The Tyrant's Terminally-Ill Childhood Friend (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 115
Lowell Hessen is a real person. Anette Martinek is as well.
The two were born on the same day—one a victim of the Former Emperor’s tyranny, the other a vegetative patient who had never stepped outside her room until the age of thirteen. Moreover, their territories were different, leaving them with virtually no point of contact. The only thing they truly shared was being leap-month births, born on the same day as Peter.
But if one thinks a little deeper, something seems odd. Why did the Former Emperor choose Lowell?
The Hessen family was neither particularly renowned nor active in the capital. If one were to search hard for a reason they might have caught the Former Emperor’s eye, perhaps it was only the minor fame of Count Hessen’s domain as a pleasant retreat. Yet that alone would hardly be enough to draw the Former Emperor’s attention—especially since he wasn’t some bloodthirsty maniac who enjoyed killing people, making Lowell’s selection even more inexplicable.
Thus, if anything, Anette Martinek would seem slightly more suitable.
No—rather than “suitable,” it would be more accurate to say she was simply closer at hand. Even the Former Emperor couldn’t have had the luxury of scouring every newborn across the entire nation in that urgent moment; he must have started by checking those nearby.
And that’s how he discovered her—the existence of Anette, born on the same day as Peter.
Hearing Miheu’s words, Noah felt as if a light had suddenly switched on in his mind.
[His Majesty the Former Emperor had pointed to her. He intended to use my research on her…]
She was close to the capital, and given the Martinek family’s nature, there’d be no reason for sensitive secrets to leak out. Sacrificing just one person—Anette—would have been enough.
“Miss Miheu clearly said it would’ve been difficult to find anyone else. Though her mind drifts in and out, the details she recalls clearly have proven trustworthy based on everything I’ve observed so far.”
After all, as long as someone could receive Peter’s magic power, it didn’t matter who took Miheu’s medicine—at least not to the Former Emperor. So once he learned of Anette’s existence, there’d have been no reason for him to go through further trouble.
Yet in the end, it wasn’t Anette who took the medicine—it was Lowell.
The implication was clear.
“Duke Jurgen Martinek sold out Lowell Hessen to save his own daughter.”
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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