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Chapter 217


The moment I met Shurin's twisted expression — genuinely, wretchedly aggrieved, as if she'd been wronged — a rage seized me that bordered on madness.

How could you do something so horrific and still wear that face?

I'd been disappointed by her more times than I could count, but I had never once felt anger this uncontrollable.

Forcing her monstrous power under with my own holy power, I heard it clearly.

Young screams. The sound of people writhing in unbearable agony.

The fragments of all those souls, sacrificed against their will, wept tears of blood inside her, wailing.

With the souls screaming in torment like that, could Shurin really not have known what horror was unfolding inside herself?

When she didn't yet know exactly what that power was, blinded by misguided greed, she might have made the wrong choice.

People aren't perfect beings. Sometimes they're swayed by sweet temptation.

I'm…

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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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