The situation became urgent in an instant.
“Roger!”
Swiftly approaching Roger, I put my hand on his back.
His breath didn’t return. He couldn’t exhale like a drowned person and was tightly gripping the collar of his clothes.
I hurriedly offered water, but he brushed my hand away. The glass on the floor shattered into pieces.
“Ar-Are you okay?”
The butler came quickly at the loud noise.
“We might need to go to the hospital!”
“I’ll call someone.”
The butler hurriedly went downstairs. I was afraid that Roger might die at this rate.
“Roger… Roger.”
Uttering his name meaninglessly, I gently patted Roger’s pale face.
Roger coughed dryly and unconsciously scratched his hand or face. Small hives appeared on his bare skin. Also, his lips were slowly swelling.
“…”
There was nothing I could do for the suffering Roger. With bloodshot eyes, Roger forced himself to sit up.
“Roger!”
Even when I tried to hold him, Roger stopped my hand. He struggled once again to get up, holding his knees.
He managed to regain balance somehow. However, Roger couldn’t stand for long and leaned forward.
“Ugh.”
Before he collapsed onto the floor, I caught him. I almost fell backward due to his weight.
I somehow held on and put my hands on Roger’s waist. Roger, embraced by me, groaned feverishly and moaned.
“Lord Marquis!”
Just then, someone called by the butler appeared on the floor. He seemed to know Roger well, approached, and examined his condition.
“What happened?”
“…I, I accidentally fed Roger peanuts without knowing he had an allergy.”
“Where is the nearest hospital from here?”
“I know.”
The man, supporting Roger in my arms, headed for the stairs. Under the stairs, people had gathered, listening to the noisy sounds.
“…Sister Lize?”
Among them, Yune’s face was visible. I didn’t know why she was here, but it was better this way.
“Yune! Can you tell Yurik that I have an urgent matter, and I might be late for our appointment?”
“Huh? Oh, okay…”
“Thank you!”
After urgently conveying the message, I sat next to the coachman holding the reins and guided the way to the hospital.
The carriage started moving.
It took thirty minutes to reach the hospital, and Roger only calmed down after arriving. However, the rashes spreading across his body worsened with time.
The doctor said he needed to stay in the hospital for another day or two. The cause of the symptoms was clearly peanut consumption. His body had an overreaction, and if it had been a little later, the situation might not have been good, the doctor explained.
Hearing that, I realized I could have really killed Roger. The thought scared and horrified me.
“…”
After the doctor finished speaking, he went out of the room. I sat by Roger’s side, staring blankly at his hand.
“…I didn’t know you had an allergy. Really.”
“I know, so stay calm.”
The man who had helped me move Roger approached with a crooked smile.
“He used to be fine. Roger was always healthy.”
I remembered that he was fine even when eating peanuts. No, has he ever eaten peanuts in front of me?
I was confused in my memories.
“I informed Master through the Western District. He said he’d postpone the work and come later.”
The man came closer to me.
“If the master is Theus?”
“Yes. It will take some time, but anyway, now that the Marquis has recovered, you can go.”
“No, I want to stay. I need to apologize to Roger, and I have something to talk to Theus.”
He stood beside me as he pleased. I wiped the sweat beads on Roger’s forehead and arranged his blanket.
To provide for Roger’s breathing, I placed a basket filled with water on the table. When Roger wrinkled his face, I got up and checked his face.
“Roger.”
Roger scratched himself often because of itching.
Even after applying ointment, the itching persisted, so Roger eventually took off his upper garment. Just looking at the hives on his upper body made my body itch. Every time, I applied ointment to Roger’s body.
Roger’s hands, scratching as if digging into his body, finally stopped.
“Are you and… the Marquis originally acquainted?” the man watching me asked.
“I’ve been friends with Roger for a long time.”
“I wanted to ask since earlier, but who exactly is Roger?”
“How long have you been with the Marquis?”
I looked at the man behind me with a sidelong glance. I couldn’t see him properly earlier due to the urgent situation, but he was a young and short man.
With red short hair, he had a sleek physique. Judging by his guarded gaze, he seemed to doubt my words.
“It’s been about a year. The Marquis only takes me with him. We live together at the mansion, just the Marquis and me.”
“Where is the Marquis’s mansion?”
When I asked, the man remained silent instead of answering.
“I can’t tell you without the Marquis’s permission.”
“I’ve been friends with Roger, or rather, the Marquis.”
“The Marquis and the Master never mentioned such a thing.”
“But I know a lot about the Marquis.”
The man raised an eyebrow.
“Do you have any evidence?”
What should I say to gain his trust?
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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