When Pride Falls at Your Feet (19 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 40
Unlike her stifled heart, the wide-open space was brimming with neatly tended blooming flowers. As she quietly watched their fragrant scent and delicately colored petals, she tightly shut her eyes for a moment, then opened them again to look at him.
“That trust—wasn’t it never going to happen anyway?”
Enrico blinked and let out a soft chuckle. Though just a small laugh, somehow it made the fully bloomed flowers momentarily erase the bleakness of winter, as if merging with him.
“Why jump to conclusions already? You’re far more full of prejudices than I thought.”
Emilia’s brow furrowed slightly. Seeing him leaning casually against the table as if merely curious about the situation, she instinctively pressed herself back against the chair, as though trying to avoid him.
‘As if it were even possible not to hold prejudices.’
She now understood that his insistence on accompanying her wasn’t out of worry she’d run away, but simply due to idle curiosity. Who could possibly give trust to someone who constantly wielded her weaknesses and inflicted humiliation at every opportunity?
It was certain that even if the entire world turned upside down, Enrico would never change. After all, imagining that arrogant man ever trusting others or compromising his own views was utterly inconceivable.
Emilia swallowed a sigh inwardly and took a sip of her sweet juice. She wasn’t even angry anymore. She’d reached the point where, unless his request was truly unreasonable, it was simply easier to go along with him.
“…Then shall we meet in Bacorta?”
“No. At the train station.”
So he meant to take the train together. Well, that would be comfortable enough. Enrico would surely reserve the finest VIP compartment at the very end of the train—and perhaps she might as well treat this as a convenient chance to visit her hometown by rail.
Emilia, as if suddenly enlightened, nodded impassively and fiddled with the glass she’d set on the table. A droplet from the crystal surface slid onto the tabletop.
Watching her unnervingly calm demeanor, he leaned back against the chair with a dissatisfied look. Crossing his legs in a slightly relaxed posture, he picked up the wineglass he’d pushed aside and called over the waiting attendant.
“To Aneda San.”
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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