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Chapter 140


The moment I faced the portrait, I couldn't manage to say a single word.

"...Ah."

My mind went white and flickered out. I couldn't even manage a coherent thought.

She was clearly a stranger I'd never met, and yet the moment I looked at the woman in the painting, what washed over me wasn't the sense of unfamiliarity I should have felt, but a longing so deep it made a corner of my heart ache.

Caught in that confusion, unable to even breathe properly, I couldn't tear my eyes from the portrait—as if I'd been entranced—when it happened.

A soft rustle.

I felt a firm arm settle over my shoulders. Cain pulled me into his embrace, wrapping me close.

"Your Majesty. What is your intention in showing us this?"

There was a wariness in Cain's voice as he addressed the Emperor, born entirely out of concern for me.

At his…

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A Contract Marriage with My Child’s Father

A Contract Marriage with My Child’s Father

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Status: Completed Type: Author: Native Language: Korean
I was reborn into a parenting novel — as a nameless extra. Or so I thought, until I found myself raising the original heroine: my own four-year-old daughter, Melody, a Saintess candidate the Temple would stop at nothing to take. To keep her hidden, I lived quietly as a village pharmacist in the south, playing the part of an unwed mother some man had walked out on. And then I was hired to treat the nephew of Duke Cain Asheln — the Dragon Duke, the most eligible bachelor in the empire, and the man who is supposed to be the story's father figure. Silver hair. Red eyes. A face that never gives anything away. "Let's marry." "Pardon?" "Didn't you say so yourself? That you wanted a contract marriage." I did need a marriage — to protect Melody, and my own life along with hers. But I never meant to ask him. A contract marriage ends in divorce. That was the deal I'd made with myself. So why does this man keep looking at my daughter as if she were already his?

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