Geb wrinkled his brow slightly and said,
“……This one, a woman who can’t understand a word. Or is she just as stubborn as a bull?”
As the head chef brought over the bottle of alcohol, Geb waved his hand with an unpleasant look on his face and said,
“That’s enough, just bring what I asked for. Make me some bomb liquor. You’ve got to drink this much if you want to be sociable, right?”
“Geb, take it easy. Are you trying to kill the lady?”
“Kill? Who? I’m just trying to congratulate her in advance for joining the patrol.”
Geb answered with a crooked smile, and Asha said,
“I’m fine. Please bring it.”
Geb raised one eyebrow and chuckled,
“You seem confident? Looks like you can hold your liquor.”
Asha did not respond to that.
Geb twisted the corner of his mouth and started pouring different types of alcohol into a bowl.
The surrounding members of the organization muttered worriedly, “Ah, that’s strong……”
Soon, Geb poured the alcohol into wide wooden cups and handed one over.
“If you can handle this, I’ll admit you have mental strength. I’ll forget about you fainting helplessly in the snow.”
Although his words were a blow to her pride, Asha looked him in the eye and answered,
“Okay.”
The two glared at each other and simultaneously gulped down the drinks.
The sudden burning sensation startled her, but Asha did not reveal any change in her expression.
This liquor was so strong it was incomparable to anything she had ever tasted in the imperial palace.
She almost teared up from the popping taste that mercilessly stung her nose and throat, but she closed her eyes and downed the shot with a calm face.
She had often been forced to drink alcohol because of the Emperor Karaf who loved liquor, so she could endure this with what he called ‘mental strength’.
The members of the organization admired her.
That bomb liquor was so strong that even men who enjoyed alcohol would lose their senses.
Geb peered at Asha over his glass and said,
“By the way, miss.”
Suddenly, his address changed from ‘princess’ to ‘miss’.
He pretended to be relaxed, but his flushed face showed he was slightly affected.
Just then, Jackal returned to the hideout with a junior officer, and the members were startled and unsure of what to do.
They lost their words when they saw Asha and Geb at the center of the commotion.
Jackal walked heavily over to the table and glanced down at the bowl of alcohol.
He could tell what it was from the overpowering toxic smell without even tasting it.
“……Geb, did you really give this woman bomb liquor?”
His voice was calm, but it seemed like a fierce wind was whirling inside him.
However, Geb, looking halfmad, sneered and replied,
“Yes, captain. This woman kept overstepping her boundaries, so I thought I’d put her in her place……”
“……Overstepping?”
Jackal suddenly grabbed his collar, and the junior officer and members all had to hold him back.
Jackal looked at him with eyes that seemed to blaze like blue flames and said sharply,
“Say that again. What did you say?”
Geb’s face turned red as he stiffened his expression and spat out,
“Why are you so upset all of a sudden? Are you so concerned about this woman that you can’t even tolerate a little slander? Have you become attached to her in that short time without us knowing?”
“……Watch your mouth. This is your last warning.”
The atmosphere had turned irreversibly hostile.
But Geb refused to back down and yelled,
“If you really care about the organization, either take this woman as your companion or kick her out……!”
At those words, Jackal momentarily stiffened, and his grip loosened slightly.
The junior officer quickly separated them and stood in the middle, speaking to him.
“Captain, it seems everyone is overly excited today, as if they’re not in their right minds. It might be best to talk when they’re sober.”
Jackal reluctantly stopped the fight, looking worriedly at his subordinates staring at him.
He turned to Asha and said,
“You’re drunk; let’s go back.”
“Okay.”
Asha, looking slightly tipsy, confidently followed him but then turned to look back at Gebev.
The next moment, the gang members were aghast.
Asha strode up to him and slapped him on the face, just as he had done to her earlier, saying,
“Watch out. I’m not as weak as you think, and I’m much more useful as a woman!”
With a swish, Asha turned her back and walked out of the hideout ahead of Jackal.
Seeing her angry for the first time, the gang members looked at her retreating figure with dazed expressions.
Jackal left Gebev and Sosa behind and immediately followed her.
As soon as the door closed, Asha’s body swayed and she collapsed onto the snowbank.
Before her knees hit the floor, Jackal, with good timing, reached out and caught her.
He asked, somewhat incredulously,
“Are you sober? Do you know what you were drinking?”
Asha, flushed from the alcohol, answered,
“……It was a celebratory drink.”
“Celebratory drink? You believe that?”
“Mr. Gebev said so. So I’ll just believe it.”
Her voice was a little depressed.
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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