Stolen Crown Princess (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
Lellia trudged toward the Empress’s Palace in the distance. The appointed time with the Empress had long passed, but hastening her steps was not feasible.
Her body felt drained of strength. The scene she had just witnessed was so shocking it wouldn’t easily fade from her mind.
[I brought a few cherry blossom branches that you like.]
On her way to the Empress’s Palace, she happened to spot Liurian coming out of the Emperor’s Palace. Seeing him for the first time since the victory party, an irrepressible joy surged within her.
Forgetting the lingering resentment she had harbored, she turned toward him. Following Liurian was purely an impulsive act.
Though he hadn’t explained or justified why he had to attend the party with the Crown Princess, that wasn’t reason enough to pretend she hadn’t seen him.
Until just before the victory party, he had walked affectionately with her, gazing at her with unwavering, loving eyes. There was no way he would have attended the party with the Crown Princess for some trivial reason.
Hadn’t the Empress said as much? That his choice of the Crown Princess as his partner was merely for political reasons.
So she believed without doubt. Because he had always been kind to her, and because the Empress, the only one who could rival the Empire’s sun, had said so.
She consoled herself that the humiliating incident that day was just a step toward a happy future.
“But… was it all a lie…?”
Her voice, trembling with betrayal, quivered in the air. She couldn’t believe it. She didn’t want to believe it. But she couldn’t help but believe it.
He had dismissed even his escort knights and walked to a cherry blossom tree not far from the Emperor’s Palace. Then, with rough hands, he carefully broke off branches laden with blooming flowers.
It was incomprehensible. Though he often went on walks with her to admire flowers, he was not a man who loved them. Why, then, was he so meticulously breaking off cherry blossom branches?
Lellia felt her heart pounding as if it were racing out of control. She forgot her appointment with the Empress, chasing after him without pride, blind to everything else.
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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