Lord Preston's Secret Tutor (47 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 140
Viscountess Stanley spoke to Jacqueline. Though it was their first conversation, she addressed Jacqueline as if they had known each other for a long time.
“Our Oakley has been praising Miss Somerset quite a lot. He isn’t usually the type to admire others so readily.”
“He must have inherited his proactive and enterprising nature from you, my lady.”
Jacqueline neatly packaged Oakley’s fiery temperament into a compliment and offered it to the viscountess. Seemingly quite pleased with the gift, Viscountess Stanley covered her mouth and let out a soft, “Ho ho ho.”
Her expression was strikingly similar to Oakley’s—especially the double chin and plump cheeks.
“He will naturally take responsibility for the Stanley viscountcy one day. I hope he becomes good friends with Master Benjamin—friends who can support each other in difficult times.”
Friends who can support each other in difficult times.
Her meaning was clear: she wanted her son to build a friendship with Benjamin, the heir of an influential family. After all, if trouble were to arise between the two, Oakley was far more likely to be the one in need.
Jacqueline merely smiled in response. Viscountess Stanley added casually,
“I heard Master Benjamin will enroll at Yorkshire Boarding School next year. If you’re agreeable, how would you like to work as our family tutor afterward? We have two more younger sons besides Oakley. They’re quite mischievous, but I’m sure Miss Somerset could manage them well.”
For a moment, Jacqueline’s face hardened. Viscountess Stanley meant no ill will—she simply held Jacqueline’s abilities in high regard.
Yet, depending on how one heard it, the remark was rather impolite. True, Jacqueline was a penniless young lady who worked like a commoner—but for a viscountess to openly propose employing an earl’s daughter was another matter entirely.
Just as expected, everyone who had been quietly chatting suddenly fell silent—as if they’d all been listening intently to their conversation all along.
Feeling the scrutinizing glances directed her way, Jacqueline calmly lifted the corners of her lips.
“I’ll consider it, Viscountess Stanley.”
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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“I’m not joking. Especially regarding the New World—it’s everyone’s dream ventur
I really, really hope that Uncle didn’t orchestrate Jacqueline’s father’s death.
“Thank you, Lord Preston. If not for you, I might have unknowingly married Jacki
Oh, well, it’s good that it wasn’t his intention. The godfather was rehabilitated.
“If you’re interested, feel free to seek me out anytime. As Lord Preston, you’d
Who knows – maybe he put the same proposal to Earl Somerset
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I wonder when the next chapter will be 🥲 I don’t think I can wait patiently, I’m not Windsor, after all lol