I Decided to Let You Go (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
It seemed like an apology, offered as if enclosing that day’s events within it.
Zieghart, as the lord of the duchy, unusually restricted the festival. Each time the servants—who had anticipated the celebration and now looked disappointed—expressed their regret, she felt an odd mix of emotions.
The Duchy of Aschardt was the only region in the entire empire that held no festivities on such a momentous day. People were even more astonished because this same area had hosted one of the grandest festivals the previous year.
Sensationalist newspapers labeled him a traitor, blinded by love and neglecting national achievements, but the nobles—and especially their ladies—were touched by the man’s romantic decision and sent him their support.
Natasha thought even that was mere performance—something he did to prove his sincerity to her, who never believed in his pure devotion.
Yes, just like the man who had visited Tisha Winter faithfully, without fail, for over half a year.
‘Why do you say it like that?’
The moment a trusted truth was branded as falsehood, she felt a strange, twisting discomfort in her chest. She gripped the sheets with a rough, almost violent motion.
‘Why do you act as if you’re truly apologizing to me? Why?’
Zieghart Aschardt—the man rumored to have joined hands with Kail to bring down the royal house. Natasha couldn’t fully bring herself to resent him. Had he sincerely apologized, perhaps the bitter resentment nestled in her heart would have finally settled.
It wasn’t some unfilial act driven by fleeting affection. She had tried to understand Zieghart—as Kail Retiers’ new plaything, as a victim who endured the emperor’s extreme cruelty.
Because she had never realized what the nickname she’d thought merely humiliating—“The Royal Hound”—might have truly meant to him.
And so, she had wanted to give him a chance.
‘Later. I have an urgent prior engagement now—let’s speak later. I’ll assign maids and servants to the princess.’
Yet the other party trampled even that last opportunity, as if he’d never desired it at all.
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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He’s just asking for too much without even an explanation and a proper apology 😒😒
Come on…clear more misunderstandings. You can’t just ask someone to forget it.
Finally she’s acting smart about Kayena 🤷🏻♀️ i don’t know what she did but she obviously betrayed her