At the End of Ruin, There You Are (56 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 90
The opportunity came only once, and Pheon had lost it forever before he even realized what he truly wanted.
That moment when Caella looked at him, even just a little, would never come again. He knew it. Though he told himself he understood and wouldn’t ask for more, he was already suffering from deprivation.
“Do you… not hate me?”
“I don’t hate you.”
After asking that question just once more, Caella tilted her head slightly as if puzzled by something impossible, then closed her mouth. She didn’t ask anything further, nor did she bring up another topic.
But she probably hadn’t been convinced. She wouldn’t believe a word he said, either. It wasn’t even something he’d said expecting her to believe him. Caella had no reason to trust words that even sounded like shameful excuses to his own ears.
Today, she had finally coaxed that long-buried confession from him just once, and having spoken it, she returned to her usual self.
Pheon did the same. Outwardly, he resumed his role as a perfectly composed Grand Duke, carefully overseeing Caella’s every move to ensure she was never left alone.
Watching over her as she slept—that was his duty. Even on this unusually lively night, when new guests had filled the castle with noise and chatter, Pheon remained awake as always, silently watching over Caella in the deep quiet of the night.
She slept so still, like the dead, that he often grew unnerved just by watching her—sometimes even holding his hand beneath her nose or checking her pulse.
It was a habit that had started after she collapsed. Throughout the time he’d desperately clung to her fragile body, fighting to keep her teetering life from slipping away, he’d been constantly anxious, jolted awake by his own sudden frights.
“You starved me to death.”
Pheon couldn’t bring himself to mention that painful memory to Caella first, as if to accept punishment. So he didn’t dare ask, only waited silently.
He already had his suspicions. But even with suspicion, preparation, and resolve, facing Caella—who never voiced resentment yet operated on the assumption that “I know you’ll kill me because you hate me”—was an act that shattered and destroyed Pheon himself.
“Are you sleeping?”
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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I don’t like this place i want her to leave this place and go home. Why should she feel emotional for their so called gratitude now. It’s like she has to feel grateful that they finally accept her not the other way around
I don’t feel any affection for ykuvlusenfords
Ahead you are redeeming yourself
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Though Caella was the only noblewoman present to receive such an offering, Pheon
Sir, just leave her alone. I get your, in part, trying to keep her alive by keeping her busy and such, but it more of a self serving act
She knew. But when had she ever perfectly hidden her weaknesses? Caella had neve
Caella, no! You never failed in your last life (they just refused to acknowledge you) and you’re definitely not failing in this life.
Caella waved back at the knights, including Joni, who stood at the stern waving
Take her with you she ain’t safe here 😭 if she stays here she’ll die she misses you all and her hometown
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Captain you need to take the princess back