STORY NOT MINE!!
The Gluttonous house's auction feast had an exceptionally good furnace in const.i.tution of a little girl with sky-high price, everyone in looting. Suddenly, the little girl opened her eyes in the golden cage, radiated coldly, she no longer the cowardly.
She was the gold medal a.s.sa.s.sin of the 21st century, crossed over to become the good for nothing everyone bullied and humiliated of the doctor manor's third miss Nalan Hexi.
Meridians completely crippled, didn't have innate talent to cultivation? Afraid of what, she is the exceptional genius doctor, this injury simply didn't need to pay attention to. Father doesn't doted on, mother doesn't loved, everyone schemed? Humph, she has a s.p.a.ce in hand, spiritual beast unmatched, the small Nalan Manor act in disguised can be destroyed!
Ugly complexion, malnourished and sickly in appearance, no one wants? Just blinked an eyes to restored her complexion, afterwards followed by a dozen good looking men as bodyguards!
But, there are the overbearing man always sticking to her from after the auction. Who said I was destined to you? I am my own, no one can decide my future!
A certain man: Then I am yours will do, right?
Just when she's decided to leave the Town, Lady Cressida Belverst is forced to marry Lord Calan Haverston, the man who coincidentally knows a way out. Agreeing to marry for all the wrong reasons, can Cressida and Calan find out where their hearts truly belong?
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It is impossible to leave the Town, but one woman is determined to escape with the help of her betrothed.
Lady Cressida Belverst has always been judged as a walking scandal. Oh, how she tries (on some rare occasions) to be proper! When her parents arrange for her to marry a rich lord, Cressida has had enough. She has to leave the Town because she will not be forced to live with a man she doesn't love. But what happens if the very man she's betrothed to is the only one who can help her get out?
Calan Haverston, the Lord of Easton, takes the risk and helps his betrothed by using his knowledge of the Town's secrets because he is as willing as she to stay free of marriage for reasons completely different. He has dark secrets he cannot share with her, and his life is not one he can likewise open to anyone. But what happens when she leaves after awakening desires he thought he has under control? And what happens when he finds himself longing for her?
Cressida goes to a completely different place, one she has only heard in stories and read in books, with hopes of finding what her heart has always longed for. But love, mystery and secrets will chase her and it will only be a matter of time before she realizes what her heart truly desires.
*This story is a standalone title in the Haverston Family series.