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Chapter 208


"...The old woman hanged herself at dawn today, unable to bear the madness."

At the High Priest's discreet report, Elionis's steps came to a halt.

"Has she returned to the god's embrace?"

"Fortunately, she survived. However, she's continued attempting to take her own life since, so we currently have her firmly restrained."

Elionis headed straight for the sealed chamber where the old woman was confined.

Inside the dark iron bars. The woman, bound in chains, thrashed and struggled, letting out grotesque sounds like some kind of beast.

Judging by appearance alone, she was exactly the vibrant young woman in her twenties he'd seen in the square. But Elionis's clear eyes saw straight through to what lay beyond the flesh, at a glance.

Her soul was collapsing.

The instant he faced that wretched sight, Elionis grasped the truth of it.

Now I understand.

The true nature of the miraculous power Shurin…

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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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