Love Me Just Once (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
At first glance, it sounded as if the king was offering her something worthy enough to replace the influence she stood to lose, but the king had no reason to do such a thing.
If she wanted to know the truth, she needed to turn those words upside down.
The king wasn’t introducing someone to her; he had orchestrated this matter to hand her over to that person.
Anika swallowed hard. The king continued speaking casually, despite seeing the tension and distrust clouding her face.
“As you well know, I am to be married this time.”
It was news already widely spread across all of Aglante.
Anika recalled the king’s fiancée whom she had met earlier. The woman, with large blue eyes and the distinctive silver hair of the Reden royal bloodline, was beautiful yet exceedingly quiet. Anika had never seen her speak to anyone other than her fiancé.
“I don’t wish to present the haughty nobles of Edegroon as a wedding gift to the woman who crossed the border solely to see me.”
In other words, he expected her to be attentive to the new queen consort instead of clinging to the capital’s established elite.
It was demanding, yet not a bad arrangement. Anika knew little about the new queen, but royalty, after all, stood at the pinnacle of power.
Still, her unease did not disappear.
Anika never believed the king had killed her father simply to place a young marquis by his wife’s side.
Yet she dared not ask the king outright why he had killed her father—if it was claimed a beast had done it, how could she possibly question the king? Thus, she remained unaware of what had caused the rift between the king and her father.
All she could do was phrase her words as carefully and indirectly as possible.
“I worry my gift might prove insufficient and cause offense.”
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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Bitch he should’ve given up on you long time ago 😒😭😭
My poor man 🥺😭 You suffered a lot but give her a chance
Like? He doesnt like you… He adores you and love you 🤦🏻♀️ lucky girl