Shall I Save You, Duke? (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 23
Within the Permanence territory, on Halscht Street.
A woman wearing her robe pulled low over her face was secretly watching the checkpoint from behind a wall.
Where her gaze landed, people lined up in a row, undergoing inspection by the security force as they tried to exit through the city gate.
Although a movement restriction order was in effect, those with special reasons were said to be allowed to leave the territory after passing inspection.
Watching this scene, Lina scoffed at herself.
“Staying like this really makes me feel like an actual criminal.”
As time passed, the security force’s inspections grew increasingly strict. Because of this, she couldn’t stay holed up in the inn forever.
She wasn’t sure if it was just her imagination, but even the innkeeper’s way of looking at her seemed somehow suspicious.
‘I really need to make a decision now.’
While she dithered, time slipped away helplessly.
‘With them searching so desperately like that, how could I possibly walk back to the mansion on my own?’
After standing behind the wall for a long while, biting only her lips, Lina took out the money from her pocket.
Five copper coins.
After paying the lodging fee right away, she’d have only about five shillings left.
“Huh—. Let’s return to the inn first. Then….”
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
he already has a fiance,run away now before you get tangled up
the duke wants lina to be by his side because of the curse
thats right all the ones who bullied lina will be in big trouble