The Plan of the Terminally-Ill Wife's Divorce (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 14
They say the first night opens a new world, like stars twinkling brightly before your eyes.
The first night with the male protagonist was the flower of romance novels.
In every novel I read, without exception, they described how firm the male lead’s thick arms were as he held his beloved bride, how hot his body temperature was.
As if the man beside me right now was radiating hot heat.
Hair as black as a crow, with deep darkness in his black eyes. A man so handsome that anyone would gasp in admiration.
Such a man was now with me on the bed. I was trying my hardest not to be conscious of that fact.
‘Calm down, Anette! Nothing must happen here! Evangeline is probably watching me from beyond the River Styx, holding an axe!’
Whoosh, whoosh. It felt like I could hear the sound of Evangeline’s axe, which shouldn’t be audible.
Ptooey, as if spitting into my hand… Ah, sister, since you’re the heroine of a romance novel, I’ll stop imagining anything beyond this!
Of course, extras who touch the heroine’s man deserve death.
Since we’re already married, should I just sneak a quick touch before the heroine appears and then put everything back in place?
There wasn’t a single person whose life didn’t get complicated after touching the male lead.
‘So, as the nominal wife of Darius, I’ll have the wedding with Darius and go through a first night in name only, but in reality, we’ll just sleep like friends.’
Sounds easy, right?
‘After all, it might be faster to find the original novel that might exist somewhere in this world and tear it to shreds with both hands. That might open a new escape route for me.’
“…Is there anything uncomfortable?”
“Yes?”
What did he just say? Actually, I’m so nervous right now that I can’t hear anything he says.
“Something like coming here in person and finding it different from what you thought. If there’s anything you want, I’ll pay more attention.”
“Yes?”
“Anette.”
The moment he called my name, I immediately put distance between us on the bed where we were sitting together and clutched the blanket.
It was a spinal reflex.
No holy axe from Evangeline!
“W-Well, I don’t think I’m mentally prepared yet? Ah, actually, I made a special vow at the temple, and that is…!”
“I was about to say let’s just sleep now. Aren’t you tired? After moving around like that.”
My thoughts, which were pondering what vow to claim at the temple to avoid this night, stopped.
“If you want something tonight.”
Darius said, avoiding my gaze.
“That’s your right, but I would appreciate it if I could consent too.”
Wow, that’s what I wanted to say, but could you turn back time for a moment?
Why are you the one refusing? Why are you pretending not to want it? I didn’t want it either? I was going to refuse too?
As if I’m desperate or something!
Darius thought Anette must be disappointed.
When a man and woman meet and hold a wedding, confirming the marital relationship is the duty of the couple on the first night.
Anette had a bold personality. Though they hadn’t known each other long, she probably thought to quickly get over what needed to be done.
“Are you really not going to touch me?”
Just looking at her asking this.
“Let me sleep peacefully today, make it clear. I’d prefer not to do it if I don’t have to?”
Her blue eyes looked at Darius coyly.
Darius felt uncomfortable in this situation. He mostly moved with the knight order, and in the barren north, there weren’t many opportunities to see women his age.
In his view, the creature called a woman—no, Anette—was too small and soft.
Anette’s skin, carefully washed for the wedding night, was white. Why was her hair so silky? All of it made Darius inwardly tense.
It was still awkward to even accompany Anette, let alone embrace her.
‘How do all people handle marital relations?’
Even if he got criticized for postponing the couple’s duty, he wanted to pretend not to see and just sleep for now. He was only just 20 years old. As soon as he reached marriageable age, he sold himself into a political marriage.
“It doesn’t have to be tonight.”
“I want to support Your Grace’s heart and that attitude. If you tell me when that day will be for you, it will be an important reference for my life…”
“Do you want to sleep with a man you’ve only known for a short time that badly?”
“No.”
Finally, when Darius countered with a flushed face, Anette jumped back in surprise.
‘He had to go this far to back down.’
“No, it’s not.”
Darius, tense, didn’t notice that her voice carried a good deal of grievance.
“I know you’re my wife, and I know there are duties we must fulfill as a couple.”
He wouldn’t abandon his duty. He just needed time. Time to get used to a bed where someone slept with him, not alone…
He didn’t want to just go through with it for the reason of marital duty without knowing what he was doing with whom.
He had married Anette Fosse. Only after lying in bed did those words keep shaking his heart. Apart from the feeling of not wanting to do anything tonight, that fact kept coming to mind.
He had a wife. In the bedroom where he used to lie alone, now two people’s breathing could be heard.
“Still, you have to visit my bedroom often.”
Anette said, fidgeting with her fingers.
