My Substitute CEO Bride (Nash Calcraft)

Chapter 1982

It was the night before the Summit of Ten Thousand Dynasties.

In Kreiz Prison of Yerusia, a facility specifically designed to detain and control Espers, resided individuals who defied the Illuminion or had been deemed useless pawns by them. Having caused a ruckus at the palace, Sven was transferred to this prison. Here, he encountered Marie.

By a twist of fate, they were placed in the same cell.

Upon hearing someone approach, Marie instinctively hid in a corner. Meanwhile, the guards merely locked Sven in and left.

"Marie, it's me," Sven said excitedly.

Marie's frightened expression softened slightly, but her eyes still showed traces of fear.

"Sven? Is... that you?" she stammered.

"Yes, it's me!" Sven walked forward eagerly.

Marie quickly stepped back, hastily wiping the dirt from her face and raising her hand to stop him. "Don't... come any closer. If you touch me, you'll die."

was stunned. Only then did he notice the layers of

those things on you?"

to cold as she shakily explained, "M-My body is strange. If anyone touches my skin, their heart

if she was

protests

so she kept retreating. "I told you not to come closer. You... You..." Before she could

was both familiar and alien. She did not know how to react. She remembered how during the Heaven and Netherworld game, Sven had hugged her the same way. This feeling and this embrace she

was happening again.

doctor and nurses who touched her in the delivery room also mysteriously died. Unlike other babies, she did

Guild

time seemed to stretch endlessly until she was finally put on a plane.

thick glass, she saw the blue sky and green fields, filling

take her to freedom. It delivered her to the Illuminion in Yerusia, where she became another

Illuminion simulated a

all

people lived happily, including Marie. However, it was part of an experiment. At 12, she was