There Is No Paradise Where I Ran Away To (14 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 140
Back in her room, Vivian sat perched on the edge of her bed without even lighting the lamp. She had closed the window, fearing rain might splash in. She reopened it because the stifling weight in her chest still wouldn’t lift.
The rain, heavier now than in the afternoon, heightened the vitality of spring. She hoped this spring rain would wash away the tangled mess inside her heart as well.
He said her hair suited her? That she looked pretty?
His indifference felt so stark that even the memory of him praising her as “pretty” at their modest wedding now seemed more heartfelt than anything he’d said lately.
Just thinking of Edwin—after returning from the brink of death—brazenly spouting hollow words in front of her parents and Theo made heat rise within her.
Vivian stepped right up to the window and let the splashing rain drench her entire face, trying to cool her burning skin.
Just then, a knock sounded at the door. This time, she felt certain her guess wouldn’t miss its mark. The person behind that door must be Edwin—he must have come to settle matters from the royal palace.
Soon, the door opened, and just as Vivian had expected, Edwin stood there.
The light that had slipped through the open doorway vanished. Edwin stood in the darkness, fixedly staring at Vivian by the window. Vivian, too, remained perfectly still in the quiet filled only with the sound of rain.
“Vive.”
His voice dispelled the fog-like silence. Vivian turned her gaze toward the rain outside the window.
“Aren’t you going to eat any more?”
His flat, even tone felt cold and sharp, like a spring night after sunset.
“You said you were in pain.”
“You know that was just an excuse.”
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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