This Life, I Will Save The Duke (20 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 40
The wedding banquet was rushing toward its end.
Kaius, who had carried the bride from the cabin all the way to the bedroom, obediently let her go. Thanks to that, Ariel was able to fulfill all her duties.
She greeted the guests, handed out gifts she had prepared for her relatives, and exchanged pleasant conversations—her demeanor was courteous yet dignified. The impression she gave was flawless for the mistress of a ducal household.
Likewise, Kaius, who had been welcoming guests just as she had, never lost track of her whereabouts throughout the entire time. Even amidst exchanging pleasantries and the clamor of the crowd, it was not difficult for him at all.
His heightened alertness had begun the moment Ariel started drinking champagne.
Turning his body toward the banker who approached with a smiling greeting, Kaius felt Ariel’s presence behind his back during their exchange. She lingered nearby without leaving, as if waiting for him.
When he finally turned around after finishing his greeting, Ariel stood there, her cheeks flushed pink. Slowly approaching him, she gently took his arm and led him toward a quieter corner with fewer guests.
“Kaius, may I go upstairs first? I told them I couldn’t drink because I’m sensitive to alcohol, but they kept insisting, so I had a little—and now I’m starting to feel dizzy. I’m sorry I couldn’t fulfill my responsibilities properly.”
Fidgeting with their clasped hands, Ariel looked up at him shyly. Though he knew the truth wasn’t as innocent as it seemed, her bashful confession made his throat tighten, and his gaze deepened.
“…Kaius?”
“Let’s go upstairs.”
At his outstretched hand, Ariel shook her head slightly.
“We can’t both leave our seats at once. I’ll go up with Anna.”
With that, Ariel began ascending the stairs together with Anna, who had been waiting behind her. Having personally experienced just how alluring this tipsy woman could be, Kaius couldn’t easily tear his eyes away. Rashid stepped in front of Kaius just as he was still watching her go.
“You’ll see her again soon anyway—how about one more drink with me? I brought that good wine I promised.”
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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