He Who Covets the Abandoned Bride (10 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 165
Thump, thump……
Laila felt this might be the moment in her life when her heart was pounding the hardest.
Isabella, who had induced this state of tension in her, asked in a nonchalant tone while watching Laila’s eyes waver with panic.
“If you cared enough about the book to travel so far from the capital just to retrieve it, surely you’ve memorized every detail of its contents by now?”
Now it was clear why she had summoned her here “today of all days.” She wanted to verify whether the story Laila’s maid had overheard was true.
Adrian, watching the scene, must have found this situation just as awkward. He had erased his usual composure and stood silently, lips tightly shut, clearly pondering how to navigate out of this predicament.
But this was a dead end—a one-way path.
Laila understood that unless she provided the clear answer Isabella sought, the pressure of this moment would not lift.
Count Orson, who surely noticed this tension acutely, was the first to step in to assist Laila.
“Your Highness, if you’re curious about the contents, would this old scholar be permitted to recount them for you?”
The atmosphere, which had been taut with tension, suddenly loosened. Yet Laila still couldn’t breathe easily due to Isabella’s next words.
“No, I’m afraid not—I actually prefer the lady’s voice. Count Orson’s voice is a bit too sharp for a lullaby, wouldn’t you say?”
“Haha….”
Count Orson gave a small laugh at her playful refusal, then quickly turned his eyes to Laila and asked bluntly,
“My lady, aren’t you far too nervous before Her Highness? You’ve been silent ever since we arrived.”
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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