“I’m fine. It seems like something was wrong for a moment.”
With round eyes, she looked at him and wiped her blood-stained lips with the back of her hand.
Her red lips flattened on the back of her hand before puffing up again.
At that sight, Lakrahan’s heart began to pound as if it were about to explode.
“Why are your lips…”
“Huh? Lakrahan. What are you talking about? I’m fine.”
The moment she grabbed his arm with a worried expression.
Once again, a popping sound was heard as his heart exploded.
“Ugh!”
A more intense pain than before surged.
‘What on earth is this?’
Lakrahan became bewildered.
Every nerve in my body felt restless towards Bercheria. Clearly, there were things I had to do just moments ago, things that seemed quite important, but I couldn’t remember anything. I just wanted to spend the entire day here, holding Bercheria. It felt like it wouldn’t be a waste of time to be embraced in the arms of the woman I love.
‘But if I want to do that, can’t I just do it? What reason is there not to?’
“Lakrahan. Are you really okay?”
Bercheria’s fingers, cautiously examining him, wore the ring he gave her. The woman he loves is now in front of him, wearing the ring he gave her. There were only Lakrahan and Bercheria here, and no one else. Really just the two of them.
“I really don’t know why I should endure it.”
Thunk, Thud!
Groovy was crouched behind Lakrahan’s last name, at the entrance of a vast forest spreading out. He was observing the wolves roaming around this forest. Given the cold nature of the Northern region, the wolves living here were almost like wolves, and there was almost no problem. They gathered in groups, and the largest group had more than ten members. Each one was fierce and rough. Groovy, after two hours of observing the wolves in this area, witnessed them fighting and devouring each other. They were ruthless creatures.
“But is it really good for me to do that?”
No matter how many times he thought about it, the conclusion changed each time. It was a dilemma between the thought that he had to do anything to avoid going to the underground prison and the question of whether it was right to kill others to live.
Fortunately, he had never seen Bercheria, the woman, in person. If he had seen or met her and talked to her, Groovy would never have taken the wolves to catch her.
“I’m sorry. But I have to live too.”
She would understand once she knew how terrible the underground prison was.
“Maybe putting her in the underground prison… that won’t happen, right?”
Sitting blankly for a moment and staring into space, he suddenly woke up when he heard a barking sound in the air.
At the sudden words, Bercheria frowned.
“Lakrahan. What are you talking about?”
“I don’t know. Why are we suffering like this right now?”
“…What?”
The man who had just listed things to do with a rational face was suddenly muttering endless words with opened eyes. Bercheria looked around in confusion. Maybe like when she ate a cookie, did Lakrahan eat something wrong too?
“Lakrahan. Can I take a look?”
“Yeah, look. Quickly. You can look as much as you want.”
She grabbed his mushy cheeks and brought them in front of her eyes.
Maybe Lakrahan ate something wrong, like when she ate cookies.
“Lakrahan, can I take a look?”
“Yeah, look. Quickly. You can look as much as you want.”
She grabbed his mushy cheeks and brought them in front of her eyes.
Lakrahan enjoyed the sensation on his cheeks and kept rubbing his face on the palm of his hand.
“Lakrahan!”
In response to Bercheria’s firm voice, Lakrahan momentarily met her gaze.
She carefully examined Lakrahan’s face. Although she thought she could catch his usual gaze at once, his pupils were still dark and deep.
Bercheria placed her hand on Lakrahan’s cheek and asked in an affectionate voice, “Can you tell me how you’re feeling right now?”
“Hmm.”
Lakrahan let out a sigh with an elevated tone and leaned his head towards Bercheria.
“As much as you want.”
“Just a moment, Lakrahan. You were in the middle of talking.”
“Yeah, go on.”
He murmured, rubbing his forehead against Bercheria’s neck like a puppy.
“Just talk. Hurry up.”
The forehead against her neck felt as hot as a burning ember.
Suddenly, a realization hit.
“Lakrahan, it feels like you have a fever.”
Surprised, Bercheria lifted his head and touched his forehead.
Sure enough, it felt like there was a burning ember on her palm.
“What should we do?”
Lakrahan seemed to be in pain.
The fact that he had walked all the way here while holding Bercheria, wet from yesterday’s sea incident, might be the problem.
While she was fine being held by Lakrahan, he had been exposed to the cold northern wind without clothes all the time.
“Oh.”
Worry flooded in.
Having never nursed a sick person before, she was suddenly scared.
“Lakrahan, tell me. Where does it hurt? Or should I call someone?”
“No.”
He embraced Bercheria’s waist and buried his head in her chest.
“Let’s just be together. Don’t call anyone.”
Since it was something Lakrahan had never said before, she could only stiffen.
“What did you just say?”
“I want to be alone with you.”
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
