Once the lesson began, the Gunter couple felt the class was easier than they had expected.
I feared it would be more challenging, but the master praised us as if he was parched, stating we followed his lessons with ease because we were so perfect.
Moreover, the etiquette master told Count and Countess Gunter about recent developments in the noble social circle.
Some of which, Count and Countess Gunter were vaguely aware of through hearsay.
When curious about those events, the etiquette master whispered about gossip, telling us not to share what he had told, as if it were the most secretive information in society.
‘If it’s a count who’s been living quietly in a place like this, he’ll be fascinated by any story I bring up from what I’ve heard.’
A perfect victory for tonight was already formed in the mind of Viscount Gunter.
If it had been his usual self, he would have been cautious and more prudent, but today, he couldn’t make rational decisions as he was intoxicated by the euphoria brought on by becoming a Viscount.
Moreover, if Ash Syndicate had come as extravagantly as he did, he would have been slightly alert.
Since he appeared overly modest, Gunter no longer paid attention to anyone from the Ash Syndicate.
Then, a person who appeared to be a butler from the Count’s household came out and opened the door wide. About ten servants came out and lined up on either side of the entrance.
Shortly after, an elderly couple appeared from inside.
Aelfrie looked at the approaching old couple.
The man with the white beard down to his chin was undoubtedly the Count of Hebrides, whom she had seen in a portrait.
Then, naturally, the woman walking hand-in-hand with him would be the Countess of Hebrides.
‘That person…’
Aelfrie remembered the gift she had asked Nisha to bring and started to approach the Count and Countess.
At that moment, Count and Countess Gunter rushed as if they wouldn’t yield, getting in front of the Count and Countess to greet them.
“Good evening, Count of Hebrides. I am Piel Gunter. Please call me Viscount Gunter.”
Viscount Gunter greeted loudly enough for Aelfrie and Calon to hear, then quickly turned around to gauge their expressions.
Surely they must be startled and flustered at the sound of ‘Viscount’?
Indeed, as he expected, their expressions were one of surprise. However, Viscount Gunter failed to notice.
They were shocked at a different fact.
Aelfrie and Calon were bewildered. Of course, they were also surprised that Gunter suddenly called himself a Viscount.
But what truly appalled them was the Viscount’s behavior.
“Aelfrie, didn’t you say that we shouldn’t greet the Count before he greets us first?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Moreover, the young earl greeted only Earl Hebrides, issuing a command to his groom even before greeting the earl’s wife.
“What are you doing? Hurry up and bring the gift I prepared for the earl!”
Witnessing the young earl’s subsequent actions, Aelfrie became even more anxious.
‘Who on earth taught the young earl manners?’
When meeting one’s host, if the host has a higher rank, it was proper to silently bow one’s head and wait until the host offered a welcoming greeting.
Next, it was a rule to introduce oneself only after the host had introduced their own family. But the young earl was ignoring all of it.
He was even issuing a command to his own servant right in front of the earl.
When entering another’s domain, one must ask permission even to command one’s own servants, yet here he was, doing it loudly.
Aelfrie examined the faces of the earl and his wife.
“Ah…”
As expected. The already stern face of the earl hardened noticeably.
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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