To My Beloved, I Present My Exquisite Nightmare (Completed Main Story) - Side Story 7
“If only it were the latter.”
Eustar said.
“It means things are becoming more peaceful, after all.”
Laila tilted her head with an ambiguous expression—seeming both in agreement and not. For a moment, Eustar stared blankly at the tip of the spoon caught between Laila’s lips, then cleared his throat.
‘My focus keeps drifting.’
He thought. He had tried to concentrate solely on his date with Laila—good heavens, he couldn’t even recall how long it had been—but it seemed impossible.
Whenever he looked at Laila, strange thoughts kept intruding. Thoughts he could never share with her… especially since she was pregnant.
Moreover, Aline’s words continued to echo in his mind.
The man the child had innocently called “Toad Uncle” was undoubtedly Badin. Admittedly reluctant as he was to admit it, among those capable of commanding toads, only Badin would show such kindness toward Aline.
‘But didn’t he disappear? Because of what Laila did for him…’
Laila giving birth to a daughter with Eustar had broken the pact Badin once made with the First Witch.
Ever since Aline’s birth, Eustar had sometimes wondered whether that pact had perhaps worn away long ago, vanishing into dust. Perhaps Badin remained bound to this world for an entirely different reason.
‘Maybe what he truly sought to free wasn’t himself… but the soul of that woman—Lilit—the only human woman Badin ever loved.’
Laila rarely spoke of Badin, or of Lilit, the first and last human woman he had ever loved. After enduring a harrowing labor to deliver Aline, once she regained consciousness, she’d held her newborn and wept as she whispered:
— “Now both of them are finally free. Truly free.”
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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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