Three times, I chose a contract guardian. Three times, they got me killed.
In my first life, I chose Drake.
He said I was too boring, then left me for Lani.
In my second life, I chose Locke.
He said I was plain and that he preferred Lani’s face.
In my third life, I chose Kieran.
He said I was too weak. What he truly wanted was Lani’s bloodline. On the day of the family trial, he abandoned me for her.
After three betrayals, I finally understood.
It wasn’t that I had treated them poorly. It was that my standards were all wrong.
So in this fourth life—
I went straight to the back of the line and picked up the dying creature.
“I want her.”
Everyone froze.
The Fourth Life She Guarded Me Chapter 27 That hiss was full of a desperate plea for survival. She dove underground once more. A moment later, she crawled back up and spat out a huge pile of things. Afterward, she used a few thin vines to gently push the pile toward us. Then she drew
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The Fourth Life She Guarded Me Chapter 26 The red glow floated slowly toward us. Paloma lifted a hand and caught it. When the light dispersed, I saw what was in her hand. A thousand-soul vine root. This was the magical plant the Mother of the Snake-vines had guarded for over a thousand years, fed
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The Fourth Life She Guarded Me Chapter 25 “Rarely.” “I see…” I pressed my lips together. “Paloma.” “What now? Can’t you be quiet for a minute?” I bit the inside of my cheek. Who was it that never let me be quiet? You just spent ten days eating me. Ten days. Suppressing the thought, I
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The Fourth Life She Guarded Me Chapter 24 By the time I had fully absorbed the power of the light-shadow twin lotus, ten days had passed. Lani and the others had long since vanished. The Mother of the Snake-vines, on the other hand, hadn’t moved at all. She knew perfectly well that Paloma and I
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The Fourth Life She Guarded Me Chapter 23 My eyes flew wide. Three days. She had been starving for three whole days. I might really die here. “Paloma, calm down first…” “I can’t calm down!” She pinned me to the ground and desperately drank my blood. That sensation of nearing death surged over me again.
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The Fourth Life She Guarded Me Chapter 22 The ground suddenly began to shake again. Even more violently than before. Something in the distance was speeding this way, making an outrageous amount of noise. Great sheets of yellow earth were thrown up, and dust rolled through the air so thickly that no one could see
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The Fourth Life She Guarded Me Chapter 21 The moment I heard that, I collapsed. I dropped hard and fast, as if I truly couldn’t hold on any longer. She could record all she wanted. I was the one who had just torn apart half a snake-vine forest. If I now claimed my life force
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The Fourth Life She Guarded Me Chapter 20 Like me. Like Lani and the others. Unfortunately for her, while I had stepped into her territory, I was proving difficult to kill. So the Mother of the Snake-vines had turned to grab easier prey instead. Lani’s group was struggling more and more. She screamed at me,
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The Fourth Life She Guarded Me Chapter 19 “Lani?” “Meredith!” Lani hacked at the vines while shouting at me. “Meredith, save me!” I raised a hand and wiped the blood from my face. After that fight, I didn’t have much life force left. I found a safe spot and let myself catch my breath. My
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The Fourth Life She Guarded Me Chapter 18 “That’s exactly why we should look for strong people.” “What do you mean?” “There are more of us. Even if they get an opportunity, we can just take it from them.” “…That’s true.” The moment she finished speaking, the ground shook violently. A great mass of snake-vines
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