I Beg Your Forgiveness (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 23
“Thank you for the meal, Madam.”
“Nonsense, Marien. Go upstairs and rest.”
“Yes.”
Even as she climbed the stairs, Marien couldn’t shake off her uneasy feeling. For some reason, the back of her neck kept tingling. She deliberately shook her head, as if trying to dispel an ominous thought.
“…Surely nothing serious happened.”
Seated at her desk once more, her face clouded with worry again. This time, her gaze fell upon a yellowed sheet of paper—an unfinished report.
The case was closed; there was no room for doubt. The culprit was clear, and all she needed to do was finalize the report.
Yet, for some reason, Marien couldn’t bring herself to write another word. She recalled those innocent, wide eyes staring straight at her. She remembered the boy’s tear-streaked face, trembling with fear.
An ignorant little boy.
Was it truly fair to hold an extraordinary child accountable? Or, more fundamentally—was he really the culprit? Had she missed something?
She wracked her brain for answers but remained as clueless as before. Perhaps there simply was no right answer.
Back when she studied law, Marien believed the world was divided cleanly into black and white. Good people were rewarded; bad people punished. Rewarding virtue and punishing vice—that had been Marien’s entire worldview.
But the crimes she encountered in the field always contained gray areas—ambiguous zones somewhere between guilt and innocence, hazy and indistinct.
Just as her thoughts deepened—
“Marien!”
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)”
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Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
Wah! Disgusting. What does he do?! Whatever the blood or not, how to lick something on a corpse. Liam is weird.