I visited the guards stationed in the capital.
Upon entering, I saw the guards changing their shifts.
I directly grabbed one of the guards and asked him,
“I have something to ask.”
After observing my attire, he stopped his work and responded,
“Do you want to file a report?”
“No. I am looking for the guard who escorted me home this morning.”
I came to find the man from yesterday. There’s only one guard post in the capital, so he must surely be here.
“What is your name?”
“My name is Anette Leangberia.”
“Um. Ah, here it is. Please wait for a moment.”
The guard who was going through the records went inside the headquarters.
‘He wouldn’t say that he doesn’t remember, right?’
The face of the man in my memory was blurry. He was a handsome man, but his face was unclear in my memory because of the gilded interior and the dazzling lights. I was also out of my senses.
Waiting for the guard, my heart fluttered as I recalled yesterday. Soon, a tall man walked towards me from behind the guard.
“This is the guard who escorted you home yesterday.”
“Thank you.”
“Then I will take my leave.”
I finally met him.
Is this man going to be my husband?
I quickly raised my slightly bowed head. But then,
“What can I do for you?”
This isn’t the man.
It wasn’t the handsome guard I saw yesterday. Regardless of how blurry my memory was, the impression was completely different.
“You were the one who escorted me to my mansion?”
“That’s correct?”
Moreover, his voice was entirely different.
“You are not the person who took me to the casino yesterday…”
“Casino? All I did was escort you to your mansion when I saw you in the carriage?”
A report had been filed.
This man had just responded to a report and found me in a carriage.
“Then who reported it?”
“The person disappeared immediately after delivering the message, so I couldn’t confirm.”
“What about their appearance?”
“It was quite late in the night, so I couldn’t see the face under the robe… Are you in a hurry?”
At the guard’s words, I shook my head.
“No, it just seemed like one of the guards. He was tall, handsome, and oh, he had a green cape! That’s what the man was wearing.”
“Hmm. I don’t know about the rest, but our guards don’t wear green capes? We have been wearing yellow capes since last month because the green ones are too dark at night.”
Looking around the guard post, indeed everyone was wearing yellow capes.
“Was there any other feature?”
I didn’t remember anything particular.
I didn’t know his name, or to which family he belonged.
Now, I was even confused whether the memory of going to the casino last night was real.
In the end, I left the place without gaining anything.
‘He wouldn’t have run away, right?’
I should’ve written a contract or something at that time. I should’ve kept it, even if I fainted suddenly.
But since he needed a wife, he wouldn’t have any reason to run away, right?
He must not have prepared the proposal yet.
Until that moment, I believed so.
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Arriving home, I was immediately captured by my parents.
Feeling like it wouldn’t end unless I said something, I briefly explained yesterday’s events.
Of course, I didn’t mention meeting Serdis. He would be the most upset.
“You switched dresses with Lady Violet?”
“Yes. Lady Violet seemed unwell, and it was hard for her to drag the heavy dress around, so I switched with her.”
I also had to explain the unidentified yellow dress. In a way that wouldn’t harm Violet.
“You usually have no connection with Lady Violet.”
At the suspicious look, a lie instantly sprang out.
“Women know, you know. That day. Even if we’re not close, we should help each other.”
At that, mom immediately nodded in understanding. Then, the father who was listening to the story asked,
“So you knew it was Saint Dahlia’s day and didn’t attend the banquet, but simply went back?”
“……Yes. But I couldn’t find the carriage, so I wandered around for some fresh air, and then I got lost. I guess I must have dozed off on the streets.”
“You do realize that doesn’t make sense.”
Father responded gruffly.
“……But it’s the truth.”
I couldn’t tell my parents anything properly.
‘Please forgive the miscreant child. Mother, Father.’
Wandering the streets and ended up in a casino making a marriage promise with some unknown man?
Even if I explain, I’m not sure they would believe me. They would likely criticize me, saying this wretched girl is messing around outside.
Already these days they think I’m speaking nonsense about marriage. I couldn’t add fuel to that fire.
“I can’t live like this.”
Mother sighed deeply. Then she extended her arms towards me, who was standing shriveled.
“Come here.”
I approached tremblingly and embraced her in her arms. Mom’s hand warmly enveloped my body.
“You know that mom can’t live without our daughter, right?”
“I know. I made a mistake.”
“What mistake? Our daughter is just too kind.”
With a peck, Mom’s lips touched my forehead. I smiled pleasantly.
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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