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 Raphlet’s back hit the bottom of the bathtub.
 He had grabbed Yuriel as they were falling and pulled her into his arms so that she would fall on top of him.
 There wasn’t a single scratch on her body thanks to his swift action, but Yuriel was much more surprised than if she were to have fallen by herself.
 Raphlet got up as soon as his body touched the floor and stepped out of the bath to scan Yuriel’s body for any injuries. When he confirmed she wasn’t hurt, he let out a sigh and tried to push himself away, but Yuriel grabbed him by the forearm and pulled him close.
 “Master, are you all right?”
 “...I’m fine. What about you? Weren’t you surprised to fall down suddenly?”
 Yuriel’s eyes glistened with tears.
 The Raphlet before her in this dream was no different from the one she knew in her childhood. He didn’t care if he was injured himself and only showed concern for Yuriel, worried that she might have gotten a shock.
 When Yuriel first began receiving beatings on his behalf, she was once severely punished for ten days as Raphlet argued against her new position to his parents.
 As soon as she was released from punishment, Raphlet would examine her to see if she was hurt anywhere and ask her if she was okay.
 He never looked back at himself, so Yuriel had to be by his side.
 Yuriel vowed to stay next to him once she woke up from this dream.
 In fact, this must have been a dream for that reason. It was a dream telling her to stay by Raphlet’s side so that he wouldn’t be alone and to protect him.
 “What do you mean you’re fine. Your arms, no, your back. Please show me your back.”
 Yuriel threw herself on him with no hesitation. She had a lot of experience serving him as a maid. A minute was more than enough for her to strip and dress someone. Her nimble fingers quickly unbuttoned Raphlet’s wet shirt and pulled it back.
 A wet, solid body was revealed. It was an admirable body that caught people’s eyes. Yuriel was on the verge of tears as she moved her hands around his back, scanning for injuries.
 “An injury, injury...Oh. There’s nothing.”
 “I told you I was all right. I wouldn’t get hurt over something like this, so don’t worry,” Raphlet said, grabbing her wrists. Yuriel’s fingers, which had been groping his back, hung in midair as they had no place to go.
 Only then did Yuriel realize what she had done.
 She had rushed in naked and stripped Raphlet of his clothes. And as if that wasn’t enough, she even dared to have a scene in this dream of her master fondling her breasts.
 Yuriel staggered, feeling dizzy, and ended up leaning forward.
 As soon as her forehead touched Raphlet’s back, he spoke in a low voice that sounded clearly troubled.
 “I’m really fine, so it’d be best if you don’t touch me too much right now. I can endure it of course, but…”
 He turned around and pulled her into his arms.
 At the feeling of something hard and hot poking her, Yuriel cast her gaze downwards but quickly raised her head back up in shock.
 How dare I, even the master’s erection…
 Raphlet was a man of nobility. Even if this was a dream, he was not one to show this kind of lust towards her…
 Yuriel let out a groan while pulling at her hair.
 “I’m sorry, Master....”
 I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I’m so sorry for dreaming this kind of dream.
 It was clear that the Raphlet in her dream didn’t know why she was feeling guilty. His expressionless face gently loosened.
 After apologizing several times in a row, Yuriel found herself comfortably hugged.
 “I’m really fine, Yuriel. You’re the one who has to be careful as you’re still in the early stages of pregnancy. I’m sorry for startling you,” he said, pressing a quick kiss to her lips.
 What…?
 Yuriel opened her eyes while caressing her stomach.
 She could only remember the last moment of her dream. She was pregnant with someone’s child, and…
 But she couldn’t recall who had appeared and what conversation she had been having.
 It’s my first time having a dream where no monsters appeared… Hm, is it the first time? I think I might have had a different dream on the train.
 Yuriel pondered over it for a while, but she ended up deciding to think of it as her first time as she couldn’t remember.
 To think this kind of dream would be her first “normal” dream.
 Yuriel remembered hearing that dreams were the manifestations of one’s desires. The only other person who knew about Yuriel’s prophetic dreams thought those were also an expression of some kind of desire and wanted to study her.
 Yuriel cooperated, but in the end, they weren’t able to find out what it ultimately was.
 So then, was this dream reflecting a desire to build a family? But she didn’t want anything other than being next to Raphlet.
 Even if she was going to start a family, it would only be after Raphlet settled down and his own child was born. When the moment came that she could no longer support Raphlet, then her child would devote themself to Raphlet and his child.
 Yuriel thought so while groping her flat lower abdomen and staring blankly at the ceiling.
 “I see you’re up, but why are you touching your stomach….? Oh, come to think of it, you haven’t eaten since yesterday.”
 “Sir Helio.”
