“Me?”
“Of course.”
“But I haven’t done anything yet.”
“It’s not about doing something to become a great Adrian. You already are a perfect Adrian just by being yourself.”
“Hmm.”
Rozete couldn’t understand what the Duke meant.
Duke Dallas had always said she needed to be stronger than anyone else to be a perfect Dallas.
But being a perfect Adrian without doing anything?
She couldn’t understand, but it didn’t seem like Duke Adrian was lying.
‘And it seems like Daddy cares about me.’
Feeling a bit more confident, she asked,
“So, aren’t you going to praise me?”
“Praise?”
“Yes. I’ve been working hard.”
Duke Adrian quickly understood her meaning and gently pinched her cheek.
“Of course, I should. You did well, Rozete.”
“Hehe.”
“But from now on, don’t overdo it and just follow what Mrs. Noier says.”
“Okay.”
“Do you understand, Rozete? No matter what anyone says, you are Rozete Adrian.”
Rozete Adrian. She repeated her name to herself a few times.
There seemed to be a lot more to learn now, in a different sense.
‘First, I need to stop comparing my family with Duke Dallas’s.’
I know now. Duke Dallas’s house was full of bad people. But the Adrian house is different.
Everyone is kind and warm.
So, I won’t be held back by the past and will live well.
That day, for the first time, Rozete broke out of her shell.
“How can she be so adorable?”
Joan, after Rozete had bathed, was brushing her wet hair and making a fuss.
Rozete’s cheeks, already warm from the bath, grew even hotter. It was a compliment she had been hearing every day for over two months, but it still embarrassed her.
However, something had changed. In the past, she might have said, ‘Don’t say that. I know I’m not pretty.’ But now, she just dangled her legs and listened to the praise.
Joan was pleased with this change.
‘I don’t understand why she ever thought so poorly of herself.’
Rozete was pretty enough to be counted among the most beautiful in the empire if she continued to grow up like this. She was different from Isabelle in her own way.
Why was such a girl so timid? Or even if not, a child should always be confident.
So, Joan and the maids praised Rozete every day. Thanks to that, Rozete gradually regained her confidence.
“Thank you.”
Rozete smiled shyly, looking in the mirror. In the reflection, there was a pink-haired girl, now with slightly fuller cheeks.
But there was one problem.
‘I don’t like it.’
She played discontentedly with her pink hair.
The symbol of Adrian was platinum blonde. Even Duke Adrian and the rest of the siblings who shared Adrian blood were all platinum blonde.
Only one person, the adopted Rozete, had distinct pink hair.
Even in the past, Rozete didn’t like her hair color. Elisha Dallas often criticized her pink hair as dull.
But now, it was different. Thanks to the compliments and her resolve not to be tied to the past, Rozete had grown to love her hair color.
Yet, recently, she felt sad for having a different color from her family.
‘Of course, I’m not a real Adrian, so it’s natural…’
She wished she had been born with platinum blonde hair. Then maybe she would have looked more like a family to others.
Thinking such thoughts that would have surprised the rest of her family, Rozete suddenly hopped off the chair and ran to find Celine.
Celine was in her study. Rozete peeked in timidly, and Celine brightened up at her appearance.
“Miss!”
“Celine sister.”
“Coming so early in the morning, what brings you here? We still have time before the lesson.”
Rozete hesitated a bit before getting to the point.
“I want to change my hair color.”
“Your hair color?”
Celine’s eyes widened in surprise.
“Wanting to change your hair color, what do you mean by that?”
Quickly approaching Rozete, she took the girl’s small hands in hers and asked,
“Why would you suddenly think of that?”
“Huh?”
“Did someone say something to you?”
Rozete intuitively understood Celine’s concern and shook her head.
“No, it’s not like that. Everyone says they like my hair color.”
Celine let out a small sigh of relief.
“Then why do you suddenly want to change it? Did you find someone else’s hair color prettier?”
“Umm.”
Wondering how to respond, Rozete decided to just tell the truth.
“Sister, I want to have the same hair color as my brother and sister.”
“Ah.”
Celine immediately understood.
“Are you feeling left out because your hair color is different?”
Rozete nodded silently, prompting Celine to become thoughtful.
‘What should I do about this.’
There was certainly magic to change hair color. If Rozete wanted, Celine could change her hair color right away. Moreover, it wasn’t a particularly difficult spell, and Rozete could soon learn to do it herself.
The problem was that the other Adrians wouldn’t want that.
‘Especially if Duke Adrian knew, he would be sad.’
Wanting to change not because she simply found platinum hair prettier, but due to feeling excluded. Knowing that the girl he cherished as his own child felt this way would shock Duke Adrian.
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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