Did I Ever Love You? (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 23
Joo Ran had dressed to the nines to attend the gathering.
From early morning, she’d gotten her hair, makeup, and nails perfectly done.
On top of that, she’d layered herself in luxury: her favorite C-brand dress and cardigan, a limited-edition handbag from H, and pearl earrings and a necklace from M—wrapped head to toe in high-end designer goods.
Today was the day of the monthly “Emerald Club” meeting.
The Emerald Club had started as a modest gathering of affluent wives but had now become the premier social circle for politically and financially powerful madams—an essential conduit for arranging elite marriages or discussing business.
Anyone could attend once or twice, but gaining true entry wasn’t easy.
It was more insular than any other political or business circle.
A single bad rumor could instantly ruin you—no big deal here.
That was exactly what the Emerald Club was like.
Though C&C had an official madam named Kim Ji Won, she’d been deeply involved in running the company’s subsidiaries and hadn’t shown up to these social gatherings at all for the past five or six years.
Kang Joo Ran had seized that opening, and for the past five years, she’d boldly attended these events as if she were C&C’s true madam, building up an impenetrable face of confidence.
Including the Emerald Club, there were three or four such gatherings, and Joo Ran never missed a single one—no matter what.
Being wealthy alone didn’t make you upper class.
You had to secure your place within these social circles. Only then could you become a true winner.
But when Joo Ran first showed up at the gathering, people had absolutely not welcomed her.
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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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