Unable To Escape (10 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 40
After walking with her head lowered for a long while, Alicia suddenly realized she had lost her way.
She had rarely left the Imperial Palace heading anywhere other than the Duke Diaz estate—the only route she ever took.
Today’s destination was the House of Marquis Anderson, and since the district where noble mansions clustered had its own designated area, at the very least she should have been familiar with the entrance to that district… yet…
‘Where on earth am I?’
The problem was that she’d walked while completely lost in thought, staring blankly at the ground.
Unable to muster the courage to lift her head and meet the eyes of commoners, she must have instinctively chosen deserted alleyways without even realizing it.
‘I need to get back to a main road…’
If she could just find a major street, she could reorient herself using the grand fountain in Central Plaza—a well-known landmark.
The real issue, however, was exactly where Alicia now stood.
How on earth had her own feet carried her to such a damp, narrow alley?
It was the narrowest, filthiest street she’d ever seen in her life.
‘What should I do?’
She briefly considered simply walking in one direction, as she once did when escaping a maze, but then remembered being taught that this was precisely what one should never do when lost—leaving her unable to move easily.
“Still… I really ought to move… but how?”
Alicia didn’t have much time left.
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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And here was the shock. The princess of the empire is right in front of him.🤣
Just different centers. ( ≖‿ ≖ )Heehee
Riley’s character seems attractive compared to his past life.