The Terminally-Ill Princess Holds the Leash of the Mad Dog (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 042
“Celia Brillion.”
Embarrassment clouded Empress Erpia’s face at the unexpected name.
Ileon spoke in a soft, gentle tone.
“Your Majesty has seen it yourself. That woman stirs the lustful desires of men—be they young or old, it makes no difference.”
“…What does that have to do with Ben disfiguring Jeremy’s face…?”
“Did not the Crown Prince himself publicly declare that Celia Brillion is his mistress?”
Ileon smiled faintly, his eyes delicately narrowed.
“At that moment, nearly every man present in the banquet hall would have turned their back on His Highness. Not granting the most honored seat to the most beautiful woman in Abelon, but instead reserving it for a mere mistress?”
Sipping chamomile tea with elegance, Ileon continued.
“It was the act of trying to monopolize a beautiful flower coveted by all that sparked resentment. Had he waited until after ascending the throne, it might have been different. To announce her as his mistress during the birthday celebration was reckless.”
Erpia struggled to grasp Ileon’s implication.
To her, the fact that men desired that woman and Jeremy’s disfigurement seemed entirely unrelated.
“So you’re suggesting the Duke wanted to frame me as the culprit—claiming that woman knew I sought to ruin my own face, so he instead drugged Jeremy and pinned the blame on me?”
“Heavens no. How could a woman who’s barely spent any time in the palace possibly orchestrate such a thing?”
“Didn’t you yourself just say, with your own mouth, that she was the culprit?”
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.”
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
She is such a refreshing character. I like her audacity.
Chapter 74 is missing.
I feel like I missed important information. Was it the cathedral or hall of ministers that burned or both?
Did Arthur take over the parrot’s body so he could always be close to Celia? Maybe as a type of fail safe if Dietrich killed him?