There Is No Paradise Where I Ran Away To (14 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 73
Facing Edwin, who was rowing, Vivian looked down at the water parting from the prow of the ferry. It felt strange—she had always seen the lake surface churning beneath her, yet now, floating on the lake without getting wet, felt oddly unfamiliar.
The Edwin ferry, which had left the dock, had already reached the middle of the lake.
“You row well.”
Though the sound of rippling water diluted the silence, it still felt insufficient, so she deliberately spoke. At the flattery, he curved his lips in a cool smile and stretched out his long legs, relaxing comfortably.
“I rowed enough to be sick of it back when I was in the army.”
“Oh….”
Vivian nodded slowly. Once again, conversation faded away.
Though this place was certainly wider and more open than that closet on that day, it felt little different—because they were adrift in the middle of the water. They were, in effect, trapped in a ferry as small as that closet.
Vivian decided to set aside despairing thoughts. He surely wasn’t reckless enough to provoke a fight on the water.
“I happened to hear from Sophie that Your Grace served in the army. How did you end up becoming a soldier?”
Sophie and Charlotte had praised him endlessly, from his days as an ordinary soldier until he earned his officer’s badge. They never stopped talking about the Battle of Greenford—the beginning of his legend—and his feats in battles afterward, how extraordinary a soldier he was, until Vivian had memorized all his accomplishments by heart.
But neither Sophie nor Charlotte had told her why he became a soldier, why he worked so hard, or why he eventually left the service.
More precisely, they themselves didn’t know the reason.
“Because I wanted war.”
It sounded dissonant—someone with a face utterly unsuited for war expressing a desire for it.
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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
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