When The Silver Bell Of Charlotte's Pharmacy Rings (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
“Been busy lately?”
The man, who had been waiting for his tincture to be prepared, asked cautiously, as if checking Charlotte’s mood.
Charlotte, who had just finished dripping medicine from a thin dropper into the tincture bottle, glanced up briefly, then stretched her stiff shoulders and stepped back a pace.
She slowly rolled her neck, then turned to her customer with a gentle smile.
“Yes, quite busy. Have you been making wasted trips often? I feel awful about it.”
The man’s face flushed visibly at her soft, warm tone.
He quickly ducked his long head and scratched the back of his neck with a shy, awkward gesture.
“No, not wasted trips… It’s just—I was worried… I mean, I was afraid something might have happened to you.”
Transparently obvious, Charlotte thought.
This man had started visiting her apothecary a few weeks ago, always buying one or two bottles of peppermint tincture for his elderly grandmother.
Then, one day, he began bringing small gifts each time he came—fruit, for instance—and just last visit, he’d even handed her theater tickets to a play.
‘I did refuse him, though.’
Seeing him hesitate again and glance at her nervously, Charlotte cut him off preemptively.
“I’ve had some family matters to attend to. There’s someone I need to look after regularly.”
“Oh… I see. That… That must be hard. Is there anything I could do to help…?”
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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To be honest, Tae Mi is my favorite character in this novel.
Wow that’s grotesque. I didn’t think this novel was going to be so gorey