck.
“Sweet dreams.”
After bidding goodnight, Hadel hesitated for a moment, then mustered up the courage to lower his head towards the weasel.
Smooch.
His lips touched the weasel’s small head and then parted. Perhaps because it was washed with the soap he usually used, the weasel smelled like him. For some reason, that was very pleasing.
‘My weasel.’
It was the first living being placed by his side. Listening to the much faster heartbeat than his own, Hadel closed his eyes. In his hazy vision, he saw something like a faint, fluttering thread.
‘Pink… hair…?’
The soft, cotton candy-like pink hair captivated his gaze. And a face as beautiful as white jade, shining palely in the moonlight, had its eyes closed in front of him.
‘…Who?’
Like a dream, he thoughtlessly found it beautiful. And with that thought, Hadel fell into a sleep as if he had fainted.
__________
“Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!”
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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