As always, Gabeese, drunk as ever, was waiting for the servant to come and escort him.
“How dare you act like that when you don’t even know the topic?”
Since meeting with Renaula Violet earlier in the day, his anger had not subsided at all. He had even considered marrying a mere maid to strengthen his connections with the second prince.
It was about a woman with a bad reputation, a household with only a nominal title of a count. Yet, she had the audacity to meet another man, ignorant of her status.
“You dirty thing. Go ahead and get married. I’ll fix that arrogance of yours.”
Thinking of the sensual figure of Renaula, Gabeese licked his lips with his tongue.
Just thinking about being able to freely handle her after marriage made his body tense. Right now, he was recklessly frolicking around, but soon enough, he would be hanging on my legs, crying and begging.
“Today, I’ll go to Laura as planned. No, maybe I should go to Merilda.”
That was when he was contemplating which of his regulars to choose. Suddenly, his lower back was pulled.
“Gasp!”
The situation changed so abruptly that he was dragged somewhere in an instant. In a dark alley, Gabeese, sprawled out, lifted his head with a bewildered expression. Someone with their face covered in darkness kicked his abdomen.
“Thunk!”
Although it felt like a light kick, his breath was cut off. Coughing and gasping for breath, Gabeese looked up at the man who kneeled down in front of him, tilting his head.
Due to the darkness and the heavy drinking, the man’s face was not clearly visible, but an extremely intimidating aura could be felt. Overwhelmed by instinctive fear, Gabeese trembled.
“Don’t go around mocking people.”
Even the indifferent tone sounded threatening from this man. Gabeese couldn’t move a finger out of fear. When the man who had risen again lifted his foot, someone behind him stopped him.
“If the owner gets drunk, you’ll really die. If a corpse is found here, it’ll be noisy, so it’s much cleaner to find an opportunity later and quietly cut the throat.”
With a nonchalant suggestion of a gruesome alternative, Gabeese shivered. Feeling the threat to his life, Gabeese, now completely sober, quickly kneeled down.
“Why are you doing this to me? If you need money, I’ll give you as much as you want, so please spare my life!”
In a desperate plea, Gabeese spoke urgently, as if his words were not being taken seriously.
“I-I’ll apologize if I’ve done something wrong. I was wrong! No, I made a mistake. Please, spare my life!”
The man who had been looking down at Gabeese tilted his head.
“All right, I’ll spare your life.”
Relieved by the seemingly sympathetic words, Gabeese repeatedly kowtowed until his forehead touched the ground.
“T-Thank you! Thank you!”
“Instead, you’ll have to pay for making me feel dirty.”
Since you’re the kind of person you are. After finishing his words, the man unceremoniously lifted his foot and forcefully stomped on Gabeese’s groin.
“Ahh!”
In the face of excruciating pain that felt like stars exploding, Gabeese rolled his eyes and writhed in agony.
However, the man paid no attention to Gabeese’s suffering and exerted even more force. Foaming at the mouth, Gabeese eventually collapsed.
Gabeese groaned as he looked up at Cahilun. Only then did he recall the terrifying voice from that night. Although he had felt uneasy about this man’s appearance from the beginning, he never imagined he would be dealing with someone so insane!
“You… You should report this to the guards immediately…”
“Right now, we should be more concerned about whether you can survive here.”
Randolss, standing behind Cahilun, commented with a pitiful expression. Gabeese realized that Randolss was the companion who had suggested that ruthless alternative back then.
“Why are all of you… Why are you doing this to me?”
Gabeese protested.
“This is strange.”
As if unable to comprehend, Cahilun tilted his head and looked down at him.
“Why can’t people like you understand when I tell you something once?”
“I- I don’t understand…”
“I warned you to be careful with your words.”
“W- What?”
Gabeese suddenly thought of Reneola Violet. Come to think of it, every day since meeting Reneola, this man had appeared. Specifically, on the day he had a dispute with that woman.
Thinking about the two people who were sitting together earlier, Gabeese ground his teeth.
“Just because of that woman, I’m in this state!”
But if he didn’t want to die here without anyone noticing, he had no choice but to kneel down and beg.
“I promise I won’t approach Reneola Violet again! I swear! I’ll never meet her again. She’s a woman who doesn’t match me anyway. I was just trying to get rid of her, but…!”
In an instant, Gabeese’s face turned pale as his throat was seized. Cahilun pressed his thumb against the windpipe and growled softly.
“Your mind is messed up. I told you to be careful with your words just now.”
“Ugh! J- Just a moment…”
Terrified, Gabeese trembled. The unfamiliar Randolss stepped forward.
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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