Rather Than Be Taken, I Will Take (12 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 65
Jeffrey, having just handed in his final report, stamped his seal on it.
He had just finished wrapping up the work for the upcoming Hunt Festival. Satisfied, he smiled faintly and slowly pushed his chair back.
Knock knock.
Just then, a knock echoed at the door. Propping himself up with both hands on the desk, he gave permission, and the door opened.
Entering the Crown Prince’s office was Denis, the trusted retainer of House Chellano—a bespectacled man with a stern, businesslike expression.
Jeffrey glanced sideways at the calendar and clicked his tongue quietly. Was it already that time?
Once a month, Denis came to meet Jeffrey for a routine report.
As always, the report primarily covered the Crown Prince’s current whereabouts, public recognition, popularity, stability of his official position, and his influence in political and social circles.
Ever since House Grand Duke Chellano proposed betrothing their eldest daughter to Jeffrey, they had begun managing the Crown Prince.
They instructed him to attend events that projected a favorable public image and even drafted specific remarks for him to include in his speeches.
They manipulated Jeffrey like a marionette on strings.
And Jeffrey played his part accordingly, receiving an evaluation once a month like this.
He knew something was deeply wrong—but he had no choice.
House Grand Duke Chellano was the only foothold available to Jeffrey, who stood precariously between rising new nobles and entrenched old aristocrats without solid ground under his feet.
If they withdrew their support, the Crown Prince would become nothing more than an emperor in name only.
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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