“Just yesterday, the people of Duke Gerwer disappeared.”
“…What?”
“Disappeared is the term my father used, and it seems like everyone vanished. The people who work, the knights, even Duke Gerwer himself, who is in the ice.”
Celine listed the disappeared people with a serious expression, then paused for a moment as if holding her breath.
Afterward, she looked at Liche with trembling eyes and revealed the biggest reason why she came to Liche.
“Ian Duane too.”
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“Go to Gerwer Mansion in Hwangdo. I saw Ian Duane there about a week ago.”
If what Celine heard was about Gerwer Territory’s mansion, and if Ian was in Hwangdo a week ago, Ian might not have descended to the territory.
That night.
“Are you going alone?”
The carriage driver asked the man covered in a robe from head to toe.
The man nodded.
A silent guest. Perhaps he didn’t even know whether his voice was complex. His voice was so light when he first mentioned the destination that the thought crossed the driver’s mind that maybe he had a voice complex.
‘He has a big build, but…’
The driver carefully observed the man.
Without seeing the appearance and attire, he couldn’t tell if he was a commoner or a noble.
In such cases, it was better to be polite.
If he treated him like a commoner and he happened to be a noble, he might be executed for disrespecting a noble the next day.
“Would it be okay if the night costs extra?”
Once again, the man nodded in response.
The driver walked to the carriage seat without using military terms and said, “I’ll depart if you’re on.”
The driver sat on the carriage seat, and the man got on the carriage.
Strangely, the carriage swayed less than usual.
With that physique, he should have felt a sudden drop in his body when he put his foot down.
The driver wondered, but soon dismissed all his doubts when the man offered a gold coin through the window on the driver’s side.
Without any problems, the carriage set off, and Python chuckled.
[See, I couldn’t be suspected at all, right?]‘Yes.’
Hidden inside the hood, Liche responded to Python’s words.
Python boasted about the greatness of his ability, hidden in Liche’s robe pocket.
With Python’s telepathic manipulation ability, Liche appeared to be a sturdy man in the eyes of the driver.
At Ludwick Manor, on Liche’s bed, a large dog doll was acting as her substitute.
[Do you think everyone sees that doll as you?]‘Amazing, Python.’
[Isn’t it?]While boasting, Python couldn’t hide his discomfort.
Derkedion might be recognizable.
Anyway, there are two monsters. I don’t understand why my contractor and Derkedion’s blood don’t connect.
Liche asked what Python was muttering about, saying she couldn’t hear. Python, removing itself from Liche’s pocket, pointed outside, indicating a certain building.
[Isn’t that Gerwer Mansion?]Liche turned her gaze at those words. In the distance, the back of a large and neat mansion was visible.
Since she never had a reason to leave Gerwer’s territory in her previous life, she had never seen Gerwer Mansion in Hwangdo. But it felt similar to Agnes’ mansion.
Liche also agreed with Python’s statement.
‘It seems correct.’
She deliberately named a location a few alleys away from Gerwer Mansion.
After getting off the carriage, Liche, who had stopped walking when the carriage left the alley, ran towards Gerwer Mansion.
Although there was a lock on the iron gate, it meant nothing to Liche and Python.
Liche broke the lock and entered, crossing the garden.
Fortunately, the mansion’s door was not locked.
Creak.
Although she expected it to some extent, the mansion remained silent without anyone rushing out even after Liche’s unexpected visit.
“Ian?”
Liche cautiously called for Ian as she walked through the lobby. The cold marble floor made a creaking sound as it met Liche’s high-heeled shoes.
The chilling sound was long overdue. Gerwer Duke’s mansion, where Agnes had lived, was always like this. Quiet, calm, and austere.
Was Ian’s world always like this?
Liche thought that her past self and Ian might have felt the same scenery and emotions.
“Ian!”
There was no sign at all.
Liche’s anxious shout echoed back as an echo.
“I can’t guarantee that your last meeting won’t come.”
Hekanka.
“What you experienced was even shorter.”
Who are you talking about as the last?
Actions became faster with anxiety. Liche, together with Python, began to open the doors of the mansion one by one.
“No contractor here.”
“…Here too.”
But in any of those places, Ian, let alone a person’s shadow, couldn’t be seen.
Dumbfounded, standing in the corridor, Liche was passed by the wind.
Liche shifted her gaze towards the direction of the wind. The door of the room at the very end of the corridor was wide open.
“Python, did you open it?”
“It wasn’t me.”
Not me either.
Swallowing dry saliva, Liche walked towards the room.
The door, like the window, was wide open.
The curtain fluttered in the gentle breeze, and moonlight streamed in through the window frame, illuminating the room.
The moonlight was across the full-length mirror in an oval shape.
“Is it a mirror?”
Python grinned. It made sense. The mirror, patched together with broken pieces, was messy with pieces missing here and there.
Above all.
“…….”
Liche slowly walked up to the mirror and sat down.
At the bottom of the wooden frame of the mirror within reach of her gaze, there were crooked and twisted letters, as if carved with a child’s knife.
The reason for my existence.
Staring at the letters for a while, Liche raised her gaze.
The surface someone had patched together didn’t reflect anything, just like a mirror with nothing to show.
As if she could never see Ian again.
Emptiness. There was a large hole in her chest for some reason.
Ian, disappeared.
“I will continue to live for you.”
Tears welled up in Liche’s silvery eyes, who cried with a mournful expression.
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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