To My Beloved, I Present My Exquisite Nightmare (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 172
The two of them involuntarily flinched at the sound. They couldn’t help it.
A noise like tearing flesh burrowed into Laila and Eustar’s ears like venom. It felt as though a massive needle was gouging through their skulls.
“Eustar, let’s go.”
Laila, her face pale and scrunched in discomfort, spoke. Resisting the bizarre roar with her whole body, her shoulders trembled violently as she began to stride forward.
Her hand had grown cold again, and Eustar kept his fingers tightly clenched around hers, endlessly affirming his presence beside Laila.
As they stepped into the hollow darkness, a squelching sensation rose beneath their feet. At first, they thought shallow water had pooled there—but it wasn’t water. They could feel their feet sinking deep into soft mud.
“It reeks.”
Eustar remarked. Indeed, it did. The stench resembled rotting turnips left to fester in midsummer—or perhaps the foul odor rising from mud choked with heaps of decaying refuse.
“We need to light a flame.”
Laila said, and Eustar, without releasing her hand, rummaged through his leather bag with his other hand and pulled out a slender rod about the length of a finger.
When he pressed its rear end firmly, a faint vibration hummed through it, and a round glow illuminated the path ahead.
No… “illuminated” wasn’t quite the right word. Eustar and Laila stood for a moment, dumbfounded, watching the light spilling from the magical device get helplessly swallowed by the darkness.
The device buzzed and vibrated intensely, its output pushed to the maximum—so much so that Eustar’s palm grew warm—but the light that should have spread brightly forward barely reached their feet.
Even that faint glow looked frail, as if about to vanish at any second.
“At least it’s not a swamp.”
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After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
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After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
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