“Edwin, when will you tell me the next move?”
Edwin looked down after meeting Daisy’s twinkling eyes. Even though he was only repeatedly raising and lowering his arm while holding a relatively light wooden sword, Daisy’s arm was trembling slightly.
“Well, I think it’s too early for that.”
“We’ve been doing just this for days.”
“It’s not in vain. You need to build arm strength before wielding a heavy sword.”
Daisy pouted her lips. Even wielding this light wooden sword was tiring, in fact.
“What if Lady Rosebelia is disappointed in me?”
“That won’t happen.”
Daisy’s eyes narrowed at Edwin’s firm voice.
“…Just asking, are you still angry?”
“Do I have a reason to be angry with you?”
Daisy cautiously spoke after taking a quick glance at Edwin’s expression.
“You did call me a flirt.”
“Ah, if you’re talking about that, I wasn’t angry.”
“Liar.”
Edwin’s tone had changed since that day. If it had been rather soft before, it had become somewhat calm since then.
It even felt a strange distance due to his more formal tone and attitude.
“Really. I was a bit saddened that my heart was wounded, but…”
“Because you were misunderstood as a flirt?”
“Yes. For a fatalist like me who longs for pure love, being called a flirt is hurtful.”
Daisy thought he was joking, but Edwin’s expression was quite serious. Daisy flinched, her cheeks turning slightly red.
“But other women would surely think the same, right?”
“Think that I am a flirt?”
“Yes.”
Edwin tilted his head slightly, his expression showing utter incomprehension.
“Why?”
“Because you tell everyone they’re beautiful…”
“Did I say that to everyone?”
Edwin raised his eyebrows as if wronged.
“You mustn’t remember because you say it to everyone.”
Daisy retorted with a sour tone.
“I clearly heard you deny it. Last time you told me I was beautiful.”
“Lady, it seems you have misunderstood. I don’t say that to just anyone.”
“You clearly told me I was more beautiful than Lady Rosebelia…”
Angrily raising her voice, Daisy was met with Edwin’s composed response.
“That’s because I think you’re beautiful.”
“…Pardon?”
“What I meant by the misunderstanding was that I don’t say such things to just anyone. Did you think I said it lightly?”
Daisy’s big eyes blinked slowly.
“Rather than that…”
“Every word I say to you, Daisy, is sincere.”
“That was sincere?”
Just as Daisy was about to drop the wooden sword in surprise, Edwin quickly caught it and stepped closer. He then stared into her widened violet eyes.
“I think you’re very brave, beautiful, and lovable, Daisy.”
“Yes?”
“So, I wouldn’t want to be misunderstood by you, at least.”
Unknowingly, Daisy swallowed dry saliva. Edwin’s serious tone and affectionate gaze seemed like a different person.
“Um, so…”
“I think we should end today’s training here.”
Bowing slightly, Edwin quickly walked away. Daisy exhaled deeply only after his figure had shrunk to a dot.
‘What was that all about?’
“How long do you plan on standing like that?”
Turning towards the source of the voice, Daisy’s eyes widened. Emerging from behind the climbing roses was the Duchess, Agnes.
“Mother?”
Edwin and the place where they were lightly training was the spacious courtyard of the ducal mansion. There was no way there would be no passerby, but they hadn’t considered anyone would hear since the servants silently avoided the area.
“Surely they didn’t all hear?”
“Ah, when did you get here?”
“When should I say I got here?”
Daisy, who met the smiling Agnes, responded in a hushed voice.
“Just tell me straightforwardly.”
“Um, before Edwin’s passionate love confession began?”
“A, a love confession?”
Daisy leapt up and asked. A passionate love confession?
“So, what did you think it was if not a love confession? It looked like he was really into you, even to my eyes.”
“He likes me?”
Daisy’s face flushed as red as a fully bloomed rose in the garden, contemplating Edwin’s words.
‘Dare I, can I like you back?’
She hesitated at the thought that suddenly surfaced. Even when she was going to meet Ian in the square, she had somewhat guessed he might confess to her.
Why doesn’t this feel real?
Ian actually likes me?
‘I seem to have confused you. Don’t worry about having to answer right now.’
When she actually heard the confession, she couldn’t utter a single word. It wasn’t that she disliked Ian. If anything, the scale tilted in favor, but accepting Ian’s confession was a different matter.
When she first came into this body, she was desperate to avoid the original ending. After the original story began to change, she was consumed with making a happy ending for everyone.
She had vaguely imagined someday liking someone, even going as far as dating or marrying, but….
“Rosebelia, what are you doing there? Come quickly!”
Snapping back to reality at Lucas’s call, she followed him. They moved a bit away from the Red Spring, and the area the subjugation squad arrived at was a ruined temple with only a few columns remaining.
“It really looks like a temple here.”
“Was there a temple in the Phonest Empire?”
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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