The memory might return if she went to the Duke’s residence, Illeon had suggested, begged, and clung to her.
“What if Sonatek tries to target you? According to Mariella, as long as you are under the protection of ‘Oder,’ he won’t be able to touch you. It’s better to stay here where you are under the protection of ‘Oder.'”
“So, instead of Lady Leve’s mansion, why the Duke’s residence…”
In response to her question, Leve responded with a light laugh.
“If you receive the protection of ‘Oder,’ wouldn’t it be better if both of you stayed together?” There was nothing to say.
So, Elysia was unintentionally living a confined life within the spacious Duke’s residence, avoiding the owner of the mansion.
Illeon occasionally looked at her with different eyes.
Sometimes it was a gaze blaming and resenting her for forgetting him, sometimes he seemed to be in pain as if he would die, and sometimes he couldn’t hide the fierce desire to tear Elysia apart. At times, he looked at her with swamp-like eyes that were impossible to decipher.
But to none of those could she provide an answer.
Elysia believed that everything would be resolved if she left.
That it was the best choice.
In the end, Illeon’s suffering was because she was staying at the Duke’s residence.
Elysia stayed up all night.
She crouched in front of the door until the dawn brightened, not moving until the sun had risen considerably.
Outside the room were Illeon and Karina.
The image of the two she saw in the early morning haunted Elysia like a lingering shadow.
It was indeed tormenting.
It was painful despite being something she had wished for.
Knock, knock.
“Yes.”
When Elysia weakly answered, the steward called her.
“Miss Elysia, it’s time for breakfast.”
There were fewer people working at the Duke’s residence until now. They had all been sent away when Illeon lied to me that he had lost his sight. It was the same staff that was there when ‘Rona’ worked.
“Yes. I’ll go now.”
Helping the steward by eating on time and clearing up on time. It was to prevent him from coming to the room or the dining room several times to find her.
It was all an excuse, but Elysia was also curious about what Illeon and Karina were doing.
Even though she didn’t want to see, she also wanted to know why Karina was brought to the mansion in the early morning.
‘…What is this?’
Why am I curious about this?
Didn’t I give up the right to ask or investigate when I decided to leave?
The main characters will be happy.
Elysia shook her complicated and confused head, quickly changed into simple robes made of plain fabric without any decorations or patterns. It was a modest robe similar to the style she used to wear when practicing, before becoming a priestess.
She neatly combed her hair, tied it up, and put on the hood. Elysia headed to the dining room.
With each step closer to the dining room, her heart raced faster.
But when Elysia arrived at the dining room, her pulse eased.
Leve was sitting alone in the dining room.
“May the blessings of the Five and Oder be with you.”
“Sure. Please have a seat.”
As Leve directed her attention to the plate that Chef Shvalier sent flying, she asked the steward.
“Where is Illeon?”
At that moment, the steward’s ambiguous gaze turned towards Elysia. Elysia, with an expressionless face, informed Leve.
“He entertained a guest in the early morning.”
“A guest? At that hour? Who?”
“That… they say she is the daughter of Viscount Harington.”
“What? Harington?”
Having heard the steward’s brief and accurate explanation, Leve raised an expression that seemed to doubt his ears.
“Why did the daughter of a viscount come to the Duke’s residence at that hour?”
“Well, I’m not sure…”
At that moment, Illeon entered the dining room.
Elysia quickly stood up and greeted him with folded hands.
“May the blessings of the Five and Oder be with you.”
Illeon, after briefly looking at Elysia, casually turned his head and greeted Leve.
“Good morning.”
“Sure. Please sit.”
“I think I need to have my meal separately.”
“You brought a guest to your home last night.”
Illeon nodded in agreement with Leve’s words.
“Yes. Since Lina is unwell and finding it difficult to come down to the dining room, I thought we could have a meal together.”
“Lina? You mean Lina?”
Before Elysia appeared, the steward, who had been complaining that no noble daughters had been able to share a cup of tea with Illeon, was still unaware that the information had not been corrected.
“You mean you intend to have a meal alone with that lady, Illeon?”
“Guests can’t eat alone, can they?”
“Haha. It’s an odd situation.”
At that moment, Illeon’s eyes turned towards Elysia.
“Who is this person?”
Leve, who was casually picking up a small sugar spoon to put sugar in her tea, dropped the spoon.
Papss.
Tiny sugar granules scattered in all directions on the clean wooden table.
“…Illeon?”
“Are you okay?”
When Leve awkwardly looked at herself as if she had been caught off guard, Illeon approached her.
“Are you the one who can’t remember who this lady is?”
Illeon squinted at Elysia.
“Is she the priestess my mother brought here?”
“…”
“Do I need to know her?”
As Leve gestured as if she was stunned, she called the steward.
“Marriela. Or rather, send someone to fetch the Marchioness Utter.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
Bernard, with his mouth wide open, couldn’t take his eyes off Illeon, then soon left the dining room with a pale face.
Although the situation continued to be somewhat incomprehensible, today was the most shocking day among them all.
At Leve’s call, Mariela rushed over.
As they gathered in the reception room of the Duke’s residence, Leve asked.
“I need you to explain so I can understand.”
Leve seemed to be smiling on one side, as usual, but her eyes were not smiling at all, making her face somewhat frightening.
“It seems the Duke may have lost his memory.”
“Lost his memory?”
“Yes.”
Mariela tried to explain calmly.
“Sornatec has several methods that he frequently uses. Among them, one commonly used technique is implication. By implanting a suggestion close to hypnosis, when a certain situation arises, one can induce the person to speak and act according to what is written in that book.”
“But Oder is not susceptible to implication.”
“Yes, that’s right. That’s why it seems the Duke extracted your blood.”
“My blood?”
Mariela nodded.
“To control and harm or influence Oder, you need to use Oder’s blood as a medium. Perhaps, as when he blinded his eyes, it seems the Duke was cursed using your blood.”
“To dare to do such a thing to my son?”
Leve’s face turned cold.
The voices of Mariela and Leve echoed hollowly in Elysia’s ears.
‘Illeon has forgotten me.’
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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