Madam and the Stable Keeper (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 90
Franz sat in his usual spot in the main manor house, reading the newspaper. Though he typically regarded most matters with indifference, the past few days had left him quite pleased each time he opened the paper.
[Elizabeth Portrion and the Viscount’s Death]
[Who Wielded the Blade That Slain Viscount Portrion?]
Franz had never much cared for House Gerturk, which now strutted about as though it had become a noble lineage of empress-producing pedigree just because Patricia had conceived the Emperor’s child.
He had already instructed Bain to quietly dispose of every copy he found of the absurd newsletters jointly published by Elizabeth and Countess Carter, but lately, even the publication itself had ceased entirely.
“Bain. Has that bothersome newsletter finally come to an end?”
Noticing Countess Carter had unusually stopped her irritating antics so abruptly, Franz asked out of curiosity—and Bain replied with evident delight.
“Yes, sir. Lady Edith cut off all funding for the newsletter. I learned this from Cassius himself.”
Just how had the viscountess managed to cut off the funds for the newsletter? Through Bain, Franz soon learned what had transpired behind the scenes.
‘She asked Countess Helen Portrion to obtain sketches showing precisely how the sword marks appeared on the viscount’s carriage during the attack—and then distributed them to the press.’
Cassius had revealed to reporters that Elizabeth financed the newsletter and had been meeting regularly with Gilbert Gerturk since arriving in the capital—along with releasing the sketches of the carriage’s sword marks.
Now that Elizabeth had used the late viscount’s inheritance to slander Edith, another viscountess, Edith’s explosive revelations were drawing astonishing levels of public attention.
‘Elizabeth must be so startled by the unwanted spotlight from House Gerturk that she’s immediately halted her financial support to Countess Carter.’
Had Edith loudly declared right upon arriving in the capital that the carriage bore such sword marks, the impact would never have been this significant.
Her ability to gauge the perfect moment was deeply gratifying—even to Franz.
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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