There Is No Paradise Where I Ran Away To (14 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 40
Charlotte changed clothes the moment she arrived at the mansion and went straight to find Edwin. She had responded not out of her own will, but to Edwin’s summons—almost a command. At this very moment, having been driven away by Edwin’s hand only to return once more to the mansion, she already knew exactly what expression would be on his face—it was as clear as daylight—and her heart was already splitting apart in dread.
The moment she entered the study, her eyes met Edwin’s, who was seated at his desk. Unlike her own worn-out appearance, he looked perfectly composed, showing no sign of hardship. His face bore the look of someone who had cast her into peril yet hadn’t given it a single thought.
“Are you hurt anywhere?”
Despite his expression, his greeting was surprisingly gentle. The moment she heard that voice—whose absence she’d feared might be permanent—tears she’d barely held back flooded her eyes.
“Didn’t you realize the consequences of ignoring my warning would be this severe?”
“It’s really not true! I never told Merian to do that to her…!”
Overwhelmed with injustice, Charlotte sobbed bitterly as she vehemently defended herself. Yet Edwin merely watched with cold, detached eyes.
“Do you even understand what you did wrong?”
She didn’t dare hope for a single kind word. She only wished he wouldn’t keep pressing her about right and wrong after she’d barely returned from the brink of life and death.
A single “You’ve been through so much” would have melted her heart—did he truly not understand?
“It’s because you openly mocked and belittled Vivian in front of your maid, making even them act the same way. Therefore, Merian’s fault is your fault.”
Hearing this, Charlotte—who had already given up hope—sobbed even harder.
“You probably haven’t heard the news, being away as you were. Baron Zimmermann has sent a letter saying he won’t marry you.”
But the following words sliced deeply into Charlotte’s heart. It was the wound born from fear—the fear of being abandoned once again due to this broken engagement.
“If you were a little older and had gained a bit more wisdom about the world, you’d understand just how much I’ve cherished you.”
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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