To The Eternal Knight (2 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 223
After that, Claude stared blankly at Nerea.
Over those clear blue eyes—once praised as being as bright and pure as a clear sky—countless emotions flickered past.
Anger at having been deceived by Nerea, the hollow dismay of never expecting his true birth to be revealed like this—and then, all at once, those emotions overflowed, wetting Claude’s cheeks.
For a moment, Nerea wondered: what exactly did those tears mean? But she soon realized the answer.
“…So it’s something as trivial as my birth that made me this way? And Count Esteban… refused to follow me because of my birth as well?”
His muttering voice sounded as if pleading his own innocence—it was self-pity born from regret and despair. Unaware that his arrows were aimed in the wrong direction, Claude glowered at Nerea.
In an instant, Nerea’s eyes turned icy cold. She had briefly hoped he might say something useful—something she could even report to the Emperor—but it was clear there was nothing more worth hearing.
“Take him away.”
Claude Castarti had always been that kind of man—the kind who lived his whole life blaming others, even now showing not a shred of self-reflection until the very end.
At Nerea’s words, David Illauser led Claude out.
Once the door shut behind them, she was left alone. Nerea let out a shallow breath and sank onto the sofa. Though the room was quiet, cheers and shouts still rang out from outside.
Savoring that dissonance, Nerea repeatedly clenched and unclenched her fist. Only now did the tension—built up from cutting down countless foes and charging deep into enemy lines—finally spread through her entire body.
Simultaneously, a sharp pain shot through her. All the sensations she had tried so hard to ignore now crashed over her at once.
But then—
When her eyes fell upon the sack she’d set aside on the floor, a faint smile began to curl at the corners of Nerea’s lips.
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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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