Rasilia forced herself to recall the short dream she had on the day she was supposed to die. She remembered the pain of a knife piercing her chest and the cold, gold eyes of the Emperor, devoid of compassion.
Never forget.
If I come to love this man, I will die.
Rasilia mustered a calm voice.
“I want to sleep now. I’m tired.”
“As you wish.”
The Emperor, who seemed like he would never let go of her hand, finally did, and placed a pillow under her head while she looked puzzled.
“Ah… thank you.”
“You’re welcome.”
He pulled the blanket up to her chin and lay down next to her.
“Peep. Peeppeep.”
Pipi continued to make a fuss about going to sleep.
Rasilia gently stroked Pipi’s soft head as she counted the time.
Underneath the blanket, the Emperor grabbed her hand tightly.
The feeling of lying down next to each other holding hands was quite strange.
That night, Rasilia had a nightmare.
It was not very different from reality. She was caught between a demon and a bird with red feathers, both fighting.
The difference was that their squabbles escalated beyond mere arguments.
When the red bird cried out, everything around it caught fire. When the demon moved his hand, a bladelike wind arose, cutting the flames.
She, stuck in the middle, was somehow unscathed. But the nightmare was sufficiently gruesome that Rasilia moaned throughout the night.
(This is a time separator.)
“Good morning, Your Majesty. Did you sleep well?”
The morning started with Ivette’s cheerful greeting.
Rasilia greeted Ivette, who was pulling back the bed curtain, with a strangely tired face.
“No, I dreamt too long.”
“What kind of dream was it?”
“… It wasn’t a good one.”
Rasilia still felt like she was standing between flames and typhoons and shuddered slightly.
Then, she suddenly realized she had been sleeping alone.
“Where’s Pipi?”
“Oh, Ren is with Duke Shraiden.”
“Duke Shraiden? This early?”
“Yes, they have some matters to discuss.”
Pipi and the Emperor had woken up early, she was told. Pipi had been noisy since then, which led the Emperor to take Pipi and leave the bedroom.
It seemed they had some argument, and Pipi had gone off to find Duke Shraiden.
The Emperor returned to the Imperial Palace. Shadow Knight Ryan Sigress escorted him with a serious face.
“I wasn’t aware of any of this?”
Rasilia couldn’t hide her bewilderment.
The Prophet’s chamber was stiflingly dark and quiet. Having spent her life in such a place, Rasilia had naturally keen ears.
The Prophet had a constitution that easily fell asleep wherever a revelation from God descended, so waking up was also easy.
Unbelievably, I slept deeply without knowing that two people who had been sleeping beside me at dawn had disappeared.
“The bedroom was quiet. Besides, if you had a long nightmare, it would be enough not to wake up.”
What does it mean that the bedroom was quiet?
For some reason, I remembered the Emperor, who ruthlessly caught Pippi leaning on me while I was asleep, and took her outside.
“……Let it be.”
Rasilia decided to stop thinking hard about what happened while she was asleep. Even if the Emperor behaved as I thought, it was a meaningless act.
“His Majesty said he couldn’t join us for breakfast today. He was very sorry.”
It was rather a good thing.
Rasilia folded the blanket and got up.
“What time is it now? Have I overslept?”
“No, Your Majesty the Empress. You woke up at the usual time.”
“That’s good. I want to wash my face.”
“Yes, Your Majesty the Empress. Water has been prepared. This way.”
Yvette carefully placed slippers at my feet.
(This is a time separator.)
“Another piece of news has arrived.”
Serben handed a secret letter to Reskal with a stern face.
It was the second secret letter that had arrived at dawn. It was rare for secret letters to arrive at a few hours interval. This meant that something unusual was happening.
The place that sent the secret letter was a secret intelligence squad of the Royal Guard. Although they were technically members of the Royal Guard, few knew their true identity.
Their role was to collect and report information that could either help or threaten the royal family throughout the empire.
Just as the Emperor’s knights were nicknamed the Shadow Knights, these unknown ones also had a name, the Silver Shield.
“What does it say this time?”
Instead of rolling on the floor of his office as usual, Ryan, who was sitting on the windowsill, quickly approached.
The first secret letter that woke up Serben’s dawn sleep was about a priest from the Temple of Harios secretly visiting the Pashad Duke’s house.
The second secret letter was about what happened next.
“The Duke and Duchess have taken a carriage. They seem to be heading toward the Temple of Harios.”
Reskal furrowed his brow, and Ryan clenched his fists.
“What’s that…? After blabbing about the Empress’s secret, the Duke was caught at the temple, wasn’t he?”
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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