Casius made an effort to ignore Lenisha.
He had almost forgotten that he had come to speak about something important, so he needed to collect himself.
Empress Lenisha seemed to have a knack for bewitching people.
Casius cleared his throat and said,
“I have heard an absurd story, and I came to you in a hurry, Your Majesty.”
He spoke as formally and businesslike as possible.
He kept a proper distance from Lenisha as well.
‘Safe.’
He had secured a safe distance from that dangerous woman.
Casius exhaled the breath he had been holding.
“An absurd story?”
Lenisha blinked, her long eyelashes fluttering.
Casius gathered his nearly enchanted mind again.
She had seemed mysterious like a moon fairy before, but now she was shining brightly as if melting in the sunlight.
Was she casting some strange spell?
Casius turned his eyes and said,
“Yes. The Emperor seems to be considering a reckless idea.”
Casius was at a loss for how to say this.
He had been worrying about it for the past two days, and had rushed here when he couldn’t take it any longer.
He felt that no one could be as candid with Casius as Lenisha.
Casius knew that this social world was not easy.
Moreover, the only ones Casius had a sort of camaraderie with were Lenisha and Turiel.
With Lenisha, there was the common ground of being a Duke of Rotera, so he thought it would be easier to find an answer.
“Feel free to speak. Don’t be rigid…”
“Is it true that the Emperor is trying to marry me and Peha?” Casius quickly interrupted Lenisha’s words and spoke rapidly.
His voice was so soft that others couldn’t hear.
And fortunately, it was clear that his words had reached Lenisha.
“Yes.”
Lenisha put away her playfulness and raised her head.
In an instant, the plain and pure Lenisha, like a rural maiden, had become a dazzling ruler.
Lenisha cast an arrogant glance at Casius.
Casius bowed his head.
“Peha.”
“A lot will change from now on. That includes your status as well. You’ll be responsible for things you didn’t have to be responsible for before, and you’ll have new rights and obligations.”
Lenisha turned her back.
“Walk with me.”
Casius followed Lenisha’s steps.
His heart was pounding.
Lenisha neither confirmed nor denied.
But, for some reason, Casius felt like he knew the answer.
It was something Lexus could have done.
And…
‘I wouldn’t treat the Empress that way.’
He felt embarrassed as if someone had discovered a thought he had been hiding.
Lenisha’s shoulders were small.
When he had thought of her only as the Empress, her shoulders seemed large.
But, Lenisha was a human who loved someone, and he realized she had that warmth.
Since then, Lenisha seemed small.
She seemed so small that she couldn’t fill Casius’s arms.
So now, Lenisha looked lonely and alone.
Casius suppressed a hand that was trying to reach out without his knowledge.
He casually leaned back and coughed in embarrassment.
His insolence must not be discovered by anyone.
“Whatever the Emperor thinks and decides is his mind.”
Lenisha’s voice was tinged with a mocking laugh.
Suddenly, Lenisha stopped walking.
Casius, who nearly bumped into her, tried to step back, but was grabbed by Lenisha.
She turned around and stood close, holding his clothes.
“What will you do if what you say is true?”
Lenisha was too close. His breath became rapid again.
Casius swallowed.
Unlike Casius’s agitation, Lenisha seemed unbothered as she threw the question again.
“Will you take me from here and run away?”
Casius’s pupils dilated.
It felt as if he had seen a small child cowering in fear within Lenisha’s heart.
Lenisha became the empress 8 years ago.
Back then, Lenisha was still a young girl who should have been closer to her parents’ embrace.
That girl was inside Lenisha.
Lenisha raised her head and licked her rosy lips.
“Will you take me?”
Casius could only nod helplessly.
He got his answer.
The empress would leave with Casius and marry him in Hilosha.
Because of fate…
Suddenly, Casius wanted to ask.
How was Lenisha?
Wasn’t Lenisha’s will mixed in this decision even a little?
However, Casius couldn’t say a word, looking at the relieved Lenisha.
Lenisha seemed overwhelmed just by being oppressed by this stifling and heavy reality.
Casius couldn’t add to that weight.
“I will take you.”
Casius said with a suppressed voice.
“I will take you anywhere.”
Lenisha smiled the same smile as before.
It was enough. That’s just what he thought.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Lexsus leaned against the balcony, tilting his glass to his lips.
Lexsus’s cold eyes were directed towards the garden.
He didn’t see the beautiful garden that the royal gardener had carefully tended.
What Lexsus was watching were the people in that garden.
The platinum hair breaking in the sunlight, the intensely burning red hair.
It was Lenisha and Casius.
Lexsus slowly emptied his glass.
At first, there was only Lenisha.
Then Casius came to find Lenisha, and they seemed to be having some conversation.
Lenisha laughed.
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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