Of course, they started with the cookies and ended with Viscount Byes, but the point was that being acquainted with the Viscount, who was the trend these days, had changed Adel’s status.
Even those who had been discontented with Seira came over subtly to gossip.
Sensing the changed atmosphere, Seira glared at Adel with piercing eyes from time to time, and the ladies quickly hid their faces behind fans.
It was a spectacle in itself.
Adel quietly extricated herself from the crowd surrounding her.
“Adel!”
At that moment, Mia, who had changed her clothes, approached her.
She was wearing a blue dress adorned with white fur along the refreshing neckline. She looked stunning with her hair and makeup redone.
“You look beautiful, Mia.”
“I’m sorry, Adel. I made you attend an awkward party because of me.”
“No, it’s fun in its own way today.”
“I felt like I’d have a feeling of defeat if I went back the way I was. So let’s have fun today, enough to make that Seira girl jealous!”
In her jovial nature, Mia grabbed Adel’s hand and led her into the middle of the banquet hall.
Just then, a servant came with a tray carrying glasses of alcohol.
Mia picked up her own glass and Adel’s.
“Let’s drink, cheers!”
In a good mood, she clinked glasses and started to dance among the crowd. People quickly gathered around the cheerful Mia.
‘I’m glad. She’s as happy as she was looking forward to.’
Adel, who was happily watching Mia, left the banquet hall.
Her head was a little dizzy.
‘Is it because I’ve been around a lot of people after a long time?’
But her physical condition was getting worse and worse.
Suddenly, her vision began to blur and the voices of the people became distant.
Her body felt so weak as if she was heavily drunk.
‘Is it because of the alcohol I just drank?’
No way. She only had one glass.
As much as she thought about it, something was odd about that alcohol.
In retrospect, the servant with the glass left immediately after serving Mia and Adel, as if they were his targets.
‘Could the alcohol have been drugged?’
Who on earth?
‘Let’s get out of here for now.’
Adel decided to step outside and take a breath of fresh air. As she passed through the corridor, she had to lean on the wall because her limbs were losing strength.
“May I help you, madam?”
A man approached her from the other end of the corridor.
“Haah, I’m fine.”
She managed to reply with a sweaty face.
“No, it looks like you need my help.”
“……!”
A chilling sensation suddenly hit her and Adel lifted her head.
Her vision was too blurry and everything was spinning, making it hard to see in front. But she still recognized the man.
“You are……?”
It was Baron Eaton.
The man who proposed to her even before the funeral of the Count of Osworld was over.
After being rejected, he occasionally left horrific graffiti on her house walls and fled.
“Get out of my way!”
Adel shouted, but it was no use.
With his large hand covering her mouth, the man dragged her into the darkness.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Everyone in the banquet hall bowed their heads in unison.
In the middle of it stood a young blonde lady, about twenty years old.
The fairskinned lady with rosy cheeks was adorable, she was the Emperor’s daughter, April.
“It’s an honor to see you, Princess.”
When Seira stepped forward to greet her, April smiled with a cute face.
“Nice to meet you, Miss Seira.”
“Our mother, Lady Osworld, wanted to see you, but… she’s nowhere to be seen.”
Seira seemed distressed as she looked around, seemingly looking for Adel.
“She must be resting because she’s tired. We can say hello later.”
April kindly replied.
Then, Lady Hans, who exchanged glances with Seira, stepped forward.
“I saw Mrs. Oswald entering a room down the corridor a while ago.”
“I’ll go and fetch Mother.”
Upon hearing this, April laughed cautiously.
“Then I’ll go with you.”
Like other women in the empire, April also had Christine on her mind. Therefore, she was curious about him and Adel, who was swirled up in various rumors.
If the two really had a siblinglike relationship, she also had a desire to win their favor.
“Then, this way.”
Mrs. Hans led the way, guiding the people.
Seira, April, and several others followed with curious faces.
They passed through the corridor where Adel had been staggering a little while ago.
Then, from within a dark corner room, a faint sound was heard. It was a strange groan that stimulated secret imagination.
People stopped walking and blushed.
“Su, surely it was that room…..”
Mrs. Hans spoke with a perplexed look, covering her reddened cheeks.
Then Seira’s followers started whispering as if they had been waiting.
“He really can’t break his habit, can he?”
“Why would he want to do that, coming all the way here?”
April, who initially didn’t notice the situation, wiped the sweat from her forehead with a handkerchief in embarrassment.
“We’d better say hello next time.”
But Seira was firm.
“No, this is a matter of Oswald’s honor. We need to find out exactly what’s going on!”
Then she boldly swung the door wide open.
Bang!
Everyone was startled and screamed in surprise.
“Ahhhh!”
“What the hell is going on!”
Inside the room was a naked man, tightly bound to a chair.
Mouth gagged with underwear, he was groaning, and upon seeing the many people, his face turned pale.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]“Adel… Wake up, Adel…”
At the sound of the familiar voice, Adel barely opened her eyes.
Her vision was blurry, she blinked slowly, and met worriedlooking azure eyes.
If her eyes weren’t mistaken, this man was certainly…
“Chris?”
“Are you awake now?”
Christine asked with a sigh.
“Chris, is it really you?”
“Aren’t you disappointed it’s not some other man?”
Adel laughed weakly.
“From your polite words, I can tell it’s you.”
As Adel looked around, she was lying on a couch in what appeared to be a library.
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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