slow romance

After graduating from the academy, Rienn and Dian lived a peaceful life.

Suddenly, Dian fell ill and was on the brink of death. They sought solace at the Temple of Healing…

“For a fortnight, from sunrise to sunset, take a virgin’s milk.”
“A virgin’s… milk? Can a virgin produce milk?”
“There’s a magic potion. If ingested, virgins can p… produce it.”
“Oh, my……. Then we’ll have to find someone. A virgin.”
“Yes, I’ve discreetly started seeking volunteers. It’s something we can’t force on anyone.”
“Oh, you’ve already…….”

While Rienn was panicking, Dian coughed up blood after a long cough.

“Dian!!!”
“I’m… fine. We found a way. As soon as we get a volunteer…”
“I’ll do it.”

Rienn volunteers to heal Dian.

***

“Dian, you can now…….”
“Yeah.”

He almost closed his eyes completely and slowly turned his body towards her.

She lowered the arm that covered her chest.
She stood by the bed as casually as possible.
Dian closed his eyes tightly and found her chest.

“H-here.”

Seeing him struggle to find it, she moved.
Placing her right n*pple between his red lips, Dian froze in place.

“…….”

Soon, he cautiously kissed it. A moist tongue touched her n*pple.

“Yesterday, I heard something quite unusual.”

Jeong Ijun, the second grandson of Chairman Jeong of Baekya Food, the 16th-generation descendant of the Seorae family.
And Kim Siyeon, who had spent 25 years as the fiancée of Jeong Gwihyeon, Chairman Jeong’s eldest grandson.

“Although I occasionally inherited useful things like clothes or items my brother used when I was young, inheriting the woman my brother had been with all along is just too much.”

He knew exactly where to prod to make Siyeon feel uncomfortable, and he was making full use of that knowledge.

“So, you just need to come to terms with the fact that you can’t marry the man you’ve always thought of as a younger brother, and take him as your husband for a lifetime.”

He picked up his coffee cup with a relaxed demeanor.

“…I understand what you mean.”
“I’m glad you understand.”
“You’re basically telling me how could a woman who had always been with the older brother end up marrying the younger brother instead.”

His gaze, which had been fixed on the coffee cup, slowly lifted.

“Exactly.”

It was a neatly delivered response.

『I won’t care about whatever you do, so I hope you won’t interfere with my affairs either.』

“I want to make something clear before the wedding.”

Dyffrin turned to face Evelyn.

“I won’t care about whatever you do, so I hope you won’t interfere with my affairs either.”
“……?”
“And you should know that I have no intention of laying a finger on you. Of course, we’ll be using separate rooms as well.”

Dyffrin recited what was about to happen to him, as if informing his employees of instructions.
Watching him, Evelyn thought,
No matter what, I will divorce him 2 years later and get a large alimony.
However, contrary to Evelyn’s resolution, their relationship flowed in an unpredictable direction.

* * *

“Why are you so adamant about not getting divorced? Is it because of your pride?”
“Because I don’t want to.”
“You don’t even love me!”

Dyffrin wrapped his arms around Evelyn’s waist and pulled her closer.
It was a kiss that felt like it would swallow her whole. He violently bit her lips and ravaged her mouth, almost to the point that it was difficult to breathe properly.
When Evelyn repeatedly hit his chest forcefully, he barely pulled his lips away.

“Isn’t this the kind of love you want? Kissing and making love in the bedroom.”

Evelyn shot back with a sarcastic tone. Dyffrin didn’t care and grabbed Evelyn’s wrist, dragging her.

“Let’s go to the bedroom right now. If you want, I can hold you tenderly and whisper sweet words of love.”
“…I’m really disappointed in you.”
“Haven’t I already been the worst man to you? Being disappointed in me shouldn’t be surprising.”

Saying so, Dyffrin pressed his lips against Evelyn’s once again.

“Evelyn. Divorce is not an option for me. So you need to change your mind.”

“I love a woman other than you. So let’s break off our engagement, Reubellina.”

For ten years, Reubellina has stood by the side of the powerless Second Prince.
But her love was cruelly trampled on the day of their supposed wedding announcement.

Worse, this shameful incident was discovered by someone.
Tartenon Speraum, the Iron-Blooded Grand Duke of the North!

Reubellina begs him to keep it a secret, but he offers her one condition.
A 3-year contract marriage.

And so she went to the North, cultivated the barren land, fixed the chaotic internal affairs, and dealt with the corrupt nobles.
She did everything she could. She thought all she just had to do was leave now.

