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"So, you're saying it's not awkward if you dislike someone, but it is awkward if you like them?" "…" "So that's what it was. You liked me." Cloud's eyes widened at my muttering. What's he so surprised about? "I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. The awkwardness will pass soon enough. The student council has a ridiculous amount of work, so we'll be seeing a lot of each other from now on, won't we?" The thought was strangely saddening. Right, the student council is a lot of work. An…- 38.6 K • Ongoing
That night, Sophia dreamt again. She opened her eyes as if awakening in another world and looked down at her hands. They weren't the pale, doll-like hands she knew, but those of a living, breathing person. Instinctively, she knew this dream was a continuation of the last. She was inhabiting that body again. Sophia looked around. This time, she stood on a high precipice, still clad in a white dress, her hair flowing loose. Far below, a bubbling inferno raged. Even from this distance, she could feel the…- 41.7 K • Ongoing
- “About three times a day.” “You take it quite often. How did your physician explain the cause of this foul stench?” “He said the poison had damaged my mind.” The doctor paused, taken aback. It was because Sophia was so astonishingly calm as she told him. Reading the pity that flickered across the doctor’s face, Sophia said, “There’s no need for that expression. For the most part, I am perfectly fine.” “But that means the poison has affected your nervous system. There may…
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- The next morning, Sophia rose and immediately began preparing to go out, packing the medicines she had been taking. When Erica entered, she found Sophia already dressed and selecting a hat. Bewildered, she asked, “My lady, where are you going?” Ever since the ordeal with the smell, Sophia had been waking much later, so Erica was only just now arriving with a basin of water for her to wash. But Sophia, it seemed, had already completed her toilette, perhaps with the help of another maid. Judging by…
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She was a child so thin and frail she looked as if she might topple in the wind, yet she possessed the fortitude to shield someone from a nobleman. For a commoner with nothing to protect herself, confronting a noble was not something just anyone could do. And she’d even thrown an inkwell, he recalled. A throw so powerful it had raised a massive lump. “It seems I was right to ask that girl to take good care of Damon.” Though he held the highest title beneath the emperor, the duke was not one…- 26.6 K • Ongoing
- “I know. But it’s so old, I wouldn't blame it if it fell apart.” Judging by the muscles in Rohael’s arm, it seemed very likely he could easily smash it. Sienna chuckled, imagining him breaking the window and then staring in stunned dismay. Thunk, thunk, rumble... Just then, a sound of a metal bowl rolling on the floor echoed from the corridor. Sienna turned around in surprise, but there was no one behind the wide-open door. Thinking she must have misheard, Sienna quickly snapped her head…
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- Worried she might pass something unpleasant on to Damon in her current state, Sienna stopped on the second-floor landing. Damon looked at her, puzzled. “Young Master, my clothes and shoes are filthy. I’m just going to go wash up.” “I like dirty,” Damon said hastily. Sienna gave a wry smile. “No. I could have picked up some nasty sickness from running all over the place. I’ll wash up and be right back.” “…Fine.” Damon was clearly sulking, but he didn’t try to…
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Staring at the ex-boyfriend whose name I couldn’t even remember, I asked the question I hadn’t asked in the past. “What’s the reason for wanting to break up all of a sudden?” Back then, I had meekly accepted being dumped because I didn’t want to seem pathetic and clingy, but in truth, I’d been so curious I couldn’t sleep for days! What was the reason? The reason for dumping a girl as lovely as me? He gave me a look that said, Isn’t it obvious? “Your family is too…- 9.6 K • Ongoing
- Hanson, the butler of the Centineo household, wiped his gaunt face. “Hmph…” He hadn’t slept a wink in two days. The young master’s difficult nature had servants handing in their resignations day after day. “There’s no one left to work.” Even for a ducal house, it wasn't easy to find servants from noble families. But they couldn't just assign a mere commoner to attend to the young master. Letters had been sent to every noble house in the empire, but with the young master's…
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- Lily Blanche. That’s my name. I was born into the House of Viscount Blanche, a family of immense fortune but short history, founded by my merchant great-grandfather. You might think, ‘How much money could a nouveau riche family from common stock possibly have?’ But there was a running joke that all the money on the continent flowed to the Blanches. And it wasn't entirely an exaggeration. The Blanche family wielded enormous influence over every sector of the empire—its economy, society,…
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