To You, So Noble and Vulgar (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
Duke Russell White stopped in front of the drawing room.
Seeing the steward about to knock on the door, he raised a hand to halt him.
Russell silently stared at the closed door.
‘If I open this door…’
Russell had sent over a hundred letters to Rachel, by his own count. Around the time Ariana became old enough to read, he began writing to her as well—probably more than fifty times.
Yet he had never received a single reply.
The last letter he had sent was seven years ago.
[I wish to meet Ariana. If you choose a time and place convenient for you, I shall come accordingly.]
He longed to rush straight to the Bronte ducal mansion where Rachel lived, but his poor relationship with the Duke of Westerly made it impossible for him to enter Westerly at will.
He needed Rachel’s help to see Ariana.
But if even that were refused, he had resolved to go to Westerly by any means necessary to see Ariana. As if sensing his resolve, Rachel sent her first reply.
[Ariana does not wish to meet Your Grace. She regards my husband as her father and is living well. Would meeting you not make things awkward between Ariana and Duke Bronte?
Westerly is where Ariana will live her life—do you intend to disrupt her peace for your own desire?
Your constant letters have made my husband uncomfortable. Duke Bronte treats Ariana as his own daughter, yet each time you write, it reminds her that she is your daughter.
If you truly care for Ariana, wouldn’t setting aside your longing for her sake also be a father’s love?]
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!
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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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I finally found the chapter corresponding to chapter 42 of the manhwa!
Here’s a mother who refutes the “instinctive motherhood” notion.