The Grand Temptation (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
“This time, I’m going all the way.”
He whispered softly into her ear, as if breathing warmth into it.
All the way?
Thump. Her heart sank, and last night’s events flashed before her eyes like a reel of memories.
She’d thought she hadn’t been that drunk… Oh no, she must’ve been really drunk after all. The kisses had been deep, but she’d believed their physical contact had stayed relatively mild.
Yet the moment Jae Ho uttered those words—”I’m going all the way”—her hazy memories snapped into sharp clarity. She vividly recalled begging him to hold her, pleading for his touch, clinging to him to kiss her—every unbelievable thing she’d done, and every dizzying sensation she’d felt whenever his hands had grazed her skin.
She’d thought it was just a dream—but it had been real!
“…Ah.”
Yuli’s lips parted in shock. Jae Ho took a step back, silently watching her expression shift moment by moment. The corners of his mouth relaxed, as if he were enjoying a fascinating show.
Not wanting him to see her flustered, Yuli summoned every ounce of strength to lift the corners of her lips into a bright, practiced smile.
“But you wouldn’t push things aggressively, right? You said yourself you’re not the type to demand responsibility over just one kiss.”
“Heh.”
Jae Ho smiled gently, slipped both hands into his pockets, and leaned toward Yuli. He whispered quietly into her ear, as if sharing a secret.
“But it hardly feels like we only shared a single kiss….”
He teased her again, his demeanor confident and in control. It was infuriating—she was flustered and offended, wondering bitterly why she was always the one left breathless while he remained perfectly composed. It felt so unfair. In the end, Yuli snapped.
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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