When Pride Falls at Your Feet (19 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 90
To Emilia’s relief, the ballet performance concluded smoothly without a hitch.
The audience, moved by the beautiful ballet, kept applauding even after the curtain fell and continuously sent bouquets and notes backstage.
“To think this was your first lead role—I simply can’t believe it.”
“I’ve seen countless performances, but never one as flawless as tonight’s.”
“Indeed. Such a beautiful Cinderella. I’m already eagerly looking forward to the next performance.”
“Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed my dancing.”
Emilia smiled gently and gave a slight bow to the few audience members who had come all the way to her dressing room to offer praise.
Since those who usually made it this far were typically high-ranking nobles, it was best to treat them with utmost courtesy to avoid any unnecessary gossip.
As the bouquets she was handed grew increasingly difficult to hold, Emilia frowned slightly in mild distress and looked toward Deputy Director Silvia.
“Oh, excuse me. Though I’d dearly love to keep hosting such esteemed guests, we must begin closing the theater shortly, so I kindly ask for your understanding. Our performances continue through next week, and we’d be honored if you’d visit us again then.”
Silvia bowed politely to the guests with practiced ease. The audience, having only come briefly to greet the lead performer, immediately nodded in understanding at her words.
“Then allow me to escort you to the entrance.”
Seeing Silvia discreetly gesture for someone to tidy things up while personally seeing the guests out, Emilia finally let out a sigh of relief.
Although lead dancers alternated on stage, everyone—including them—had to rehearse repeatedly before each daily performance, leaving no choice but to move quickly.
After exchanging a quick “well done” with her partner Antonio, Emilia promptly returned to her dressing room.
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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