All The Skills - A Deckbuilding LitRPG - Chapter 27: Orphanage

Nora is shattered a month before her wedding when she uncovers her fiancé's deceitful affair. As she manages this betrayal, she discovers a deep ploy to hinder her from claiming her rightful inheritance. Devastated but determined, Nora takes a daring step to regain control of her life. Enter Demetri 'The Demon' to those who know him, a formidable man barely known to her, who offers her protection and support in return for a contract marriage to satisfy him. In a twist of fate, Nora marries Demetri to claim her inheritance and fight those who plotted against her. But as she battles her own family and Demetri's many rivals, will she be able to keep from falling for the man known to crush people beneath his booted heel.Excerpt:She had forgotten that the man was intimidating and directly challenged him.Rather than speaking, Demetri rose from his seat and approached her deliberately. Although it was a mere few steps, time seemed to stretch for Nora. When he was almost within touching distance, his hand gently landed on her knee, moving it sideways. His touch moved with a hint of a caress, and he stepped between her open legs. Nora sat there in frozen silence, her eyes wide like a deer caught in headlights.Catching her chin between his fingers, he tilted her face upwards and spoke unhurriedly,“ You are my wife.”She nodded her head slowly in affirmation while his thumb slowly traced her lip. “I have given you time to gather your emotions.”Another nod. Nora's nervousness made her lick her lips, acutely aware of his intense gaze fixed upon them.“Your reason for the marriage was to secure your inheritance and get away from under your mother's thumb.”“Yes...” Nora whispered in confusion. Her confusion was not about his statement but about the bewildering sensations coursing through her. What was happening with her?”It's time for you to fulfil your end of the contract, yes?“ He continued.”Yes,“ Nora whispered breathlessly. Why was she breathless? Had the oxygen level in the house dropped? Was the air suddenly thinning?Abruptly, his hand left her face, and she watched as he drew closer. It was then that Nora comprehended what was unfolding. All those tantalizing, heart-pounding kisses she had read about in novels were about to possibly become her reality.But the anticipated kiss didn't happen. Instead, he paused near her and commanded, ”Kiss me.“

What was originally an ordinary day, suddenly became a historical turning point. Enormous, mysterious Cubes appeared all over the world without warning and as if Judgement Day’s spears, inserted themselves into the blue planet.

From inside the enormous Cubes, endless streams of monsters gushed out alike raging tides, utterly defeating the unguarded armies of each state in the blink of an eye.

In order for humanity to preserve its final embers, the heads of states issued orders of retreat, to no longer attack the Cubes but rather to cling to remote cities, which they turned into self-sufficient survivor bases and around which they built 100-meter-tall Walls of Life!

Many years later, while bearing the heavy weight of history, the first expeditionary force brought back a world changing piece of information. The Cubes possessed exceedingly high intelligence and they regularly transmitted mission instructions to humans nearby. The mission rewards were incredible.

Since then, humans rushed out of the confines of the walls and once more set foot on the wasteland!

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Xu Min realized that he was gifted with an exceptional talent for cultivation as he was training to become a family guard. His path was set before him but due to the jealousy of man, misfortune befell him. Xu Min found that he could trust no one as he began walking down the path of vengeance in a world where only the strong survived.

Once again, she woke up and became Xiao Yunyi, the second-in-law’s direct daughter Xiao Yunyi, who was in the house of the fifth-grade middle-class book in the overhead world of Beimo, without the protection of her parents.

In order to monopolize the blessings that the original owner’s father had exchanged for his life, the big room not only wanted to kill the original owner, but also calculated the eldest son of the second room, and maliciously wanted to send the young master of the second room, who was born less than 100 days ago, to someone else as an adopted son. It is extremely vicious. .

After just getting along and finding out the situation in the mansion, before thinking about how to get rid of the uncle’s family’s calculations in the future, he got the news that the mansion was implicated by the family’s direct branch and would be exiled to the border.

On the way to exile, they were also disliked and run on by their so-called relatives. They were not afraid, not afraid, and never gave up their space, maddening those who wanted to see their jokes.

As for Jing Rui, who grew up in the border military area, since his head was broken by his eldest brother, his temperament has changed greatly, and he is no longer the pitiful little one that everyone can expect.

Relying on his own ability to rise step by step, his mind is full of strong himself, to find the little woman who met him in his past and present life.

It is said that thousands of miles of marriage are connected by a single thread. The past and present life are all fate, and there is God’s will in the dark. It can be said that there is no place to step through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it. It’s wonderful!

When they meet again, they accidentally learn about the old secrets. In the face of sinister people and deep hatred, they will turn him upside down.

See how Yunyi protects her younger brother, and how the two couples continue their frontiers, overcome difficulties, and join hands to create a prosperous world.

A series of texts from the female and male protagonists of crossing the Xiaoyao family~~~~~~

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