Casius was pacing in front of the castle.
It was the time when the sun was sinking bit by bit.
It was the time when the laborers, who had been sweating all day long, were returning to bed.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that everyone in Hiloshain village who could exert strength was mobilized for the castle’s restoration.
What was rather hopeful was the fact that people were returning to Hiloshain upon hearing the news that Lotera had returned.
The number of workers was increasing.
Now, if he could only find and bring the tribes, he thought they could somewhat get things in shape.
Repairing the castle, developing the estate, and doing other tasks.
Casius had been really busy all day today.
He had to train and familiarize himself with matters related to the estate, and he also had to spend time with the little visitors who came to see him.
So he hadn’t heard that Lenisha had gone out.
That’s why he had come out to meet Lenisha.
“Ah, Casius.”
“Lenisha. Where have you been?”
“I went to meet the leader of Hiloshain. I had something to discuss. Have you finished your work, Casius? Understanding the history of Hiloshain alone must not have been easy.”
“I learned that the people of Hiloshain were not able to use the power of the Black Snake from the beginning. And I also learned that the kids talk a lot and know more than I thought.”
Casius answered seriously.
Children were pure, without guile.
They could not judge what to say and what not to say.
Children of Isabella’s age usually don’t hang out with younger ones.
But Isabella mingled with them without any hesitation, and the children were highly excited.
After all, wasn’t Isabella a noble girl from the system?
Children who looked merely six or seven years old were looking at Isabella, who was older and prettier, with envious eyes.
For a while, it seemed like the children would follow Isabella around like baby ducks.
Wherever Isabella went, they would follow, so it looked like Casius would be bothered a few more times.
“Ahaha. Isabella was like that when she was young too. She seemed to know everything, even as a child.”
Casius and Lenisha naturally walked side by side.
The two of them turned their feet toward the garden together.
Even though nobody suggested it.
The sunset resting on Lenisha’s eyelashes was gradually deepening.
“Did Isabella and the children get along well?”
“Yes. The children followed Isabella well.”
“That child doesn’t talk about hard things. It’s rather fortunate. Now that Isabella has children to hang out with. Soleine has promised cooperation. Ah, Soleine is the name of Hiloshain’s leader.”
“They are the people who dwell in Lotera’s territory. Isn’t it something that Lenisha should have them do whatever you want?”
“It’s hard to draw the desired result that way. They have their own territories and rights to decide. Because they were born as humans. If I coerce them to cooperate with us, I have to keep them in check. Not knowing when they will let go of my hand. But if I can make them hold my hand willingly, and if I can keep that heart, I would have less to worry about.”
Casius nodded his head.
“It’s similar to the battlefield. I had a similar experience. I rescued people from Perisen at the Chorpa Plains. That man was a farmer from Chorpa. And there were not just one or two such captured people.”
Lenisha listened intently.
Hearing Casius’s stories from the battlefield was quite interesting.
In front of Lenisha, Casius was a reserved gentlewoman, but she had often heard that he was no different from a demon on the battlefield.
“Tell me more. What happened to them there?”
“Those who lost their homes caught in the war were overflowing, and many became prisoners of Hientri. And the opinions of Hiloshain’s knights were divided into two.”
“Two?”
Casius nodded his head.
Casius’s body moved gracefully and flexibly, matching Lenisha’s stride.
Lenisha found it marvelous to watch Casius.
Lenisha’s belly was a wonder that such a body could move so quietly without a sound.
Casius was still not giving up on his training.
Is that why?
Lenisha licked her lips unknowingly.
The hard touch and warmth that reached her palm came to mind.
Including Casius, who seemed to set Lenisha on fire.
Lenisha had definitely resolved not to spend the night with Casius again.
She thought she was pushing him away quite well, but she found herself walking side by side like now.
She could not refuse Casius’s kiss, and she did not stop him from pulling her in and falling asleep, using the cold dawn as an excuse.
Lenisha swallowed a sigh.
Not much time had passed since she met Casius.
But Casius had infiltrated Lenisha’s daily life faster than anyone.
As if he had been there from the beginning.
Lenisha bit her lower lip hard.
Casius’s faint voice continued.
“One faction wanted to train them for Hientri, and another insisted they should be killed.”
“So what decision did your father make?”
Lenisha asked, staring intently at Casius.
Casius felt his cheek redden for some reason under that gaze.
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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