Chapter 6: She’s Not Capable

Pei Yuanshao took the rice paper and lowered his head. At a glance, he saw the large characters on the paper, and the smile at the corner of his lips suddenly froze on his face.

His hand trembled as his fingertips tightly gripped the edge of the rice paper.

There was no time to carefully read the contents on the paper, but his dark eyes fixed on the neat and beautiful handwriting in the middle of the paper, hiding a sharp edge.

The person opposite was opening and closing their mouth, but he couldn’t hear a single word clearly.

His chest was filled with shock, which showed in his eyes. The upper half of his body sat rigidly on the wooden chair.

The village woman Liu Changning… she could write?

The handwriting on the rice paper was in Liu-style regular script, with strong and vigorous strokes, a strict structure, and a unique style. Without diligent study, an ordinary person couldn’t write like this.

Pei Yuanshao looked up, staring at the sallow-faced woman before him, and pointing at the rice paper, asked with a trembling voice: “Did my wife-master write this herself?”

His eyes blinked unwaveringly as he stared at her, with a barely noticeable glimmer in his almond-shaped eyes. If she could read and write, and her handwriting was of such high caliber, could she possibly be the Liu Chancellor who would be well-versed in all areas of knowledge and a talent for governing the world three years later?

After all, there were many late-blooming court officials in history. In the previous dynasty, Minister Fan learned to read and write at the age of thirty and became an elder statesman of three reigns by the age of fifty.

Could she also be a late bloomer?

Or was her past mediocrity just a facade? Her willingness to work hard, her compliance, her constant concessions like his own, were they all just an act?

Perhaps it was just to hide her talents in front of her aunt’s family of outstanding relatives out of necessity.

After automatically concocting this conspiracy theory, Pei Yuanshao’s emotions were in turmoil, and he couldn’t even be bothered to maintain the smile on his lips. He straightened up, smoothed out the wrinkles on his clothes, and stood somewhat nervously in front of her, waiting for her answer.

Liu Changning pursed her lips and cast a suspicious glance at him.

This person was as clever as described in the novel, immediately noticing the peculiarity of the handwriting on the divorce paper.

Using his looks to serve others, yet full of schemes.

Deep in thought, with excellent acting skills. In his eyes, women were probably just tools for climbing up, to be discarded mercilessly after being used.

Although she didn’t know what qualities the original owner of this body had that were worth his effort to climb up, she understood that if the original owner was truly a person of both talent and beauty, this trouble-making young man wouldn’t easily let go.

Now that she had proposed a divorce, there couldn’t be any mistakes.

After all, she needed to improve the constitution of this body, absorb the essence of the sun and moon daily to strengthen it, and this appearance would gradually change as well.

If her convenient husband continued to live in her home, in close contact day and night, she might expose herself.

Fortunately, she had always been cautious in her actions.

To deal with this Pan Jinlian-style white lotus, she couldn’t be too conspicuous. The original owner was short, ugly, and poor, so her arrival wouldn’t expose her either.

Writing?

Heh, the handwriting of the Immortal Dao Ancestor Liu Changning was much better than this.

Liu Changning’s eyes flashed, and she leisurely found a wooden stool and sat down.

Pointing at a stack of calligraphy copybooks piled on a desk not far away, she said casually, “There’s a copybook of divorce papers on the desk in your room. I found it and traced a copy on rice paper. Consider it written by my own hand. Take a look and see if the content is correct?”

Pei Yuanshao’s trembling hand paused, and he picked up the rice paper in his hand and carefully read it through.

The smile at the corner of his lips froze on his face. Upon careful examination of the content of the divorce paper, the names of the divorcing parties hadn’t been changed, exactly the same as the sample in the copybook.

It was undoubtedly that “Divorce Paper” sample.

A few days ago, he had asked someone to buy these copybooks. The person he entrusted was the scholar Wang Yucui from the east end of the village, who had fallen in love with him at first sight and was infatuated at second sight.

The bookworm was serious and begged to marry him. To make his wife-master divorce him quickly, he had specially mixed this divorce paper sample copybook among a stack of copybooks. He instructed him to hand it to his wife-master, asking her to write a divorce paper.

Remembering this matter, Pei Yuanshao’s eyes became complex, and his joy was in vain. His face turned from green to white, his expression not looking good.

He remained silent for a long while.

Earlier, he had been too excited about the handwriting on the rice paper. Now that he had come to his senses, he belatedly realized that this village woman before him was determined to divorce him.

He hooked the corner of his lips mockingly, his ink-black eyes gaining a hint of sharpness.

Even if she wasn’t who he thought she was, now that the situation was set, he definitely wouldn’t accept this divorce paper.

In the main hall, the man in red clothes stood straight-backed, his legs straight, the entire curve of his back showing perfect proportions, without the usual laziness, looking at a glance like a pine when sitting and a bamboo when standing.

Unfortunately, this dignified posture only lasted for half a quarter of an hour. Like a night-blooming cereus, it disappeared without a trace.

He came back to his senses, his almond-shaped eyes containing autumn waters. He turned his head, his crimson lips like a blooming peony, opening and closing in an alluring manner. He asked in a hoarse voice, “Wife-master… may I ask why you suddenly want to divorce this humble husband?”

