The Runaway Female Lead Doesn't Run Away (13 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 40
Dahlia unconsciously swallowed hard.
It seemed her plan to provoke jealousy by using the Crown Prince had been a mistake.
Upon reflection, she realized she shouldn’t have messed with someone like Clayton—someone whose personality was clearly shaped by childhood trauma and deep-seated emotional voids.
She should’ve just stuck with her usual approach, whether it turned out well or badly.
Feeling she’d made a poor judgment, her previously relaxed body stiffened again with tension.
She desperately wanted to flee right then and there—forget about jealousy schemes—but etiquette demanded she stay until the music ended, so she endured.
If she was going to get reincarnated into a romance novel anyway, why couldn’t it have been a parenting-themed one?
Just the thought of spending her entire life catering to her husband’s whims as the female lead made her feel suffocated.
At that very moment, she didn’t just want to run away—she wanted a divorce.
Perhaps sensing her distress, the Crown Prince—who had been glancing around the audience—spoke up.
“You seem troubled by Duke Seyear.”
“Huh?”
“You don’t seem focused on the dance.”
“Oh.”
How could she possibly not be distracted? Here she was, dancing with another man while her perfectly capable husband stood by.
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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I am gonna cry. This is so ridiculous. You are a Duke clayton. You have to be smart. But you did everything wrong
İ can’t help but hate clayton really dahlia did everything she can to avoid bad ending and he just couldn’t trust her once
İt’s obvious now dahlia is from royal family i wonder how this will be known