Don't Obsess Over A Married Woman (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
However, that did not mean Ernestine led a life as wealthy as her fame suggested.
It was because the terms of her contract with her patron, Viscount Baden, stipulated a flat-fee buyout.
Initially, the buyout arrangement had seemed advantageous—guaranteeing steady income each time she delivered sheet music, enough to secure her family’s livelihood.
But over time, circumstances changed.
As her reputation grew, theaters began demanding nothing less than full-scale operatic librettos, and for works of that magnitude, the compensation was disproportionately low compared to the time invested.
In short, the return on effort was poor.
On top of that, she now had to consider the cost of raising her newborn daughter, worry over medicine for her wife—who had fallen ill from doing laundry—and attend to her aging parents, who could no longer leave the house.
At this rate, she would soon have no choice but to borrow money from debt collectors again.
Ernestine reluctantly decided she had no option but to swallow her pride and visit Viscount Baden, intending to ask him to revise their contract.
Upon hearing her plight, Viscount Baden nodded and offered a new proposal.
〈Teach my poor nephews, who might be driven out at any moment by their cruel stepmother.〉
At first, Ernestine felt reluctant to become entangled in noble family feuds.
Yet there was a reason compelling enough that any compassionate adult would have agreed to help.
The late duke, his stepmother—the Duchess Dieren—and the three children who shared no blood with her…
Moreover, Viscount Baden explicitly promised that if the children’s safety could be secured by the time this matter concluded, he would amend the buyout contract in her favor.
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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Only then did I finally understand the secret behind Sir Joseph’s confident inve
Just how far in the future is he from? Or how far in the past is this book set
was precisely because she was the one who had given him his name.
Soo sorry but he is so tragic with his photographic memory
“Don’t take the blame for Princess Euphemia’s murder of Duke Dieren.”
Whaaaaaa????? Plot twist of the century. I thought he tripped of the balcony
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Soo all this talk about the dungeons being a maze and very dangerous was for what???
Aww this is such a tesrjerker of a chapter 🥲🥺 . Now she knows they love her ( they made it obvious though)
This is crazy omgosh what is going onn this amount of darkness and trauma gave me whiplash. I can also see where this is going amnesia arc incoming isn’t it.