Inside the inn’s room.
“I was really surprised. To think you’ve been hiding a grown daughter like that!”
As Jennifer teased with giggles, Zimmer also made a quiet remark.
“If she’s that age, I wonder how old she was when she had the accident…”
Swoosh!
Finally, when Christine menacingly drew her rapier,
Thud!
Adele, entering just as the door opened, smacked him on the back of his head.
At the extraordinary gesture, Jennifer and Zimmer were surprised, but Adele went even further, scolding him.
“You’re hurt, stop fooling around!”
Jennifer and Zimmer quickly stifled their laughter, fearing that Christine, known as the goddess of war, might get injured.
“Ugh!”
Surprisingly, he obediently sheathed his sword and sat down on the chair.
“Enjoying the show?”
“No, it’s more like we’re worried about our leader.”
When Jennifer responded playfully, Zimmer added a word.
“Since you’ve exposed your hidden daughter, we were concerned if the leader would be unharmed.”
“It was just a joke.”
Jennifer and Zimmer teased Christine, who pretended to be upset.
“To me, it seems quite amusing.”
As the two turned to Adele, she was smiling wickedly.
“Didn’t I tell you? How I used to deal with those guys who teased Christine when we were young.”
Upon hearing that, Christine pretended to shudder horrifically, and Adele drew a pistol stuck in the garter on her thigh.
“If it were me, I’d run away immediately.”
Before Jennifer could respond, she dashed out as if she were about to break the door, and Zimmer escaped over the window.
“Your subordinates seem to be getting cuter as time goes on.”
She put the pistol back, smiling with a victorious look.
“What about me?”
“You were originally cute.”
“Listen to everything, huh?”
While saying that, his lips involuntarily curved upward.
“I’ll change the bandages, so take off your clothes.”
Opening a small box on the table, Adele said. Mark had prepared various medical supplies before their departure.
“Since you’re the patient, you do it yourself.”
“You’re cute, and you look handsome. I’ll cut you some slack.”
Mockingly squinting her eyes, Adele took off his shirt, unwinding the bandages covering the wounds.
Unintentionally, her face twisted.
Although the wounds from the arrows had almost healed, the wounds torn by the stone were entangled with blood and pus.
It was as Mark had said; if pushed too hard, the wounds would reopen.
It looked more serious than when she changed the bandages in the morning.
“Why?”
“Looks like you moved too much. It’s better to stay here for the day.”
“I’m fine. I’ll get better soon if I keep this up.”
Although Christine initially asked to take off her clothes, she had applied medicine and bandaged the wounds herself.
Even if Adele offered, it would have been in vain.
She didn’t want to show any weakness.
Knowing that, Adele pretended not to notice.
“But what about that girl Leana? What happened to her?”
To change the atmosphere, Adele cautiously brought up the topic of the girl.
A little while ago, Leana, who had called Christine “dad,” tightly sealed her lips afterward. Isabella took Leana away, leaving behind a message that they would talk again when her determination was settled.
“About fifteen? Maybe sixteen? You resembled each other a lot. The child, and the person in the pendant.”
“Yeah.”
“Then you might be of the same blood. Aren’t you curious? Perhaps your kin still live somewhere…”
“If that were the case, I’d be hunted by the Holy See, like that child.”
Putting his shirt back on, Christine stood up from the chair. He expressed that he didn’t want to discuss Leana any further.
“I hope you’ll protect that child. She’s being chased by the Holy See. She looked quite sick.”
Looking down at Adele, he furrowed his brows in a nervous manner.
“Adele, we’re going to Rustwolf as planned. We’ll eat well and live well there. Greenhill will soon become dangerous due to the rebellion.”
“Yeah, I’m going to Rustwolf too. Tanya and Henry are probably on their way there by now, and I miss everyone. But you can help the Sun Queen without going as far as rebellion. It would be better if you take that child and go to Rustwolf together.”
“Enough. This discussion is over.”
At Christine’s declaration, Adele couldn’t bring up any more words. She also knew what decision he had made.
It was a decision to only think about their happiness.
April’s bedroom.
“Hot, Your Majesty!”
The maids quickly bowed their heads upon seeing Yan.
“The meal?”
Seeing the table filled with food, the maids lowered their heads with little strength.
“Her Majesty doesn’t want to eat?”
“Understood, everyone, leave.”
As they quickly gave their greetings and left, only April and Yan remained in the room.
“Do you intend to die?”
Yan, lying on the bed, approached April’s side.
For the past few days, she hadn’t eaten and had been lying down.
It started when Yan found out about the Wolf Tribe.
After much hesitation, Yan, who had difficulty opening his mouth, finally spoke.
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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