When Duke Supraher spoke as if making an excuse, Lehart chuckled.
“What happened next?”
“Now, you know everything, don’t you? I don’t know what gaze Your Highness found appealing to choose her, but ultimately, Etienne has been doing very well. Many futures have already changed.”
“Taking into account the Duke’s efforts.”
Lehart expedited the gathering, and Duke Supraher quickly introduced the Mitri tree to the world. Lehart’s voice, which had just learned that he had been pretending to help all along, softened.
“If you acknowledge my efforts, please speak well of me to Etienne later.”
“What are you talking about?”
“I think she will consider me the one who played a role in the annihilation of her family. She will probably hate me deeply.”
“Ah.”
That makes sense. If the Duke was involved, Etienne would remember it.
“Considering that, Etienne hasn’t done anything to the Duke.”
“Although she might hate me, she hasn’t taken any particular action. It seemed like she was just thinking of changing the future, or not?”
Duke Supraher changed the subject halfway, as if something had come to his mind.
“She sought revenge.”
Lehart looked at Duke Supraher as if asking what he was talking about. He was looking somewhere, and following his gaze, there was Fernando. More precisely, Fernando was looking at Etienne.
“She caused chaos by insisting on marrying Fernando, completely shaking my son’s heart.”
“……Husband?”
What on earth is this?
Lehart felt perplexed and dumbfounded. Trying to convince himself that Etienne must have had some reason, he touched his forehead, feeling a subtle discomfort.
“After putting Fernando in the lake, she caused a huge uproar, telling him not to say that to the baby. If he was going to say such things, she even threatened to take him herself. She said she would marry handsome Fernando and cherish him for the rest of her life, even calling me ‘Dad’… ”
“…When was this?”
“On the first day the time turned back.”
Lehart didn’t ask further and tightly sealed his lips. Who said they would live with someone else when I turned back time? Did she know that Fernando liked someone else and planned to intervene in advance?
“Calling me ‘Dad’…”
Etienne faced Lehart’s discontent, and her gaze was met with his. Sensing that someone was looking at her, Etienne looked around, and her eyes met Lehart’s.
With a face that conveyed questioning, Lehart revealed his feelings with pursed lips. Normally, she would have realized that Duke Supraher exaggerated when speaking, but now she couldn’t.
Seeing Lehart’s expression, Etienne muttered.
“Why are you like this in the morning and now?”
Without saying a word and only muttering to herself, what’s bothering her now?
“Speak up.”
Later, I thought he would explain it on his own. Instead of Lehart, Etienne looked into where Lena Hwangbi was. She was visible just this morning, but at some point, she disappeared.
“Where did she go?”
“Who are you looking for?”
Etienne, startled, looked to the side. There stood Prince Rudby. Holding a chrysanthemum, he looked at the condolence procession.
“Prince Rudby… Your Highness.”
“We should have met earlier, shouldn’t we? We have a conversation to share.”
To his casual remark, Etienne couldn’t find words to respond. She knew she had to confront him at some point, but meeting him in person left her more flustered than she had anticipated.
Rudby turned to Etienne.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
“Well… Your Highness, your sudden appearance surprised me.”
“I knew I would come. You knew I would come for the proposal… didn’t you?”
As Rudby mentioned the proposal, Etienne’s breath caught.
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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