I dressed up as a good-for-nothing female supporting character in a novel about cultivating immortals, and was bound to the strategy system, with the goal of making the cold immortal Lord fall in love with me.
I followed the manual to treat him well, protect him from injuries, and accompany him through the darkest years. He shielded me from the wind with the tips of his ears red, carved words for me on a snowy night, pulled me into his arms and said "Don't go". I thought the mission was almost complete.
It wasn't until I was pregnant with his child that I saw him holding his old lover in his arms and saying, "I'll accompany you to the North." I turned around and left.
He locked me up in a snow-capped mountain villa and asked me every day, "You never loved me, right?"
He had no idea I was pregnant with his child. He doesn't know how much of my life I have sacrificed to keep my child. He didn't know that the last page of my mission manual said - "If the host is really tempted, the mission will be successful."
The night he asked me, I didn't speak. Because opening your mouth means admitting: I love him from beginning to end.
But he didn't believe it.
