To You, So Noble and Vulgar (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 23
Entering the opulent room, Ariana strode straight into the dressing room without hesitation. The dressing room was far larger than the one Ariana used, filled with several wardrobes and display cases.
Though the display cases held exquisitely expensive jewelry that ordinary people could only dream of, Ariana didn’t spare them a glance.
Her gaze was fixed on the wardrobe in the farthest corner—the one holding clothes she no longer wore because they’d gone out of fashion.
Ariana opened the wardrobe door and pulled out a coat made of brown fox fur.
A cold smile curled at the corners of Ariana’s lips as she tapped the lining of the soft, luxuriant fur coat.
Just as Ariana was about to rip open the coat’s lining—
“To sneak in and steal clothes in a situation like this—truly, you have remarkable audacity.”
Her heart clenched at the languid voice coming from behind.
Time was short. With no idea when Rachel might return, she certainly didn’t have time to deal with Cyrus as well.
Today was her only chance—the personal maids and housemaids who always guarded the area near Rachel’s room had left their posts to attend the noblewomen’s tea party.
Yet Cyrus had genuinely helped her in a crisis before, so she suppressed the irritation that flared for a moment. Pretending nothing had happened, Ariana hung the coat back in the wardrobe and turned toward Cyrus.
“Your Highness.”
“Planning to gather funds to run away?”
“How could I possibly use Mother’s belongings to secure escape money? I was merely touching a fur coat I’ve always wanted to feel—just once.”
“Of all times, when a man has just died?”
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
I finally found the chapter corresponding to chapter 42 of the manhwa!
Here’s a mother who refutes the “instinctive motherhood” notion.