Renesha had a little visitor waiting for her every night. Renesha, leaning on the sofa while humming a tune, smiled. Cassius would arrive soon.
There was a misconception that everything would be fine when she gently brushed her fingers over Cassius’s small body.
Soon, the festival to bless the three snake gods would take place. Only three days left now. News had come that the messengers had been arriving at the port one after another.
Renesha blinked her eyes slowly.
At the festival banquet, Renesha planned to sit next to Lexus.
What would Cassius think about it?
A sharp thought rose deep in her heart.
Would he be disappointed? Or would he pretend not to care? Or would he ignite jealousy towards Lexus? She didn’t know what reaction to expect, but she felt anticipation. Renesha ran her tongue over her lips.
She stood up from her seat. The warmth rising from her belly enveloped Renesha. When she pushed open the balcony door, the wind swept Renesha.
Today, she would comfort the cute Cassius and show him her human side. Renesha reaffirmed her determination. It was when Renesha, standing on the balcony with expectant steps, heard a voice.
“Renesha.”
The door opened first. Renesha turned her head reflexively. It was a voice she didn’t want to hear, especially at this time.
Lexus stood at the door with a face full of drunkenness. It was clear that he had taken some kind of drug, judging by his dilated pupils. Behind him was the pale-faced Heilin.
No one could have stopped Lexus.
Lexus staggered towards Renesha. Renesha stared at Lexus with a cold, stiff face. Somehow it’s quiet, isn’t it? It felt like she realized she had returned to the imperial city.
Renesha sighed and stepped back, avoiding Lexus.
“I think it would be better to see you tomorrow morning, Your Majesty.”
“What’s the problem with coming to my wife’s bedroom?”
Lexus spat out irritably. His finger combing through his hair was also fumbling like he was drunk. Renesha looked at him with disdain.
“I am no longer involved in any private relationship with Your Majesty. No longer your wife. I am the Duchess of Roterra, and my husband is Duke Cassius. So, the situation now is Your Majesty behaving rudely.”
Renesha calmly spoke with a sinking voice.
“Please observe the courtesy, Your Majesty. I earnestly request it.”
“Don’t do this, Renesha.”
Lexus reached out towards Renesha. She took another step back.
‘Okay.’
I didn’t expect this situation, but it’s not like nothing happened. Nothing will happen. Renesha comforted herself.
“I sincerely request, Your Majesty. Please don’t do this.”
Lexus blinked his eyes. Through the blurred vision, he saw the pale Renesha. The confident pink eyes that were always so fearless were now filled with terror. He saw himself reflected in those eyes.
For what reason?
Lexus couldn’t understand.
Renesha and Lexus had spent a long time as a married couple. They were closer to each other than anyone else, understanding each other. Renesha understood Lexus, and Lexus understood Renesha.
Lexus pursed his lips. Even though the time they spent as a married couple was much longer than the time Renesha spent with Cassius.
“Smile, Renesha.”
Lexus whispered.
The image of Renesha, brightly smiling at Cassius, kept complicating Lexus’s mind. Lexus approached Renesha. Lexus, gripping her shoulders, exclaimed,
“Smile!”
Renesha twisted her body.
“Let me go, Your Majesty.”
“I told you to smile.”
The fiery anger that started from the mansion ignited like a flame.
“Why don’t you do as I want? This world is all mine, so why don’t you…!”
Lexus bit his lip.
“Smile, Renesha. If I command, you should comply. Smile gently like a canary. Cater to my taste. If I ask you to lick my foot, do it, and if I ask you to roll, roll. Like an obedient dog.”
Renesha’s expression froze coldly.
“Am I a dog to you?”
“What?”
“You’ve always treated me like that. That’s why you were angry when things didn’t go your way.”
Renesha forcefully pushed away Lexus’s hand.
“Because you never considered me as family or a companion. Your Majesty doesn’t know how to change, so continue living like that for the rest of your life. Don’t bother about someone like me; go to the obedient canary who listens well.”
“What doesn’t change is the same for you too.”
Lexus said grinding his teeth.
“I’m the emperor, and I’ve never been able to erase the feeling of being trampled on by you Roterras. Arrogant and cunning women. Always with eyes that say they can pull me down from this position anytime and…”
Lexus grabbed Renesha’s chin. Despite the strong grip, Renesha’s gaze remained calm. Something unyielding was lurking within her, never to be broken.
Renesha said nothing. She didn’t want to know what Lexus was hoping for with this behavior. Anyway, Lexus couldn’t endure Renesha.
Lexus ground his teeth, and after a distant gaze, he lowered his head. Lexus, with the smell of alcohol mixed in his breath, exhaled deeply in front of Renesha’s lips.
“Don’t look at me with those eyes.”
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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