Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 65
Alfonso could not believe his own luck. He had thought he would never meet her, had firmly held back the feet that wanted to go search for her, and had walked only to fulfill his duty—yet the one who appeared before his eyes was none other than her. It even made him wonder if the Heavenly Deity had bestowed a gift upon him.
“Ari, it’s you, right?”
A smile spread across Ariadne’s lips as well. Though hidden behind her mask, that warm breeze reached Alfonso all the same.
“Yes! How on earth did you end up here?”
The words “What about Grand Duchess Larisa?” rose to her throat, but Ariadne did not want to let Alfonso know that she was aware of Grand Duchess Larisa. It was a petty but desperate struggle to protect her pride.
‘Since you haven’t told me, I’ll pretend I don’t know either. Once everything is resolved, come back to me as though nothing ever happened.’
Strictly speaking, Alfonso had never actually said he liked Ariadne, so she considered these thoughts nothing more than her own imagination running ahead of itself.
That was why she absolutely refused to voice her feelings and instead wrapped them tightly and buried them deep in her heart. Yet the moment she saw Alfonso, the beaming smile that lit up her whole face and the vitality coursing through her body were impossible to hide.
“I got lost wandering the gardens and ended up here. I was walking aimlessly, and there you were.”
In Alfonso’s mind, Larisa had already been cleanly erased. His mother’s warning was forgotten too. The two of them talked about each other’s splendid appearances, about the masquerade, about their plans for the days ahead.
“By mid-November, the entire court moves to Taranto. You’ve never been to Taranto, have you?”
“No, they say it’s the hometown of His Eminence the Cardinal and my ‘mother,’ but I’ve never been there myself.”
Cardinal de Mare had been an orphan with no family or estate in Taranto to speak of. Lucrezia’s natal family were the sort better never seen at all.
Moreover, as a cleric of the Imperial Painting Bureau in charge of the San Carlo diocese, he had no occasion to follow the Etruscan court south to the winter palace even in the colder months.
“It would be wonderful if you could come too. The prince’s palace can send an invitation.”
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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I’m still curious of what Alphonso meant by the last chapter
I’m still curious of what Alphonso meant by the last chapter
So Alphonso is misunderstanding now?