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Chapter 191


The secret garden inside the Sanctum.

Elionis stood before the coffin as if rooted to the spot, unable to tear himself away.

No matter how hard he tried to warm them, Ophelia's cheeks remained cold.

"...You must be so cold."

The air in the garden, buried deep underground, was bitterly cool.

Keeping her condition intact meant the temperature had to stay low, but it always pained Elionis all the same.

She had always been frail, a woman who felt the cold more than most.

How agonizing must it be, lying alone in this cold place for more than twenty long years.

He wanted nothing more than to gather her into his arms and warm her through, and he hated, bitterly, that his own circumstances would not allow it.

Whether this terrible obsession was love, or merely his own selfish attachment, even he could no longer say.

But he could not…

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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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