Selected as the New Stepmother (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
At last, the long-awaited day before Ranson and Murten’s contract transfer arrived. Over breakfast with the Kid, I urged, “Today’s a special day at Blackswan—once everything’s done, let’s go buy cake from that famous bakery in Rublega and throw a little celebration!”
“I love parties!”
The Kid raised his arms higher than I did. Then, noticing muscles starting to form, he grabbed my hand and pressed it against his arm.
Though nothing had changed much, I smiled warmly in encouragement for Rublion, who’d endured so much.
“You can actually feel the muscles! If you keep this up, you’ll turn into one of those bear-like men I like!”
The Kid’s expression melted like a tissue dissolving in water. I felt my chest swell with warmth—how deeply he must have liked that.
“Should we invite the Duke to the party?”
I hesitated briefly before answering.
“Oh, the Duke… he’s probably too busy. Just the two of us will be fine. And by ‘party,’ I mean we’ll just add cake, wine, and milk to our usual dinner. Obviously, the wine is mine, and the milk is the Kid’s.”
I emphasized it wasn’t a grand affair, yet Rublion still beamed like sunshine in reply.
“I can’t wait to grow up and drink wine with you.”
“It’s still eight years away. You’ve got a long way to go.”
The Kid pressed his lips tightly. I gently stroked his rugged jawline, mesmerized, and chuckled.
We finished our cheerful breakfast and headed to Blackswan, where I hired a carriage to take us to the gallery. Even though we arrived early, Ranson and Murten stood at the gallery’s main entrance, each carrying a large suitcase.
“You’re here early.”
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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