Contract Marriage with the Devil Duke (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 23
Orentia couldn’t bring herself to believe it. In her prophetic dream, she and her husband had looked so blissfully happy that the current situation felt all the more bewildering. She desperately wanted to run away.
Yet, it was strangely fascinating to see Dimidius’s breathing gradually calm down. He seemed to be recovering, bit by bit.
Orentia looked down at her own hand again.
‘Could it truly be my holy power that eased His Grace’s pain?’
For now, she had no choice but to think so.
Dimidius’s hand also seemed to be regaining its warmth. Though she could still feel the cold sweat, she was genuinely relieved.
A short while later, Dimidius regained consciousness, gently pulled her hand toward him, and pressed his lips to it. She could feel his soft, full lips against her skin.
As she stared at the hand he’d just kissed so deeply, Orentia’s heart skipped a beat. Her cheeks flushed, and her eyes kept trembling uncontrollably.
‘Why on earth is he doing this?’
But she couldn’t just stand there, heart pounding, without saying anything.
Finally, in a slightly delayed but sharp tone, Orentia cried out,
“What do you think you’re doing right now!”
Even if hand-kissing was typically a gesture men showed women, it was, after all, a sign of affection.
Yet Dimidius had done it with such nonchalance.
Why? Was it just another method to alleviate pain?
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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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