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Silas’s gaze sent shivers down my spine.
In the past, he was always docile and clingy.
Around me, he was more like a giant wolf–dog.
Nothing like this now, hidden in the shadows, like a phantom.
**[The villainess is finally giving up on the male lead?! The male lead is so happy he’s showing his true colors!]**
Is the plot moving faster? That’s good! We’ll get to see the male and female leads‘ happy sex life soon~]**
**Don’t let Silas’s look fool you, he’s probably ecstatic inside!]**
**After all, with no evil villainess bothering him, he can finally be with his darling female lead!]**
The comments flashed rapidly through my mind.
And my heart grew colder inch by inch.
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Meeting his gaze, I said calmly:
“You’re an independent being. Now that you’re fully recovered, you should go back.”
Silas stared at me silently.
After a long pause, he took a step, closing in on me.
His intense scent enveloped me.
My heart tightened involuntarily.
I tried to retreat, but he immediately grabbed my wrist.
He pressed my hand against his warm, hard chest.
He watched me intently, his eyes glistening.
Both wolf ears drooped, making him look surprisingly pitiful.
His voice was soft and slow, almost a seduction:
“Touch it. It says it doesn’t want to leave you.”
Beneath my palm, I felt the powerful thrum of his beating heart.
My heart fluttered despite myself.
**[The male lead is acting again. The villainess won’t actually fall for it, will she?]**
**[Actually, the male lead is already dying to go find his darling female lead!]**
**[Wake up, villainess. Who do you think you are? Do you really believe the male lead would be obsessed with you?!]**
A sharp pain pierced my heart.
It felt like a giant hand was squeezing it, suffocating and unbearable.
After a moment, I yanked my hand free from Silas.
“You don’t belong here. Leave,” I said coldly.
Without another word, I walked into the guest room.
I locked the door, pulled the covers over my head, and lay down.
Listening to Silas’s low murmurs outside the door, my heart ached with bitterness.
The comments kept swirling all night.
I didn’t sleep well.
But I finally understood that the world I was in was just a novel.
And the “comments” were actually the readers‘ segment reviews.
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I accepted this fact almost instantly.
After all, the female lead they talked about was Isabelle Sterling, the Sterling family’s cherished daughter.
My life had become strange ever since the Sterling family found me, their real biological daughter who was switched at birth, six months ago.
Isabelle became what everyone called the “fake heiress.”
But that didn’t stop her from still being the Sterling family’s adored daughter, the apple of everyone’s eye.
And me, supposedly the real heiress,
The Sterlings treated me warily, afraid Isabelle would be upset by her true origins, so they discriminated against me.
Even the staff didn’t take me seriously.
The day I found Silas, Isabelle accused me of tearing up her piano competition invitation, and the Sterling family threw me out.
My birth mother said she regretted finding me if I was so jealous.
My biological brother, Ashton, hugged Isabelle protectively and glared at me coldly.
In the pouring rain, I said nothing.
On my way out, I found Silas, covered in blood.
He was barely alive, licking my fingertips weakly.
I thought he must have been bullied too.
So, in the end, I brought him home.
The next moming, the werewolf was gone from the house.
The Shifter Registry must have picked him up.
I felt a sense of relief.
But also a touch of wistfulness.
After getting ready, I went to the Federal Institute of Biological Sciences.
As soon as I entered the building, a male voice called out to me.
“Blair, why do you look so pale?”
“Didn’t sleep well?”
Landon Price, the new head of my department, was gentle and kind, offering me a cup of coffee.
Perhaps because he was an older student from my alma mater, he’d been quite caring towards me lately.
I was just about to take the coffee with a smile.
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When the comments appeared in my mind-
**[LOL, the villainess almost thought the male lead was genuinely kind to her!]**
**[She’ll never know that the male lead is only approaching her to steal her research results and give them to his darling female lead!]**
**[She doesn’t actually think the male lead would like her, does she? Hahaha, a mere villainess isn’t worthy!]**
**[In reality, the male lead has long been disgusted by her. Every time he gives her something, he’s totally repulsed!]**
