“Lady? You’re talking nonsense. Are you still struggling with that little thing’s education, bending over backward to raise her? You dare to raise your eyes in front of me about such a topic? Since you seem to ignore nobility due to your lack of education, I’ll show you what happens. Remember it well.”
A sharp sound cut through the air. It was the sound of Grete vigorously wielding the fan she held. Maiana tightly held the struggling Ariante and closed her eyes. The murmurs of the astonished people and the loud crack followed almost simultaneously.
“Ah!”
Grete screamed as she swung the fan in her hand forcefully. However, it was already too late. The jewels densely packed on the fan scratched across Cedeloi’s face, and blood glistened from the wound.
“Oh my goodness, Duke Valtermine got hurt!”
“Madam, are you in your right mind? What on earth is this commotion?”
People began to clamor. Cedeloi took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the blood on his injured cheek, looking at Grete with a somewhat reproachful gaze, as if asking if she had anything to say for herself.
But foolishness often knows no bounds. Cedeloi’s indifferent gaze ignited Grete’s pride. Unable to endure the same look as when she worked as a maid at the Duke’s mansion, she spoke foolishly.
“Noble Duke Valtermine can do anything. To embrace a mere servant, he even offered his own body. Or maybe, judging by the ordinary dress you brought, have you now made her not a servant but a concubine?”
Grete’s words drew everyone’s attention to Cedeloi and Maiana. However, even with such insulting remarks, Cedeloi only furrowed his brow slightly, as if asking what nonsense she was talking about.
Staring at Grete’s ruined face with smeared makeup, Cedeloi spoke.
“Madam Morin, I can’t understand what you’re saying about the hip joint. This young lady is not a maid. Dawson accompanied me to protect my daughter, and calling her a concubine is inappropriate. She is destined to become the wife of Duke Valtermine.”
This time, everyone present was shocked and screamed in various ways. Maiana, too, looked at Cedeloi with a bewildered expression.
However, among all the people, Grete’s reaction was the most sensational. With her jaw dropped and mouth wide open, she lost her words, and her cheeks trembled. Her reddened lips, coated with rouge, twisted grotesquely.
“Your Grace! How can you casually tell such lies? Who wouldn’t know that this woman is a maid of the Duke!”
Cedeloi replied, “Excuse me, but today is my first meeting with Lady Morin. However, you seem to talk as if you know all about the Duke’s affairs. What on earth is happening? Could it be that Lady Morin has had such an experience somewhere?”
Only then did Grete close her mouth like a clam. She realized that Cedeloi had recognized her, and her mind tasted the feeling of going blank.
If Cedeloi exposed her past here, if other nobles found out about it…
Grete’s knees trembled uncontrollably. She looked around to find someone to seek help from, but there were no friendly gazes anywhere. The women who used to flatter her to gain something were nowhere to be seen.
With a mocking expression, Cedeloi said, “Come to think of it, I remember hearing about Lady Morin. No quick-witted aristocrat in El Lautica knows about your origin. Since many people have gathered, how about directly satisfying their curiosity? It’s an excellent time if you have time for indecent acts toward my fiancée.”
Fiancée. The word was hammered into the minds of everyone present, not just Grete.
At that moment, the voice of the master of ceremonies echoed in the hall.
“His Majesty the King is arriving!”
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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