Trapped in the Mad Duke's Snare (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 65
As was customary at celebratory banquets, the attending men began slipping away from the main party venue one by one.
Leaving the trivial small talk to the noblewomen, they found it far more profitable to convene separately to discuss matters of family business and politics.
Crown Prince Trashi and Cassis had long since vanished with other high-ranking nobles to attend a meeting.
With only women remaining in the central garden, they naturally began grouping together with those they were familiar with.
“Congratulations, my lady.”
“Soon you’ll be Her Imperial Highness the Crown Princess. Ho ho.”
“Indeed, the Empire’s most prestigious position suits Lady Larie of House Estillen best.”
Larie, who once ruled high society, now stood at the center of numerous young noblewomen, receiving their congratulations.
Larie was thoroughly pleased to hear flattery from so many young ladies.
However, with one tactless remark from a count’s daughter,
her buoyant mood vanished instantly.
It seemed the count’s daughter simply couldn’t resist asking about the unusual neckline that reached right up to Larie’s throat.
“By the way, my lady—you’re wearing a different style today, aren’t you?”
At the mention of her attire, Larie’s expression turned icy—but only briefly. She quickly composed herself.
“Ahem. My throat hasn’t been feeling well lately.”
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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It wouldn’t surprise me if the crown prince stabs the empress some day.
Wow, I thought these two had made progress. I’m a bit surprised by the Duke’s reaction but he has been ill and chronic illness can affect your thought process.
I get the feeling Severus isn’t what he appears to be. Perhaps like his namesake?
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It all felt as though it had happened only because she—meant to die as the Crown
Has she forgotten that the Duke would be long dead if she hadn’t saved him at the villa?
The letter carried an imperial decree summoning all nobles to the capital for a
Did they invent Larie’s pregnancy for this? They really mean to kill the Duke. Despite his apparent lack of ambition for the throne his very existence must pose an extreme threat.
“They say there’s no curfew for tonight’s wedding banquet—the Emperor himself ha
There’s an emperor?!
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Miioo
How shameless of her—can’t she see that he is avoiding her and is married?