Trapped in the Mad Duke's Snare (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
Rain poured endlessly as though a hole had opened in the sky, yet mysterious carriages kept streaming one after another into the ducal estate.
Since morning, the front of the ducal mansion had been packed with an unbroken line of arriving carriages.
The clamor of carriages was so loud it drowned out even the sound of rain.
The bustling noise passed through the ducal mansion’s eerily quiet corridors and reached all the way to Adeline’s bedroom.
Adeline felt a surge of curiosity.
“Becky, what’s happening?”
Becky, who had been tidying the bedding, rose and looked out the window.
“Oh. It seems carriages are arriving one after another.”
“Carriages?”
“At the banquet held in the imperial palace to celebrate the duke’s return, word of Lady Del’s joyful news was announced. These must be the congratulatory gifts arriving.”
“But the banquet happened quite a while ago, didn’t it?”
Seeing Adeline’s puzzled expression, Becky gently continued her explanation.
“It seems they were delayed due to the torrential rains.”
At Becky’s words, Adeline recalled news of the capital’s situation. She had heard the central region—the capital—had recently suffered unexpected torrential downpours.
Because of that, the carriages laden with gifts must have been stranded midway.
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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Chapter Comments (21)
What does he say about fatherhood, and then rejoice that she aborted Hiro’s child? Is he stupid? He knows perfectly well that if she’s pregnant, it’s his child, the vile bastard.
Luckily she didn’t enter the cave, otherwise it would have collapsed with her inside.
How vile and despicable he is! Adeline is innocent and kind, she didn’t leave him alone, and he’s a despicable person who misunderstands her.
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“I told you—I don’t need anything. All I asked was for you to stay by my side.”
As a mistress he can continuously humiliate and use to warm his bed if desired…will there never be an apology? I mean he still has everyone believing she’s the commoner mistress ‘Del’
Since it was uncertain whether she’d consent if she knew the truth, Cassis decid
It seems neither one understands love. I guess that is why they are both so tormented and confused. I wish we knew more of the Duke’s background.
She had no idea what awaited her ahead.
When are these two going to ever learn to be honest and open to eachother?
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Miioo
Escape, then escape, then escape, then lie, then lie. What is this, Adeline? Is the life you wanted just about running away? Why don’t you face the truth? Why lie? There’s no need to justify everything.
Miioo
Why do you run away from every problem you face? Why don’t you face the truth? You didn’t deceive him, and you didn’t do that.