The woman made of unusually bright and soft things seemed like a wellmade porcelain doll at first glance, so delicate that it felt like she could easily shatter with a mere touch.
However, she did not seem frail.
Her unusually deep blue eyes easily moistened with tears, but she never knew surrender.
Whenever she wore that look in her eyes, she always accomplished whatever she had set her mind on.
“……What makes you think I would want that?”
But this time, she had chosen the wrong opponent.
Calyx exhaled roughly, distorting his face.
He couldn’t deny that his gaze unknowingly went to Riviana.
However, that didn’t mean he had lost his reason. He didn’t know how much Riviana knew and why she was seeking him out, but he was not on her side.
Just as he didn’t do anything despite suspecting there was a hidden hand behind the death of the Duke of Craiton’s grace.
“I told you. I’ll do whatever you want.”
“Can a woman who’s lost even a halfsuccessor and has nothing but a lost name have anything to give me?”
Even when she deliberately uttered disrespectful words, Riviana’s expression did not change.
On the contrary, she just smiled in this situation.
“I’m not oblivious to the gaze of the man chasing me.”
Riviana tilted her head and laughed. Thanks to that, her exposed white neck glowed even whiter under the sunlight.
Calyx exhaled roughly at her gaze that seemed to know everything.
“I won’t deny it. The shaking is a fact.”
However, that wasn’t all.
Calyx, who had quickly approached, growled low like a wary beast towards Riviana.
Getting swept up in emotions wasn’t an age thing, and that applied to men as well.
“Thousands, no, tens of thousands of times. I thought about it so much I couldn’t count.”
“……”
“You couldn’t possibly do it. At least you.”
“……”
“But in the end, I had to admit it. That you betrayed me.”
The man’s hand suddenly stretched out and stopped in front of the woman’s nose.
If it reached out just a little more, it would have touched.
On that slender and fine neck.
A deerlike stretched neck that was so slender that it seemed like there would be room to spare even if he gripped it, he could easily hold it in his hand and ruthlessly break it if he so wished.
But he couldn’t do it.
The tips of Calyx’s fingers trembled. His veins were bulging on the back of his hand.
The beautiful woman was unchanging as if time were meaningless.
On the other hand, the man’s hand, which couldn’t do anything, wasn’t like that at all.
Hot breath flowed from Calyx’s tightly closed lips.
Although wellcovered with a glove, he knew better than anyone what the hidden hand looked like.
Swordsmanship is a noble man’s virtue, so he naturally picked up a sword from a young age. The calluses on a man’s hand from holding a sword were praised as an attractive element, so there was nothing wrong with that.
But none of what he had learned helped him survive.
He had to learn the sword again to live, and his tough hand, which could not be hidden by thin fabric, had become a sharp shape that he could hardly take off his glove anywhere.
Actually, not only his hand was broken.
“I’ve thought as much as I missed you. I want to break that beautiful neck that everyone praised.”
“Then do it.”
“Do you want me to do it?”
Her body shrank back at his undisguised killing intent.
But that was it. While she was instinctively tense, she was still smiling apart from that.
Calyx furrowed his brows.
Something soft touched over his glove.
“If you want to, you can kill me now.”
“……”
“But it won’t be fun. You’ll regret it more than anything.”
Speaking in whispers, Riviana’s voice was soft, but strong. She was certain.
“Regret? Is there something to regret now?”
“Shaking means you have lingering feelings. And usually, lingering feelings arise from not being able to end it.”
“……”
“You should see the end this time. A perfect ending. Then kill me.”
“What the hell am I going to do.”
It touched.
At the realization, Calyx’s jaw muscles bulged. A slender white finger smoothly climbed over the glove and grazed the tender flesh inside his unprotected wrist.
“I told you. I’ll do anything.”
“……”
Calyx’s face was harshly crumpled again at the sight of her meeting his gaze once more.
Riviana was still not afraid of him, no. To be exact, she had nothing to fear.
There was no meaning to fear for someone who was prepared for death.
In the end, Calyx could not push away Riviana’s hand.
[This is the time separator]“Riviana!”
Bake, who arrived late, found me.
I was wideeyed at the sight of Bake, who looked not so well, having run here in a hurry.
“Look at this sweat. Why did you run like this? Are you okay?”
“Well, that is, haa, huff…”
“Rest for a while. No, do you want to drink some water? It would be good to calm down.”
In the moment I turned to find a handkerchief, I staggered over when my wrist was suddenly seized.
In a state of surprise, I hurriedly pounded on Bake’s chest as I fell into his arms.
“Why, why are you doing this.”
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
