Duke, This Will Sting for a Moment (30 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 115
“Suddenly wanting to ride a horse—honestly.”
The Empress Dowager mounted the white horse brought by the stable hand, her expression clearly baffled.
“His Majesty must wish to spend some quiet time alone with his mother, after all this while.”
Cassandra looked up as she smoothed the creases from the Empress Dowager’s dress hem.
“‘Quiet time’? We’ll freeze to death before that ever happens. Since when have you and I ever been like that?”
Though her tone was sharp, the Empress Dowager’s face looked refreshingly cheerful as she stroked the horse’s neck.
“Still, it seems he hasn’t completely lost his wits. Ever since the Duchess arrived in the capital, he’s been impossible to deal with—but now, after so long, he’s finally done something commendable.”
“You mean the mining collapse in the north? I should have gone to see it myself. It’s a real shame.”
Cassandra forced the corners of her lips upward, though her eyes sank deep with sorrow.
The dozen or so iron mines owned by Marquis Grande were one of the few vital resources sustaining the barren and desolate north.
Although the imperial court regularly dispatched overseers to meddle with output and imposed heavy taxes, there were limits to their control.
To supply northern soldiers with spears, swords, and other weapons, the Grand Duke’s house had been secretly purchasing immense quantities of iron ore behind the court’s back.
And ever since the marriage between the Grand Duke and the Duchess, they’d taken full control of the mines—making them a thorn in the imperial court’s eye.
Yet multiple collapses occurred simultaneously.
It was clearly the imperial court’s doing—but, as always, no incriminating evidence would ever be found.
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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