His face had always been marked by deep loneliness, depression, and the scars of war.
Grace’s face had always been clouded too.
His sister had been struggling with a lack of affection and attention, resorting to excessive behavior.
But the Grace he met today seemed like a completely different person.
‘Whatever the reason, it’s good if both have changed for the better.’
Aiden was relieved, thinking he no longer needed to worry about them.
After cleaning up the dinner table and bathing, Leah went up to the guest room on the second floor first.
The bed was slightly small for two people, but it seemed manageable for one night.
Opening the slanted window, the night sky was dotted with stars like scattered jewels.
‘Beautiful.’
Was this what tranquility felt like? Leah lost herself in the starry sky for a moment.
The thought of Aiden and his wife knowing that a stranger occupied their precious sister’s body was unbearable. How shocked would they be?
‘Everything has a beginning and an end.’
The day to restore everything to its original state would come. For now, that was the only way she could rationalize it. Then she heard footsteps coming up the wooden stairs.
The person who entered the room, as expected, was Terran.
His large stature and build filled the small room, creating an intimate atmosphere.
Seeing Terran, casually dressed in a shirt and pants with his hair unstyled, gave her a different impression.
Leah unwittingly expressed her thoughts aloud.
“You look good.”
“Huh?”
Caught off guard by her blunt compliment, Terran looked slightly bewildered, and Leah didn’t know how to explain.
“No, I meant… you look relaxed. Why did I say…”
“Was that comment about me?”
“Yes.”
“Grace looks healthy, good to see.”
“Really…?”
Their awkward conversation seemed to be settling down.
Both looked at the bed simultaneously. Other than the bed, there was only a small wooden chair in the room, so the bed was the only place to sleep.
“Are you worried?”
Suddenly, Terran’s expression changed. He took a step toward Grace and had a slightly mischievous look on his face.
“No…! You’re a gentleman, Terran, why would I be worried?”
‘I’m not worried. It’s just pitiable that you can’t embrace a woman despite wanting to.’
“Even gentlemen are men, right?”
“That’s true. Anyway, I trust you, Terran.”
‘I feel sorry that you want to hold a woman but can’t.’
Leah smiled brightly and lay down on the bed first.
“I can sleep on this chair.”
Leah looked at the crude wooden chair Terran pointed to with his head.
Sleeping in a chair all night? Who would be so heartless to allow that?
“I used to take naps standing up on the battlefield.”
“This isn’t a battlefield.”
Leah patted the space next to her on the bed, but Terran’s eyes looked very complicated.
Finally, Terran moved. He slowly walked over to the bed and sat down next to Leah. Then he took off his shoes and lay down beside her.
Somehow, the two ended up lying together in the same bed, staring at the low ceiling.
“Uh, I have a bit of a rough sleeping habit.”
Leah realized she had made a huge mistake.
Whether Terran could perform as a man or not, just lying in the same bed with him was a significant event. Her heart raced, and her body tensed.
Unconsciously, she started rambling about how rough her sleeping habits were, how she might grind her teeth, or even roll off the bed.
‘Why isn’t he responding?’
Leah glanced over at him.
‘What? He’s already asleep?’
Her efforts to ease the tension seemed in vain as Terran had already fallen asleep, and Leah couldn’t take her eyes off him.
Leah eventually lay down completely to observe his sleeping face.
‘The sleeping beauty in the cabin.’
His thick eyebrows, long eyelashes, high nose bridge, smooth jawline, and neatly shaped forehead with tousled black hair.
Moreover, he slept without causing any worry to a woman.
Indeed… such a perfect man, but ‘that’ was a significant flaw.
Leah fell asleep in that position, admiring the sleeping Terran.
Terran quietly opened his eyes to the sound of her gentle breathing. He was startled to find Grace’s face almost on his pillow. Their lips were so close that they would touch if he turned his head the wrong way.
‘Grace, do you know how seductive it is to breathe into a man’s ear like that?’
Probably not, or else she wouldn’t have slept so peacefully, breathing like a breeze in a meadow.
She was a woman who didn’t know her seduction was seduction.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
