The room was filled with an uncomfortable silence.
I did not know what to say and simply looked at Baker standing before me, my hand on my forehead.
Seeing him with his head deeply bowed, there was a light pink lipstick stain on his shirt. I knew that color very well.
It was the lipstick I had bought as a gift for Margaret last week.
As I pondered this fact, I felt even more miserable.
Who would have known that the gift I had chosen myself to console my friend, who seemed depressed about her sudden pregnancy, would be used in such a way?
“I knew you had another woman all along.”
My voice trembled as I tried to suppress my emotions.
I pressed my eyes with my hand, then slowly released.
The scene from just a moment ago was etched into my brain and wouldn’t go away.
The entangled couple, the flushed skin, the labored breaths, and…
I rubbed my forehead nervously.
“I put up with it even though I knew. I decided to act like I didn’t know. No matter what you do, it doesn’t change the fact that you’re Meriel’s father.”
“…”
“If only you hadn’t exploited my daughter for such a dirty scheme.”
Did Baker know what kind of heart I had endured?
I clenched my fist, holding back the rising anger.
Baker, startled by our eye contact, took a few steps back and then suddenly fell to his knees in front of me.
“I’m sorry! It’s all my fault!”
“…”
“I didn’t mean to do that”
“I don’t want excuses. That’s not what I want to hear.”
There were many things I wanted to say, but I couldn’t get them all out.
Because I knew that the longer the conversation, the more I would lose my composure.
“Riviana.”
“I won’t say much. You just have to make a choice. Anyway, I don’t think I’ll be able to trust whatever you say now.”
I clenched my hand even harder.
I felt the pain of my nails digging into my skin, but it was preferable.
“What choice?”
“Do you want a divorce?”
“Divorce, what are you talking about!”
Baker grabbed the hem of my skirt in surprise.
Tears were welling up in his eyes.
Seeing the pathetic figure of my husband, I slowly spoke the next words.
“Or will you break up with Margaret?”
“Of course I should break up!”
“Are you serious?”
This was the love that exploited even my daughter. It was nothing but this.
I couldn’t help but scoff at Baker’s instant response.
But Baker didn’t care about my mocking laughter and just clung to me.
“I never loved Mar, no! No! I never loved that woman! I just made a mistake in a moment of drunkenness! I only met her afterwards because she threatened to tell you”
“No excuses. I don’t want to hear a story I don’t even want to know.”
“Riviana.”
Instead of answering, I held out a piece of paper and a pen to Baker.
Baker blinked his eyes and looked back and forth between me and the things I had given him.
“What is this?”
“The last chance I’m giving you.”
“What?”
“If you don’t want to divorce me, write a pledge.”
“Even so, this”
“Don’t want to?”
I glared at Baker, putting strength into my eyes.
Baker, who had been shaking, couldn’t stand it and bowed his head deeply.
“If you don’t want to write the pledge, prepare for a divorce. It’s going to be a long fight.”
“Are you serious?”
“You know best. The situation is different from before.”
“…Because Duke Pieren has returned?”
“Well. Maybe.”
I lifted my chin arrogantly.
I couldn’t let him find out that I was bluffing about divorce when I had no intention of doing so.
I chose to remain silent with my arms crossed, and Baker finally couldn’t bear it and grabbed me.
“I was wrong about everything! So please, don’t leave me! You know how much I love you!”
“Now I can’t trust your words. If you want me to believe, prove it.”
“…”
“Don’t want to?”
“No, not at all! I’ll write! I’ll do anything you want!”
“You’ll do it?”
“If I can avoid divorcing you, anything.”
The tears streaming down Baker’s cheeks wet my skirt.
I frowned as I saw the eyes of my blushing husband still looking at me.
His eyes were the same as before.
Those of a shy man who doesn’t know what to do because he likes me.
The fact made me feel so disgusted that I thought I might go crazy.
“Pick up the pen. And write down exactly what I say. First, you will cut off all ties with Margaret and never see her again.”
“…”
“Second, you will renounce all rights and obligations as a father to the child Margaret is to bear, and you will not inherit anything from Craiton.”
“…”
“For the last and third time, if you break the previous terms or similar matters are repeated, you will inherit everything from the Creighton family to Meriel and divorce me.”
“Ribianne, this is …”
Bake’s writing hand stopped.
I twisted my lips looking at the sentence left unfinished.
“Why? Are you not confident you can keep the promise?”
“No, it’s not like that.”
“If you don’t break it, nothing will happen.”
“……”
“If you don’t like it, go back to Margaret now.”
“I can’t do that! I will write! I was about to write just now!”
After Bake finished writing the oath and waited until the seal was stamped, I received it.
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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