Regret With All Your Might (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 73
Ha. Madelaine Duke, Giovani couldn’t bring himself to finish his sentence. He exhaled a heavy breath and dragged his hand down his face.
So my jewel of a daughter has been avoiding me lately—all because of that girl, Olivia.
The moment he faced the truth he’d desperately tried to ignore, his breath caught as if someone were strangling him. It was unbearable—worse than despair.
Just how far does that girl intend to make me suffer?
“…Whatever she said, it doesn’t matter, Essela.”
Gathering his fading wits, Giovani spoke slowly. It was a statement meant for Essela—and for himself as well.
Nothing Olivia had said mattered.
“I will erase Madelaine. All of it.”
Her claim to erase Madelaine,
“I didn’t make you unhappy, Your Grace.”
And those words, spoken as if to provoke him.
They were utter nonsense. That girl hadn’t begun making Giovani miserable the moment she entered the mansion.
It started twenty-one years ago, that night when her mother—a courtesan who sold herself for coin—lay drunk beside him. From that very night, when he’d met privately with Duke Elkin, the leader of the noble faction, she had already begun bringing him misery.
Thus, her only usefulness was to enter the imperial palace in Essela’s stead.
“…It does matter.”
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
Dear lord I got so much second hand embarrassment from reading Maria’s scenes. Idk if I should feel bad or delighted that she’s getting all she deserves
She is back to the capital so excited for the banquet
Leopold is such a butthole. Its a sad situation all around for the girls in his life. All stuck in the perpetual cycle of abuse.