“Another door?”
“Yes? What did you say?”
“Ah, no.”
Yan turned around at Ritchie’s mutterings. Ritchie shook her head slightly and asked Pythons,
‘Where to?’
Pythons poked its face out of the pocket and sniffed.
[The third door. There’s something there.]‘Another great star?’
[No, something more interesting.]Something more interesting.
She didn’t understand it right away, but Ritchie asked Yan if she could go through the door Pythons was talking about.
“Um, the third door? It’s a library used by the former head of the household. He was a person with an oldfashioned hobby of collecting old things, so there may not be any books suitable for you to see, but is that alright?”
“Yes, that’s fine.”
Ritchie nodded her head. Perhaps thinking of it as a child’s cute curiosity, Yan obediently took out the key and opened the door.
Inside was a spacious, twostory library with a soft blue light.
It felt calm and dignified.
As said about the previous owner collecting old things, not only books but various other items were displayed inside the library.
“Let’s see, picture books….”
Yan scanned the inside of the library with his eyes, looking for a place where picture books might be.
He seemed to intend to help her find picture books, but Ritchie had come to this library for another reason.
“Um…. Yan, I want to look alone.”
Upon her careful request, Yan gladly nodded his head.
“You will? Feel free to look around. Everything is allowed for you, Miss. Just be careful not to scratch anything.”
“Yes. I’ll look carefully!”
“Thank you. If you need anything, just call me. I’ll always be in the lobby.”
Yan chuckled and turned on the library’s lights before closing the door and leaving.
Ritchie stood alone in the middle of the now brighter library.
“What should I do now?”
But there was no answer.
Ritchie lowered her head. Her pocket was empty.
“Pythons?”
“Here! Here!”
It was a lighttoned voice she hadn’t heard in a while. The sound came from inside the library, between evenly spaced bookshelves.
Ritchie walked there, but all she saw were bookshelves filled with books.
“Where are you?”
“Diagonally below!”
Moving her eyes in the direction of the voice, she saw a squirrel’s body halfstuck in the narrow gap between the bookshelf and the wall.
And its floundering short legs and tightly stretched tail.
“…what are you doing there?”
“I have something to get out. Darn it. Why won’t it catch? It feels like it’s going to catch in just a little more.”
Pythons squeaked in frustration as it tried to pull something out of the gap.
There was a platesized mirror on the shelf next to it, and it looked like it might fall.
Ritchie held the mirror and sat down beside Pythons, asking,
“Do you want me to get that out? Shall I take it out for you?”
“No, I’m a great star, so this much is… eek. I slipped!”
At the same time as the astonished voice, a sound of something hard like a bead falling and rolling on the floor was heard.
Pythons pulled its stuck body out of the gap, ran on all fours to the opposite end of the bookshelf, and Ritchie chased after it.
After passing about four bookshelves, a space about one room wide appeared.
Pythons was there, touching the marble floor with its paws.
“Did it go under the floor?”
“Yeah…. Darn it. It seems like there was a hole in the floor where it fell earlier. Ugh. It went quite deep. Is there a space under the floor?”
Ritchie went to Pythons’ side and looked at the floor with it.
The solid floor didn’t look like it would break easily.
“What was it? A bead?”
“A piece of a star.”
“What’s that?”
Pythons explained to the curious Ritchie.
“There are stars that cross into the human world because they find their tombs stuffy, about once every few decades. But most of them can’t return and slowly lose their power in the human world. Once they even lose the power to maintain themselves, the star’s life ends, and petrification occurs.”
“You mean it turns into stone?”
“Right. It turns into a small stone, the size of a pearl. It’s a piece of a star. Did I mention that? Strong or weak, each star has a unique ability. The star’s ability is infused in the fragment. If you have it, you can use that power.”
Riche tilted her head. If there had been such a remarkable stone, she would have heard about it at least once.
“First time hearing about it.”
“Of course. The star fragments in the human world are few and small, making them hard to discover. It’s only possible because I can detect stars. Even if you find one, would humans know the existence of stars? They probably wouldn’t know what it is.”
The previous owner here probably didn’t know what it was either, so they left it rolling around anywhere.
Muttering, Pythos looked at the floor, lost in thought.
Then he lifted his head towards Riche. His pitchblack eyes, like sunflower seeds, sparkled as if desiring something.
“Contractor, shall we test our training results?”
Pythos’s ability, which Riche had been training, was destruction.
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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