There Is No Paradise Where I Ran Away To (14 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 65
Vivian thought it was time to stop her pretense and be honest.
She couldn’t possibly prevent their marriage just to avoid the shame of being called a mistress—she simply lacked the means. Thus, the simplest, clearest, and only solution was to win over Sera Chadwick by upholding her dignity and using her to quell the rumors.
She entered the party hall accompanied by Alice, who had arrived as expected. Vivian immediately began searching for Sera Chadwick, but Alice was looking for someone else.
Just then, Edwin appeared. As Vivian turned her gaze toward him, Alice handed her a champagne glass and scolded her to smile.
Though Vivian spotted Sera Chadwick and Lady Danvers among the crowd, she was swiftly pulled in the opposite direction—an event that unfolded within mere minutes of Edwin’s arrival.
What jolted Vivian back to her senses was a pair of striking blue eyes meeting hers. Beneath them, the silver accent of an ascot tie—meant to conceal a bruise—pricked her eyes. Suddenly feeling guilty, she avoided his persistent gaze.
“I greet Your Grace and Mr. Thomas.”
“Oh. Lady Sutton. It’s been a while.”
The man standing with Edwin was Thomas, another prominent representative of the nouveau riche alongside Edwin. Though he hadn’t received a noble title, he was a well-known up-and-coming tycoon and a frequent guest among the aristocracy.
“I heard you arrived today. You’ve already monopolized the Duke the moment you stepped in.”
“He’s the one who’ll pave the way for my goods to be shipped. Naturally, I must claim him before anyone else.”
Alice and Thomas exchanged playful banter and laughed heartily, while Edwin took a sip of champagne with a polite, perfunctory smile. Vivian, who had no interest in the conversation, remained intently focused on locating Sera Chadwick. The girl was still standing in the same spot.
As her impatience grew, her throat dried up. She desperately needed something to soothe her parched throat.
Unconsciously, she brought the champagne flute to her lips—only to be met with its cloyingly sweet aroma. Realizing it was alcohol and not water, she lowered her arm again.
“By the way, do you have any idea how astonished I was by Your Grace’s taste? Nowhere in the entire palace could you find a lady adorned with as beautiful and expensive things as Miss Ebelline.”
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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