Tame or Be Captured (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 090
Instead of bringing up the matter of sharing chambers, the Chief Steward changed tactics and subtly mentioned that Karaf had rewarded the servants with gifts this morning.
His expression as he said this looked so proud and satisfied that Asha felt slightly sour.
She couldn’t shake the feeling that it was like a child doing something cute just to earn praise.
In fact, it made her suspect that Karaf had done it deliberately.
But then the Chief Steward spoke with a wistful look.
“It seems His Majesty is gradually blooming…”
That statement held a double meaning.
It was good for him, as the flower of the Empire, to bloom—but everyone in the imperial household also hoped he would blossom from a tyrant into a virtuous ruler.
After stealing a glance at her expression, the Chief Steward seized the moment and casually added,
“However, it seems His Majesty still hasn’t been sleeping soundly at night lately.”
“Oh? Why is that?”
Completely unaware, Asha eagerly took the bait he’d cast.
“I’m not entirely sure… but I did happen to overhear His Majesty summoning Lady Banetsa in the middle of the night once.”
At those words, Asha’s expression dimmed slightly.
While the Chief Steward merely watched her carefully, Asha spoke up first.
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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What terrible phrasing. ‘He couldn’t possibly take her…’ She is the empress of the empire, Jackel needs to get with the program. She has shown herself to be stronger and more resilient than anyone else in this novel.
I’m getting the impression that the title of empress doesn’t count for as much as one might think in this empire.