Miss Pendleton (Update to C.222 END) - Chapter 173
That night, sitting on Ian’s lap by the fireplace, Laura spoke softly. With his arm around her waist, Ian, who was reading the original text of a novel she was about to translate, responded.
“Really?”
“Yes. It was touching, sad, and fulfilling. The kind of emotions a parent might feel.”
Ian chuckled.
“Good thing Henry and I are only eight years apart. I almost got misunderstood by you.”
“What misunderstanding?”
“That my sister raised my child from another woman.”
“Why would I think that? I know you.”
Ian met Laura’s gaze.
“What kind of man do you know me to be?”
“A true gentleman, refined and principled.”
“Oh, that’s high praise.”
He lightly kissed her lips and returned to his book. Soon, he frowned.
“Damn, I haven’t used French in a while, and now I’m stumbling over every word. Laura, what’s abbé?”
“‘Priest.’”
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
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"They say she’s in a small country at the edge of Asia. She’s writing a novel se
Just said it korea..the country that miss hyde visit..the writer really put effort to include korea in the storyline
Céline had been married for ten years. She’d even lied about her age—she was thi
Henry really has bad eyes..he’d already misjudged 2 women’s age..maybe his ideal is older woman??
"So, I just have to wait?"
This setting is in 19th century so there’s no pregnancy test🧐
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Mrs fairfax is unique lady..the noblewomen has her own way to raise her children without stress
Laura make it kore awkward but she know that Henry’s interests in her not only fleeting moments