Regret With All Your Might (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
The atmosphere in the council chamber grew chillingly cold.
Olivia blinked. The words Edwin had whispered to her before entering this place came back to her with startling clarity.
“I couldn’t tell you beforehand. You might be a little surprised once we go in.”
Without further explanation, they had stepped straight into the council chamber, and Olivia had assumed Edwin’s warning referred to her upcoming meeting with Duke Madelaine.
But then—
“…We’ll deal with that matter gradually. Today’s urgent issue concerns the marriage between the Grand Duke and Lady Olivia Madelaine.”
When the Emperor openly showed reluctance toward Edwin’s attendance at the meeting—and then abruptly shifted the topic to the marriage—
Olivia finally understood what Edwin had meant by “you might be surprised.”
For the Emperor to obstruct the attendance of the Empire’s one and only Grand Duke? It wasn’t merely surprising—it was utterly absurd.
What on earth could be the reason?
Why was the Emperor so openly wary of Edwin attending the council?
Was he afraid that Edwin, now a war hero, would gather a faction under him? Or perhaps something else?
Just as Olivia’s thoughts deepened—
“…As per the Grand Duke’s wish, I hereby approve the marriage between Grand Duke Edwin Lowell Bicander and Lady Olivia Madelaine.”
The Emperor’s voice resonated heavily through the chamber. Olivia looked up in startled surprise.
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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The long procession began with the carriage carrying Olivia and Edwin as it exit
Can’t wait to read this in the manhwa. When she’s freeeee
“It’s true I handed out cards, but the letter was meant only for Essela.”
Never mind… I stay eating my words with this novel
“I heard you also wrote letters to people outside?”
Don’t be cheeky Edwin u know that letter was yours
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Sweetest chapter right here… all the romantic build up was fulfilled nicely
Why are you blaming her mother and not the men who had much more power to force her into it
Poor olivia
And why did her Mother do this