This Life, I Will Save The Duke (20 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 65
Last night, Kaius stood with his hands clasped behind his back, gazing intently at his wife as she stood in the falling snow for a long while.
[Wait a moment.]
She stood fully exposed to the snow, her cloak not even properly fastened. Kaius gently turned her toward himself.
He personally retied the ribbon of her cloak and cupped her cheeks—reddened by the cold—between his warm palms. His reflection filled her golden eyes, which sparkled with joy. He held that gaze for a long time. Snowflakes settled upon her hair, eyelashes, cheeks, and lips. His hands gently wiped away the moisture spreading across her face. As he leaned closer, confusion filled Ariel’s eyes.
Her bewildered gaze looked up at him, uncertain what to do. Though he knew it was impossible, he still waited—hoping her small hands would reach up to embrace his neck first. But just as he half-expected, Ariel lightly disappointed him once again. Unable to simply suppress his own desire, Kaius finally pulled back with a quiet sigh. Only after placing a soft, sable-fur-lined hat deeply over her head did he release her hands from her cheeks.
Ariel, who had expected to turn back toward the pouring white snow, surprisingly remained right where she was—still looking at him with that same bewildered expression.
Thus, amidst the cold yet gentle snow, their eyes remained fixed solely upon each other for a long while.
It had been difficult even for him to understand why he hadn’t held her once in the past several days. Ariel had faithfully followed his request—to walk with him at sunset and to stay awake waiting for him—and he had used that time to satisfy his yearning heart. That had been enough; for a while, it had even brought him satisfaction.
But ever since hearing about her childhood kidnapping and Edward, who had rescued her, he could no longer think only of his own desires. He had come to realize that no matter how much he learned about her or how intimately they were joined, it would never be enough.
Now, he craved something else.
Something that couldn’t be fulfilled through forced walks or physical intimacy.
Yes, it was for that very thing—to feel her arms embracing him willingly, not out of obligation but because she truly wished to come into his arms. The small hands that invariably burrowed into his embrace before dawn. The sweet scent and soft body that drew even closer when his large hands enveloped her back. And the joy that came from it all.
Kaius now understood it—and wanted it. He no longer sought an Ariel who merely sought warmth, but one who sought him alone.
[…Shall we go back?]
Even in the carriage on their way home, Ariel often gazed at him wordlessly with that same bewildered look. She continued to do so right up until the moment he escorted her to her bedroom. Though her changed demeanor made him hope slightly, by the time he visited her room later, she was already deeply asleep. At that moment, disappointment spilled from him as a deep sigh.
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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