Miss Pendleton (Update to C.222 END) - Chapter 40
However, Miss Pendleton did not lose her hospitable smile. Like a doll, like a sculpture. Like a taxidermied animal frozen in a smiling state.
High society had taught her to conceal emotional turmoil behind the mask of a smile.
Charles turned his body towards the carriage as soon as he stepped off the footboard and extended his hand. Soon after, a hand wrapped in beige gloves emerged from inside the carriage and grasped Charles’s hand. Then a slender woman in a pearl-colored dress stepped down onto the footboard.
As she fully descended and stood on the ground, her appearance became clearly visible. Dark red hair and large green eyes, with a small face that was slim and pointed at the chin. She was a beautiful woman with a striking impression. Moreover, she had a glamorous figure and was almost as tall as her fiancé.
Miss Pendleton recognized her as Charles Pendleton’s fiancée, Joan Jensen, just as quickly as she had recognized Charles. It wasn’t simply because of her confident demeanor as she received Charles’s escort. Nor was it because she was wearing a dress that was completely different from the British style.
It was because she thought that no one else could have an appearance more befitting the title of ‘American heiress who will inherit a great fortune’. Every single item, from her hat to her dress, shoes, and accessories, sparkled brilliantly.
Her entire expression and gestures were imbued with vibrant confidence. She was a beauty with a dazzling presence rarely seen in England.
Arm in arm with her fiancé, she lifted her head and swept her gaze over the exterior of the Pendleton townhouse. Then she nodded to her fiancé with a subtle smile.
Charles began to grin. He seemed so engrossed in watching his fiancée’s satisfied expression as she looked at the townhouse that he didn’t even notice the stooped elderly gentleman alighting behind them.
With the help of a servant, the elderly gentleman safely set foot on the ground and, like the couple standing beside him, looked up at the townhouse. This allowed Miss Pendleton to see his face directly.
An angular, rugged impression. His hair and eyebrows were a mix of black and white, but his cold and rigid expression remained the same as in his youth.
Miss Pendleton struggled to focus on his hunched back and the wrinkles on his face while enduring her rapidly beating heart and the tension weighing down on her stomach.
To remember how long it had been since she last saw him. To remind herself how much he had aged, and how much she had matured into an adult in that time.
The two were no longer in the positions of a homeless young niece and a young head of household burdening an extra mouth to feed. Laura was now a mature lady of twenty-nine, and he was an elderly man with frost in his eyebrows. The Pendleton townhouse was now her home, and they were guests. Miss Pendleton tried to remember this.
Miss Pendleton took three steps towards them.
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!
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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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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.