The Price is Everything of Yours (76 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 191
It began with the back of her hand.
Cledwin’s large hand engulfed both of Neris’s slender wrists. She felt as though she were bound, unable to move an inch. Not only because of her wrists, but also because of the persistent, ensnaring gaze he fixed upon her.
His hot breath first brushed the back of her right hand, then slowly traced over the left. The faint warmth of lips that seemed about to touch yet didn’t made every fine hair on her skin stand on end.
Slowly, his lips enveloped her left ring finger—the one bearing her wedding ring—from tip to root, swallowing and sucking gently.
“Ah……!”
Though they had done many things on countless nights, this was the first time he had ever done something like this. Something so… suggestive.
The marriage vow placed upon this finger was an undeniable truth, irrevocable, declaring that the two of them would become one like this.
An act that felt like branding.
Having lived many years, and the court being a place where flirtations were commonplace, Neris knew—at least to some extent—of the strange games lovers played, regardless of her own experience.
People spoke as though caressing one another and sharing breath was the ultimate pleasure. An irresistible joy, an instinctive pull. They chattered about everything from ordinary skinship to the secret delights brought by the rarest of preferences.
Yet she had only half-believed them. Yes, seeing how eagerly people took lovers, it seemed it must be enjoyable. But the court was a place where lies and self-display were weapons. At the very least, not a single night she had spent with Abelus had ever been pleasurable. No matter how much he complained, there was nothing to be done about it.
Was it because there was no love? That was her initial conclusion. Megara and Abelus truly seemed to have a good time together. She could never come to love Abelus, yet she envied the tender atmosphere they shared all the more because of it. Still, the court was full of people who enjoyed a night of passion even without love.
Perhaps the problem is my body. During her miserable marriage, that was the conclusion she eventually reached. There are people whose senses are keen and people whose aren’t, aren’t there? She was dull on top of her many other flaws, boring her husband.
That was what she had believed.
Yet now the whole world seemed to shake. None of the intimate touches she had ever heard of or witnessed were as intense as this act—rolling her finger inside his mouth without even revealing her undergarments. Her entire body felt as though it had awakened and was screaming.
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!
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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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Wow, the development of the story was so unexpected! But when you think about it, the reason behind the hatred from the very beginning actually makes perfect sense.
I’m so tired of all these noblewomen fighting over the useless Crown Prince. He literally brings nothing to the table except his title, yet everyone still prefers him. I just hope his downfall comes soon
Wow, Natcha’s furious words, fueled by the princess’s earlier provocation, actually left her speechless for a moment. And now that her secret has been revealed, everything suddenly makes sense—especially the way she dealt with the Crown Prince’s betrayal. What a snake.