“I don’t want to hear that the Grand Duke couple has a bad relationship. For my face, please sleep in my room at least once a week.”
It doesn’t have to be anything. Her voice adding that sounded somehow lonely to Darius’s ears.
‘This person must feel very awkward too, leaving a familiar hometown for a new place. Maybe that’s why she’s pretending to be more cheerful.’
Impulsively, Darius grabbed Anette’s white hand.
“…Let’s hold hands and sleep. We’re nominally a couple, after all.”
Anette’s eyes, facing him, wavered.
“I’m not rejecting you. I’m not shaming you. It’s just that you’re still awkward to me.”
If we get closer, he could treat her better.
“Hands, won’t we let go while sleeping anyway?”
“As I said, I’ll visit the room as often as possible. I can’t guarantee when you’ll… want to do that thing, though.”
Anette ground her teeth at Darius’s way of quickly glossing over the uncomfortable part.
“What I want is… No, thinking about it, my authority is something I complete myself, not leaning on Your Grace. Sleeping together just for show is very unhealthy. I’ll cancel what I just said. Just sleep wherever you want.”
Anette tried hard to pull her hand from his. She still seemed shocked from being rejected on the first night.
As a knight, he felt sorry for shaming a lady, but he couldn’t yield any more.
“I won’t leave your side tonight. I won’t let you caress a cold, empty bed alone, so sleep peacefully.”
Tightly, Darius awkwardly turned his head while putting strength into the held hand.
At his calm appearance alone, Anette pounded her chest.
‘I don’t need someone else’s man either! I’ll have a real first night with a totally cool guy who only looks at me!’
Amidst the crossed conversations and unwanted misunderstandings, Darius and Anette’s first night was fading away.
“Did you have a comfortable first night, Your Grace the Grand Duke. Lady Anette.”
Lady Ygritte’s voice woke them up. She had come to confirm if the lord couple had properly spent the first night as per the vow.
‘Mmm…’
“Good morning. Lady Ygritte.”
Lady Ygritte, smiling brightly, approached the bed and paused for a moment.
“I’m glad to see that the two of you really get along well.”
Blink, blink. Only then did I come to my senses and was startled to see the thick arm wrapped around my waist.
‘I tried to sleep as far from Darius as possible last night!’
Darius, you sneaky bastard! You said we’d just hold hands and sleep! Why is your arm around my waist!
Held in a man’s firm arm, I had been sleeping without even feeling uncomfortable.
It was a morning where my efforts to somehow pry off the hand clinging like a leech while Darius was asleep and fall satisfied into sleep became futile.
“Anette?”
Moreover, Darius, waking up late, looked flustered as soon as he saw my face.
“It might be hard if you’re too aggressive.”
His eyes wavered.
“Is this why everyone fears their wives…”
‘Your arm is the one clinging to me!’
I didn’t do it!
“The laughter of young children should be heard again in the north. I’m glad it seems my wish will soon come true.”
Not knowing my burning insides, Lady Ygritte continued listing plausible compliments.
I guarantee there’s not a single sincere word in there.
“The territory folk are waiting for an audience, Your Grace.”
Lady Ygritte said in a gentle voice.
“I’m sorry to interrupt the affectionate couple, but I must steal the groom from the lady. There’s a mountain of work.”
“Anette will accompany me to the office too.”
Lady Ygritte blinked.
“Your Grace, the office for the new bride? Isn’t that too harsh a treatment?”
“It’s a tradition in our family for the newlywed bride to accompany the groom in all his schedules. So the groom and bride can get close.”
“Of course that’s true. But since the lady might still be tired, wouldn’t it be more enjoyable to tour the castle with me instead…”
“I’m fine.”
I smiled as if I couldn’t contain my excitement.
‘We’re happy.’
I couldn’t be happier seeing Lady Ygritte forcibly agree. It’s always fun to screw over someone who hates me.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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Chapter Comments (99)
What is this? A demon queen? Could Annette be the demon queen?
Oh my God, I hate misunderstandings! Poor hero, you misunderstood Annette!
Poor hero, the north is so barren, and they even steal from them.
Inline Comments (2)
‘Remember the original story. Darius belongs to Evangeline Stockwork.’
Why does she insist that Darius would never like her? Isn’t she already defying the original work by changing the events?
‘In the original story, Anette was assassinated in the annex by Darius’s unknown
Who really could that be? If she was just the arranged wife and an enemy daughter at that, who could possibly plan on killing her?
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Miioo
Hahaha, how embarrassing, Annette! You should reject him and correct the misunderstanding.
Miioo
What is this? I feel uneasy about Ygritte; she’s hiding something.