As If I've Never Loved (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 73
The dining room, silent as if time had frozen, was breached by the faintest crack of footsteps disturbing its heavy stillness.
Ansel, who had been reading a report, tilted his head slightly upward.
“Miss Bailey…”
He might well have slumped in disappointment upon realizing the figure standing at the doorway was not the one he had been waiting for—but instead, Ansel straightened his back and fixed his frosty gaze.
It was because the maid’s expression bore an unmistakable air of urgency.
Wasn’t it said that the greater one’s longing, the deeper one’s anxiety? In that fleeting silence, ominous thoughts surged relentlessly through his mind, claiming it completely.
Noticing the fear thinly veiled behind his icy, transparent eyes—like shards of carved glass—the maid quickly spoke up.
“She wasn’t in the attic, so I checked the bathroom and found her asleep in the bathtub.”
“…….”
At those words, the young master froze like a statue. After slowly releasing the breath he’d been holding, he finally parted his lips.
“Has this happened before?”
“Not since her first day. Although… her complexion truly didn’t look well…”
Ansel set down the documents he had been reading onto the dining table. Then, with a gravity far beyond how he’d read them, he asked,
“Why did her face look that way?”
“When she returned, her face was pale, her lips blue—as if she were shivering from a fever. Lately, mornings and evenings have been quite cold, yet she insisted on wearing thin clothing. The clothes left outside the bathroom were always damp with sweat, so the walk back must have felt even colder.”
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
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