I Possessed the Wicked Empress (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 23
A taut tension, like a tightly bound rope, hung between Ermedilin and Valière.
Yet Henri’s expression as he watched over Valière remained perfectly calm.
“I’m glad you’ve come to your senses. I have urgent business to attend to, so I must take my leave now.”
Henri cast a gentle look toward Valière until the very end as he stepped out of her bedroom.
‘Did he not hear?’
They had whispered, but if he’d been standing right nearby, he surely would have overheard—and his complete lack of reaction felt unsettling.
Neither Ermedilin nor Valière had any intention of speaking to each other further.
“Take good care of yourself.”
Ermedilin left behind a perfunctory farewell and returned to her own room.
“Runi.”
“Yes?”
“Since when has His Majesty been here?”
“Well… it seemed like just a little while ago?”
“What do you mean by ‘a little while’? How long was he in Valière’s room before leaving?”
“Hmm… about one or two minutes?”
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
Wait what the hell. I lowkey hate henri but i feel bad for her to have to suffer with a loser like him omgn