Lord Preston's Secret Tutor (47 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 40
“I wonder if the King’s side has contacted her. Someone so quick to act wouldn’t stay idle this long without scheming something.”
“Yes. But… have you noticed any signs of that from Miss Somerset?”
Windsor firmly closed his mouth again.
There had been no such signs. Yet, he felt it might be better to dismiss Jacqueline first—before she could betray him—even if it meant leaving a gap in Benjamin’s education.
Perhaps then, this uncomfortable feeling would vanish.
Leaning back against the seat, Windsor closed his eyes. It was a displeasure he’d never felt before Jacqueline came to Preston Manor.
So maybe, once she was gone, this emotion would disappear as well.
As soon as he shut his eyes, Jacqueline’s dazzling smile intruded uninvited into his mind, against his will.
He tried pushing it away, but the more he resisted, the brighter her smile became. The unpleasant sensation that had started at his ankles now crept up his body, tightening around his throat.
Unconsciously, Windsor slipped his hand into his pocket. The neatly wrapped gift crumpled with a rustle in his grasp.
***
“I’m back, William.”
Jacqueline greeted the butler warmly as he came out to meet her at the carriage. William walked alongside her toward the mansion and spoke.
“Welcome back, Miss Somerset. The young master has been eagerly awaiting your return.”
“Oh? Benjamin?”
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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Huhuhu,😭 Poor Jackie,. Worried sick for her mother, only to receive a cold scolding
…aww, so sad…Jacqueline hugs!!! stay strong…
Ugh! She’s obviously making an impression to him while our FL is in difficult situation with another shitty fiancee😫
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“So it was a lie?”
nooo, that’s so mean of them. will never respect people who play with others’ emotions like this
“And Jackie’s got enough on her plate—what’s there to enjoy? Living as a governe
even though the aunt lied to her too at least she was taking her side, the mom is absolutely nuts
Perhaps… perhaps she really had been enjoying life in the capital, just as her m
Enjoying what life? You’re making money in order not to be a burden, unlike your mother.
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Ashiel_26
One after another, they were just happy then another second the sad news of her mother.. 🙁
TehShy
…jealousy, that destructive emotion that makes you grouchy😬😬😬
Marjae
I hope her mother’s alright. Fl has been through so much already.