“It means to kiss the back of the hand. When young ladies or noblewomen extend their hands, it usually means that.”
Surprised, Casius looked at the back of his hand with a strange expression.
He cleared his throat, then firmly pressed his lips to the back of her hand and pulled them away with a startled face.
Casius lifted his head, and his golden eyes narrowed.
Casius let go of Lenisha’s hand and leaned back against the chair.
As if he had received a kiss himself.
“Why like that?”
Casius whispered with a restrained voice.
“You always do this, don’t you? When you meet young ladies?”
Lenisha narrowed her eyes.
Casius’s face turned red.
As if he had gone in and out of a hot fiery pit.
Lenisha moistened her lips.
“What were you thinking?”
Casius was taken aback by her soft voice.
He quickly covered his lips with the back of his hand.
Then, lifting his head, he shook it vigorously.
It meant he did not want to say anything.
“Really? No thoughts at all?”
Lenisha deliberately lowered her voice, and Casius’s eyes reddened.
Casius furiously rubbed his lips.
The skin, fragrant like sweet cream, touched his lips and then fell away.
He had never experienced anything like this.
Lenisha spoke in a cheerful tone.
“You really don’t belong in this world.”
Casius slowly blinked, and his narrowed eyes returned to normal.
‘Is that the price of power?’
Anyone in the empire would have heard of Casius and the red snake.
Casius was the ‘Knight of the Red Snake’, a hero who gave his body for power.
He looked powerless just now.
The back of the hand fell sharply from Casius’s lips.
“……I was taught not to even touch the fingertips of someone who will not be my wife.”
Casius seemed to have lived in a very conservative era.
Lenisha smiled kindly.
“You had a romantic education.”
Lenisha was always dignified.
Standing tall at the highest point, her back straight as an arrow.
“I, too, like such romance.”
But now, Lenisha looked so frail, as if she could crumble at a mere touch.
Just like in the greenhouse.
It was the Emperor, that bastard, who made Lenisha like this.
Hesitating with affection, Casius knelt down and sat on the floor.
Casius pulled Lenisha’s white feet towards him.
Lenisha’s composure crumbled for the first time.
“What are you doing right now……!”
“……It’s cold.”
Casius enclosed Lenisha’s small feet within his hands.
He noticed it when he held her hand. That her hands and feet were growing cold.
The warmth Casius bestowed colored Lenisha.
Her frozen toes were gradually warming up.
As hot as Casius’s body temperature.
Lenisha reached out and brushed Casius’s hair.
Casius’s messy hair flowed through Lenisha’s fingers.
Thicker and coarser than Lenisha’s, yet smooth.
Casius’s cheeks turned red.
His heart was beating.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]The night ripened.
The look in Lexus’s eyes was calm as he watched the sleeping canary.
Tomorrow, Lenisha will leave the imperial palace.
What could Lenisha and Casius be talking about in his bedroom right now?
Whispering love? Or thinking about killing Lexus?
Neither was particularly delightful.
Lexus locked the bedroom because he could not sleep.
He feared Duke Lotera would drag Lexus away.
He knew that locking the door from outside was of no particular use, but it made him feel secure.
Inside the bedroom, Lexus felt like the master of this place.
Once the door was locked and no one could enter, Lexus could achieve true freedom.
Lenisha, who is akin to Lotera’s entire body, will leave tomorrow.
Lexus is becoming the Emperor.
Lotera can no longer threaten Lexus.
“Ha ha ha……”
Ultimately, Lexus won. In the vicious fight with Lotera.
Duke Lotera’s ghostly figure flickered before his eyes.
He was reproaching Lexus in silence.
“Don’t look at me with those eyes, Duke Lotera. It’s time for the dead to return to the realm of the dead. Accept your defeat!”
Lexus muttered.
“Your daughter will abdicate tomorrow. Then, she will marry again. With the man I choose. How about that, do you like it?”
The ghost flickered in the candlelight.
“You can’t interfere with what I do anymore. I’ve won.”
Lexus let out a continuous laugh.
‘Won’t you regret it?’
Something that dazzled Lexus’s eyes seemed to be asking.
Regret?
A chilly emotion shook Lexus.
“I won’t.”
Lexus asserted, ignoring his own wavering.
“I won’t regret anything, Duke Lotera. You’ll regret it. That you made me Emperor.”
But why, at the moment he declared, he couldn’t understand why Lenisha came to his mind.
He may never see Lenisha again.
What does it matter?
He thought it definitely didn’t matter, but his mouth became twisted by an unknown emotion.
He could not say anything more.
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
