The Secret Affairs of the Fake Duke Couple (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
Scarlett quietly watched Cain and Jane climb into the carriage side by side.
〈They seem to be having trouble. Shouldn’t you go help them?〉
When Scarlett had said that to Cain, she hadn’t known he would abandon her.
Outwardly calm, inside she was seething. She was utterly flustered and irritated that Cain had left her standing there all alone.
Yet, as a well-bred lady should, she maintained the faint smile on her lips.
“Miss, shall I take you back to the mansion?”
Lily, who had been watching Scarlett’s mood from a step away, approached.
“Yes, let’s go.”
With Cain gone, there was no reason to stay on Haussten Street. In the past, she might have gone shopping, but right now, she had no mood for it at all.
She felt like the woman who had just been overshadowed and cast aside by Jane.
And it seemed to her that the whispering crowd was talking about her.
In truth, however, everyone was chattering solely about Jane.
“They really are getting married—the Duke Hastings and Miss Whitney.”
“Is this a love even the Rose Faction couldn’t tear apart?”
“How romantic! Then, is that boy Joseph Miss Whitney’s child?”
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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Honestly what a difficult man. Jane deserves much better.
Cain looking for trouble by himself..his self control being tested by jane
Oh? Are we finally getting somewhere with these two??