“You may use this palace from now on. His Majesty the King has specially bestowed it for Miss Kasallin.”
Kasallin looked up at the beautiful palace that nestled cozily between an artificial pond and flower gardens.
With the royal palace to the south and the knights’ headquarters to the north, Kasallin knew well the history of this palace from which there was no escape route.
It was where the previous king’s mistresses had stayed.
A place where they would prettily adorn themselves with blindingly gorgeous blooming flowers and wait, then obediently offer their smiles whenever the king desired.
“It’s all yours.”
Shallen approached from behind.
He pointed out the palace grounds piece by piece with his fingertips as he spoke.
“Dozens of bedrooms and party halls, gardens and even greenhouses. A welcome gift bestowed upon the official mistress of the King of Kan Kingdom.”
A deflated, hollow laugh escaped from between Kasallin’s teeth.
“…Official mistress? When did I ever say I would become your mistress?”
“When I call you that, you just need to meekly accept it by saying ‘yes.’ And.”
Shallen’s gaze swept down over Kasallin’s dress.
“I clearly remember filling your wardrobe abundantly with new dresses, so why aren’t you wearing those but instead wearing the plain clothes you wore during your maid days?”
“I’m sorry, but you’ve wasted both effort and money. I won’t accept anything His Majesty gives me.”
“Still being stubborn? I told you. You just need to dutifully receive the allowance I give you, go shopping, dress up prettily and enjoy parties. I won’t touch anything else. What an easy and happy life that would be?”
Shallen approached with steps that showed slight excitement and grasped Kasallin’s chin.
His lips curved upward with superiority.
“I even forgave the criminal who dared commit violence against the king with just banishment from the capital, so what exactly are you dissatisfied with that you act so cynically? Above all, I’m not even demanding you fulfill your duties as a mistress.”
“Duties as a mistress?”
Shallen’s thumb parted Kasallin’s lips and invaded inside.
It felt like a sinister snake slithering.
“You know well what I mean.”
Her facial muscles trembled finely as if she were standing naked in a blizzarding snowy mountain.
Feeling a chilling displeasure crawling down her spine, Kasallin pushed Shallen’s chest away forcefully.
With her violent movement, something small and glittering fell out from inside Kasallin’s clothes.
Both their gazes turned toward the floor almost simultaneously.
It was a butterfly hair ornament decorated with deep blue lapis lazuli that would feel cold to the touch.
Until that moment, Shallen had been looking at Kasallin like she was just a disobedient, sharp-tongued puppy, but his eyes suddenly turned white with rage.
“Hah.”
Shallen let out a scoff as if he found it absurd.
“You wouldn’t even glance at the things I spent hundreds of millions to gift you, yet you still carry around like a talisman the hair ornament you received from Emperor Parnes?”
“…It’s none of your concern.”
Kasallin bent down to pick up the fallen item.
At that moment, Shallen stepped forward and mercilessly trampled the hair ornament.
With a crushing sound, small delicate jewels shattered like snowflakes and scattered in all directions.
“I take back everything I said about you being a smart and clever woman.”
Shallen spoke while crushing the already ruined hair ornament even more demonstratively.
As the beautiful yet ephemeral butterfly was crushed more and more by his merciless boot, Kasallin’s heart was torn apart with indescribable sorrow.
It was like watching an immature child throwing a tantrum recklessly just because they were in a bad mood.
“I’ve been thinking wrong all this time. Kasallin. You are foolish.”
Even Kasallin, who rarely lost her composure, was startled by how Shallen’s voice was filled with malice.
Who was the one who should truly harbor resentment, yet he was the one getting more indignant?
Kasallin simply could not follow the flow of his emotions.
“Think whatever you want. I don’t care at all what His Majesty thinks of me. There’s no reason I should pay attention to your evaluation.”
“It’s useless to pretend you’re not affected. I know you’re in shock from being rejected by the Emperor. Did you really think that emperor, who lacks nothing, would truly love you with all his heart? It’s an arrogant delusion.”
Kasallin glared at Shallen, who was having delusions of grandeur by himself, with eyes that looked like they might cry at any moment.
However, she never shed tears.
Her belief was that it would be better to bite her tongue and die than show tears in front of Shallen.
“The other party is the Emperor of the Renel Empire. His hidden lovers must be countless. To still be clinging to him just because he gave you some jewelry and doted on your pretty face. No wonder Emperor Parnes would lose interest in you.”
“Stop. Stop it. I don’t want to talk about this anymore.”
At his continued verbal abuse, Kasallin felt her not-yet-fully-healed body swaying again.
But since there was nothing more disgraceful than collapsing in front of him, she put all her strength into her legs.
As Kasallin turned her back, Shallen persistently followed and continued speaking.
“But Kasallin. I’m different.”
Shallen’s hand grabbed Kasallin’s arm.
“Let go!”
“I mean I will never abandon you!”
Shallen shouted with flashing eyes.
Kasallin let the arm he had grabbed fall powerlessly downward.
Her lips were so pale with shock that even hollow laughter was escaping.
“You won’t abandon me…?”
What nonsense is this man spouting now?
He had even gone so far as to incite innocent people and take them hostage through petty and cowardly methods just to keep one woman.
At his words, which showed not even a trace of conscience and could hardly be called human, Kasallin felt her mind growing distant.
“Even if all other men abandon you, I alone can embrace you forever. The fact that you’ve been deceiving me and acting erratically all this time? It’s incredibly shocking and outrageous, but I’ll forgive you. Because you’ve safely returned home alive like this. That’s enough for me. Kasallin.”
Shallen exercised cruel violence disguised as forgiveness and mercy with a gentle voice, slipping a ring onto Kasallin’s finger.
