49 Times Left, Master! (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 173
What you saw was a mistake. As if in reply, my disciple’s expression returned to its usual calm.
I awkwardly clasped my hands together and measured the span of distance between my shoes and my disciple’s.
A tiny ant scurried quickly across the center.
“It’s the truth, Your Highness.”
Worried he might be angry, I added quietly. Fortunately, my voice this time was quite gentle.
My disciple’s hand moved through the air as if stirring the path the ant had taken. His uncertain, trembling hand settled gently onto mine.
My heart pounded once, hard, as though he’d placed his hand directly over it. I jerked my head up. My disciple was looking at our joined hands.
Perhaps sensing my gaze, he finally lifted his eyes. His expression, at least, remained calm.
“Why—why, Your Highness? Why are you holding my hand?”
“The candy earlier… I gave it to all of Master’s cousin sisters.”
“Not just to Do Hwa?”
“I told her to take it and share it among them.”
After saying that, my disciple turned away. But since his hand still rested atop mine, I had no choice but to follow him step for step.
We walked down the alley in single file, looking for all the world like I was being arrested.
It must have been a shortcut, for after only a short while, we arrived directly at the square.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
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Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
This girl can’t learn anything from her previous mistakes 🙄
Probably the Empress would be really upset saviour doing the dirty job in this situation 😅
Sadly, it is indeed the safest choice. Though having the happiness so close and let is slip – this could be really painful (