In This Life, I'll Assist You (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
The morning of the day I departed for the north.
At dawn, while everyone was still asleep, I rose from my bed and went to the Grand Duke’s office.
Ever since Finance Minister Jardin’s visit, the Grand Duke had often spent entire nights surrounded by piles of documents.
I knocked, and as expected, his voice from within told me to come in.
I opened the door but stood outside instead of stepping in. Seeing me in full uniform, standing at perfect attention, the Grand Duke rose from his seat.
His eyes wavered as they met mine.
But I no longer wished to devote all my attention to reading his expression or guessing his feelings, letting his thoughts sway mine.
I would not do it anymore.
Whether he trusted me or not, I now had duties of my own to fulfill.
If I kept falling and weeping every time I wavered, there would be no reason to live this new life.
“Your Grace, thank you for giving me such a valuable experience yesterday. I realized how lax I had become. From you, I learned that I must remain far more alert in actual combat. I also apologize for foolishly shedding tears.”
The Grand Duke replied with a sorrowful expression.
“I should be the one apologizing. Yesterday, I pushed you too hard. I hurt you… It was wrong of me to treat you, my own steward, so harshly.”
“I wasn’t hurt much at all. It was already an honor just to be granted the chance to cross swords with Your Grace, the shield of the Empire.”
“…”
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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This chapters sentences were really weird to read so maybe someone should proofread to verify. It was a lot of broken up words to complete a sentence. like they were talking on a radio.
why did we switch into caller her a he again. Does anyone Proofread. I love the novel but I really wish that you guys would pay better attention. I paid for this novel, I expect it to atleast be done correctly
why is he lady Nugent? this makes zero sense. He is a guy and is only be referred too as LADY?