To My Beloved, I Present My Exquisite Nightmare (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 22
Laila whipped her head toward the direction of the sound. A silhouette appeared where no one had been just moments before.
She—the outline of a dress revealed it was a woman—looked like nothing but a pitch-black shadow, even beneath the bright yet gentle glow radiating from the palace.
Perhaps it was because she stood with the light behind her.
Laila tried to cling to a hopeful thought, but the longer she couldn’t tear her eyes away from her, the more she realized that hope was nothing but futile fantasy. It was darkness—darkness itself, wearing a human form.
It spoke.
“Come here, child. I’ll show you something wonderful.”
“No,” Laila firmly told herself inwardly. Though she knew her voice could never reach it, she mentally shouted as if it somehow could. “No, I won’t go!”
“You’re already here, dear.”
Instantly, everything around her vision sagged limply like a tapestry left too long in the sun. It wasn’t just her surroundings—her own body did the same, as if being pulled inward toward some unseen void. Laila screamed as she watched her fingers stretch out like thin snakes.
When her scream ceased, Laila found herself back in the corridor with the bust.
She looked around, bewildered. “That’s impossible.” A groan-like murmur spilled involuntarily from her lips. Though she had clearly been standing on her own feet just moments ago, she now found herself collapsed on the floor.
“That’s impossible.”
Just as Laila repeated those words again—
“What’s so impossible, child?”
Its voice sounded right next to her ear. Laila shrieked and scrambled backward, but there was nothing where the voice had come from.
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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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