Even if Your Regret Holds Me Back (Completed Main Story) - Side Story 5
The next day, before the performance began, Ian whispered with Helena behind the stage curtain.
“Do I really have to help out this much? She’s practically a stranger.”
“Good deeds always come full circle, don’t they?”
“Is this even a good deed?”
Ian’s gaze drifted upward toward the high ceiling. Pretending to test the rope he held by giving it a light tug, he lowered his head again toward Helena.
Helena simply shrugged her shoulders.
Not long after, Hades stepped onto the stage, signaling the start of the opera. Ian quickly focused, watching Helena’s eyes sparkle with excitement, and shook his head slightly.
She was a woman impossible to best—every victory ever listed in his life had always belonged to her.
“You’re even more bullheaded than I am, and you don’t even realize it.”
“Shh. We need perfect timing, understand?”
Helena brushed off Ian’s grumbling. By now, Madam Larden had also appeared, strolling across the stage.
Helena watched the Larden couple draw closer through the gap in the curtain, then finally jabbed Ian’s side when they stood within arm’s reach.
Ian released the rope he’d been holding and tossed an old nail nearby, casually sending a faint blade of energy toward the ceiling. Immediately, a muffled ripping sound echoed out.
The drapery adorning the ceiling came crashing down, enveloping both Madam Larden and Hades.
“Aaah!”
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!
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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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This must be Eugene’s doing; he will try to sabotage the divorce in any way possible.
Helena, with her sharp tongue, hit the nail on the head, and Christine was no longer her match.
I was quite surprised too, I thought he was Ian’s age.