 “They said your body is all right now, so let’s eat first.”
 Yuriel pressed her hands against the bed and raised herself up. Her long, loose hair trickled down. Roughly combing her hair with her fingers, Yuriel stuck her legs off the bed.
 “This is where you’ll be living from now on, so I’ll give you a brief tour for now.”
 “You’ll be guiding me yourself, Sir Helio? I’m fine with being guided by someone else if you’re busy.”
 “I’m the best person for this task as I have to explain what I’ve arranged for you while you were out.”
 All the pain Yuriel felt before she fainted was now completely gone. Excluding the fatigue from not being able to sleep well the past few days, she was in the same condition as usual.
 Helio, who confirmed Yuriel was getting out of bed, took the lead and began to guide her.
 The place where the Knights of Albraca resided was designed with intuitive and easily recognizable structures.
 There were four paths that stretched out from the strategy office which was in the center. Helio walked on the path heading north and pointed his finger at a building.
 “If you become Commander Raphlet’s personal maid, you’ll use that northern blue building. The knights and servants under his direct command all live there. The soldiers below them use a different building, but that’s information you don’t need to know, so I’ll skip it.”
 As Yuriel listened carefully to Helio’s explanation, she sensed something strange.
 “What do you mean by ‘if’ I become his personal maid…?” she asked, tilting her head.
 “Ah, well, I can’t do anything if Commander Raphlet doesn’t want a personal maid. We can’t force him to do anything if he doesn’t want to, but you don’t have to worry. If you’re able to prove your ability, you can stay within the order regardless of whether Raphlet accepts you as his maid or not.”
 Recalling how Raphlet tried to send her back at the train station earlier, Yuriel let out a worried sigh.
 She felt stifled by the unfamiliarity of his cold way of speaking and demeanor. She couldn’t fathom what he must have gone through since joining the order that would cause him to look so expressionless like that. She had no idea at all.
 Yuriel tried to forget that memory by changing the topic and forced a smile.
 “Sir Helio, are you close with Raphlet? Since you both have the same rank, I assume you would have a lot of exchanges…”
 “We aren’t close. We cooperate with each other solely for the sake of the operations, but our relationship isn’t one where we could casually talk and laugh with each other. Ah, but since Raphlet never smiles, ‘laugh’ would be an unnecessary word.”
 Helio muttered coldly with a smiling face. Rather than intimacy, his face seemed to be full of hostility.
 “If it weren’t for us both being in the same order, he’s someone whose face I wouldn’t even want to see. I’m not virtuous enough to have someone next to me who isn’t even like a human being,” he added, looking down at the blue stones laid in regular intervals.
 At the clear rage coming from his voice, Yuriel unconsciously vented her dissatisfaction.
 “What are you saying? Raphlet is just clumsy at expressing his emotions. You don’t know how warm and kind he can be, please don’t speak so carelessly about him when you don’t even know anything.”
 “‘Warm.’ Well, I suppose if the kindness you’re talking about includes willingly sacrificing your own knights for a cause, that’s quite plausible,” Helio snickered.
 On the surface, Helio gave off the aura of an upper-class gentleman, but underneath, he turned out to be no different from a scoundrel.
 He was the type of person the people back at the Mogris territory told Yuriel to avoid. They warned her that she could run into trouble just by keeping such a shameless and flashy person next to her.
 “He’s quite a warm person indeed.”
 “He’s much more of a warm and kind person than someone who tortures a civilian to figure out how to predict the activity of monsters,” Yuriel shot back sarcastically, rubbing her lips.
 She regarded Helio as an enemy. If anyone disliked Raphlet, they were an automatic enemy to Yuriel.
 At the sight of her face-which hadn’t distorted even during torture-now suddenly marred by a frown, Helio let out a hollow laugh.
 It was evident that this woman was a fervent admirer of Raphlet.
 Helio was about to give some proper advice to this innocent, young lady who seemed to know nothing when a low voice came from behind them.
 “Torture? What are you talking about?”
 Yuriel’s face lit up at once, recognizing the owner of the voice immediately.
 “Raphlet!”
 She ran forward and hovered around him like a dog wagging its tail.
 Raphlet grabbed her shoulder, moving her behind him, and stepped forward. As soon as he grabbed her shoulder, Yuriel’s face overflowed with emotion.
 With Yuriel full of joy behind him, Raphlet addressed Helio in a sharp tone.
 “Commander Helio. Did you torture Yuriel?”
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 A maid who is beaten on behalf of a noble boy.
 Some memories of her childhood were cruel, but Yuriel held no resentment towards the boy. Rather, she liked it–The hand that carefully applied medicine to her wounds was always warm.
