“There, the Count is coming! The inauguration must be over.”
Tanya pointed out the window with her finger.
As Adel looked outside, Christine and his party were approaching across the imperial garden. Her guest room was on the third floor, so she could see the whole scene.
His appearance, adorned with a black imperial guard uniform and golden epaulets, shone under the sun.
The long cape draped over his shoulders swayed with dignity as he walked, and the sword around his slim waist added valor.
On the sash that crossed from his right shoulder to his left hip, an unseen medal was hung. It must have been received from the Emperor at the inauguration.
Behind him, dozens of imperial guard officers, including Zimmer, followed in line.
‘That man is mine…’
Just by looking, Adel’s heart swelled.
Christine, leading the way, suddenly stopped.
Chk!
The following officers also halted in unison.
‘Why did he suddenly stop?’
As Adel wondered, Christine looked up at the window where she was. As if he knew she was watching all along.
“……!”
Their eyes met, and Adel covered her mouth with her hands, stepping back from the window. It felt like her pounding heart would be revealed to everyone.
At that moment, Christine waved his arm widely. He was grinning wide enough to see his white teeth.
“Kyah! I don’t know!”
Tanya and the maids ran around, screaming. Fortunately, thanks to them, Adel could appear calm.
“Miss, open the window and throw a flower!”
“That, that much……?”
To the hesitant Adel, Tanya quickly plucked a rose from the vase.
“Hurry!”
“Hurry!”
Urged by the people, Adel seemed out of her mind. She impulsively kissed the rose and threw it powerfully towards Christine.
The red flower flew like a bird against the blue sky…,
It softly landed in his hand.
He brought his lips to the petals of the rose, just as Adel had done.
“Waaaaa!”
A cheer erupted among the following imperial guard officers.
The guest room where Adel was, was no exception. Even the elegant Madame Chanel screamed.
‘Ah, I must have been mad for a moment.’
Adel fled from the window, her face flushed red, and hid.
And this envious scene was not only witnessed by those around Adel and Christine.
The nobles gathered for the engagement party of the two saw it all.
Including the Emperor, April, and even Seira.
(This is a time separator.)
The Grand Hall of the Imperial Palace was filled with a crowd.
More people attended than at Callaime’s yearend party, where most of the nobles came. Even the senior nobles, who were absent at the yearend party, were gathered.
That much was the engagement between Christine and Adel a hot topic among the nobles.
For better or worse, they were Callaime’s top celebrities, and the engagement was too sensational.
Count Vice, the Emperor’s righthand man and commander of the imperial guard.
Everyone had expected that as of today, he would officially become the Emperor’s soninlaw.
But the fiancée had suddenly turned into a wicked woman who poisoned her husband.
Not only that, but rumors spread that the princess was pregnant with his child. However, Vice Count chose Adel, whom he usually treated like a sister, abandoning the pregnant princess.
There had never been such a disgrace. Could there be more fodder for those who love to gossip?
There were those who said Adel had cast a spell on the count, and rumors spread that she lured him to bed every night.
Some even said that the furious emperor might behead her today. There were also frequent talks that the count and the emperor would become estranged because of this.
Among those leading the way, some speculated that they might split and cause a civil war.
Everyone expected that the emperor had an ulterior motive for giving them the Grand Hall for their engagement ceremony.
People cautiously but curiously observed the emperor and the count. This was a sight to behold, perhaps once in a century.
Of course, the atmosphere between the emperor and the count was no different than usual. The emperor still looked trusting of the count, and the count maintained his decorum by his side.
And finally!
The faintly flowing orchestra music changed romantically.
Soon after, someone revealed themselves on the spiral staircase in the center of the Grand Hall.
At that moment, soft screams and murmurs flowed throughout the hall.
A beautiful goddesslike woman stood on the stairs.
At first, no one recognized her. It was only when she began to slowly descend the stairs that the whispers began.
“My God, is that really Lady Oswald?”
“Hasn’t she used some kind of magic? She’s a completely different person.”
She was the woman who, until recently, was scorned here, wearing an outofdate dress.
But now, she was dazzlingly lovely and beautiful.
Striding.
Christine, who went up the stairs to meet her, extended his hand as if to escort her.
“I’m going crazy, what were you thinking showing up like this?”
He whispered to Adel with a very troubled face.
“Why, did I make a mistake?”
Adel was quite bewildered. She was accustomed to people pointing fingers at her but was worried about making even Christine like that.
“People have all found out. How beautiful you are.”
Stunned, Adel blinked her eyes, then,
“Snort!”
Barely held back a laugh that wanted to burst out.
“I almost had a heart attack, Chris.”
Looking at him impishly, Adel placed her hand on his like a sly cat, kissed it lovingly, and Christine whispered again.
“I almost lost my heart, Adel.”
“Did you receive special training from Lady Chanel?”
“What are you talking about?”
“There’s such a thing.”
Quietly smiling, Adel took his hand and stepped down one step at a time.
The arrogant nobles of Callaime looked up at her with envious and jealous eyes. Particularly from some women, one could even feel a murderous intent.
But surely, this was better than scorn and mockery.
Adel wore the expression of the happiest person in the world, as if to show off.
She knew this moment couldn’t last forever, but now she just wanted to savor it.
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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