To You, So Noble and Vulgar (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 21
“Stop right there.”
At Ariana’s icy command, the man who had just entered froze in place.
Slender build, ordinary face. Upon recognizing the man’s features, Ariana silently sneered inwardly.
Ariana knew this man.
Rounder—a despicable rogue who had impregnated an innocent young lady from some earl’s household and thereby secured marriage. Though his status had risen, his nature remained unchanged; he continued to harass numerous noblewomen.
The same applied to Ariana.
Every time they crossed paths at large or small parties, he would approach her. Her husband, Baron Ingou Alfrehi, having witnessed this, mistakenly believed Ariana was being unfaithful and would beat her whenever they returned home.
Each time her husband struck her, Ariana blamed Rounder.
Why did you speak to me? Why did you smile at me? Why were you kind to me?
She never dreamed she’d encounter this man again at such a time. She’d assumed she wouldn’t meet him in this life.
Rounder grinned at Ariana. To a stranger, it was a smile likely to inspire goodwill.
“Second Princess. You needn’t be so wary.”
Rounder took a step forward.
“I told you to stop.”
“I’d like to, truly.”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
I finally found the chapter corresponding to chapter 42 of the manhwa!
Here’s a mother who refutes the “instinctive motherhood” notion.