“Divorce? I don’t know what you’re talking about. Our contract period is not over yet.”
“There’s one day left. I wanted to tell you in advance… … .”
“I’m sorry, Reubellina. I had no intention of letting you go from the beginning.”

[What? Did I hear wrong?]

“Don’t even think about running away. You’re already mine.”

[Excuse me, Grand Duke. Why are you obsessed with me?]

Meteor City, a city where heroes and villains run wild.
Belze, chief of an evil organization, succeeds in capturing the eye-catching hero Seo. Belze, who tried to film Seo, touching him in his private parts to exploit as his weakness, ends up being counterattacked by Seo during the filming…

“You created this mess, so you take responsibility then back off.”

That approach was far from being heroic.

* * *

“Hey, are you really going to do this? And you call yourself a hero?!”
“You don’t understand. Violence used against bad guys is righteous violence.”
“Ugh, you… you’re worse than a scum.”
“If you don’t like it, why don’t you join the side of justice too?”

Belze was eaten by Seo, the prominent hero of Meteor City, who is notorious for his villainous acts and unmatched animosity.

*Please enjoy the story, setting aside contemporary ethics and indulge in it lightly.*

※ This is a revised edition of the work published in 2019. An additional side story has been included to commemorate the release of the revised edition.

Lady Eirin, a writer of 19+ romance novels, is caught writing by Duke Bellaston.
The duke’s lips curled into a languid smile as he read the lascivious words that one would never believe had been written by an innocent young lady of the duchy.

“Where did you get such ideas? Have you been seeing another man?”
“No, not at all! I’m so inexperienced that I’ve been wondering if I should go out and meet men.”
“If you want to gain some experience, I can help you.”

The duke growled in a low voice as he lifted her skirt.
His firm hand touched her plump thigh.

“I’ll teach you about men.”

***

The lessons in the night begin.

His gaze, persistently licking between her legs, made her lower abdomen tighten.
It seemed as if Alexander’s red lips would devour her damp, wet sex any moment.

“Haah, no… not there… please.”
“You need to learn these things to reference in your novels.”
“No novel I’ve read has ever covered something like this… Ah!”

For a man to greedily suck a woman’s most intimate place – this was something she had never seen in any novel before.

“If it hasn’t been written in other novels, then you should be the first to write it. To do that…”

Alexander whispered as he brushed her coarse pubic hair.

“You need to experience it.”
“Ah!”

His lips found and sucked on the hidden, sensitive flesh between Eirin’s folds.

***

Side Story 1. Erotic Deeds Outdoors

Eirin spends a lascivious time on an island in Spain during her honeymoon.
Is it really okay to do such things outdoors?

“You didn’t think we would always make love in the comfort of a bedroom, did you?”

His eyes glinted dangerously.

Lena joined the knight’s order to earn a dowry. Despite being mistreated by her tyrannical superior, she persisted in her efforts to earn the dowry.
Granted a vacation, she planned to spend time with her fiancé and improve their relationship, only to discover his infidelity.
After breaking off the engagement, Lena raided her superior’s liquor stash to console herself, only to have him confess to her…

“You don’t have a fiancé to worry about anymore.”

Lena just blinked her eyes dumbly. The alcohol-addled thought process could not comprehend the meaning behind his words, leaving her frozen

“Lena Leshuriel.”

He took a step closer and met her gaze.

“How about formally dating me?”

Lena was unable to refuse as her superior leaned in to kiss her.

“I’m tired. I want to stop now.”

Dowook tilted his head slightly. He raised his subtly thick eyebrows as if to ask what that meant.

“You and I have been together for fifteen years, and we’ve been dating for eight.”
“Only eight years.”
“Yes, eight whole years.”

Dowook’s eyes darkened ominously. With those eyes, he called her softly, “Junhee.”

“I must have upset you because I’m drunk today. Are you angry because I called you out late at night while drunk? I won’t do it again. I’ll listen to you. I’ll be damn obedient. Please cut me some slack. You don’t contact me. You say you will, but you damn well don’t. So of course I’d be upset, wouldn’t I?”
“Being by your side isn’t enjoyable at all. It’s not exciting.”
“……”

He stubbed out his cigarette on the windowsill, glaring at her. His gestures were irritable. Then, as if the buttoned collar filling his nape was suffocating, he roughly pulled down the neckline of his shirt.
He glared at her as if he wanted to kill her. Junhee looked back at him defiantly. Dowook smirked.

“If it was going to be like this, we should have just had car sex.”

