Strategic Marriage with the Mad Villain (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
‘It seems she’s found something she wants, so I personally handed it over….’
Contrary to his initial thought that she’d just browse for a while before leaving, Roel had spent most of her time in the library ever since receiving the key.
Though Reus himself had reduced the Grand Duchess’s duties and given her the library key, he wasn’t particularly pleased with the current situation.
Perhaps his sour mood had lingered ever since he’d seen Roel completely absorbed in books—even in her own bedroom.
‘If she clings to books that much, she ought to grow tired of the letters themselves.’
Reus muttered softly, gazing at the empty garden, without a thought for all the days he himself had drowned in paperwork.
But today, the garden was empty not because Roel had gone to the library, but because she had traveled to Viscount Pillaren’s domain, which bordered directly to the left of the Grand Duke Rocheter’s territory.
Now that he had become the new head of House Rocheter, it was time for him to show his face to his vassals and begin minimal exchanges with closely allied houses.
However, strictly speaking, these were tasks meant for the true Grand Duchess.
Reus had absolutely no intention of entrusting external duties to a false Grand Duchess.
Given the widespread rumors that he’d swiftly married an innocent woman blinded by love, no one would find it strange if Roel rarely went out.
‘At worst, they’ll just say I cling to her like she’s life itself.’
Besides, the more rumors spread, the less anyone would suspect their contractual arrangement—so letting them exaggerate was far better.
Yet, for some reason, Reus had changed his mind: he decided to formally introduce the fake Grand Duchess to his vassals and accompany Roel whenever important occasions arose.
‘It’s not as if making our fake marriage act slightly more convincing would cause any real harm.’
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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