Contract Marriage with the Devil Duke (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
“Why won’t you accept my feelings? That’s so unfair! You’re such a kind knight!”
“No, it’s not that…”
While the knight was flustered, the maid covered her mouth with one hand and quickly fled the spot. She seemed to feel deeply betrayed by him.
The maid was admirable for confessing her feelings so bravely, and the knight, flustered and at a loss, looked pitiful. Even the grand ducal castle had the warmth of human life.
A little later, Podeon read the letter and left the greenhouse garden. Since he carefully tucked the letter into his trouser pocket, it seemed he would feel sorry for the maid for a long time.
Orentia understood that feeling well.
After all, she herself had rejected countless marriage proposals from men who had come to Count Armenuaka’s estate.
That was certainly an awkward and regrettable situation.
Yet, staying too long in the greenhouse garden was indeed damp. Though beautifully maintained, it wasn’t a place meant for lingering.
Orentia also stepped outside and walked straight toward the spot with the chestnut trees. The massive stone retaining wall looked truly sturdy, and the fountain adorned with a winged cherub carving had an elegant grandeur.
Just how long had she wandered aimlessly like this?
Soon, loud shouts from men reached her ears. Driven by curiosity, Orentia walked with wide-eyed wonder until she discovered the training grounds.
Dust swirled across the vast training yard. The knights, clad in black uniforms, were practicing swordsmanship. Their strikes felt powerful enough to cleave through rock. They moved in perfect unison, carrying on as if it were just another ordinary day.
At that moment,
One knight spotted Orentia and cried out,
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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