I Will Live for Your Death (20 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 40
The tea set before the two of them was slowly growing cold.
Could there be another tea time as awkward as this? Only silence remained, circling round and round within the resting space.
Even in the bright daylight, Rivel still seemed to linger in the shadows. Darkness suited him well—as if he were born that way.
Rivel showed no interest at all in the tea and snacks placed on the table. He looked at Ilyd alone, as though she were the only person in the room.
It had been partly an impulsive decision. Regardless of whatever business or request had brought him here, this was an opportunity to speak openly with him.
Though his contract had been extended, allowing him to stay in the imperial palace for an extended period, he could be sent away again at any moment. While it still felt uncomfortable to use someone while pretending otherwise, Ilyd steeled her resolve once more.
Even if Claudius tried to find fault, she had more than enough justification.
This was the Empress’s quarters. By stepping foot here, Rivel had earned the status of a guest who deserved a warm reception and proper send-off.
Above all, officially speaking, Rivel worked for the imperial family by the Emperor’s command.
There were men who committed far worse acts even in broad daylight—what harm could there be in offering a cup of tea and seeing him off? Ilyd decided she might as well become a bit more shameless.
The moment she lifted her teacup, her eyes met Rivel’s once again. Though she had just resolved to grow thick-skinned, his intense gaze still unsettled her.
Since arriving at the palace, had she ever received such a look from anyone else?
Whenever she went out on inspection tours, she was always greeted warmly by the common folk. Admirers of Ilyd were everywhere, welcoming her in the streets with eyes full of longing and affection.
But Rivel’s gaze was unmistakably different.
A look teetering precariously at the edge of desire. An endless, seething affection, glowing deep blue. Could such feelings truly arise between people who had only just met? Ilyd’s hand, holding the teacup, trembled faintly.
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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