“Are you really shy?”
“Of course.”
Christine leaned closer, whispering seductively.
“How quaint. Who was it last night who clung to me so wildly and provocatively that I couldn’t sleep?”
“Me, when did I?”
“Don’t remember? You were doing this and that last night, wanting me to do this and that, even making me do this and that…….”
“What are you talking about! You were the one trying to do this and that, and I just suggested that this and that would be better. But you didn’t stop at this and that, you went all the way to doing something completely lascivious…….”
Then he opened his eyes wide and laughed.
“What are you talking about? I don’t understand a thing. What’s this and that, and what’s completely lascivious? Could it be that I touched your…….”
“St, stop!”
Adel quickly covered his mouth, her face turning bright red.
“Pfft!”
Christine finally burst into laughter.
Slap!
“Really, first thing in the morning!”
Angry, Adel hit his shoulder hard, and he groaned, holding his injured left shoulder. She had hit right where it hurt.
“Ouch, sorry! Does it hurt a lot?”
Suddenly worried, Adel fidgeted.
Christine found this amusing and exaggeratedly acted like a dying man.
“I don’t know. It feels like the wound has reopened.”
“Let me see.”
“It’s fine. It hurts, but it’s bearable. I’ll ask the doctor to look at it when we get to the main palace.”
“Will you be alright until then?”
“Soso.”
His wound had almost healed, but it seemed like the bandage would need to be kept on for a few more days. It wasn’t an injury that would heal easily for an ordinary person.
“You must get it treated properly. Understand?”
“Don’t worry.”
Christine lightly kissed Adel’s worried face.
Adel found it slightly disappointing… She was going crazy!
“It’s a shame, but I can’t help it. If we kiss now, I’ll want to put you back to bed.”
“Don’t insult me by saying it’s a shame!”
Christine stood up from the bed with a grin that seemed to read Adel’s inner thoughts.
“Then get ready and come down to the dining room.”
Thud!
As he closed the door and left, Adel glanced at him and smiled faintly.
Being with him made her feel like the girl she was ten years ago, the days when they playfully fought and teased each other. Those joyful and pleasant days without a worry in the world.
Looking back, those were the happiest moments.
Was last night all a dream?
After dreaming of a silver wolf, she called for him in her sleep, but the spacious bed was empty.
For some reason, it felt so sad that she seemed to have cried a little.
‘I’ve really become a childish person.’
Before meeting him, she had endured those terrible things quite well.
(Here is a time separator.)
Adel dressed in a dress with a fresh peach color and chiffon lace for a change of mood. It was a bright dress with puffy puff sleeves. In her neatly combed and letdown hair, she wrapped a green ribbon given by Christine.
As she went down to the restaurant, he was waiting and personally pulled out a chair for her. In the bedroom, he had always teased and flustered her with lascivious words. However, in the restaurant where the servants were present, he was quite stern and dignified, like a lord.
Adel also gently sat in her chair like a dignified lady.
“Thank you, Count.”
“You’re welcome, Miss Adel.”
Soon, the servants started to serve the food as directed by Henry.
Golden pumpkin soup with cheesefilled potato croquettes, a salad filled with fresh vegetables, turkey cooked with plenty of butter, wellroasted steak, tarts decorated with strawberries and cream, chocolate pudding, and more were served ceaselessly, filling the long dining table.
“Henry?”
“Yes, Miss Adel?”
“This seems a bit too much for breakfast.”
Henry answered with a modest smile.
“I merely followed the master’s orders. He told me to pay special attention to Miss Adel’s nutrition.”
“I see. Now all of you, leave.”
“Yes, ring the bell if you need anything. We will be standing at a distance.”
“You don’t need to be that far away. We just have something private to talk about.”
“No, the master’s privacy must be protected.”
“What’s that?”
While Adel was struggling to understand his meaning, Christine waved lightly.
“Go on, tend to your duties.”
“Yes, Master.”
When Henry led all the kitchen servants out, Adel picked up her fork and knife with a nonchalant face and asked.
“The strange looks from Henry and the servants watching us, is it just my imagination?”
“Perhaps they are imagining what we do every night?”
Looking at Christine who said that so nonchalantly, Adel’s face turned red. But she felt like she would lose if she was embarrassed.
“Oh my, what are we doing every night, Count?”
“If you don’t remember, I could reenact it here, Miss Adel?”
Adel’s face turned even redder.
“Let’s eat quickly, Count!”
But Christine, propping up his chin, smirked, as if he was tempting her.
“Suddenly, I feel hungrier, Miss Adel. What should we do?”
Adel raised her knife with a grim smile.
“I am holding a knife, Count. Focus on your meal.”
“Tch!”
Christine picked up his fork with a suddenly pouting face.
“Eat this.”
Adel extended a plate with cut turkey and steak.
“You’ve hurt your shoulder, so it will be difficult for you to cut.”
“Oh right… I did.”
“Yes, eat this too.”
After that, she continued to pick up various things and place them on Christine’s plate. She really looked like a protector at that moment.
“It’s delicious.”
“Of course, I’m the one who cut it.”
The two engaged in various small talks and enjoyed their meal.
Through the curtains of the window, soft sunlight seeped in, and the table for the two of them was filled with the sweet scent of food. Every mundane moment shared together was happiness.
But that happy time was soon shattered to pieces.
“Aaaaah!”
With a sharp scream from somewhere.
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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