Married At First Sight By Gu Lingfei

Kathryn looked up at Pedro. "I want to touch your face," she said.

Pedro's expression was tense, his features hardened with anger. But after a moment, he leaned down, letting her reach him easily.

She ran her fingers across his face. "Your face is as hard as marble. So handsome, yet so rigid. I don't like seeing you like this. I prefer when you're gentle, like jade."

Pedro's voice was low and firm. "Miss, I'm not gentle like jade."

Years of brutal training at the base had shaped him into a hardened soldier. Gentleness was not in his nature.

Yet, when he was in a good mood, his sharp edges softened.

To her, he was always handsome, always polite. To her, he was gentle like jade.

And as she spoke, the tension in his face eased.

I knew their timing. I let them scratch my arm, nothing more. They were first-time killers, inexperienced and mentally weak. They panicked and only managed to scratch me. I screamed on purpose-scared my eldest brother so much that he dropped the kitchen knife." Pedro was speechless. With a flick of his fingers, he tapped her forehead. "Miss, do you even hear

eyes sparkled mischievously. "Of course, I

had

Neither had she.

to the fish!" His voice was cold

had ways—many ways to make sure those three brothers never left prison. But Kathryn didn't want them

him a

what mean. They didn't have the guts to go through with it Pedro, let's put this behind us. My plan

move out of Jensburg. Aside from visiting my

little, no one bought me warm clothes. I had to wear secondhand rags, and I nearly froze to death every winter. I survived over twenty brutal winters by luck alone." She paused, lost in

child, her adoptive mother forced her to wash the family's clothes by the

had to haul water from the well to scrub

her hands with pain every time she