“I’m going to take the kids and visit home today.”
“Home?”
“Yeah. I might stay overnight.”
“Oh… sleepover?”
At Eily’s words about staying overnight, Gideon unconsciously tightened the corners of his mouth.
“Sure, why not? It’s been quite a while since I visited home.”
“Yeah. So, go and visit. Also, to show the kids around.”
“Right. It might be a bit lonely without the kids… But it’s good to visit and show them around.”
“Is that so? Should we just go next time?”
“No, no! Why wait until next time? I’ll go with you next time, and this time, I’ll go with the kids and rest well. Completely.”
“Alright, then. Go and visit.”
Eily nodded as if she understood.
Gideon, not letting his guard down until Eily and the kids left the mansion, continued to express a disappointed expression.
Soon after the carriage carrying Eily and the kids disappeared at the front gate, Gideon stretched out his arms and shouted.
“Freedom!”
With joyous shouts of relief, Gideon, in the excitement, unknowingly shook his shoulders here and there. In the long-awaited moment of having time alone, Gideon began to think about what he could do with a joyful heart.
“Butler, I won’t be sleeping tonight, so you don’t have to tidy up the bedroom. Ah, and I’m going horseback riding right away, so prepare for that.”
“Yes? But the madam and the lady said that they won’t go horseback riding for a while…”
“Only for today, just for today. Please.”
The time given to him for this one day was incredibly precious. However, as Gideon was about to move busily, he was startled again by the sound of a carriage approaching.
“What’s this?”
Thinking that Eily had returned, Gideon hurriedly approached the carriage.
However, it wasn’t the Earl’s carriage. The carriage door soon opened, and a boy with silver hair and pink eyes got off first.
“Uncle!”
“…Theo?”
As if glad, the child immediately rushed to hug Gideon. Following him, a girl got off the carriage slowly, and finally, Delina revealed herself.
“Hello, Uncle.”
“Tilia, too… Uh, and…”
Seeing Delina, Gideon’s face wrinkled.
“Why are you here again?”
“I came to see my brother. Came to see Eily. With my nieces and nephews.”
With a freezing tone, Delina laughed. In response, Gideon extended his hand.
“Eily went to her parents’ house with the kids today and won’t be back. So, you should go back soon.”
“What? Really? I came all this way to have a good chat.”
Disappointed, Delina casually moved towards the mansion. Gideon, terrified, blocked Delina.
“What, why are you coming in?”
“Why not? Since I came all the way here, I can’t just turn back.”
Looking at the two children, Delina smiled.
“Tilia, Theo. Ask Uncle to play a lot. Got it?”
“Yes!”
Upon Delina’s words, Theo, as if excited, circled around Gideon, answering.
Tilia also approached Gideon and stuck to his leg. Gideon sighed as if in helplessness. Meanwhile, the butler approached Delina and bowed.
“Have you come, miss?”
“Oh, really. Now that I’m no longer a miss, he keeps calling me miss.”
“Yes. That may be so, but to us, you still seem like a miss.”
Delina walked through the corridor, receiving greetings from servants she hadn’t seen in a long time. Gideon, who was following with the kids on both sides, already looking quite tired, asked.
“You… You’ll go back before dinner, right?”
“Hmm, originally, I was planning to sleepover.”
“Sleepover? What are you going to sleep?”
Gideon was astonished at Delina’s words.
“How lonely and dull would your husband be without you and the kids? Anyway, Eily is not here, so just wait for a while and leave quickly. Okay?”
“Well, should I see how well my brother is playing with the kids first?”
Shrugging her shoulders, Delina entered Gideon’s study. Later, Gideon also sat with the kids, and the servants brought snacks and juices to the table.
“You too, quickly eat this and leave.”
“But we want to play more with Uncle!”
Theo, who was holding a handful of cookies, spoke with crumbs all over his mouth. In response, Gideon chuckled and brushed off the crumbs on Theo’s mouth.
“Why do you keep getting crumbs on you like this? Anyway, you must take after your mom, being not so pretty.”
“Our mom is not ugly!”
Theo replied, widening his eyes. Tilia, who had been quietly eating cookies, also spoke up.
“Uncle is also a twin like mom.”
“That’s right.”
“If you say that, it’s like spitting on the mirror, as mom told us.”
“…”
Seeing Tilia, who finished speaking and smiled, Gideon looked at Delina as if to say she was impressive.
“Her personality is totally like a diamond, isn’t it?”
“Yeah. Well, everyone says that.”
“Anyway, these two, even though they’re twins, are completely different.”
Although Tilia and Theo, born as twins of the Diamon family, looked similar, their atmosphere and personalities were entirely different.
Especially Tilia, with a personality resembling Noah, was often called Little Noah. Delina, who watched this with an amused expression, asked.
“Oh, right. Brother, are you attending the palace party next week?”
“What? What party?”
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
