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Chapter 148


I returned to the study with a calm expression.

"My lady, shall I bring you some tea?"

"No, that's all right. I think I need to focus on these documents for now."

"Yes, of course."

The maid nodded and stepped out.

But despite what I'd said about focusing on my work, my eyes weren't actually on the documents on my desk at all—they were fixed on the window.

I stared blankly outside for a while, until at last I saw the carriage bearing the Devereux crest pull away from the estate and grow smaller in the distance.

The storm-like commotion settled, and complete quiet finally returned.

And yet, now that it was all over, my feelings felt oddly more complicated than they had while I was actually facing Shurin.

I've never seen Shurin make a face like that before.

The way she'd just kept sputtering, unable to find a single…

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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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