Unable to go out into the open without a roof, she eventually ran back into the forest.
As if someone was chasing her closely, she kept hiding inside with a choking face. The memories of the terrible days indiscriminately eroded her mind.
‘No, please…….’
Failing to look ahead, she eventually tumbled down the forest path. Gasping for breath, she got up to find a lake as if by magic.
The glittering surface of the lake looked very warm even though it was still April. Having this beautiful view before her eyes, Ines felt that she had escaped from Romfield just to see this.
With her feet tied in front of the deep water, she momentarily lost herself in that amazing scene.
Unconsciously, she closed her eyes and began to recite a passage from the Bible.
〈But… those who desire too much will eventually go emptyhanded. Those who desire too much will eventually go emptyhanded. Those who desire too much…….〉
Murmuring the same words repeatedly, she walked entranced towards the lake.
〈In the end, you will return emptyhanded.〉
Completing the passage from the Bible, Ines smiled deeply.
But she certainly had no intention of plunging into the water. When she came to her senses, she was already halfsubmerged. The lake water rose to her waist, and her feet didn’t touch the ground.
As she was pulled in and the water rushed into her nose, Ines finally realized what she had done. But it was already too late.
She flailed her arms in the air, but her heavy dress, soaked with water, kept pulling her down.
Even as she was dying, she was in disbelief. Her mind was distant, but the injustice was unbearable.
How could such a life be? To endure those terrible times, escape from prison, and then face death so emptily.
She didn’t know whether she was still breathing or already dead.
The time of death was terribly long and quiet.
At the moment when her body’s senses were numbing, she recalled the passage just above the one she had always memorized and repeated.
If someone offers you a hand and walks ten steps with you, you shall give him all you have.
But God was wrong. She was ready to give everything even now, but no one had reached out to her.
Ines cursed and blamed God for the first time.
But at that moment, she was grabbed by a strong man’s hand, and her feet that had touched the bottom began to rise.
Something hot touched her lips, and the breath she hadn’t thought she needed rushed in all at once. It hurt so much that she struggled, but the firm hand didn’t let her go.
The man who caught her moved his body towards a beam of sunlight that had pierced the water.
That firm arm felt like the lifeline the world had given her. Her oncequiet world began to sway like it had met a storm.
Before losing consciousness, she faced golden eyes as intense as the sun. She became delusional, believing that she was under the gaze of some absolute being she could never reach.
It was a time when Ines’s devotion to one person blossomed.
Then the sound of a knock allowed her to stop thinking about Carson. Susan, who entered the room, slightly bent her knees in greeting.
“Miss.”
As Ines looked at Susan, she approached with a slightly shorter stride than usual.
“A letter has arrived.”
“A letter?”
“Yes, from Sir Joseph.”
Usually, the mistress would have quickly snatched the letter, but as she looked blankly, Susan gathered some courage.
“But… are you meeting him today?”
A secret letter coming meant a request for a meeting.
“I don’t know…….”
At Ines’s vague response, Susan bravely added once more.
“Miss, don’t do that. You have a marriage proposal. It doesn’t seem right to meet Sir Joseph now.”
Ines felt a bit taken aback. Even back then, Susan had surely tried to prevent her from meeting him. But at that time, Ines had lost her temper at Susan, calling her insolent and scolding her.
As she sighed, Susan bowed her head and retreated a few steps.
“I’m sorry. I was presumptuous.”
“No, don’t say that. I know you’re just worried about me.”
Ines sat at the table with the letter, drumming her fingers against it, ‘tap tap tap tap,’ lost in deep thought.
Joseph Brnoa, Joseph Brnoa….
She tried to visualize Joseph’s face. Would she be able to avoid repeating her past life if she didn’t marry him?
The tragic events that had unfolded in this house after she went to Lomfield seemed to chill her spine as though she had witnessed them.
Her mother, who had worried about Ines until she had become pale, her father who had hung himself in the air after losing everything.
She found it difficult to breathe, feeling as if her whole body had been submerged in water due to the horrific images.
“Susan, open the window.”
As the window opened, the sound of pouring rain came through. The rain, along with the recent experiences, replayed before her eyes.
Zemuren, who came to find her and tried to curse her terribly.
The carriage she had run into while trying to escape him.
The cold rainwater that scratched her fallen face on the ground.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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