①2023.10.5 【An Apology to Readers and the novel Break Announcement】 Hello readers who enjoyed this book, I'm CloudC. I'm sorry for the 1 month break, this was due to the fact that I was made redundant at the beginning of last month and with very little earnings from writing novels, I started a frantic search for a job in order to make ends meet (while I haven't found one yet) Once life is back on track, I promise you that I will be back to updating as soon as I can, and I'll be back to updating as of 24.1.1! Please forgive me, I was really hard pressed by life and had no choice but to cut off my updates. Chapter 103 is definitely not the real ending, the plot of this book has only progressed halfway, this chapter can be considered a minor climax or the beginning of a key turning point in Chad and Orville's emotions. The book is marked as "Finished", I think it may be due to contractual reasons, because it's not what I marked, after a while, I will discuss with the editor to change the status of the book. This novel will be back on 24.1.1, please look forward to it, I'm sorry for the break in production. ②2023.9.2 Notice: On the cover is the ML: Orville ③2023.8.17 Notice: Frequency of daily updates:One episode per day ================================================== Chad has three secrets. One, Chad is a false name. Two, she is a woman disguised as a man. And three, she has a crush on the Duke of Orville. She tells no one these three secrets, but one night the second one is broken by a strange man. The man uses her secret as blackmail, forcing her to give in step by step, to fall a little, but she doesn't even notice that the man is asking her for more and more favours, and that the Duke is giving her more and more looks. Then one day she found out she was pregnant. In a panic, she hurriedly and roughly packed some important luggage and fled in the night. [Update frequency] 1. Working days (Mon-Fri): 2-3 episodes updated daily 2. Rest days (Saturday-Sunday): update as you go, may not update if you have other arrangements, new chapters will be dropped randomly
With Poe's concerned voice in her ears and his slightly tired face in front of her, twenty years of living together and now only a year since she'd seen him, Elaine felt like a lifetime ago. Twenty minutes had passed since the other man had walked through the door, and the closeness that had once been there was only gradually awakening in her mind.
At the same time it was like a hammer, hitting her head hard in the next second, snapping her out of her almost lost senses.
What had she been doing all this time?
How could she have numbed herself, not thinking about fighting back and escaping, but instead giving herself up to stay with Jeff, the devil, and indulging in the tenderness she'd exchanged for meekness? How could she really act like a tamed pet, staying at home unchained, waiting for the man to come home from work every day to soothe her? How could she begin to forget herself, become accustomed to being imprisoned and organized, and become a slave to her master's wishes?