Kill.
It seemed as though the lingering spirit of his already deceased master was screaming thus.
Gibnen unbuttoned a couple of buttons that were neatly fastened up to his throat.
The proposal that the master had earnestly entrusted to him, now seemed like an opportune time.
‘Should I kill?’
Gibnen pondered, staring at Riley, who was lost in thought.
From the beginning, the master gave two options. To deal with Laiceston’s daughter, or to kill Laiceston’s daughter.
The choice was up to Gibnen. The master did not impose a choice, only presenting options.
The initial plan was to just bring her. He hadn’t thought much beyond that.
If he was going to kill, he planned to quietly dispose of her, disguising it as an accident while she was in his custody. If he was going to leave her alive, that wasn’t a bad idea either, as long as he didn’t grow tired of her.
She was the child of the Archmage Laiceston. As the offspring of the Archmage and a faultless lady of the Lianster family, she was perfect.
Being kind to her, making her happy, and tempting her were all done with future convenience in mind.
It would be problematic if she were to run away on her own. If she came to see the predator’s den as her resting place as a woman in love, then what could be more convenient?
“What are you thinking?”
The innocent lamb, knowing nothing, asks with a naive face. What am I thinking? Well, I must answer. I’m considering whether to kill you or not.
What expression would she make if I said this out loud? No, what expression am I making, looking at a dying body?
Gibnen grinned at Riley.
“Dangerous thoughts.”
“?”
“I am a wicked disciple. My master trusted me with the future of this place without knowing that.”
Along with an unpredictable bomb.
“?”
He didn’t particularly want to kill her right away, even though it wouldn’t matter if he did.
‘If I kill her now, it might cause a commotion. Maybe I should postpone it until after we marry.’
A relationship begun for convenience. This strange relationship, where neither lovers nor friends, but having promised marriage, and having shared a body, though not whispering love.
This seemingly insignificant woman was quite intriguing to Gibnen. This unheardof relationship, more enjoyable than he thought.
Besides.
「Laiceston overlooked one thing.」
Master, you overlooked one thing.
「That I have a small vessel.」
Your disciple has too big a vessel.
‘What kind of power does she possess that made Master so desperate? If ‘they’ who killed Master are after her, I might find clues through her.’
Unlike the master who prioritized safety and stability, Gibnen enjoyed the thrill that came with danger and risks.
Why did the master entrust this girl to him, knowing that?
And now, Riley Eardalyn had value.
Master said not to hand Riley over to ‘them.’ Then ‘they,’ who made the master die, will surely approach Riley. If it’s possible to catch those who killed my master… Keeping her close is reason enough.
“A man’s date, how thrilling.”
Gibnen grasped Riley’s hand, as if to say he would never let go.
“Now it’s time to explore outside.”
(This is a time separator.)
‘Impressive.’
The tower was not just one building.
“Is all of this Horizon?”
“Yes.”
The Mage Tower Horizon was much larger than he had thought.
A dense collection of buildings, comparable to a village. A private library, academy, hospital, gymnasium, stadium, concert hall, research institution, carriage parking lot, and so on. Nothing was missing.
It was sufficient to be considered a small city. Plus, there was a specialized area dealing with magical tools for sale and experience.
He now understood why he was so eccentric. Owning such a tower, he was undoubtedly rolling in money. Enough to play and eat for a lifetime, even until he grew old and died.
“It’s quite vast, so it’ll be hard to see everything in a day.”
“Who works here?”
“Three hundred at the tower alone. If you include the academy, hospital, and library, it’ll be more. I’ve never counted, so I don’t know.”
“Wow.”
Everyone is freely roaming the Horizon, wearing robes with the symbol of Horizon engraved on them.
They looked incredibly free and comfortable, as if wearing clothes that fit them perfectly.
Above all, what caught Riley’s eye were the women.
‘There’s not a single person wearing a dress.’
The women, looking free and confident. They all had thrown off the traditional dresses of this place and were dressed in comfortable pants, just like the men.
A few were seen wearing dresses, but even those were not extravagant designs but simple forms that were easy to put on and take off, a modified shape. It was different from the dresses traditionally and typically required of women.
The environment where one can walk freely in free clothing, without watching anyone’s eyes, gave Riley a big shock.
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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