When his bangs were down, he seemed like a pretty boy… but just by revealing his forehead a little, could his impression change so much?
“Why are you staring like that?”
“No, just that your image seems different from usual.”
“Is it bad?”
“No, it suits you well. Raising your bangs a bit makes you look more handsome.”
At Riley’s words, Gibnen faintly smiled and took her hand.
“I made an effort.”
“…….”
“I wanted to look good.”
Without a doubt, Gibnen had never looked bad to Riley. And she was sure that he never would. Even dressed in rags, he could pull it off.
But to go to the effort to look good.
His determined and dressedup appearance was not good for her heart.
It’s harmful, so harmful.
“But don’t go around like that outside.”
Gibnen tilted his head at Riley’s words.
“Why?”
“Your face is more harmful than you think.”
“That’s the first time I’ve heard that.”
“I bet. Anyway, today your face seems especially more harmful.”
“Is it that bad? You said it suited me just a moment ago.”
“It suits you, but it’s harmful. You’re already eyecatching, but dressing up like that makes you more noticeable. People won’t leave you alone.”
Gibnen mulled over Riley’s words as he helped her into the floating stone carriage and climbed in himself.
The alwayscomfortable floating stone carriage left the mansion smoothly without even a slight jolt.
“So, I should only show this look to my sister?”
“Actually, I wish you wouldn’t show it to me often either.”
Gibnen furrowed his brow. He’d prepared so carefully, and she didn’t like it?
But then, an unexpected statement came from Riley’s mouth.
“It’s troubling my heart. You have to know that you’re excessively handsome.”
How can one say something like that so casually?
Gibnen looked at her as if astonished and then burst into laughter.
“In other words, I’m excessively handsome.”
“That’s the way it is.”
“It’s difficult when you tempt so provocatively.”
“Tempt? Me?”
“No? It was an overly suggestive comment.”
“I just stated a fact. Your being handsome is an objective truth.”
“You’re expressing yourself well now. Before, you only cared about my mood.”
Riley’s eyes widened. Then, after a moment of apparent consideration, she nodded.
“It seems I’ve become a bit more comfortable.”
Riley’s words made Gibnen narrow his eyes.
“You’re comfortable now? You should have been comfortable long ago. I don’t know how much more effort I have to put in.”
“……Um, I think I actually hid my face a bit. But now I’m more comfortable. After touring the academy with you, it feels friendlier.”
“Then can you drop that formal ‘you’ and call me ‘you’ more kindly, big sister?”
Riley, momentarily startled, nodded with an awkward smile.
“……I’ll try.”
“Yes, try hard. We have a duty to become closer and more intimate.”
“Okay.”
How long had they traveled? They hadn’t moved far when the floating stone carriage came to a halt at its destination.
As soon as they alighted from the carriage, they saw the teleporter.
As Gibnen got off the carriage, the teleporter’s staff recognized him and came over.
Without being told their names or destination, they promptly set the destination, and even took out all the trunks that were in the floating stone carriage and loaded them onto the cargospecific teleporter.
“The teleporter is ready, shall we move right away?”
Gibnen nodded, and the teleporter was activated at once.
The next moment was fleeting.
“Well, then let’s move.”
With a sensation of the body burning hotly, the sight changed to various colors. A feeling of floating in the air, and after blinking a couple of times……
A grand hotel towering over the beach stretched out before their eyes.
In the harmonious view of the hotel and the beach, Riley momentarily lost her words, her eyes captured by the scene. People lined up sharply at the entrance of the hotel, standing tall and in perfect form, welcoming Gibnen’s visit.
Riley’s mouth wouldn’t close at the fact that so many people had come out to meet just one person.
It seemed to be a more luxurious trip than she had thought.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
