Empress Lenisha really was a master at rendering others speechless.
Casius let out a groan.
The expression on the face of the Duke of Denvers showed no anger.
Casius glanced at Lenisha’s hand as she brushed it against his cheek.
Her hand was excessively white and slender compared to Casius.
Casius’s Adam’s apple moved once.
“……Aren’t you angry?”
“I don’t care who sits in that seat. The Duke of Denvers is not a particularly kind person.”
Lenisha said slowly.
“The Duke of Denvers must have asked me sincerely. What about putting Canaria in that seat? What did you say, Casius?”
“……I said it’s not for me to answer. I thought there would be a reason when Lenisha asked to meet him.”
“So, was there any gain?”
Casius shook his head.
Lenisha’s calm response seemed to soothe Casius’s anger.
“Go meet the Duke of Denvers again, Casius. And convey my wish. That Canaria must become the empress.”
“Lenisha, that seat is……!”
“So should I go back to the empress’s position? Is that what you want? For me to return to Lexus?”
Lenisha rattled off her questions with a smile.
Casius stiffened, eyes wide open.
Lenisha was too close.
The Lenisha who came out to the capital was more rebellious, brimming with confidence, and unpredictable.
She still smelled of wild roses.
“Canaria must sit in that seat. Or else, it must be empty.”
“Why? Why are you generous to her, Lenisha?”
“Because she’s foolish. She’s a perfect match for Lexus.”
Lenisha continued softly, almost whispering.
“People will miss me the more foolish Canaria is. Will Lexus change because I leave?”
Casius shook his head slightly.
“Never. The capital will adjust to Lexus. It will expect someone to take over my role. But Canaria doesn’t have the capacity. So, they will naturally think of me. Who is the right owner?”
“……Does the Duke of Denvers think the same?”
“Probably. He hates incapacity the most.”
“Did I make a mistake?”
“No. You took my side, Casius. As my husband.”
Lenisha smiled again, her face untroubled.
“The Duke of Denvers will meet you again. Then you must convey my wish clearly. The Duke of Denvers will consolidate my power in this empire for me. He will control them and make sure they don’t betray me.”
Lenisha’s voice became honeysweet.
Casius felt, for some reason, that her caress was sticky.
Casius looked up and examined Lenisha’s face.
“The Duke of Denvers is an important card in that sense.”
“……I will go back to the club.”
Lenisha nodded.
“Shall we talk about something else?”
From Casius’s cheek, which was blankly presented, to his forehead, and then to his nose……
Finally, Lenisha’s finger slid to his lips.
Casius’s face turned red again.
Lenisha opened her mouth.
“About our wedding night.”
Lenisha’s choice of this topic was certainly an impulsive decision.
However, she had been thinking about it continuously.
If there were a necessary gateway, she thought now, with Casius looking at Lenisha so fervently, was the right time.
People’s hearts change.
No one knew when Casius’s heart, which looked at Lenisha, would change.
Lenisha didn’t believe in the continuity of intangible emotions.
Even Lexus had talked about the eternity of their alliance when receiving Rotera’s favor.
‘I shall repay the favor. You all have done much for me. Give me Lenisha. I will make Lenisha live as a happy Empress.’
Empty words are prone to vanish.
Looking back, Lexus’s desire for Lenisha was nothing more than a sort of conquest.
After obtaining Lenisha, his eyes towards her became colder than ice itself.
Expecting anything different from Casius was best avoided from the start.
It seemed best to experience all variables in advance before going to Hiloshain.
So the current impulse was right.
After spending the night with Lenisha, he was curious if Casius would look at Lenisha with those eyes.
Casius muttered in a broken voice.
“The first night.”
Lenisha nodded her head.
Or it could all be mere excuses.
The hot gaze of Casius towards Lenisha might be what inflamed her.
Possibly harboring a desire to throw himself into Casius’s flames.
It didn’t matter whatsoever.
Tonight would not affect the agreement made between Lenisha and Casius.
“We have become husband and wife. It’s something that we must go through someday.”
Lenisha’s finger brushed Casius’s lips.
That touch was bold and at the same time hot, enough to burn Casius.
Casius’s eyes trembled at a story he hadn’t thought of at all.
To Casius, Lenisha was a person difficult to touch carelessly.
She was the daughter of the Lotera Duke and Duchess he respected, and at the same time the most precious woman.
But, as Lenisha said, she was also Casius’s woman.
Casius slowly moved his hand.
He covered Lenisha’s hand, which was playing with his lips, with his own hand.
Then he deeply kissed the palm of Lenisha.
“Lenisha.”
Casius’s voice cracked.
Lenisha nonchalantly extended her hand to Casius.
“Lenisha, you really are… fearless.”
Casius whispered with a sigh.
(This is the time delimiter.)
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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