“Ah… What should I do!”
Latifa Glaesia could only wring her hands as she was held by Raul, looking at the chaotic reality and the rampaging Hades Caleb Ignite.
“Prince Raul! HHades General! This is going to be a real disaster! What should we do?!”
“Latifa, calm down! I’m going out, so don’t come out and stay behind the guards!”
“Is it my fault that this happened? Because of me… the trial was held.”
Feeling as if the cause of this chaotic hell was all her fault, Latifa Glaesia closed her mouth.
A hot lump seemed to be stuck in her chest, and she couldn’t continue speaking because of the overwhelming emotion.
‘I released Caesar. I wanted to become a goddess, showing off unnecessarily… It must be because of me. Even earlier, I unnecessarily brought up the topic of the water pouch…’
She had let Caesar go at the Frau ceremony out of meaningless pride and arrogance, and Tarek was injured.
She had no evidence, so she should have just let the desert fox’s words pass. She had informed Hades as if she was a real goddess, provoking his anger.
Thinking she was the cause of everything, she felt that all she had done so far was overstepping.
‘I thought I did it right… but it seems I didn’t. I really am…’
Watching Hades rampaging, she felt as if she was chained, her heart heavy and fearful, unable to say anything.
“Iota! Come out now! Before I kill you! No, try to run away cleverly! I will chase you to the end and kill you!”
“Kyaaah!”
It was really a scene from hell.
Iota and her maids ran around the chaotic reality, tearing their skirts. Hades continued to chase her, and the guards were dragged along by him.
And people dodged them, running here and there; the Sultan, surrounded by escort soldiers, gripped his forehead as if he had a headache, furrowing his brow.
Raul noticed the tears filling up in Latifa Glaesia’s blue eyes and comforted her.
“Ah, Latifa! This is definitely not your fault. It’s just Hades’s capriciousness, so please don’t torment your innocent conscience.”
“Prince Raul. Somehow, we must stop the General. The royal assassination charge is not the problem anymore!”
Although Latifa Glaesia didn’t know the laws of the Grand Bazaar, she knew that causing such a disturbance where a king resides was unacceptable.
“You are right. If this continues, Hades might be imprisoned for blasphemy.”
“Imprisoned?!”
“Latifa, this is Ergos. Stay behind him. Ergos, I’ll go try to persuade Hades. Please take care of her.”
Raul left Latifa Glaesia to Ergos, who was behind him, and hurriedly ran toward Hades.
“How can he be stopped when he’s rampaging like this?!”
As Latifa Glaesia sobbed, Ergos let out a big sigh and pulled her to a safer area.
“It’s okay. Prince Raul is the only one who can rein in General Hades.”
“Why has the General suddenly become so agitated?!”
“General Hades treasures Prince Raul dearly. Especially, he extremely hates the contamination of pure blood, so sometimes he overreacts like this. It’s not the first time.”
“Even so!”
“Seeing General Hades’s madness is not a matter of a day or two, but today it seems a bit more severe. Is it related to you?”
Ergos mumbled, worriedly watching Raul as he went to calm down Hades.
“It’s fox hunting! Let’s start the fox hunting!”
Hades, carrying two or three guards on his back trying to restrain him, was slowly walking in the direction Iota had run.
“Hades! Stop it!”
Raul shouted at Hades.
“Oh, Prince! I shall offer a dish of fox liver for Prince Luhan! After all, an old fox sprayed with musk won’t be worth much for its fur, so wouldn’t a dish of swollen liver be the best option?!”
“There’s no need for such a dish, Hades. This is before the Sultan. Maintain decorum.”
“That wicked woman being before the Sultan is outrageous in itself!”
As he shouted, Hades’ dark eyes seemed more frenzied than ever, as if filled with murderous intent.
At least, thankfully, he was responding to Luhan’s words.
Although the conversation was anything but normal.
Latifa Glaesia had seen such crazed eyes before.
‘When I nearly died to a lion, he had screamed and raged like that.’
But then there was no Sultan, no iota, and it wasn’t in the palace.
‘How did I calm him down back then?’
Latifa took a deep breath, recalling the events of that day, but her mind seemed blank, overwhelmed by the chaotic situation.
“Open the door! Hurry, open the door!”
Iota, who had kept running away, was now desperately sprinting barefoot, trying to escape to the outside of the Royal Hall.
Hades was staggering at a distance, catching his ragged breath, obstructed by a wall of soldiers, and beside him, Luhan was barely holding onto his shoulder.
“Hades, stop. Enough is enough. No, it’s too much!”
Erugos, who had seen this, finally breathed a sigh of relief and spoke to Latifa.
“It seems the Prince has managed to stop him. That’s fortunate, but we still have a mountain of issues to deal with. Ah, I wish I could retire early today. I envy Manut at times like this!”
At his words, Latifa looked at Hades.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
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Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead