At the End of Ruin, There You Are (56 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 40
The room attached to the butler’s office had no windows at all, leaving it utterly devoid of light. Even after her eyes adjusted to the darkness, she could barely see what was right before her nose.
Caella nearly screamed involuntarily the moment she recognized the person who had swiftly approached and covered her mouth.
“Shh. Quiet.”
The whisper, though barely audible, carried the full weight of an authoritative command. Even in the darkness, his deep violet eyes came into sharp focus.
Caella instinctively grabbed the forearm that had clamped over her mouth. It was Pheon. He despised her.
If he hated her so much, why had he treated her with the respect due to a Grand Duchess? Was it because this time, she wasn’t the broken rope on a well bucket? Or perhaps because if Caella vanished, Beatrice Lavalle would securely take her place as Grand Duchess?
Pheon’s hand was so large it covered not only her mouth but her nose as well—thick enough that if he pressed down any harder, she’d surely suffocate.
Wouldn’t that be too easy a death? Within seconds, Caella had already reached this grim realization and wriggled desperately to pry his hand away. Fear had seized her so completely that coherent thought had fled.
“Caella, Caella. Shh. We snuck in here together, remember?”
Pheon whispered urgently, emphasizing the word “we.” He deliberately used the familiar, gentle tone from long ago to calm her, but it seemed useless.
Above the hand lightly covering her face, her sky-blue eyes—filled with terror—stared at him. Pheon, who had experienced countless battlefields and even died upon them, recognized fear instantly. He was also well accustomed to seeing fear directed at himself.
But he never wanted to see that fear in Caella’s eyes—especially not aimed at him.
“Calm down. I snuck in too. I’m sorry.”
He soothed her softly, slowly removing his hand. The warm, fragile breath she released in startled relief drifted away.
He also noticed the small fingertips that had been clawing at his forearm now trembling faintly. Caella pressed her lips tightly shut, gripping the fabric of her pocket as she glared at him.
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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Don’t trust him caela
Now you want to act like a goood husband…huh the audacity of this man is jusst ….
Once again !!! Honestly you failed at everything
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Her voice trembled as she barely managed to reply. Her large eyes brimmed with b
Yeah you better feel it you douchbag, you should be tortured for life u dirtbag
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No no no your far more intelligent then this bonehead … Girl don’t doubt yourself
Though clearly displeased and angry, he still smiled. Was it fair to hold him ac
Oh girl if you kneww that this pig is the reason your back i wish you tear this man to pieces
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Why are you sneaking around as a grand duke ?