Renisha walked past Gael, brushing against him below. Then, she stopped, turned around, and her pink eyes sparkled with anger.
“The children, I will take them.”
“Lady Renisha…”
Gael’s throat tightened, and he couldn’t say anything. Becoming Viscount Calliot seemed to brand him as a traitor in the eyes of the entire world. The gazes of people felt like thorns piercing Gael.
Gael’s shoulders trembled.
With words of inevitability…
With words of inevitability, he killed Viscount Calliot and took the protectors away from the children who knew nothing. Gael’s knees wobbled. It was the feeling of now realizing the weight of what he had done.
Gael’s eyelids trembled.
“You’re the one who exposed those children to the streets, Gael.”
Renisha touched him, one by one, with a strange expression on her face. Behind Renisha, Casius appeared. Casius’s expressionless face made Gael uneasy. Everyone here was blaming Gael.
Gael chewed on his lips.
One step, two steps.
He stepped back. A chilling feeling, as if someone behind him was pointing a sword at him, engulfed him.
Gael blinked.
“You will pay the price for that.”
“Lady Renisha, I… Viscount Calliot wouldn’t want that!”
Gael shouted frantically. Fear seemed to consume him.
“He would have considered me first. He knew the situation I was in…”
Renisha tilted her head slowly.
“Gael. You are not my person. My person was Viscount Calliot.”
Renisha lowered her voice.
“I am only doing it for my person. It’s not Viscount Calliot’s will, but my own will.”
Gael shook his head vigorously. It felt like his head was about to explode.
“But still, I… I respected Lady Renisha and Viscount Calliot… I protected them.”
Gael licked his lips. Judging by his furtive glances, he seemed to be careful about what he was saying. Renisha didn’t reveal all of her secrets.
Renisha burst into laughter.
“Did you not keep them safe?”
“What?”
“You just proved it with your own mouth.”
Renisha’s smile bloomed like a rose. It was a captivating beauty, but to Gael, it brought fear. Even in this situation, she could smile with such a face. She was definitely not an ordinary person.
“But you know, Gael?”
Renisha grinned.
In this situation, a woman who can smile with such a strange face. She was definitely not an ordinary person.
“Didn’t you just prove that you can betray me at any time? Trying to feign keeping my secret and at the same time attempting to threaten me.”
Gael turned pale.
“Another reason for me to kill you has just been added.”
Gael’s trembling spread throughout his body. Instinctive fear overwhelmed Gael. He wanted to leave this place immediately, to run away.
“But you know, Gael?”
Renisha smirked.
“I’m not a fool. I know that it’s only a matter of time before Lexus discovers the secret I’ve hidden. But did I take any precautions?”
There was laughter.
“No way.”
Renisha slowly continued.
“Does Rotera look so weak that it’s worth falling for again? It’s not us who are weak, it must be you.”
Gael couldn’t say anything again.
Renisha smiled brightly.
It seemed there was no need to deal with Gael any longer. When Renisha left, the funeral home became quiet. No one remained by Gael’s side. The funeral was finished by Turiel.
Turiel was also responsible for Viscount Calliot’s death. She was the one who sent Viscount Calliot to Hiloshine along with Meteor.
Turiel approached Gael, who was trembling with fear.
“Making a mistake only once can be forgiven. Don’t you think so?”
Turiel smiled, resembling Renisha.
Gael realized it at that moment.
If he had chosen Viscount Calliot instead of the Emperor, he could have requested help from Viscount Calliot without submitting to the Emperor’s will.
Gael burst into hot tears.
Turiel extended her hand to Gael, who was desperate.
“…I will do anything. Please, just save my family.”
Gael knelt down with a thud. Turiel chuckled.
“Don’t worry about that. My master is generous and fair. You should be able to receive enough compensation for what you give up.”
At that moment, Gael understood.
The Emperor could have chosen Viscount Calliot instead of him.
He could have asked Viscount Calliot for help without bowing to the Emperor’s will.
Gael cried with hot tears streaming down.
Kneeling on the ground, Gael, who was sobbing, was scrutinized by Turiel’s cold gaze.
Renisha guaranteed the lives of Gael’s family, but she didn’t say anything about Gael.
Even if Gael died, it didn’t matter.
“Eliminate the heir to the Emperor, Gael.”
Turiel gave the order.
“The child in the womb…?”
“I’m not talking about such a cruel story, Gael. What we want is ‘deprivation.’ Just prove that the child is not the Emperor’s, that’s all.”
“What…?”
“We have witnesses and evidence. But…”
Turiel swept her lips with her finger.
“That alone feels insufficient.”
If the child’s father were alive, it would have been easier, but unfortunately, that was not the case.
“Claim that the Emperor’s child is yours.”
In that case, all you need to do is produce the child’s father.
The truth didn’t matter.
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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