Lenisha closed her eyes tightly.
A damp unease wrapped around Lenisha’s ankles.
“Henry, who escaped, hired mercenaries and attacked Hiloshine. It was an assault aimed at Isabella. And Brixton sacrificed himself to protect Isabella.”
From the moment Cassius discovered her, the gaping black fear had been directed towards her.
Lenisha closed her eyes for a moment and overcame the fear.
“…He’s still alive, right?”
“Yes. But according to Prince Mateo, it’s dangerous… For Isabella’s sake, Hailin’s return is urgent.”
The possibility of Brixton’s death was higher.
Cassius hesitated but then stood up.
Sitting beside Lenisha, Cassius wrapped his arms around her shoulders.
The imminent danger to Brixton was not only a concern for Isabella and Hailin.
Lenisha felt the same way.
Lenisha knew Cassius was aware of the affection she held for her family.
Also, the guilt lurking underneath.
“Brixton won’t blame you. No one will.”
Lenisha suppressed her emotions.
“…I have to save Brixton.”
Resting her head on Cassius’s chest, she chose to seek comfort from his warmth instead of facing it alone.
Lenisha gradually learned to walk in step with Cassius.
“Brixton’s life is infused with the soul of a black snake. The fact that he’s still enduring without his breath being cut off is probably because it’s Hiloshine.”
“…It’s said that inducing Brixton into a plant-like state might help him survive.”
“Similar context.”
Lenisha exhaled slowly.
Whether this was Brixton’s wish, she didn’t know.
It would be a gamble with life and a very long wait.
The emotions that would be worn away during that process were unimaginable.
“The soul of the black snake will protect Brixton. Someday… Brixton might wake up. It could take 10 years or 1 year; no one knows. Still, I want to try.”
“Let’s do that.”
Cassius kissed Lenisha on the forehead.
No words could console the current Lenisha.
Instead of crumbling, she had to stand up, and Cassius could only embrace her.
“I’ll talk to Hailin.”
Cassius nodded.
Lenisha’s face, which had just borne despair, was smooth in Cassius’s embrace.
A moment ago, burdened with despair, she unexpectedly rose.
Hailin’s pupils scanned the table.
Her heart pounded. Unknowingly, it felt like her body temperature was rising.
“Brixton…”
“Hailin. I’m sorry, but you don’t have time now. Isabella doesn’t have the age to make decisions. And if we’re late and Isabella is left alone, she’ll be…”
Hailin swallowed her saliva.
The sound of her heartbeat filled her ears. Her head felt foggy and dizzy.
Brixton’s face kept coming to her mind.
“Death was always lurking around them.
The pain Hailin experienced was not the end.
“I… Brixton…”
“What would he want?”
Hailin asked with a trembling voice.
The pitch-black eyes turned toward Lenisha.
Inside, the buried despair seemed to be pulling Lenisha in.
“Brixton is a person with high self-esteem, Lenisha. He never gave up in any situation. For him to be helpless, in that state… Could it be my selfishness?”
“Brixton would be more afraid of leaving Hailin and Isabella.”
Lenisha said with a firm voice.
At this moment, Hailin seemed to need a pillar of support.
Lenisha’s legs were trembling, and her hands were gripping so tightly it hurt.
“Even if it’s not honorable, Brixton would want to stay by our side.”
Confusing.
It’s unclear if this is the truth or if it’s Lenisha’s selfishness, as Hailin put it.
But Lenisha remembered Brixton’s determination.
‘I will protect everyone. With my life, forever.’
Brixton would not leave us. He had no choice but to make that decision.
“Hailin, brace yourself. Prince Mateo is waiting for you outside. He came to take you. And if you go to Hiloshine, you will rule Hiloshine with Prince Mateo.”
“Prince Mateo…?”
“He’s our friend. We have to seize control of Hiloshine with Mateo’s help. Right now, various forces are gathering in Hiloshine, just as Brixton and I planned.”
Hailin’s eyes trembled.
“Brixton harbored ambitions to make Hiloshine Roterra’s stronghold and even create it as the second capital.”
“Second capital?”
“Our Hyentri is preparing for a new start. The throne will move to Roterra from Hyentri. In fact, Hyentri’s capital is exposed to danger.”
“Then…”
“Moreover, it’s off-center. It’s too skewed to the south. It’s better if Hiloshine is closer to the center.”
Lenisha explained the grand story to Hailin.
Now they are trying to make Hiloshine the capital of the empire.
“It will take a long time. It might be a dream for the next generation to fulfill. We have to lay the foundation. Hailin, you are the support there.”
Hailin wasn’t just burdened with Brixton’s injury.
An equally heavy task was waiting for Hailin.
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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