Was he talking to himself? Or was there someone else around?
As Riley looked around, the closed door opened, and staff approached from outside.
“We’ve brought clothes for you to change into, Miss. Shall we help you lift your arms to make it easier to undress?”
“What? Oh, yes…….”
It was clear that either there was a communication device connected to the outside somewhere in this room, or he used magic. After all, he was a skilled magician.
Dresses are always difficult to put on or take off. There may be dresses that one can wear alone, but those suitable for parties are not among them.
Thanks to Gibnen’s thoughtfulness, Riley was able to comfortably take off her dress, receive a bathrobe, and change into temporary clothing.
“Then, we’ll leave. Have a good time.”
The sound of water was heard. Listening alone to someone else bathing was stranger than she thought. She felt her entire body tense up. For some reason, she was on edge.
Then, Gibnen, having finished showering, came out wearing only a bathrobe. Riley stared blankly as he approached her.
‘Ah.’
A glance through the slightly open shower gown revealed a firm chest. It was a moment that completely shattered the stereotype that magicians, who generally ignore physical activities, are thin and frail.
In fact, most magicians tend to focus more on mental training than physical training. Due to the convenience provided by magic, they usually avoid dynamic movements, so many of them have small, thin frames.
But Gibnen, although a wizard, had a body as magnificent as a knight.
A firm body that could only be obtained through long periods of physical training. The moist skin, fresh out of the shower, was particularly stimulating.
Riley, watching the water droplets clinging to his solid chest muscles, unwittingly gulped and was flustered.
“Take a shower.”
“……Yes.”
Her mind went blank as she went into the bathroom. The thoughts of what the situation was, what should be done, all vanished.
Her thinking circuit itself seemed paralyzed. Throughout the shower, she found herself intermittently tensing up and then forcing herself to relax, a crazy behavior that continued even after the shower was over and she had come out of the bathroom.
On the table were desserts to be enjoyed with wine. Gibnen took his seat, and shortly thereafter, signaled to Riley to sit down.
Riley tensely took her place opposite him.
An awkward atmosphere enveloped them. No, it was only Riley who felt particularly awkward.
The silence, with no conversation passing between them, was suffocating when Gibnen finally spoke.
“Stay comfortably until tomorrow morning since it’s come to this.”
“Ah, yes…….”
“And it’s best to refrain from going out as much as possible. It will be quite noisy for a while.”
There was nothing better to gossip about than the private life of a young wizard. By tomorrow, countless speculative articles would pour out, and the country would be turned upside down.
“Why did you cross the hall? You could have moved without being seen by people…….”
“If things have come to this, I had to make sure, or else you might cause a suicide commotion in my tower again, right?”
“Suicide commotion…….”
“Didn’t you say it’s better to die than to marry Count Ermeintz?”
“……. ”
“One death in Horizon is enough with my master.”
He frowned slightly, contemplating his master’s death. Riley then realized how inconvenient her plan had been.
“I’m sorry. And thank you for helping……”
“When the scandalous articles spread, Count Ermeintz will abandon the engagement announcement. It’s quite embarrassing to present a woman involved with another man as a fiancée, and he’s a guy with some pride, so he’ll probably even divorce her at a fairly high probability. I can’t help with what comes after that. That’s entirely up to you.”
“Thank you very, very much…… But when the scandal breaks, it will also put you in a difficult situation…….”
“It’s fine. Such a nuisance is very common to me.”
Although the journalists’ nagging was annoying, in reality, this situation occurred quite frequently for Gibnen.
Gibnen had been entangled in all kinds of scandals. He seemed to have been linked with almost all the aristocratic women. Whether it was a business meeting, an accidental encounter, a family harmony event, or even briefly dating and breaking up.
Having been involved in all sorts of scandals, nothing was new to him. Just another nameless woman added to the list of scandals.
“I owe you a great debt. How should I repay this debt…….”
“It’s okay, I got to see a fun spectacle that I couldn’t buy with money.”
Gibnen happily drank the wine, imagining Count Ermeintz’s furious face.
In fact, just upsetting the old man with this deception was quite satisfying.
“Besides, anyone would have intervened in that situation.”
“……. ”
“You looked like you were really going to die. If that happened, the discomfort would be all mine, wouldn’t it?”
Riley could not say anything.
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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