 “M-Master, stop, Raph, sa, save…ah, mm…!” “That’s why.. I told you.. to wait.. till I returned.”
 But the Raphlet that appeared in her dreams showed nothing but passion and lust.
 Prophetic dreams. The ability that was like a stigma drove Yuriel towards an unknown future.
 All I want is to be next to you.
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 Travel through a world of fusion novels. 
 Xu Beiwang couldn’t help but complain: 
 “Why do other people wear the protagonist, and no matter how bad they are, I’m just a dazed king, but I’m just a little loyal to the female villain?” 
 However, he soon discovered that it felt really good to bully others, anyway, the black pot was carried by the female villain. 
 Ever since, Xu Beiwang went farther and farther on the road of overpowering others… 
 Besides, he also activated the Looting System. 
 “Son of Destiny? Well, your treasure is mine!”
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 Six months ago, tens of thousands of black phantom towers appeared all over the world, floating above the cities. Chemists, physicists, religious people… all of them could do nothing.
 Six months later, people became used to the towers and no longer paid them attention.
 One day, Tang Mo saw a flying insect crash into it instead of going through it. The next day, a sharp and clear child-like voice issued an announcement to all humans.
 “Ding dong! November 15th, 2017. The earth is online.”
 The black tower’s three iron-clad rules:
 1. Everything is explained by the black tower.
 2. 6 o’clock to 18 o’clock is the game time.
 3. All players, please strive to attack the tower.
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 Lord of Mysteries fan. 
 After waking up, Li Xing found that she seemed to have come to a different world and was stuffed into the body of a girl. The crimson moon in the sky made her hate and sad. With the strange stealing gold finger and the little insect mentor, she Try to live as "Esther". Esther doesn't know where some of the knowledge in her mind comes from, but this does not affect her efforts to live a better life. 
 Until Esther's ordinary life was broken and her power began to go against common sense, Esther had to seek help from the Church of the Night and was taken into the Chanis Gate of the local Nighthawks team. 
 The following year, Crane Moretti joined the Nighthawks. 
 The intersection and chaos of fate make the destined future begin.
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 The mysterious boy Ling Chen is saved by a little girl as he lay on the street dying. Years later, he strikes a deal to save this savior-turned sister and enters the virtual world. In a future Earth where advanced warfare has forced nations to settle issues virtually or else suffer the consequences, Ling Chen bursts into the scene and goes from unknown to legend. Yet all is not as it seems, for Ling Chen has a dark past, and there is a greater mystery at hand behind this virtual world. 
 To save his terminally ill little sister, Ling Chen enters the newly released virtual game world and joins a small gaming studio comprising entirely of women. From now on walking upon his path towards the pinnacle. An ancient, evil item almost forgotten by history, the “Lunar Scourge” helps forge his unsurpassable legend, and causes him to unknowingly step upon a path that is destined to be punished by the heavens, the way of the Shura.
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 Su Shi was once a platinum-level host with the highest survival rate. One day, his misdeeds of constantly shifting his blame onto others was found out and reported. Convicted of violating the rules, he was bound to an Automatic Blame Shouldering System and exiled to lower-level worlds.
 Now, not only does he have to take the blame from others and shoulder it himself, he must also carry that blame and rush to his death in order to earn enough points to quickly unbind from the system.
 Su Shi only wants to get rid of the system by shouldering the blame until death. However, he finds that trying to hold onto the blame is even harder than passing it on, and rushing to his death is even harder than running for his life.
 As Su Shi lies dying in the protagonist’s arms with red-rimmed eyes and a weak and helpless countenance, an uninvited third guest suddenly rushes out to explain the misunderstanding for him.
 Su Shi: “I beg you, just let me shoulder this blame, otherwise, it will all be a waste of effort…”
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 When Qin Yan was five years old, she left the capital with her mother and went to the Pingxi Army under the command of her grandfather, Duke of Zhenguo, in the Northwest. When she returned twelve years later, things were different.
 After the mother was attacked and disappeared, everyone in the Prime Minister Mansion only knew of Concubine Song, but not her mother, the honorable mistress. They only knew that there was only one Miss Nian in the mansion, and they did not know that there was also her, the only eldest young lady of the first wife.
 The concubine took over her mother’s dowry and pretended to be rich and generous to win people’s hearts. The concubine-born younger sister, with the identity that belongs to Qin Yan, was mixed up like a fish in water in the circle of noble daughters in the capital, and she also intended to get involved with Qin Yan’s fiancé.
 The people in Prime Minister Mansion thought that Qin Yan could only be at their mercy when she returned to the capital alone. However, they never thought that within a few days of returning to the capital, Qin Yan was granted the title of Princess of Zhaoren by the emperor and given a palace as the Princess Mansion.
