Miss Pendleton (Update to C.222 END) - Chapter 25
When I entered the Pendleton house holding my father’s hand, I didn’t feel lonely at first. Grandmother, Mrs. Abigail Pendleton, welcomed me with open arms.
To Mrs. Pendleton, who had been in mourning and seclusion for years due to the loss of her daughter, Laura was like her daughter’s reincarnation.
The love that grandmother poured onto Laura was warm and devoted. Through her grandmother, Laura felt a mother’s love she had never experienced before.
But it wasn’t so with her uncle. To him, his sister’s love escapade was a disgraceful scandal that brought shame to the Pendleton family, and his niece Laura was nothing more than a byproduct of that scandal.
He was angry at his mother’s unilateral decision to take in his niece while he was away, and fought with his mother every day.
The uncle often chased Laura away from the dining table and would yell with contempt as if he had seen a rat whenever she appeared in the house.
Miss Pendleton had to quickly hide herself from her uncle’s sight at those shouts. She would have fits just hearing her uncle’s footsteps, and it became routine for her to hide in the nursery to avoid being seen by him. Every day was like treading on thin ice for the young girl.
Miss Pendleton still remembered. The terrifying image of her uncle throwing an ashtray at her for dragging her feet. The beatings she had to endure for being falsely accused of stealing pudding from the pantry, which she didn’t even know where it was. The three years she spent at the Pendleton house in her childhood were days that left unhealing wounds on her every day.
Grandmother tried to appease, persuade, and even beg her son to protect her granddaughter. But the uncle was adamant.
Grandmother eventually started fighting with her son like an enemy. As her existence had caused a big fight in this household, young Laura’s shoulders grew heavy with guilt as if carrying a weight.
After fighting endlessly with her son for three years to not give up on her granddaughter, Mrs. Pendleton finally gave up on raising her granddaughter in the main house. On the day Laura’s boarding school attendance was decided, Laura wet her pillow with tears all night, offering prayers of gratitude.
Lord, thank you for allowing me to leave this hellish house.
But the boarding school she entered after leaving the main house was not entirely heaven.
As the Pendleton family was one of the most prestigious in England, the facts surrounding Laura’s birth quickly spread throughout the school. There was no overt bullying, but Miss Pendleton spent much of her first few years alone without friends.
But during the time she spent alone, she was able to immerse herself in her studies, and with her innate intelligence and diligence, she consistently ranked top in school.
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
It is so heartbreaking that Laura went through all the terrible things since her childhood.
It’s progressing a bit slowly, but nicely… I hope there won’t be unnecessary distances between them due to misunderstandings.
I think this trip to Bath will be good to Laura. Meeting these women will inspire her to be more confident. I just hope her ex and Mr. Dalton don’t ruin it.