A low, deep laugh brushed against her nape.

——–

* Female Protagonist: Woo Junhee – The pride of Nonsan, daughter of Woo Donggu. Pretty, calm-natured, well-mannered, and studious, she spends every vacation at Heejeongwon as a pacemaker for the young master of a wealthy family.

* Male Protagonist: Choi Dowook – Dowook of Taesan. Born with outstanding looks and background, he exudes an overwhelming and magnetic aura, but becomes blindly obsessive and desperate when it comes to Woo Junhee.

Elysia von Serenze, the eldest daughter of a wealthy baronet family, lived a carefree life without any worries. She had one secret: she remembered her past life. After living a busy and difficult life and dying in an accident, her dream in this reincarnated life was to live comfortably without any effort, just playing and enjoying life until the end. She had no interest in marriage, especially not in mediocre men.

At the “Spring Ball,” which she attended due to her parents’ insistence, she spotted Duke Cassius de Grendel. Watching the Duke stand like a statue, seemingly uninterested in anyone at the ball, Elysia found herself both puzzled and envious of his seemingly undisturbed life.

After attending the ball, Elysia was relieved that no marriage proposals came her way. However, out of the blue, Duke Cassius, with whom she hadn’t even exchanged a glance, proposed marriage. Why would he, fourth in line to the throne and the kingdom’s top bachelor, be interested in her? If she became the Duchess of Grendel, a position everyone covets, what would happen to her dream of living comfortably? And this man, he’s more stoic and stone-like than she imagined!

Elysia, who dreamed of a life free from troublesome matters, just playing and enjoying herself, wonders if she can live the easy life she desires.

“I’m quitting.”

Vivian, who has been in love with Louis for 9 years since the year they first met when she was 10 years old, declared that she would quit her unrequited love.
Of course, she didn’t mean it.

*

“Dump him?”
“Yeah. Puff up your chest arrogantly, stick out your nose, and say, ‘I won’t love you anymore!’ The prince will roll around in regret, desperately clinging to you to win back your heart.”

Vivian looked at her friend with a suspicious glance, her chin set in a defiant manner.

“What if Louis is actually happy about it? He might even laugh and say it’s a relief.”
“Oh. No way. Then you’ll have to really push him.”
“Push him? Where?”
“Off a cliff.”

*

Vivian, who took on the coaching of her friend’s love advice, set a goal to seduce him with a haughty and charming appearance after declaring that she would no longer love him.
However…

“I didn’t give you permission to say you stop loving me.”

Louis, with his breathtakingly handsome face, tore apart her plans from the beginning.

“Louis shouldn’t have reacted that way…”

Vivian wrapped her head around the plan that had gone wrong from the start.
Studying was easier than love.
The unrequited love story of the intelligent Lady Vivian.

“Congratulations. You’re going to marry me. You’ll become the Duchess.”

Lexion Ernst needed a suitable woman to avoid marriage with the Princess and to deceive the Emperor.

“A fake, huh.”

In her past life, Adelina’s nickname was ‘fake.’
Lexion forcibly pulled her out of the peaceful life she led after being sucked into the mirror.

“You don’t have to do anything.”

Lexion clearly said she didn’t have to do anything.

“This seems like a good spot. To kiss.”
“You said I didn’t have to do anything…”
“You don’t have to do anything. I’ll take care of everything.”

Even though he said she didn’t have to do anything, they had to keep kissing and engaging in intimate skinship.

“You don’t have to do anything. Just lie down.”
“When will you give me the mirror?”
“Soon. Once you bear my child.”

Lexion, this guy! He keeps breaking the contract without giving the promised mirror.

“I hate war, I’m a pacifist!”

Eventually, Adelina got caught up in a war. Now, even her life is in danger.
Can Adelina receive the mirror and return inside it?

“Sometimes, secrets we can’t fathom crawl through the shadows of London.”

The protagonist finds herself trapped in a horror VR game that was set in 19th-century London, a city teeming with crime. She wakes up in the body of Jane Osmond, the assistant to the cynical and socially awkward genius detective, Liam Moore.

Her goal is simple: reach the game’s ending and return safely to the real world. However, as she and Liam unravel the mysteries of their cases, the game’s features gradually disappear, and the world, which should be mere data, feels disturbingly real.

“Who am I?”

To make matters worse, her memories of her real-life self start to fade, plunging Jane into shock.

Then, she realizes one more unsettling truth: the gray eyes of Liam Moore, who is supposed to be just an NPC, are always fixed solely on her.