My Insolent Shadow (22 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 65
The Marquess and Marchioness Perriot settled into their seats and began exchanging formal compliments about the mansion’s beauty.
The Duke and Duchess Blanchet merely matched their rhythm to a degree, neither going further nor falling short.
Inwardly, the Marchioness Perriot was dissatisfied, yet she understood better than anyone that this was no position from which to show it.
This engagement was a fairly balanced arrangement, but clearly the Perriots stood to gain more from it.
Indeed, considering they would secure such benefits merely by offering their unremarkable second daughter, it was undeniably a profitable deal.
The Marchioness was not ignorant of why House Blanchet had chosen them.
Eligible young ladies of noble birth, of appropriate standing and unwed, were scarce.
Moreover, occasional unsavory rumors about the young Duke Blanchet had been circulating in society.
The very fact that he had delayed his engagement until now and had not shown himself in the capital for so long had seemed suspicious.
But the Marquess and Marchioness Perriot, quick to grasp reality, were not the sort to let such an opportunity slip through their fingers.
Forging a marital alliance with House Blanchet would not only guarantee their son a smooth path into the central nobility but also clearly elevate House Perriot’s prestige, using the Blanchets as a formidable shield.
Just thinking of this made the Marchioness’s discontent melt away completely.
With a broad smile, the Marchioness filled the table with pleasant conversation.
Beside them sat today’s guest of honor, Lady Piochelle Perriot.
She had been watching Cassian for some time now.
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.”
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
Most Commented This Week
The Villain Has Gone Mad For Me (Completed Main Story)
I’m The Lowest-Ranking Daughter Of A Martial Arts Villain (2 Chapters Left to Complete)
I Became the Assassin Family’s Foster Daughter (Completed Main Story)
Men of the Harem (137 Chapters Left to Complete)
The Duke Only Needs My Child (Completed Main Story)
At the End of Ruin, There You Are (56 Chapters Left to Complete)
She’s a Villainess but her Husband is Handsome (Completed Main Story)
People Aren’t Meant to Be Fixed! (4 Chapters Left to Complete)
My Discarded Fiancé Returned (Completed Main Story)
Summer Must Die (16 Chapters Left to Complete)
I Received The First Time Of My Extraordinary Superior (9 Chapters Left to Complete)
Regret With All Your Might (Completed Main Story)