Marked Ones: Advent of the Demon Prince - Chapter 368: Duel

In the early morning of September 23, 2019, a natural disaster arrived. The Dao of Heaven and Earth has changed, the desire of all souls have completely filled up the Heavens.

The Dao of Heaven can no longer bear it. Evil thoughts, good thoughts, obsessions, and desires entangled endlessly, making the Heavens reach its limit, this shift caused an extreme change in the world, making fantasy come to reality.

All worlds fused together, and all things compete for freedom in this cruel new world. This is the beginning of a new era, one filled with destruction and rebirth. This era is called the Eternal Era.

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Shocking! The Tyrant's Group Pampered Baby Is Heavenly Dao's Own Daughter【New Book “Exile? Extinguish the Kingdom? She Empties the Treasury and Rebel with Her Baby” Released】【1V1, Sweet Pampering, No Abuse】Bai Xilie, the tyrant who founded Great Chu, accidentally lost his only daughter during the chaos of war! After finding her again like a madman, he instantly transformed into a daughter slave, showering her with love!Unfortunately, not long after Great Chu was founded, the national treasury was empty, and rebellions broke out everywhere, with remnants of the former dynasty surfacing one after another!Bai Zhi'er, as the own daughter of Heavenly Dao, was utterly fearless: “Father, don't be afraid, I've got this!”Natural disasters and human calamities? All resolved with Jinli's fortune!Fake princess vying for favor? Slap her face swollen!People's literacy is low? Establish the Wen Mansion to bring about an era of flourishing scholarly contention!However, Bai Zhi'er always remembered Heavenly Dao mother’s advice: transform five major villains to stabilize her father's throne!…Not long after, each villain more ruthless than the last joined the team of the great tyrant, pampering the little princess Bai Zhi'er to high heaven!The Princely Heir skilled in both poison and medicine: “Saying Zhi'er is a fake princess? Do you not want your eyes for my medicine?”The temperamental Third Brother: “Who bullied my sister? I'll lead troops to flatten your whole family!”The reborn chief minister of nobility: “Bai Zhi'er is my sworn sister, she must not cry, or I'll have you die!”The Emperor from an enemy kingdom as the godfather: “If you are wronged in the Chu Kingdom, we from Great Qin will exact double return for you.”Four villains are all settled, only the last one remains, and he doesn't want anything, leaving the little one at her wit's end!The handsome, paranoid Demon Lord youth smiled unrestrainedly: “Zhi'er, the world is vast, yet aside from my embrace, you're not allowed to go anywhere, come here for a hug.”

In the year 1368, at the end of July, deep crimson shall descend from the heavens.

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“Why didn’t you tell me?”“Tell you what, Richard? What would you have done?”“I don’t know. Apologized sooner? Bought you a burger to make up for it?”Her eyes lit up with fire, “You think what you did to me… you think a burger can make up for it?” her eyes twinkled like she was fighting tears. Did I hurt her that badly? I was just a foolish teenager.“Nita, I am sorry. I was young, I was stupid. I wish I could take it all back and tell you how I feel instead of being a constant jerk to gain your attention.”“How did you feel that would justify what you did to me?”I paused for a minute, finding the words. “I had a huge crush on you at the time. And I didn’t know how to express myself. I was full of myself, I was the school’s ladies' man and the one girl I had eyes for didn’t even care if I existed,” “And that justified what you did to me? Richard, you broke me. I can forgive you for ‘accidentally’ spilling your ice cream on me, or throwing my due assignment in the toilet, or the gum in my hair, or the glue in my chair but tell me how can I forgive you for what you did that night? Tell me!”“What night? Nita, what are you talking about?”“Remember when you asked me if I knew who sexually assaulted me?”I nodded, but what does that have to do with anything? The more we spoke, the more confused I became.“You did and I cannot believe that you would stand there and pretend like it didn’t happen!”Nita has spent years trying to forget the torment she endured at the hands of Richard. When her family’s financial ruin forces her into an arranged marriage, she is horrified to find out the groom himself was her bully.Richard, a charming and successful businessman meets the first woman to be repulsed by him. Intrigued, he proposes a deal of a one year marriage of convenience.Navigating life as a couple, old wounds reopen, buried memories surface. As Richard learns more about his wife, he finds that he has enemies that followed him from his past to continuously cloud his wife’s judgement.Will Nita believe the truth and bury old wounds or will the pain of the past prove too strong to heal?