I threw words that could be deliberately misunderstood, but the child’s way of thinking was peculiar.
‘I don’t take the words that I can’t appear as death.’
It’s a typical child.
Blake neither affirmed nor denied it and brought up another question.
“Your parents?”
“……My father hasn’t been there since I was born, and my mother passed away two days ago.”
A child without parents. Losing the guardian seems to have decided to sell the child.
Blake clicked his tongue inwardly. I was about to say that your uncle didn’t die, but the child nodded as if it was not a big deal.
“Your uncle is dead.”
“Why do you think so?”
“Because you did not deny it.”
Blake’s eyebrows twitched.
I didn’t like it when the child spoke of death as if it was nothing.
“Do you know what dying means?”
“Dying is……. everything ends. If you die, you can’t do what you planned to do later. Just like my uncle can’t sell me now.”
“……Aren’t you scared of me?”
“Why?”
“If I killed your uncle, I can kill you too.”
Blake’s eyes darkened for a moment.
The child opened her mouth calmly without any flinching.
“If you want to, do it. Because the Duke bought me.”
Blake, who was trying to scare her a little, felt rather slapped by the child.
What kind of child is this?
Whether it’s a good person or a bad one.
The death of an acquaintance was not the kind of thing a 7yearold child could accept calmly.
I wondered what expression the child was making for a moment.
Blake gently lifted the hair that covered her small face with his index finger.
‘Oh.’
What I faced was quite unexpected. The child’s face was as dirty as her hair, but there was something shining in it.
Clear silver pupils, resembling dawn dew. A pair of fearless eyes were just shining and looking at him straight.
‘It’s not just a child’s eye.’
Agnes quickly turned her eyes away to avoid Blake’s gaze, then spoke in a clear voice.
“You bought me and brought me here. A slave must follow whatever the master does.”
Blake felt a throbbing in his skull at those words.
Interest, what interest? Now he was stunned.
Did I say I bought you to follow me?
What kind of education did you have to have this thinking at that age?
Meanwhile, Agnes was desperate to hide her emotions from the nobleman in front of her.
‘Don’t annoy him. Don’t get caught being scared.’
Blake Lodwick.
Agnes had known that name for a long time.
The first time I heard it was in the past, after being sold to Gerwer Duke, and after receiving the education of nobles for half a year.
“The Loxia Empire is maintained by the balance of the four major ducal families, even more than the emperor. Gerwer, Serdiya, Hibetzman. These three families receive the praise of the imperial people, but only one place. The Lodwick Ducal family has a bad reputation.”
The tutor paused for a moment and frowned.
His face was as if he smelled a foul smell from what I had to say.
“Lodwick has been assassinating from generation to generation. The ancestors created their place over numerous corpses. The current head of the family, Blake Lodwick, is also a cruel murderer just like them.”
“A murderer……?”
“Remember. The only place for you is here, in the Gerwer Ducal family.”
The Agnes of the past, frightened by the tutor’s words, nodded her head.
If I were asked that question again now, I would kick the tutor’s shin and run away.
‘I shouldn’t be off guard just because I got a promise that I won’t be hurt. Like Gerwer Duke, this man may change at any time.’
And that too from the murderous Duke.
Even if they didn’t find out that I was an Artiom, they could have hurt me in a way other than purification.
‘I knew he was a Duke, but I didn’t know he was Lodwick. Shouldn’t I have said I would follow? ……No. I still shouldn’t be sold as a slave. It’s hard to escape.’
Knowing Lordwick, the best choice in the recent situation was this noble.
So now she had to flatter to survive.
Even if the noble in front of her was frightening.
“So even if you say you killed my uncle, I[Dash].”
“Stop.”
Blake interrupted Agnes’s words.
As he withdrew his sword, his fallen hair once again covered Agnes’s eyes.
“Stop talking. Your uncle did not die.”
At Blake’s words, tears welled slightly in Agnes’s eyes.
She had already offended him.
“…….”
“…….”
From then on, the carriage was quiet.
Blake closed his mouth, and Agnes stiffened her body more than before to avoid mistakes.
In the lengthening silence, sleep soon found Agnes.
Being tense from morning, and running to the point of death with the body of a young child who had no physical strength, she was more fatigued.
Agnes struggled with her nodding head, and finally fell asleep.
Blake looked at Agnes like that and was lost in thought.
‘This child is Deon’s playmate….’
The children of the Lordwick family were innately indifferent to others.
To some extent, they didn’t know the difference between a rat and a human being on the road.
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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