Liu Changning glanced at his bewitching appearance, her brows unconsciously furrowing. She raised her hand, using her sleeve to wipe the sweat that had seeped out on her forehead. Her body was weak, and after talking for a while, this body’s cold sweat couldn’t be stopped.

After solving the current problem, taking care of her body must be done without delay.

Thinking of parting on good terms, Liu Changning looked away, her tone unusually gentle as she explained, “The matter of divorce is indeed somewhat sudden. Yesterday, while farming, I accidentally had a brush with death. When I woke up, my aunts all advised me, and I suddenly realized that you, my husband, are of exceptional beauty, and living in this broken thatched house of mine is truly wronging you. So today, I specially copied this divorce paper to set you free. Don’t you want that?”

Her tone was flat, her pale lips chapped, with blood oozing out when they opened and closed. However, she was so focused at the moment that she didn’t notice the slight pain in her lips.

Her demeanor didn’t seem fake!

Pei Yuanshao’s eyes darkened two shades. He crumpled the divorce paper in his hand and turned to throw it straight out of the room. The paper ball traveled a trajectory in the air, falling in a parabola into a winnowing basket filled with soil outside the room.

His crimson thin lips parted slightly: “This divorce paper is clearly unacceptable! This husband hasn’t committed any of the seven grounds for divorce, what reason does wife-master have to give me a divorce paper?”

“Huh?” Liu Changning tilted her head, looking him over, her eyes filled with disgust.

Caught red-handed by the wife-master while having an affair, if this couldn’t be considered one of the seven grounds for divorce, then what could?

The man before her was righteous and shameless, making people particularly uncomfortable to look at.

She narrowed her eyes, and when she spoke again, her voice had turned cold: “We’ve been married for over a month, and you lack in virtue, speech, and merit as a husband. Although your appearance is good, I’m just a farm woman and can’t protect your city-toppling beauty. Now that you’ve climbed many high branches and put one green hat after another on my head, divorce is already my greatest concession to you.”

“Concession, is it?”

The smile on the face of the person in front of her grew wider and wider. He walked towards her step by step, his ink-black hair half-tied and half-loose, swaying gracefully with his movements.

Red clothes and black hair, a jade face with phoenix eyes. His eyes swept sideways, his aura fierce.

As the distance between them shortened, he bent down, hooked his lips, and smiled dangerously.

His handsome face came closer and closer. Liu Changning clasped her hands, looked up, her face showing neither nervousness nor shyness.

The tea-colored eyes were calm, as if watching him perform a one-man mime show.

Being treated so casually, Pei Yuanshao’s anger rose. He lowered his voice, his crimson lips pausing at her ear, his breath as cold as pine wood scent spraying on her earlobe.

“Is this husband beautiful?”

Usually when he got this close, any woman would be unable to control herself, wanting to secrete all the hormones in her body to seduce him to sink deeper.

Since he was young, he had been different from other young men. While others would smell a woman’s scent and want to shed all their clothes waiting to be cherished, he felt nothing about this. Women in his eyes were just a set of contours, unrelated to joy or love.

He wasn’t capable, but he was confident he could make her capable!

For the first time in his life, the Emperor’s favorite competed in such matters. He moved even closer, his almond-shaped eyes looking up, shimmering with charm.

But it was useless!

The person before him couldn’t be called a woman, she wasn’t capable!

After repeated seduction attempts, the breath on her body showed no signs of disorder, and her eyes looking at him were calm and annoyed.

Pei Yuanshao’s face darkened two shades. Although he was angry in his heart, he also felt some pity. A woman who wasn’t capable in that aspect would have no descendants in the future! Too pitiful!

Just as he was thinking of letting her off.

A light chuckle came from in front of him, and he looked down.

She had a disgusted look on her face, her gaze sliding over his eyebrows and eyes, landing on the tip of his nose. With her hands behind her back, she said critically, “Large pores, mean-looking nose tip. Ugly, get lost!”

The expression on Pei Yuanshao’s face cracked, burning with anger, his black eyes seemingly able to drip ink.

If it weren’t for the plan in Jinling City, he would have turned and left immediately.

A man shouldn’t associate with a shrew!

He held back again and again, his fingers clenched into a fist, leaving deep marks.

Suppressing his voice, his fierce eyes fell on her, no longer beating around the bush with her, he said hatefully, “Wife-master has escaped death, and it seems your memory has regressed quite a bit. Don’t forget, the matter of divorce is not something you can decide!”

Liu Changning looked up, her gaze burning.

Pei Yuanshao hooked his lips, smiling yet not smiling: “It seems wife-master is forgetful! A month ago, you signed a contract with Lady Yun: Unless Pei Yuanshao leaves voluntarily, Liu Changning cannot divorce at will. It’s in black and white, if you insist on divorcing, then go to court with County Magistrate Guan’s daughter, Lady Yun.”

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“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!? I will never accept that—I will never let you return to him! Even if I have to burn myself to ashes, even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul—I will never let you escape me!”

This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!

At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.

Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.

The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.

Synopsis:

Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?

Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?

Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?

The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.

The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.

Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~

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