When The Silver Bell Of Charlotte's Pharmacy Rings (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 190
After finishing his words, Matiel lightly kissed Charlotte’s ear and walked past Lina James out the door. For a brief moment, Lina noticed he had looked down at her with a meaningful gaze. Its meaning was unmistakable: he was entrusting Charlotte to her care.
Realizing even that, she felt both utterly exasperated and oddly relieved, as if her strength had drained away.
“Matiel, wait. You can’t go alone…”
Charlotte called out, but her voice was blocked by Lina James and dissipated uselessly into the air. Waving her hand as if deliberately erasing Charlotte’s voice, Lina plopped down into the chair Matiel had just vacated.
“Leave him be, leave him be. Men like that, once they’ve spoken their mind, won’t rest until they’ve carved up a whole block of butter—or worse, shattered an innocent cutting board without even realizing it.”
“Don’t say such ominous things.”
At Charlotte’s irritated tone, Lina chuckled lazily.
“You two get along well, don’t you?”
Charlotte gave a feigned scoff and shrugged her shoulders.
“He’d better treat me nicely.”
“Well, naturally. To win over a strong, proud woman like you, he’d have no choice but to grovel. But a man like him—it’s not easy. Even though he knows he just needs to bend, he can hardly bring himself to do it. Too stiff, too stubborn. And yet, somehow, you managed to make him kneel.”
Charlotte couldn’t hold back any longer and let out a quiet laugh. Immediately afterward, a fit of coughing seized her, leaving her head spinning—but her mood had lightened considerably.
“If only this weren’t such a dire time, I’d love to have a more pleasant conversation with you, Miss Lina.”
“Who said it isn’t?”
Lina James let out a hearty cackle. Charlotte, as if hearing human laughter for the first time in a century, unexpectedly felt tears pricking her eyes—an uncharacteristically sentimental reaction, perhaps because it was Lina who had laughed.
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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The guards are to protect the kingdom, it makes no sense to prioritize the guards well being over the kingdoms well being. That is precisely what the 2nd prince has done by letting Maleblanc go and calling a retreat.