Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 440
Marquis Barjati was instantly irritated at the sight of his subordinate rushing in breathlessly. He was utterly sick of being stuck in this rural backwater, surrounded by men so accustomed to mud that it seemed second nature to them.
Yet such was the fate of a condottiero. Monarchs, when war broke out, would grovel before condottieri as though willing to offer their own livers—but once the unrest was quelled, they’d go to any lengths to erase all traces of the mercenary companies.
Residing in the capital was out of the question. At best, one could hope for nothing more than being granted a plot of land within the kingdom—as the current King of Salamanta had done. Marquis Barjati, a man of the celestial city, deeply resented this occupational drawback.
“What now?”
“Sir, someone’s appeared claiming to be your son.”
Marquis Barjati’s eyebrows twitched. He had always wanted an heir—someone to carry forward everything he’d built from nothing. The problem was, he’d never stayed put long enough anywhere to raise a child.
“A fraud, then?”
Countless men had come before, claiming to be the Marquis’s son and begging to be acknowledged as heir. Most were fresh-faced mercenaries chasing a life-changing windfall.
Some were delusional lunatics genuinely convinced of their lineage, but the vast majority were outright con artists.
“I couldn’t say for sure. He seemed quite sane, though.”
The subordinate shrugged his shoulders.
“He had this with him.”
He handed the Marquis an old silver button. He added,
“And honestly, sir, he looked rather like you.”
His tall stature, ash-gray hair, deep-set eyes, and formerly prominent aquiline nose—all bore an uncanny resemblance to Marquis Barjati himself.
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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