Every time Shasha saw Lurdelo, who usually didn’t compliment her, she felt especially upset because Lurdelo, considering her a friend of the same age, had said she was ugly.
Surprisingly, Lurdelo seemed quite shocked at Shasha’s reaction.
“Ah, no, you’re pretty!”
“Huh…? I’m pretty?”
“Ah, no! Your hair color is pretty. It’s so fascinating, it’s pretty. It’s like a sunset.”
“Sun…set?”
For some reason, Lurdelo’s cheeks looked red. As if he had never said such a thing before, Lurdelo pursed his lips and nodded.
“My hair isn’t weird…?”
“No, it’s pretty. Ah, not you, but your hair. It’s pretty like a red sunset on a clear sky.”
“It’s the first time… someone has said my hair is pretty…”
Shasha carefully touched her own hair.
For Shasha, her hair probably wasn’t a good memory. She was the only one in her family to have such hair.
No, even if you searched the entire empire, you wouldn’t find such unique hair.
Silver hair that glows pink at the tips. This unique hair probably made her feel like a lonely island.
Even I hadn’t thought of it, but when Lurdelo said it was pretty, Shasha smiled very slightly.
“Really.”
“Hmm…”
What’s with these kids?
Despite their arguing, the atmosphere was oddly good.
“Lurdelo sure knows how to give compliments.”
“What! It’s not just talk. I mean it. I’m not saying it’s you who is pretty, but your hair color is.”
Worried that he might be misunderstood, Lurdelo emphasized several times that he thought her hair color was pretty.
“Okay! I’m not pretty.”
“Wha… you’re not that ugly either… ah, never mind. You look like you’re made of flour.”
“…”
“I like kids with some tan. Not those who look white as if they’ve never struggled. You look sickly white. You!”
Listening quietly to Lurdelo, Shasha wiped her eyes roughly with her sleeve and stuck out her tongue.
“I don’t like pale kids like you either!”
Without a moment’s hesitation, Shasha spat the words at Lurdelo.
“I’m not pale!”
“Pale, very pale!”
“I’m not! I’m tan!”
Kids their age typically bicker over such trivial matters. They were getting along well just a moment ago, and now they were arguing over who is darker.
The rabbits clung tightly to Shasha.
“It’s okay. They’re just trying to get close.”
“No, we’re not! I’m too noble to get close to something like that!”
Eventually, Shasha seemed to have the last word, prompting Lurdelo to get up.
“Oh, the audacity! You white pig!”
“Hey! You are… you are…! Your eyes are pretty like a rabbit! Eyes, rabbit!”
“Pig!”
“Rabbit!”
Hmm. Whether he’s committed to his own statement of being unable to lie, or his true nature bursts out like an emperor, Lurdelo was arguing with Shasha using completely non-hurtful words.
Though it seemed neither knew exactly what they were saying in their excitement.
“I’m leaving!”
“Go! Goodbye!”
“Yes, goodbye! You eye rabbit!”
Even though he’d said he wouldn’t say goodbye, Lurdelo did exactly that and left.
“Pfft.”
I couldn’t help but laugh because the situation was cute and pathetic. Even after Lurdelo left, Shasha, who had been chirping, looked at me with a displeased expression.
“Sis, did you laugh?”
“You two are too cute.”
“Cute! That pig is not cute!”
“From sister’s perspective, you both are.”
Deep down, she’s a warm child. I can’t tell how she was raised or in what environment, but she’s a bit problematic only because of the environment she grew up in.
‘Or maybe because her father, the Emperor, spoils her too much.’
She looked strikingly similar to the Emperor.
I don’t know what the Emperor was like as a child, but I had a feeling that if he had been young, he would have been exactly like her, a cute but mischievous frog.
“What’s so cute? The emperor would have never been cute, even as a child.”
I shook my head to dispel the horribly inappropriate thoughts that had entered my mind.
The emperor is absolutely not someone who could ever be described as cute or endearing.
“Tch… I wish you’d only find Shasha cute.”
“Yeah, in my eyes, Shasha is the cutest and most lovable. Pretty too.”
I smoothed out Shasha’s hair, which I hadn’t paid attention to in a while.
“I love everything about Shasha—her hair, her eyes, her fingers, her toes. All pretty.”
“Since you find Shasha that pretty… I can understand you finding that pig a little cute.”
“Exactly. We have to live together from now on, so please understand a little, Shasha.”
“Yes!”
With a brighter smile than ever before, Shasha nodded her head. I embraced Shasha as I looked at her.
I’ll do better. Shasha. No matter how hard or sad it gets, I won’t ever show it in front of you. I won’t repeat the mistakes of the past. I comforted Shasha’s back for a long time.
My fingers lightly touched her, and Shasha leaned her body fully against me.
“Sis… I’ll do well.”
“You’re already doing well, sis. Thank you.”
Noah. Noah. Am I doing well? The irony of finding you here is amusing to me.
I find it laughable that I can’t do well by you but can for another child. Knowing this, I have no other options.
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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