The Maid's Contract Marriage (1 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 240
The Marquis being lashed by public opinion was largely karmic retribution—and it was true.
However, within just a few days, false stories had been tacked on one after another, inflating his misdeeds like a snowball.
Reports claimed it was a blatant lie that no supplies had ever been sent from the beginning or that the supplies had been stolen by bandits.
It was also falsely reported that generous bonuses and pensions given to veterans were merely fabrications concocted by the Marquis to embezzle funds—but this was untrue.
The bonuses had been disbursed under Kay Ford’s supervision, and pensions had been transferred from the Veterans Foundation, ensuring transparent handling with no room for the Marquis to embezzle or tamper.
It also spread rapidly—and publicly—that not a single penny of the Marquis’s money had entered the Veterans Foundation, and that the Marchioness had been extravagantly squandering embezzled funds—but these claims were false as well.
Yet because some truth was mixed in, even the false parts appeared credible.
From the Marquis and Marchioness’s perspective, they had gathered every last coin they had—both real and borrowed—to pay the bonuses and were now suffering financial hardship, making the situation deeply unjust.
But the atmosphere was such that any attempt to explain themselves would not be accepted.
After all, they couldn’t possibly say, “This much is unjust, but the rest is true.”
In this situation, the only outlets likely to treat the matter objectively—without suspicion of receiving secret payments from the Marquis—were the Imperial Gazette and Count Harman’s newspaper.
However, due to the Emperor’s silence, the Imperial Gazette remained equally silent on the Marquis’s affairs.
Only Count Harman’s newspaper reported the fact that pensions were transparently managed and there was no need to worry about the Marquis embezzling them.
Reina hadn’t asked for any article to be published, yet the journalist independently investigated the facts and reported them correctly.
There had only been a brief, polite verification.
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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