The Tyrant's Terminally-Ill Childhood Friend (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
The Grotaire family had participated in the extermination of the Hessen family. The purpose of that incident was not merely the annihilation of a single house, but rather the starting point for redistributing the nobles’ power at the time.
By taking part in the Hessen family’s extermination, the Grotaire family demonstrated loyalty to the Former Emperor and, in return, gained slightly stronger authority than before. Of course, the difference wasn’t significant—it was merely clinging to a suitable spot to survive the tsunami that had swept over the village.
Had they been greedier and directly involved themselves, attaching themselves openly to the Former Emperor, they would have been killed by the current Emperor back then.
Thus, naturally, there existed records of the Grotaire family’s involvement in the Hessen extermination, and these records had been collected under the current Emperor’s orders. The problem was that among those records, ledgers unrelated to the Hessen extermination had also been included.
Karim only realized this fact much later, recalled the matter of the records, and headed to the Imperial Palace.
‘Why have I forgotten all this time that I handed the records over to the Emperor?’
It was strange enough that he had surrendered them so willingly. Had he not jotted it down at the time, he might have completely forgotten he’d even given them away. Thinking his memory had grown terribly poor with age, Karim went to find Simoren.
And there, by chance, he overheard Simoren and Noah’s conversation.
[We thought there might be something more we could uncover from the remaining records… but it’s a total dead end.]
[It seems His Late Majesty was far more thorough than we expected.]
[Because of that, we’re the only ones suffering. Even after going this far, we still can’t find anything more about Lowell Hessen… Sometimes I even wonder if the day will ever come when everything is erased, Simoren.]
At Noah’s complaint, Simoren encouraged his friend, telling him not to speak like that.
[We have to do it for His Majesty. Only once all of Lowell Hessen’s records are erased will His Majesty be able to forget her… and remove the imprint as well, won’t he?]
Upon hearing those words, Karim instantly recalled how Emperor Peter, immediately after ascending the throne, had persistently purged those who had shown loyalty to the Former Emperor.
Unlike ordinary purges, which executed all involved without questioning their motives, Peter’s purge had taken a long time—because he interrogated them beforehand.
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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