I Ended Up Living Next Door to My Ex-Husband (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
Rebecca, who had always been obedient to Duke Bold.
Yet this very daughter not only kept ignoring his repeated requests to meet, but even went so far as to tear up his letters.
It was utterly humiliating how naive he’d been, thinking she’d soon come sobbing and begging for forgiveness right before him.
He knew the girl had changed—but never imagined it would be to this extent.
Moreover, Duke Bold had only recently learned that Rebecca had liquidated all her artworks and jewels at once, leaving him even more uneasy.
‘Surely that fool isn’t actually considering divorce, is she?’
Duke Bold nervously wiped his face.
There had been only one reason he, a fallen noble, had poured everything into making Rebecca the Grand Duchess Twins:
『Lilian’s Heart.』
To obtain it, Rebecca absolutely had to spend a night with Cedric.
Only then could she gain the Mark and the power to manipulate him.
After that, all he’d need to do was give his ever-compliant daughter a simple order: bring him that object.
With it, the Cactis Kingdom would reclaim supremacy over the continent, and the King of Cactis would surely honor him as a meritorious statesman.
‘Not clinging to a mere ducal title in a fallen nation, nor surviving as a noble from a defeated country in a foreign empire… but seizing power second only to the Emperor in the empire I know best.’
And yet, despite all his relentless pressure on Rebecca…
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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Oop…I feel like Cedric is going to hear this. lol and just confirm he was right. But I think she really did love him and just said yes to her father just to marry him.
Awwww…come on just one chance, he stayed there five years to try and see you again!
It probably most definitely is not a regular ointment lol