“And Doana has to attend your wedding too. As a motherinlaw, can’t I even give her a dress? I can’t bear to see Doana feeling inferior. Even though she’s poor, she’s the one who has your child. Shouldn’t we treat her at least as equal?”
Eric still looked at Tersia with doubtful eyes.
“If you want, I’ll persuade the Duke of Dikar to register the child that Doana gave birth to. If that happens, making him the heir won’t be a problem……”
Tersia, who had been absorbed in the role of a gracious stepmother to avoid Eric’s suspicion.
Listening to her words, Cedric burst into anger at the word ‘heir’.
“Who the hell is the heir! I won’t accept a bastard with mixed blood as my heir!”
“Cedric!”
Tersia gave Cedric a look, but Cedric was busy venting his emotions.
“It’s entirely my part to appoint the heir, father.”
“Shut up! Do you think I’ll just sit and watch!”
Cedric’s anger pierced the sky.
“There’s nothing you can do in the Wens family!! I make all the decisions! If I entrust the family to you, it’s only a matter of time before it perishes.”
Eric felt a distasteful twist in his gut. A vile energy stirred deep in his heart.
“Just look at the fact that you fired Gwen, who I had to cover up for every single time. I can tell how poor your judgement is! Why on earth did you fire him! Do you think someone like you can find someone to replace Gwen!”
“I fired him because there was a good reason to.”
Eric did not back down a word and glared at Cedric.
“You stupid son of a bitch!”
He hurled the objects on his desk at Eric, spewing out unspeakable vulgarities.
Books, fountain pens, and parchment flew at him. Eric just stood there taking the incoming objects.
Cedric, who was hurling anything he could, finally picked up the ashtray on his desk. The ashtray flew towards Eric’s face.
Eric, who had been bowing his head, failed to avoid the ashtray.
Thud!
With a dull sound, the ashtray fell next to his head.
Eric’s vision became hazy and his head was filled with a ringing sound.
The piercing noise spun around in his ears painfully.
Cedric’s voice was not heard at all.
Eric flinched in pain, clutching his throbbing head. But he did not avoid the angry look in Cedric’s eyes.
Cedric, looking like a beast ready to tear his throat out at any moment.
Suddenly, Cedric’s figure reflected in Eric’s eyes began to blur and lose shape.
Arms and legs melted into a black liquid, and the face was grotesquely distorted. The sight of eyes, nose, and mouth mixing and dripping was incredibly grotesque.
Suddenly, there was no sign of a human figure, and a large, viscous monster was looming in front of Eric.
What was reflected in Eric’s eyes was not Sedrick.
It was just a disgustingly distorted monster.
Interest arose in Eric’s eyes. He gave a strangely intriguing and dangerous look and muttered towards Sedrick.
“Monster……”
Eric quietly muttered to himself and approached Sedrick, who looked like a monster.
Eric’s pupils had been released long ago. Eric, who was staggering with every step. The corner of his mouth went up with a snicker.
“Laughing?”
Sedrick was uncomfortable at the sight of Eric laughing at me. It’s ridiculous that my father is talking and laughing snickeringly without reflecting.
“It can’t be. Follow me to the basement right now!”
Sedrick was not going to punish Eric anymore, but he couldn’t just pass over his rude behavior.
If you don’t speak, you have to pick up a whip.
Violence was never justified for any reason. But Sedrick did not doubt his actions, believing them to be ‘love’.
He had no idea that his actions were eating away at his beloved son Eric.
Sedrick’s screaming voice did not reach Eric.
In Eric’s eyes, Sedrick still looked like a monster. And, his ears were filled with ringing sounds.
Nothing was heard, but strangely enough, the word ‘basement’ echoed clearly in Eric’s ears.
It was a terrible place for Eric. Eric reacted with a start to Sedrick’s voice and stood still.
Eric, with his head bowed low, said nothing.
Sedrick, who had come up to him all of a sudden, fiercely scolded Eric.
“You don’t even listen to what your father says.”
His low voice was tinged with anger.
Tersia, sensing that the atmosphere was not normal, slowly got up from her seat. She cautiously walked towards where Eric and Sedrick were.
Tersia gently comforted her son Eric’s back. To comfort Eric, who was scared of being scolded by his father.
However, when she heard Eric’s voice, Tersia froze in place.
“…have to kill.”
“Eric?”
A chilling voice.
A low, bloody voice that didn’t sound like her son echoed.
And in a flash, things happened.
“Die.”
Eric grabbed the sharp scissors on Sedrick’s desk and rushed towards Sedrick.
A single scream came from Sedrick’s room, from Tersia.
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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