Teresa could not understand Maximilian.
For a long time, she had been by his side, going through many things together.
She had seen him attend parties with other women, breaking his promises to be with others.
Sometimes, he wouldn’t even remember his promises to Teresa.
But it was fine.
She loved him, and believed that if the situations were reversed, Maximilian would understand her.
“How can I trust you? A woman who rejects my calls and letters?”
“I trusted you. I trusted you every time you met other women instead of keeping your promise to me, dancing with other women first.”
She believed that doing so would open his heart to her.
Teresa still remembered what he said the first day they met as fiancés.
I don’t know if I can love you, but if you trust me, I will trust you to the end.
So she trusted him with all her might.
“Do you think I don’t have ears? I heard all the rumors you spread, and even the rumors about us. But Max, I didn’t believe them because they didn’t come from your mouth.”
“But, but that’s…”
“I trusted you no matter what, Max, but you don’t trust me.”
The heat in Teresa’s eyes cooled quickly.
Maximilian, who saw it vividly, realized that if he didn’t do something, their relationship would end.
“Teresa, I!”
He reached over the fence, grazing Teresa’s clothes.
“I’m sorry, Max.”
“What?”
“I don’t think I can keep the promise to stay by your side and protect you forever.”
Did she make that promise?
Maximilian could not understand what Teresa was saying.
Why couldn’t she keep the promise?
“It’s not your fault. I… I can’t bear it anymore. I’m sorry.”
“Te, Teresa! Wait, wait a moment!”
Maximilian tripped and fell as he jumped over the fence to run to her.
Normally, Teresa would have turned around to ask if he was okay, but she disappeared into the darkness without looking back.
Maximilian just watched her retreating figure.
Nathaniel was sitting beside me, watching me for some reason.
It was incredibly uncomfortable, but I couldn’t be harsh to him, owing him a favor.
“Is she coming over there?”
At his words, I turned to see Teresa approaching.
Her eyes were red, and her face was rigid.
I had a bad feeling.
I felt that their downfall might not be for Teresa’s sake.
“Uh, Sister Teresa…”
“I’m sorry, Jaina. I won’t be in touch for a while.”
I couldn’t say anything to her, who greeted me briefly and left. Nathaniel shrugged his shoulders and left the seat.
I told Casius to go see Teresa, and I looked for Maximilian.
“Where is this person?”
I found Maximilian standing not far away, with a dazed expression.
“Brother! What did you say to Sister Teresa?”
At my question, Maximilian looked at me as if released from a spell.
“Teresa?”
“She said she’d go first and left. What did you say to make her cry?”
“Teresa cried?”
“You were together just now!”
Maximilian was acting like a fuse had blown.
He didn’t seem in good condition.
“Let’s go back to the Duke’s residence first.”
“……”
Grabbing Maximilian’s clothes, who was only staring at the entrance and not speaking, I took him outside.
With the coachman, I struggled to get his big body into the carriage, and I was sweating.
“Let’s go!”
I told the coachman and got into the carriage.
Even on the way back, he was silent.
‘Why is he like that? Did he hear her say let’s break up?’
In the original, Maximilian was the one who demanded the breakup.
Claiming he couldn’t love her, he forcefully broke off the engagement for some nonsense reason.
Thinking of the words he said to a clinging Teresa at the time really made me angry.
It seemed like he had fought with Teresa, but I decided to pretend I didn’t know.
From now on, it was their domain.
[This is the time separator]The next afternoon.
Father called us to the library.
Maximilian looked miserable overnight.
“The Menisil family has officially requested a breakup.”
“What?!”
I unconsciously yelled and covered my mouth. Then I immediately turned my eyes to my older brother.
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Her face was calmer than I thought, but her lips were trembling.
Could it be that she never imagined Teresa would want a divorce?
“I have not prepared for the marriage, so I plan to just take appropriate alimony and end it.”
“That’s ridiculous! Why would the House of Menisil give us alimony?”
Maximilian did all the wrong, and Teresa got hurt, yet the Menisil family had to pay.
This was utterly unfair.
“Jenny, the divorce was initiated by them, wasn’t it?”
“But it’s because Max Olravney tormented Teresa!”
“Jenny!”
“You know, Father. How coldly Olravney treated Teresa. Even our family members accepted bribes and tormented my sister.”
At my words, my father closed his mouth with a guilty expression.
If the Duke’s maids’ harassment of Teresa was made public, things would get very complicated.
“Max, what do you think?”
The Duke’s gaze was fixed on Maximilian, who had been silent.
He who had been quietly shutting his mouth opened it.
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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