The Monster Knight Wants Maternity Leave (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
“May I ask why you entrusted this mission to me?”
When the time for the audience arrived, Lucia entered the Chancellor’s office and asked without hesitation.
After all, it was unthinkable that such a critical mission would be given merely to avoid punishment.
Moreover,
‘Why something that was never entrusted to me in the past?’
“Now, now, sit down first. You’ve inherited that boldness too. Could it be that one truly becomes like those who raise them?”
She stood silently, indifferent to his teasing remark as if it held no meaning at all.
Seeing her like this, the Chancellor sighed with a helpless smile, then spoke seriously.
“Captain Lucia. Did you truly believe we’d simply sit idle regarding the Black Corruption?”
Sensing a hint of reproach in her demeanor, he instinctively answered her unspoken question.
And to his words, Lucia responded with silence—affirmation.
It was rather audacious of her, yet from her perspective, such a provocative question was perhaps only natural.
After all, despite having lived so long, she had never known that such a tree had once existed—or that they’d attempted to use it against the Black Corruption.
Thus, to Lucia, the Chancellor was someone who had discovered a tree with such power yet failed to utilize it properly, rendering him untrustworthy.
To her utterly still figure, the Chancellor continued,
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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