Lord Preston's Secret Tutor (47 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 65
She was as elegant as a greenhouse flower, yet occasionally revealed such sharp edges. The title “Queen of High Society” was certainly not bestowed upon her without reason.
“The Dowager Lady is correct in her assumption.”
“Let me hear it first.”
“I wish to hold this trial as a public proceeding. Who could possibly help me with that?”
Instead of beating around the bush, Windsor cut straight to the point. The Dowager Lady Chamberlain’s eyebrows shot up in surprise at his unexpected request.
“Hmm…”
She didn’t speak easily. She seemed either troubled by Windsor’s request or lost in deep thought.
Windsor stared at her with an indifferent gaze, though inwardly he was quite anxious—after all, if not her, he had no idea whom else to turn to.
Having only recently entered aristocratic society, he had no connections, and no one willing to step forward on his behalf. The Dowager Lady Chamberlain was his last lifeline.
Just as he was about to say something, the Dowager Lady Chamberlain, who had been lost in contemplation, lifted her head. Their eyes met—Windsor had been watching her intently all along.
She smiled tenderly, fine lines appearing at the corners of her eyes.
“I’ll write you a letter of introduction to Chief Justice Adams.”
“Chief Justice Adams, did you say?”
Windsor asked suspiciously. The Chief Justice was appointed by the King—meaning, he was the King’s man.
Even if the Chief Justice had the authority to make the trial public, there was no reason he would go out of his way to help Windsor.
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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oh my god the tension between them, they are too aware of each other
jackie is so so so smart but at the same time, what she’s doing is a little dangerous. it’s crazy how she was hesitant at first yet completely stopped playing safe
…oh dear me Mr Evan, you are a good man, let them be ok…