People Aren't Meant to Be Fixed! (4 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 166
That Jeff guy—he’s gotten awfully cute since becoming a parent, and he’s also gotten quite good at making people anxious.
I chuckled softly to myself. In just a moment, I expected him to call my name and beckon me forward. If he hadn’t intended to give it to me all along, he wouldn’t have shown such obvious hints. I’d planned to accept it with a wide smile and deliver a brilliant, offhand remark amidst everyone’s cheers and applause.
‘Huh?’
Yet Jeff turned not toward where I stood, but somewhere else entirely. His gaze—bearing the tender yet dignified expression of an emperor—settled slightly to the right of center. Rising slightly onto my tiptoes to see who stood there, I spotted Ronowe and Beris.
“Lady Fleur.”
Soon, as everyone held their breath awaiting the winner’s announcement, Jeff softly called out Ronowe’s name. Since those gathered knew this was my debutante ball, several appeared mildly surprised—likely expecting the giant lollipop to go to me—but quickly composed their expressions.
‘She looks just as shocked as I am.’
I glanced sideways at Ronowe. She stood flustered, gently scratching her cheek with the index finger of her right hand, clearly embarrassed.
Could it be? Had she genuinely just enjoyed dancing, with no thought of winning? I’d been so bothered that Ronowe and Beris drew more attention than I did, yet the two of them seemed to have truly united—not in competition, but purely in savoring the act of dancing itself.
“His Majesty is calling you, sister.”
After Jeff announced the winner, the banquet hall fell silent, so even Beris’s quiet murmur reached my ears clearly. Perhaps it was because I’d sharpened all my senses to focus intently on those little Fleur kids…
“Go on, then.”
I watched as Beris nudged Ronowe, who still stood dazed.
“If you just keep standing there, you’ll only become a laughingstock.”
Beris’s suddenly serious demeanor made him seem like a different person altogether—unlike the boy who’d just hours ago slumped under the table with me, sneakily devouring desserts and drinks. Stripped of his usual mischief, he seemed like someone from another world. He even reminded me of an angelic statue I’d once glimpsed during a visit to the temple.
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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