“Just because I feel sorry for you. Think about it. Why should I… protect your son? When we have Rodelo? The same goes for Leandro. Well, if your son in the old age is so precious to you, protect him yourself. I have neither the intention nor the heart to protect him.”
I looked at the woman who seemed to be happily imagining herself next to the Emperor.
The embarrassed woman, twisting her body as if ashamed, glared at me.
“In the end, it will go as I want!”
“Even if Leandro brings your son, for me, there is only one Crown Prince, and that is Rodelo. So please don’t expect anything.”
I didn’t want to create an enemy in this way.
But I didn’t want to become someone who couldn’t protect Rodelo, who calls me Mom.
“I won’t come here again. I feel foolish to have come here with even a little expectation.”
“Expectations? Did you think I would welcome you, the Empress?”
Whether he decided to completely ignore me or not, the Emperor shouted with anger.
“No. I came here because I was worried about any misunderstandings between Leandro and the Empress Rahel. I was foolish.”
“I have no reason to like that guy!”
“Yes. I understand for sure. But if you really intended to make that child the Crown Prince, you should have acted like this. Even if you spoke nicely, I wouldn’t have seen it nicely… Rather, you made an enemy.”
“Ha… Are you threatening me now?”
“Yes! So please… don’t ever try to surpass the position of my son Rodelo.”
With that, I bowed my head and left quickly.
“Ar-are you okay, Empress Mama?”
“Everything… well, it will be somehow.”
“No. I’m worried if you’re having a hard time or something…”
“Ah, on the contrary, it feels refreshing!”
When I first heard that, I did think about how to handle this situation. But once I said everything, it felt refreshing.
“Ar-are you really okay?”
“Of course. I’m a little worried about what will happen later… but even if I go back, I would have done the same thing.”
“Ah…”
“I can endure being ignored. In fact, being an Empress is not suitable for me. In many ways. So, that’s fine… but I can’t forgive you for ignoring Leandro or speaking ill of Rodelo like that.”
While we were talking, the knights stuck close to us.
Now, I felt a sense of peace.
I briefly worried if the Emperor, who seemed to have difficulty even walking, would rush over and grab me by the hair. If that happened, could Tethel, Leandro’s aide and a delicate-looking seaweed-like figure, protect me? But in the end, the Emperor didn’t follow us.
No one would know how tense I was, as I couldn’t turn my head towards the Emperor, probably to avoid looking terribly unsightly.
“Empress Mama.”
“Yes?”
“In my opinion, you are more suitable for the empress’s role than anyone else.”
“Me?”
“Yes. No one has said that directly to the former Empress like you did to Empress Rahel.”
Maybe that’s because I don’t know what kind of person the Emperor is. I awkwardly smiled and nodded.
“I see… Anyway, let’s go back quickly. I will go with the knights, and Tethel, please go back to Leandro.”
“Yes!”
Feeling embarrassed due to Tethel, who praised me one after another as if he were lifting me up to the clouds, I hurriedly sent him away and returned to the star palace.
Just before entering my room, Ken stopped me.
“Um… Mama.”
“Yes?”
“I have something for you.”
With those words, Ken presented a small box from his arms.
“What is this?”
“It’s a congratulatory gift for your marriage. I wanted to do something for you in gratitude… I was worried about what to do, but then I remembered what you said last time.”
“What I said?”
While I was tilting my head, Ken brought the box in his arms closer to me.
“Yes. You said that if I made a mistake while talking to the Grand Priest, you would charge me a lot for damages…”
How is that related to giving a gift?
“Maybe Mama… likes money the most.”
“Ah…?”
“So…”
With a sense of disbelief, I opened the box.
Inside the box was a large gem big enough to open my mouth wide.
“This is all I can give you.”
“Oh… no. You don’t have to give me something like this.”
“I hope you’ll accept it.”
“How can I receive something like this from Ken, of all people? A gem… And I don’t like money that much. Well, I like money, but… I don’t need something like this, right?”
However, at my words saying that I don’t like money, his complexion stiffened.
“Yes…? You don’t like it…? I thought you liked gems the most… When you lived at the main house, I heard you say that you thought gems would be good for others as well.”
“Who… did I say that to?”
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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