He Who Covets the Abandoned Bride (10 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 140
Though it hadn’t been discussed beforehand, Adrian and the Count’s well-timed acting convinced several of Rilvan and Harkin’s knights that they had emerged from the Count’s residence.
Rilvan, who led the way out of the mansion, restrained his conversation with the two others, seemingly aware of their surroundings. But the moment they passed through the gate, he addressed Laila in a stiff voice.
“What exactly were the complaints from the places you visited?”
He must have realized they were being followed. It seemed Rilvan would avoid any conversation meant only for their ears.
Laila, mindful of this, subtly conveyed her thoughts.
“When we went inside, it felt as if everyone was watching us from outside.”
“…Isn’t that just paranoia? The delusion that someone’s always watching you?”
“It wasn’t like that.”
“Well… fine.”
Rilvan’s usual dislike for Laila clearly seeped into his words. In turn, Laila muttered a half-hearted retort, prompting Rilvan to shake his head and sigh.
“In any case, I’ll find lodging for you somehow—just go in without complaints.”
“I’ll look forward to it—it sounds perfect.”
After a brief, somewhat tense exchange, Rilvan dispatched his knights to search nearby inns.
Meanwhile, Laila wandered the night streets, feigning capriciousness as she dragged Rilvan along. Though exasperated, Rilvan seemed to catch on to her intent and stayed close, following her persistently.
The security in Fitzroy appeared no worse than Harkin’s—even at night, the streets felt remarkably peaceful.
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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