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Was a wild beast stuck in the fence?
If only that were the case.
Hopefully, it’s not a human.
She knew painfully well that people were the most frightening things in the world, never caring about the sound of a bell, not knowing what harm they might do.
Tingaling, tingaling…!
The bell continued to ring all the while.
If Tanya had been beside her at that time, it would have been a little less scary.
Could it not reach Mia’s house?
What should she do? Should she go out and check?
It didn’t seem to be a wild beast. The sound of the bell was coming from more than one place.
It seemed like several people had gathered around the house. Shaking the fence violently, it was clear they were deliberately threatening her.
“Who could it be?”
That was the moment.
Just when it seemed the bell sound had stopped,
Crash!
“Ahh!”
Adel screamed at the sound of the breaking window.
The sound of rough footsteps quickly approached. It seemed like the people who had been shaking the fence were jumping into the garden.
Creak!
Quickly barring the door of the storage room from the inside, Adel crouched down on the stairs. She turned off the lamp so that no light would escape.
“Please! Let nothing happen!”
In the darkness, where she couldn’t even see an inch ahead, Adel curled up her body with her ears covered.
The stench of bear’s gall almost made her retch.
And then, memories she didn’t want to recall came back.
“Lord Oswald is a frugal person. Please follow his guidelines, my lady.”
From the first day she entered the Oswald house, the butler seemed to be trying to control her. He treated her like a new servant, not the Countess.
“You can use this basement from now on, my lady. The wind doesn’t come in, so there’s no need for heating. If it’s cold, wear warm clothes and sleep. You will receive one candle a week, so use it sparingly. You can eat what the Count has left.”
During the two years she spent in Oswald’s house, Adel was just the Countess in name.
Even the maids openly ignored and oppressed her, calling her the ‘basement lady.’
Adel received the treatment of the Countess only when guests came or when she attended banquets. They needed her as the Countess for those occasions.
A powerless puppet Countess, with no one to confide in.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]“…… Are you listening, Commander?”
Though Zimmer spoke to him, Christine did not answer. He just stared out the window of the carriage with his arms crossed.
Outside was pitch black, so there was no scenery to enjoy, and by his expression, he seemed to be in a pretty bad mood.
“Did he have a fight with the Countess?”
Then Zimmer was suddenly surprised.
For Christine to be in such a low mood because of someone, especially a woman…
Didn’t he not even care about the Princess?
In that regard, Adel was definitely special to him. More so than a sister.
“To what extent are they close if they are kissing each other’s cheeks?”
A sudden question.
Zimmer, who had been tilting his head, laughed heartily.
“You don’t mean you kissed the Countess’s cheek? Then this is a definite heart signal……!”
But he quickly changed his words under Christine’s icy glare.
“Well…… it doesn’t matter who kissed whose cheek. Anyway, the heart signal is clear. If a man and a woman have touched skin, that’s it…… Ho ho……”
Christine glared at Zimmer as if he wanted to kill him with his eyes alone.
“Shall I get rid of it?”
“What?”
Startled by Christine’s intensity, Zimmer shrunk back. But his eyes were not directed at Zimmer.
Then who?
Christine shook his head as if to shake off his thoughts.
“What about the report on Earl Eton?”
After the party at Lady Hans’s, he had ordered an investigation into Earl Eton.
“I was about to tell you that the report just came in.”
Zimmer quickly handed over the report and added,
“He’s been frequenting the Helvelli bar lately. Conspiring something with the thugs in the back alleys……”
Suddenly Christine signaled him to be quiet, putting his finger to his lips.
Zimmer stopped speaking, and Christine closed his eyes and seemed to focus all his nerves. Then, it seemed like the air in the carriage was wrapping around him.
After a moment, he spoke in a whisper, his grey eyes flashing,
“He’s already hatching something.”
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Bang bang bang!
With a rough noise, the door to the basement storage room shook.
“Lady! Stop hiding like a rat and come out now!”
Adel was startled by the voice from outside the door.
Earl Eton!
It was a drunken voice, but it was unmistakably his.
“For three counts, if you don’t open up, my illtempered friends here will break down the door and enter. Who knows what they’ll do then! Kahaha!”
Soon the cackling laughter of the men followed. There seemed to be at least three or four of them.
“One!”
Adel, with her trembling hands tightly clenching her apron, shouted.
“Weren’t you humiliated enough at Mrs. Hans’ party, Lord Eiton!”
“Shut up!”
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
