My Insolent Shadow (22 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 40
Time passed more slowly than ever as if walking through hell.
Only at the end did the conversation on both sides finally rush toward a conclusion.
It was Lady Rike who put a definitive end to it.
“The night air is cool—perfect weather for a stroll.”
Though the stifling heat of the ballroom made the cool night air utterly imperceptible, no one failed to grasp the implication of her words.
Viscountess Vilord and Madam Catherine simultaneously turned to look at their daughter and son.
While Lady Rike shyly tidied her attire, Hael stood dumbfounded, staring only at Yuriciel.
Seeing this, Madam Catherine—once again seething inside—forced her eyes wide and spoke.
“Hael, what are you doing?”
Though her tone sounded reasonably kind at first hearing, thorns were embedded in her expression.
Yet even then, Hael couldn’t tear his gaze away from Yuriciel.
Everyone’s eyes shifted toward Hael, who stood dazed.
Unaware even of this, Hael’s face had hardened into stone.
Yuriciel deliberately looked away, unable to bear facing the scene directly.
She simply lacked the courage to meet his eyes.
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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