Canaria looked around.
Everyone was smiling.
It was clear that they were mocking Canaria, though it did not show on the surface.
Canaria blushed and forced a smile.
Cute and lovable Canaria. Canaria, who deserved to be loved by the emperor!
That was the image Canaria had built.
“What … There was such a thing.”
Canaria swallowed her saliva.
“I’m glad I found out now. Thank you for letting me know, Sir Casius.”
She succeeded in responding as casually as possible.
However, Canaria’s efforts seemed of little interest to Casius.
Casius did not even give a glance to Canaria.
Canaria gnashed her teeth.
‘Why is that guy so arrogant? A slaveborn, no less…!’
Of course, she knew he had an eyecatching appearance.
She also knew people were peeking at Casius in a world where appearance could be a weapon.
There, Casius would soon receive the title of Duke of Loterra, so she had only tried to cultivate a relationship.
‘I’m not talking to him because I like to!’
Possibly due to his time in battle, he had an unnoble tanned skin and bloodred hair, and beastlike golden eyes.
And the threatening body wrapped in a black suit.
‘How vulgar.’
Canaria quickly turned her head, as if she had never stolen a glance at him.
Next to enter the banquet hall was Lenisha.
Lenisha lifted her head and scanned the banquet hall.
She saw Casius, dressed nicely.
Madam Turiel had tailored Casius’s clothes to Lenisha’s taste.
A neat and simple black suit.
A design adorned with rich materials and garnished with dark red jewels.
Lenisha’s golden dress fluttered.
As she moved, the eyes of everyone in the banquet hall sparkled in fascination.
This dress, woven only of gold thread, was a masterpiece that only Empress Lenisha could wear.
It was a masterpiece created by the people of the imperial palace, working through the night.
“Seems I’m late.”
“No, Your Majesty, Empress. We were early.”
The nobles, who had been keeping their mouths shut and looking dignified, threw a word at the Empress.
They seemed to be showing due respect to Lenisha.
“You all don’t need to stand, stay seated.”
Lenisha sat gracefully beside Casius.
As if she knew it was her designated place.
Casius took a breath.
It was the scent of roses.
Not just a sweet floral scent.
It was a fragrance that captured fresh green stems and subtly protruding thorns.
A threedimensional scent that seemed to fully reveal Loterra’s Lenisha.
Without realizing it, Casius turned his head towards Lenisha.
He felt as if the Duke of Loterra had returned to life.
The Duke was right.
Lenisha was indeed the child who closely resembled the Duke of Loterra.
Lenisha, who was talking to other nobles, turned her head towards Casius.
Casius and Lenisha’s eyes met.
“Sir Casius, I see you again since the last time.”
“Your Majesty, Empress.”
Casius somehow felt at a loss for words.
Every time he spoke, the image of the late Duke of Loterra and Lenisha in front of him mixed and confused him.
And for some reason, he felt like he now understood why the knights in the mansion made a fuss when they saw Madam Turiel.
‘That lady! That lady who isn’t on the battlefield!’
Casius’s heart thumped.
With each breath, Lenisha’s fragrance rushed in.
A scent that inexplicably stirred the heart.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
Lenisha asked gently.
“That … ”
He had many questions.
What was the intent of the gift? What was Lenisha thinking?
And there were things he needed to say.
However, no words came out.
Lenisha gently touched Casius’s shoulder with her hand.
“You’ve dressed beautifully.”
Certainly, here is the translation following the guidelines:
She then gently brushed her shoulder and pulled her hand away.
Lenisha whispered,
“You look good together.”
Casius’s cheeks turned red like hair.
Unknowingly, he clenched his fist and turned his head forward.
He himself didn’t know why he was doing it.
And he was completely unaware that such behavior of mine seemed threatening to others.
The nobles avoided Casius’s eyes with startled faces.
Only Canaria found such Casius interesting.
Canaria’s eyes sparkled.
‘He must be violent. Having grown up as a slave and learned nothing. He lived on the battlefield, so he wouldn’t know how to behave like a person? Well done, Lenisha.’
The thought of a very unhappy Lenisha made Canaria’s mood better.
Lenisha was paying the price for ignoring Canaria all this time.
It was clear that Casius’s violent tendencies would drive Lenisha to hell.
The last to appear was Lexus.
As always, Lexus arrived on his own time, well after everyone else.
Canaria wore a complacent smile as soon as Lexus arrived.
Nobody sincerely treated Canaria while waiting for Lexus.
“Your Majesty, why are you so late? Canaria was only waiting for you.”
Lexus embraced Canaria’s shoulder and kissed her forehead.
“I must have been late because I like you waiting. Now, everyone, take your seats.”
Canaria threw a challenging look at Lenisha.
Lenisha didn’t envy it at all.
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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