An Incomplete Divorce (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 98
“I’m sorry. I should have told you sooner…….”
Elaine looked flustered, her expression a mix of discomfort and guilt, utterly at a loss.
Olivia merely stared blankly at her cooled teacup.
“I—I only heard about it recently myself.”
At last, her eyes—dry and barren like winter branches—flickered toward Elaine.
“That day, the day you won your first match. The night of the dinner at Riverside. Madame Lauren had drunk a bit too much… I heard it from her. I wanted to tell you earlier, but I couldn’t. I’m sorry, Olivia.”
“Madame Lauren too?”
Olivia’s face turned deathly pale.
Just how widespread was this deception?
Shame burned hot across Olivia’s cheeks.
“Yes. When the news came out that the Marquis had bought the Anne Julever necklace… and I commented that letting you wear it at the Rose Ball was the worst possible move… Madame Lauren told me she had no choice—it was the Marquis’s request.”
“!”
“He apparently asked that you be made instantly recognizable, even without seeing your face…… Madame Lauren said she only realized what that truly meant afterward. She honestly never imagined it would lead to scandalous photographs like that…… Oh, Olivia?”
A wave of dizziness hit her, as if struck hard from behind.
“Are you all right?”
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)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
Sounds like someone is planning to make a misunderstanding between our couple
Here we go again, poor Olivia always getting hurt by men
Very painful for both of them, so sad that people just won’t let them be happy together.