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Chapter 84


"This time as well... it wasn't the Saintess?"

"The test results were unqualifying, Your Grace. The holy relic was brought into contact, but the god's crest did not manifest."

At the mid-ranking priest's dry report, delivered with his head bowed to the floor, the High Priest's face twisted in an instant.

Behind that saintly exterior, his expression, stained through with greed, was far too hideous for a man meant to serve the god.

Not even this candidate, then.

The High Priest's hand drummed irritably against the arm of his chair.

It had been twenty-three years, now, since the death of the last Saintess, all that time spent waiting for a new one to arrive. Time enough for two full decades to pass and then some.

He himself had been a lowly priest back then, and had since risen all the way to High Priest, yet he'd never once imagined, in…

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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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