Maneut, listening to the new generals’ talk, immediately hardened his face at that statement.

“It’s called honor… Even the great Sultan can’t stop him, and only Prince Luhan can tame him, but my stomach is getting ruined!”

“Even though Prince Luhan looks weak, he does a good job controlling General Hades. He’s a remarkable person.”

So much so, there is a saying that ‘Desert people instinctively pursue strength,’ the people of the Grand Bazaar unconditionally considered strong people the best.

So even though Prince Luhan, born of the queen, was wise, intelligent, and virtuous, there were not a few factions supporting the second prince, Tarek, who was physically larger and more skilled in swordsmanship, as the future Sultan.

In that respect, Hades was a very important figure in Luhan’s support base. Luhan’s charisma stood out just by the fact that he could control Hades.

“Prince Luhan is strong in himself. He will become an excellent Sultan later.”

Maneut said flatly, driving the point home.

They had won the war against the empire, so now all that was left was to raise Prince Luhan’s standing.

And then, a sentry came running and reported to Maneut.

“General Maneut! You need to come see this right now!”

What the sentry reported with was a gold bracelet.

A geometrically beautiful patterned bracelet, personally bestowed upon Ignite by the Sultan.

“Ugh.”

Seeing that, Maneut’s stomach began to churn again.
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A line of soldiers was buzzing and gathering in darkness.

“That woman, isn’t she the one the general has been taking with him?”

“Yes. I know. She’s a symbol of luck.”

“A symbol of luck?”

“I don’t know. They say if you see a woman with silver hair, you become lucky? Weren’t you the one who told me that?”

“Luck? Wasn’t it that she prevents falling off a horse? Anyway, why is she here?”

“I don’t know. She just appeared all of a sudden.”

Whinny, whinny. A man on a large camel appeared, shouting at the soldiers.

“Move. Move out of the way!”

A path was made through the murmuring crowd, and the man on the camel hastily approached the source of the problem.

There, two women were lying beside a large wagon. Their pale skin revealed that they were from the Empire.

The woman with brown hair was speaking in an unintelligible imperial language, and the woman with silver hair was unconscious, collapsed on the ground. The man on the camel recognized them.

“What… What is this?!”

He grabbed his subordinate in confusion, but his subordinate knew no more than he did.

“This was a food wagon that we hadn’t opened for a few days. When we opened it today, two imperial women jumped out!”

“You didn’t check it?!”

“We finished inspecting all of them on the last day! Nobody approached it for a week after that except the sentries, I don’t know how this happened!”

“So you don’t know, and everything is resolved?!”

“I apologize, General!”

Quickly dismounting from his camel, the man, Mavnut, first examined the unconscious Latifa. She was barely breathing, and her face was gaunt; she didn’t look normal at all.

On the other hand, the woman with brown hair seemed quite plump, as if she had been comfortable for the past few days.

“General, isn’t this woman the one General Hades used to take with him?”

“Is she the symbol of luck?”

“Shouldn’t we report to General Hades?”

“General, this is definitely not our fault. We surely checked thoroughly!”

With voices chiming in from here and there and the woman with brown hair loudly speaking in the imperial language, Mavnut’s head began to spin, and he yelled in frustration.

“Argh! Everyone, be quiet!”

In the sudden silence, Mavnut quickly picked up the unconscious Latifa and calmly issued orders.

“You, call the military doctor first, and you, call an interpreter to ask that woman what happened. Everyone, get ready and move out! Don’t dawdle!”

Hades, at the very front of the long line, stopped his camel, looking at the inclining sun and the map. The sun would soon set, and they would need to make a fire and spend the night here.

The desert’s day and night were very different. During the day, the scorching sun that could burn your skin was a problem, but at night, the cold sand wind that seemed to peel your flesh blew.

“We stop here today.”

As Hades raised his right hand to signal his subordinates, they moved without hesitation, transmitting the command. While they prepared to spend the night, he blankly looked up at the sky.

The cloudless desert’s beautiful violet twilight, even for a moment. The hot sand lost its heat, cooling down enough to feel good against the feet that had struggled all day. Night had come.

A cluster of stars that seemed to pour down twinkled in the sky, and beside them, a large full moon shone a bright light upon the earth.

“Today is the full moon, huh.”

It had only been a week since he left the Empire. Looking at the silver moon and stars decorating the desert sky, Hades smiled faintly.

“The moonlight is particularly bright tonight.”
The moonlight was too bright, obscuring the guiding stars, making it not an ideal environment for finding direction. Yet Hades smiled nonchalantly and headed towards the temporary tent set up by his subordinates.

“Hm?”

But today, Manute was standing in front of the tent, looking at him with a plump face.

“You should be in the rear, why are you here?”

“……Was this the general’s plan?”

“What?”

“Don’t play dumb. You did this because you knew I’d object loudly, didn’t you?”

“You seem delirious from the heat. Go back and rest.”

“They say the quiet cat climbs first onto the stove lid, but I didn’t know that General Hades would do that.”

Hades, not understanding Manute’s words, jumped off the camel. Then, one of the officers who had been by Manute’s side followed Hades, bending his head.

“It’s a bit of a tough situation, but I’ll do my best for General Hades’ woman.”

“Did everyone get entranced by the moonlight? What are you all talking about. It’s just because the discipline is lax, once as a group—[dash].”

Hades, lifting the leather curtain of the tent and entering, stopped short when he saw the radiant silver waves on his bed.

“……Latifa?”

With a stern face, Hades slowly walked towards the bed. The closer he got, the more visible her silver hair, pale face, and thin, white arms became.

She shouldn’t be here. His dark pupils trembled as if saying that.

Approaching the woman, who lay as if dead with her eyes closed, he gently touched the tip of her nose. A very slender breath flowed out, tickling his fingertips.

“……I must be entranced by the moonlight too.”

When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem

This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.

Synopsis:

“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”

Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.

Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.

While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the  Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…

Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.

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