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Chapter 187


On the way back to the Asheln estate, the whole affair now safely settled.

I carefully stroked the hair of Melody, asleep with her head pillowed on my lap.

Perhaps from the strain of being watched by so many eyes, the moment she'd climbed into the carriage the child had burrowed into my arms, murmured something faintly, and dropped straight into a deep sleep, as if she'd simply fainted.

Listening to her steady, even breathing, I went back over what had happened at the Temple, piece by piece.

Once Melody had been confirmed not to be the Saintess, the once-triumphant Temple had lost any grounds to hold onto us and come crashing down.

"Do you mean the young lady isn't the Saintess after all? Even with holy power that strong?"

"So the divine oracle was wrong? And what about that compass, that holy relic?"

The failure of an oracle that…

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A Contract Marriage with My Child’s Father

A Contract Marriage with My Child’s Father

내 아이의 아빠와 계약 결혼합니다
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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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