 When Qin Yan took back the dowry that belonged to her mother, only then did her father Prime Minister Qin and Concubine Song knew that Qin Yan was the owner of Yu Qingfeng, the first bank in Great Xia.
 The City Master of Gu City, an important town outside the Northwest Pass, was known as the owner of Yu Qingfeng, the first bank in Great Xia which claimed to be able to reach half the national treasury.
 How many secrets have not been uncovered on Qin Yan?
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 Xu Nannan, the owner of Taobao, wakes up and becomes a rural girl Xu Nannan in the 1960s.
 Every day they only eat a wild vegetable chaff dumpling. Working from dawn to night, she carry a hoe and went to the field to exchange for workpoints.
 The embarrassing thing is that the poor pair of trousers in the family have to be shared by the sisters.
 Xu Nannan was complaining to go home.
 Fortunately, her Taobao shop followed her back to the 1960s, and was finally able to do some sideline work.
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 A generation of strong stars, Stardust, died at the hands of the villain and fell accidentally. When I woke up, I had been sleeping for 80,000 years. Things have changed. The four adopted sons have already become the strong men of the continent; a wild dog that has been saved has become the supreme demon king… that child, it is said 40,000 years ago, overcame common customs and became supreme! Observing the small sorrows of tens of thousands of years ago, one by one, Yang Chen feels that Yalishan is great! This is a little loaded.
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 Lin Xun grew up in Huo’s family. In order to survive in Huo’s family, he could only please the second young master of Huo’s family who was not too old to her. 
 Huo Zai has been a child of someone else’s family since he was a child, and he always does everything he does. Gentleman never fights, doesn’t lose his temper, doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink alcohol, doesn’t have any bad habits, is gentle and considerate, and has no shortcomings… 
 But only Lin Xun knew that she was a gentle and poisonous snake to please. 
 Lin Xun: “What do you want?” 
 Huo Shi took off his glasses, Sven chuckled softly, “My sister doesn’t love me, why is she smiling at me?”
 One-sentence introduction: Possessiveness in the black-bellied year
 Content label: a special liking for wealthy families 
 Search keywords: protagonist: Lin Xun, Huo Zai Supporting role: a lot of others:
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 220 years ago, in the legendary Dragon Demon War, Hero Azell ended the war by killing the evil Dragon Demon race’s King Atein. He was able to save the population, but as a consequence, he was cursed. While he was dying, the high magician suggested a gamble that might save his life.
 ‘The Dragon’s hibernation is the only key to saving your life.’
 Instead of a human’s sleep, he slept the sleep of the dragons and he was able to overcome the curse. Now he is realizing that he has slept way longer than a human’s life span.
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 “Now that I’m back, I won’t allow my loved ones to die again!”
 The Shadow Labyrinth – the most catastrophic existence humanity has faced in history.
 Desir Arman is one of the six remaining survivors of mankind.
 The six attempted to clear the final level of the labyrinth but ultimately failed, and the world came to an end.
 However – when Desir thought he would meet his demise, what is revealed before him is the world… thirteen years ago?!
 Desir is returned to the past, back to the time when he enrolled at the nation’s finest magic academy – Havrion. He is reunited with his precious friends, and is prepared to change the past to save the world and his loved ones…!
 Three years remaining before the emergence of the Shadow World!
 Change the past and gather powerful comrades to save mankind!
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 Ruan Yingyin is a silver hamster who inexplicably transmigrated into the novel 《After the rebirth of the villain》she had read.
 The villain Jiang Xingyuan had a girlfriend named Ruan Yingyin in his previous life, but Ruan Yingyin later betrayed him, causing Jiang Xingyuan to go bankrupt, and finally ran away with money.
 Jiang Xingyuan’s ending in the novel was miserable. He regressed back to high school and retaliated against Ruan Yingyin. Ruan Yingyin’s ending was much more miserable than Jiang Xing Yuan.
 After remembering everything, Ruan Yingyin: As a silver hamster essence who transmigrated into the book, I just want to concentrate on studies. QAQ
 Ruan Yingyin felt that she had to study hard to catch up with her classmates. But when the results came out, she was the first.
 Ruan Yingyin felt that she could not sprint, but when she ran, she crossed the finish line first.
 Ruan Yingyin felt that she wasn’t good at singing. As a result, at the school party, a small video of her singing was posted on the Internet, instantly gaining countless fans. Even people from the recording company came to invite her to debut as an idol…
 The villain who bullied her at first, he stepped on her chocolate, kicked her stool, and forced her to eat mustard, finally, hugged her tightly in his arms and whispered to her, “baby, help me…”
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