All Chapters of Bride of the Sealed Coffin: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

“Mr. Stock Sr.”My stepmother dropped to her knees with a thud.“Yuna has a heart condition. She can barely get out of bed. How could Our Lord possibly choose her…”Seeing her cry so pitifully, the women around her immediately began speaking up for her.“So many girls have already been sent into that crypt before. Some died, some came back crippled.”“Yuna’s been in the ICU before. There’s no way Our Lord would accept her. Sending her in there would be the same as sending her straight to hell.”“There’s something sinister about Our Lord too. For centuries, people prayed to him like he was some kind of saint, but over the past few years, his resentment has only grown stronger.”“Our Lord died young while building this family empire. He never married, never had children. It’s no wonder he left this world carrying so much resentment.”“But isn’t this too much? Failed investments in Stockholm, collapsing buildings, the heads of the family dying one after another…”Vincent Stock tilted his

Was it just my imagination?I hurriedly pressed my ear against Lucien’s chest.No heartbeat.He was definitely long dead.Clutching my chest, I let out a shaky breath of relief.Forget it. The whole “letting Our Lord experience marital pleasures” part could end here.I was ready to skip straight to the childbearing step anyway.Climbing out of the crystal coffin, I picked up the fertility wine from the altar.My gaze lingered on my pearl for a long moment.Over the years, I’d uncovered all kinds of ridiculous theories claiming it was the inner core of some beast that had cultivated itself into a demon.Please. My whole family was painfully ordinary. Where the hell were we supposed to get a demon core from?Still, there was one thing every version agreed on:The pearl protected its owner. In moments of danger, it could ward off disaster and save a life.I took a deep breath, pressed my trembling right hand down with my left, and calmly raised the glass to my lips.Vincent said that e

The lock on the glass display case was completely untouched, yet the pearl inside had vanished without a trace.What the hell.It was definitely still there when I left that morning.Vincent was the only person who could enter or leave the crypt.And he’d been in front of me all day long.“There’s no other entrance to this place?” I searched the entire underground chamber, all three thousand square feet of it.“Absolutely not!”Cold sweat poured down Vincent’s face.He was clearly terrified I’d think he was trying to back out of the deal and keep the pearl for himself.Whatever.There happened to be a ready-made witness lying right here anyway. I might as well ask him directly.“Then I’ll trouble you, Mr. Stock Sr., to investigate once you’re outside. I’ll stay here again tonight.”The moment Vincent left, I immediately started drinking the fertility wine.I waited for ages, but the Lucien who had stepped out of the crystal coffin the night before never appeared.What was going on?Had

He introduced himself as Nathan Vale, Yuna’s college classmate.They had already been dating for two years.Nathan sat beside the hospital bed while the two of them laughed and chatted. Then he peeled an apple for her.Yuna ate while smiling happily.Meanwhile, I sat on the sofa by the door, staring at the two of them without blinking.Suddenly, Yuna gagged.I clearly saw the pearl inside her stomach shift for the first time since I’d found it there.“What’s wrong?” Nathan immediately patted her back in concern.“I don’t know. Maybe the apple’s too hard. I suddenly feel like throwing up.” Yuna gagged again.I watched as the pearl rolled upward inside her, looking dangerously close to coming back up.My nerves were stretched so tight I nearly crushed the sofa arm beneath my fingers.“Then, do you still want to eat it?” Nathan asked hesitantly.“Yes. My boyfriend peeled this apple for me himself. Even if it’s hard, I’m eating it.” Yuna pouted playfully.“Then I’ll cut it into smaller p

I stared at Lucien lying there motionless.And for the first time, real fear crept into my heart.The abbey kept countless records about the Demon Lord.Every one of them described him as ruthless, wreathed in black mist, cruel beyond reason.I couldn’t stop my imagination from running wild.Back then, my perfectly golden pearl turned black the moment my father prayed before Lucien’s statue in the chapel.His resentment was so powerful it caused fires in the storehouses, collapsing beams, sudden deaths among the family heads, brides ending up dead or crippled, and he’d nearly strangled my stepmother to death in public.The golden pearl vanished from the crypt without anyone unlocking the case. Who else besides him could’ve done that?And not only that—the pearl somehow ended up inside the stomach of the sister who stole my identity…Each event was stranger than the last.Not only did it fit the vicious reputation of the Demon Lord, it all seemed suspiciously directed at me.So, was Luc