The End Of The Special Contract Marriage (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
Damian received an order to return. The official reason cited was his wife’s deteriorating health.
However, the real reason was that the family scandal had exploded in the press, causing an uproar in the capital, and he was urgently summoned to sort it out.
Just in case, he had already packed his belongings as Aracila had instructed in her letter. As soon as the order arrived, he departed immediately for the capital. Indeed, as she had foreseen, he was returning early—but given the circumstances, he wasn’t particularly pleased.
On the road to the capital, Damian read a newspaper his subordinate had obtained for him. It described the incident at Countess Haunce’s tea party in exaggerated terms.
‘Starved, beaten, and exploited.’
So she treated you just as thoroughly as she did me when I was young. His usually firm lips twisted bitterly. He folded the newspaper almost until it crumpled.
Damian knew. He knew this was all part of Aracila’s plan. Her prior letter instructing him to prepare for an early return made that clear enough.
She had laid a trap for the Dowager Duchess and played a strong hand to summon Damian back as well.
Thus, half of these claims were likely inflated, yet strangely, Damian couldn’t calm himself. His heart pounded unpleasantly, like that of an anxious, restless man.
‘What on earth is this feeling?’
Was he absurdly worried that another victim like himself might appear?
Or was he already sympathizing with Aracila out of some misplaced sense of kinship, fearing she might have endured the same hardships he once had?
‘She couldn’t have treated her exactly as she treated me back then. I was young—that’s what made it possible.’
Damian judged coldly. No matter how much power the Dowager Duchess held, she couldn’t possibly have treated Aracila the same way she had treated him.
He unfolded the crumpled newspaper again and carefully scanned the article. His golden eyes halted at the sentence: “Lady Vandermir collapsed, her complexion as pale as a dry leaf settling onto barren soil.”
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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Thank you for translating/sharing this. Such an adorable story!