The game they were to play this time was a dice roll, where no one had an advantage or disadvantage; it was all decided by luck.
“Six! Six! Six! Six! Six!”
“No. This is invalid. The dice fell. Throw it again.”
“Where does it say that!”
But did the two of them stake their lives on this game? If their piece fell behind even a little, they were restless.
Meanwhile, having thrown high numbers consecutively, I passed those two boys and entered the goal point.
I was first. The winner had been decided, so the game was clearly over.
It should have been over.
“Please six…….”
“Please…….”
I was the only one for whom the game was over. They abandoned the first place that was already determined and aimed for second place.
The piece closest to second was Roger’s, which had six spaces left to the goal. Roger even prayed for it.
“I’ll throw!”
The dice in Roger’s hand rolled. Yurik and Roger poured their full concentration into the spinning dice.
The dice spun for a while and then stopped……six came up.
“……It’s second! It’s second!”
“…….”
Noticeably pleased, Roger smiled brightly. As though he had saved the country, Roger placed his piece on the goal point. He relished this victory.
Until Yurik flipped the board.
“What are you doing!”
“Let’s play a different game.”
“Humph, feeling bad for losing? Alright, shall we stake a wish on the next game too? Huh?”
The three of us played many games.
Ball games, card games, wordmatching games, etc. Strangely, though I won all, no one remembered the first place. The second place was always intense.
Yurik and Roger gnashed their teeth to become second, and once the decision was made, the loser was frustrated, and the winner secretly clenched both hands in pleasure.
……I was the winner in every game. But no one remembered it.
[This is a time separator.]“I can’t do any more. Let’s stop for today. Let’s make it a draw, huh?”
I was tired.
Unlike Roger and Yurik, who were grinding their teeth as I slumped on the sofa,
“Let’s play another game!”
“Alright, bring it on.”
Monsters.
As a result of the games, their win rate was exactly fifty percent. They were ready to play every game in the world until the decision was made.
“Let’s clean up now. We can play games again next time.”
At my words, the two boys paled.
“No.”
“No, Lise.”
“Uh, I knew you’d say that. So here I’ll use a wish. Stop playing right now and let’s prepare the chessboard before the Duke arrives.”
At the mention of a wish, they flinched. I’m sorry to Roger and Yurik, but I had no intention of playing any more games. Not even a little.
The game was really over, and the two just stared at the messy table.
“Come on. Roger, clean the table with me, and Yurik, go get the chessboard.”
“…….”
“…….”
The two reluctantly got up.
Finally, it was time to move to do their respective tasks. Yurik, who was supposed to get the chessboard, didn’t go far before he stopped. He looked at Roger and me once.
“What’s the matter? Yurik.”
Was there something he wanted to say? When I asked, Yurik came back to the sofa.
“I forgot where it is.”
“What?”
“The chessboard.”
“……?”
A lie.
That’s a hundred percent a lie.
Even I, from the Marsen family, knew where the chessboard was in the Fenton mansion.
The chessboard is on this floor, in the small library at the far right end.
But he doesn’t know where it is?
Unable to hide my bewilderment at Yurik, who had a poker face and sat back down, Roger quickly cleared the table and sat on the sofa too.
“…….”
“…….”
“…….”
The three of us maintained silence.
“By the way, the Duke of Fenton is late, isn’t he? It’s about time for him to arrive.”
I was the first to casually bring up the subject.
“He might have gone to watch the chess tournament being held in the capital. Today is the first preliminary match of Count Kito.”
“Really? I didn’t know!”
“Father might bring the game record.”
The preliminary match has already started!
“But speaking of Count Kito. He’s not a suspicious person, is he?”
Roger asked, narrowing his eyes. At that question, Yurik’s expression hardened.
“What are you talking about?”
“No matter how talented Lise says he is, teaching chess all of a sudden? And he’s from the Marsen family. It’s wellknown that the relationship between the Fenton and Marsen families is bad. Doesn’t it naturally raise suspicions?”
“Count Kito is an old friend of our father.”
“That’s what’s suspicious.”
Roger revealed his unique sensitive nature. The already precarious relationship between the two crossed the line due to the conversation.
“Who are you anyway? I don’t remember inviting you.”
“Lise Marsen asked me to come along.”
“Then wipe out your suspicions about Count Kito. He’s also the one teaching Lise.”
“I came along because I found it suspicious in the first place.”
Why are they bickering?
“Enough. Roger, Yurik. Let’s get along, okay?”
I spoke kindly, but the hostile atmosphere did not subside.
“Lise. Who is this? Can I kick him out?”
“Hmph, sorry, but Lise can’t kick me out.”
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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