“So give up your stubbornness now and think carefully about what path leads to happiness. We can start over.”
[This is the timeline separator]“…What did you just say, Lord Aster?”
The reddish tea water couldn’t quite make it to Rose’s mouth and swayed lightly in the teacup.
Rose stared blankly at Aster’s face as if she wanted to confirm once more whether what she had just heard was truly fact.
“What did His Majesty Shallen do to Sister Kasallin?”
“His Majesty bestowed the Jasmine Palace right behind the royal palace along with territory, plus some gold bars as well. Marquis Kalman Robepon was merely banished from the capital with all limbs intact.”
The teacup finally fell from Rose’s fingers and rolled on the floor.
As the white porcelain broke and tea water dampened the carpet, servants entered and silently cleaned up the mess.
After they left the room, Aster continued.
“Although there was no official announcement, judging from various circumstances, we must consider that His Majesty the King has essentially officially recognized Miss Kasallin as his mistress.”
Rose moved only her lips with a suspicious expression for a long while before finally squeezing out a single sentence.
“His Majesty… really made such a decision, leaving me behind?”
Rose remembered all the countless romantic whispers she had heard from Shallen from the day they first met under the hot southern sun until today.
Every time they made love, he would swear with the voice of a faithful shepherd.
That she was the only woman who truly occupied his heart, and that such noble sincerity would never change.
“Your Majesty the Queen. His Majesty the King has arrived.”
At the servant’s voice from outside the door, Rose snapped out of her thoughts.
While the heavy sound of boots approached, she forced her hardened face to soften.
“Queen. What were you doing?”
Shallen, who hadn’t been in a good mood lately, seemed intoxicated with a strange sense of victory today, as if something satisfying had happened.
Rose smiled sweetly and playfully nestled into his embrace.
She naturally buried her head in his collar and breathed deeply.
There was no scent of Sister Kasallin’s perfume.
“Guess what I was doing.”
“Hmm, let’s see. Were you drinking tea?”
“That’s right too, but. I was spending time thinking of His Majesty all day long. Wondering when you would come to see Rose.”
“You know how to say charming things too.”
Shallen lay down comfortably on the layered carpets on the floor while embracing Rose.
The servants tactfully withdrew, recognizing that an intimate time for just the two of them was about to begin.
“By the way, haven’t you been too neglectful of Rose lately? I almost got sulky.”
“I had urgent business with the administration.”
A lie.
“I see. You worked hard today too. Shall I massage your shoulders?”
“Well, that would be nice, but…”
Shallen gently grasped Rose’s fragrant hair with one hand and leisurely rolled on the carpet.
The afternoon time flowed languidly but sometimes intensely.
By the time the clock’s hour hand had made one and a half rotations, the last sunlight of the day was quietly slanting across the room.
Having somewhat released his pent-up desires, Shallen quenched his thirst with cool water.
He stood up while arranging his disheveled appearance.
Rose’s gaze followed his feet.
“Are you leaving already?”
“I need to receive the evening report.”
“Still, please stay just a little longer.”
Rose couldn’t hide her regretful feelings.
Right after their wedding, they had spent most of their time together to the point where advisors would frantically plead for him to please attend to state affairs.
But lately, it seemed like all he did was share affection as if handling urgent business and then return to his duties. Was that just her imagination?
“Sorry. Instead, let’s leisurely have tea in the greenhouse tomorrow.”
“Really?”
“Yes. We haven’t had such time recently. Kasallin will come at the right time too.”
“What? Sister Kasallin?”
“Yes. Kasallin said she wants to have a sincere conversation with her sister after a long time. It seems like she wants to reconcile…”
Rose’s face froze with the smile still on it.
“I trust our queen, who loves her sister more than anyone, will gladly accept. Now she’s practically family who will live under the same roof as us.”
Top Celebrity Younger Brother Bears Her Child (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: Forced to live stream romance with a top celebrity in a female-dominant world.
Yan Jin transmigrated into a brothel, with a fellow transmigrated junior beside her.
Hearing the obscene words coming from outside, the unfortunate junior covered his ears tightly, his cheeks flushed red, and whispered to comfort her, “Don’t worry, I will definitely help you escape.”
“Don’t worry, I will definitely defend your chastity.” Yan Jin looked at the flawless and delicate features of the unfortunate junior and gently comforted, “Because we have transmigrated into a female-dominant world.”
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Top celebrity Yu Shu suddenly fell into a coma during a concert.
Research scientist Yan Jin fainted in the lab after working overtime.
Two people with no connection were rushed to the same hospital.
Three days later, neither of them had woken up.
Suddenly, the entire nation discovered that a live streaming app had been forcibly installed on their phones.
Upon opening it, they heard the two discussing how to escape from the brothel.
The entire internet was in an uproar.
After the two successfully escaped from the brothel, Yu Shu’s fan group rushed to make a banner and sent it to the hospital overnight.
“Big sister bravely took action to defend the chastity of our idol!”
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When Yu Shu was diagnosed with pregnancy, Yan Jin stared at his belly for a long time.
Covering his stomach, he muttered gloomily, “If you don’t like it, I’ll go get an abortion.”
“It’s not that I don’t like it.” Yan Jin hugged Yu Shu and said softly, “I just feel like I’m not human.”
Yu Shu comforted Yan Jin, “I was already an adult when we got together.”
Yan Jin hesitated, “But you won’t be of legal marriageable age even after giving birth to the child.”
At the same time, a flood of bullet comments appeared in the live streaming room that the two couldn’t see.
[Although it’s inappropriate, I also want a young and handsome boyfriend to have my child.]
①Male pregnancy (highlighted)
The female lead is five years older than the male lead, and the male lead is already an adult when he appears.
