The woman had shining golden hair like a halo, but she exuded a clean and elegant atmosphere, like a pure and graceful lily.
“Nice to meet you for the first time, Your Highness. I am the saint of the Holy Empire, Stella.”
“A saint… I’ve heard of it.”
As Carlos scrutinized her, Stella smiled gently in response to Carlos’s gaze.
“It’s an honor that Your Highness knows me.”
“So, what’s the reason for the great saint to visit me?”
“Well…”
Stella lowered her long eyelashes, and a tearful smile appeared.
“Because I saw Your Highness suffering from an unintended sin.”
“It’s a ridiculous story.”
Even with Carlos’s contemptuous laughter, Stella, like a saint, did not lose her dignity. After elegantly sipping the tea that the courtier had offered, Stella spoke softly.
“I know it’s a story that is hard to understand. Perhaps my virtue is not enough to convey the words of God. But in my eyes…”
Stella’s gaze reached Carlos’s arm.
“I see Your Highness’s pain.”
Carlos suddenly felt uncomfortable, as if he had exposed his scar. With a raised eyebrow, Carlos asked Stella.
“So, what do you intend to do for me?”
“Please allow me to pray for Your Highness.”
“What?”
“Then I can offer a great blessing to Your Highness, so that you can forget the pain.”
Stella’s blue eyes were tinted with a strange light.
‘I was mistaken. I had no shame to the extent of forgetting whose possession it was.’
However, as a saint, she decided to give him one more chance.
Who the real owner of that place was.
I was afraid that Johan would ask me about things I didn’t know.
“Did you have a good time?”
But Johan didn’t ask me anything about my visit to the temple. He just talked about other things, saying he brought pictures and gifts that I would like.
‘Isn’t Johan curious?’
But because of that, I also found it difficult to ask Johan more about that incident.
‘Isn’t there a reason why Johan doesn’t ask anything?’
I pondered over the dilemma while watching Johan play with the spirit baby. Johan was shaking a newly bought rattle for the spirit baby.
“Is this fun?”
The spirit baby laughed cheerfully, waving its short arms.
“Abu, abu!”
The spirit baby didn’t hesitate to show familiarity only to me and Johan. Perhaps considering us as parents, it enjoyed being with us.
As Johan was shaking the rattle, he asked, “Estelle, do you have any worries?”
“Oh, no. I want to try shaking it too.”
However, the spirit baby seemed to want to hold it on its own. So, I handed it the handle.
“Oo, oo-oo.”
Thump, drip.
But it still didn’t hold well with its small hands. The rattle kept rolling off.
“Oh, seems difficult to grab.”
In the end, I ended up shaking the cute rattle myself.
‘Is it because it’s a spirit?’
Playing with the spirit baby, all complicated thoughts were forgotten, and I just laughed. Having a good time playing with Johan, it was time to put the baby to sleep.
A guest arrived at the imperial palace.
“His Majesty sent a messenger to Duke Blancart.”
[This summer festival will host a hunting contest in the Pascalaros Forest.]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
