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Chapter 196


"Duchess — no. Viola. My precious niece."

"...Yes, Your Majesty."

"That's surely the very reason my sister hid you away. To protect you from all of it."

Sorrowful regret welled up in the Emperor's eyes.

"It must have been a lonely thing, growing up without anyone. You must have wondered, so many times, who your own roots even were. But I hope you won't hold it against my sister too much, for leaving you behind the way she did. I know — I know she must have loved you more than anyone."

His voice was composed, but it somehow sounded like weeping. At that heartbreaking plea, I quietly shook my head.

"I don't hold it against her. If she hadn't made that choice, I wouldn't be who I am now."

Only then did the Emperor smile faintly, as if relieved, and turn his steps back toward the palace.

It hadn't…

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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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