“I am depending on you, Lona. I don’t think I could ever let you go in my life.”
Ileon thought that giving one’s heart to someone was creating a weakness.
If there is sincerity, because it exists, it becomes a reason to lose one’s life. Ileon was a commander.
An army whose leader has met death collapses in an instant. Ileon’s life was not his own. It belonged to the empire and to all the soldiers. He was confident that there would be no such weakness.
His thoughts on marriage and succession were simple. He thought it was a matter of arranging a marriage that benefits the royal family, producing a child with a wife and successor, and guaranteeing her a lifetime of royalty.
In fact, many noble marriages were made in such a way for conditions and family prosperity. Ileon himself had no plans for an exceptionally peculiar marriage. As the head of a family, he naturally understood that he could not live for himself.
This was the value that Ileon, who had spent a long time on the battlefield, who had been educated as the successor of the family from a young age, held. However, since he met Lona, he was more emotional than anyone. Lona made him change. He was sincere enough.
Ileon did not believe that the power of love brings miracles. However, he was now able to understand why people in the world chase such fantasies. His sincerity for Lona was so special and intense that he agreed that whatever she said would come true and nodded in agreement.
“Lona. Don’t run away.”
Lona was weakhearted. At my words of a dry throat, she hesitated but didn’t she end up giving me water, saying ‘even the butler did it’.
Ridiculously, aside from the romance, it was Ileon’s first kiss who had never properly dated a woman. Of course, the butler never gave water with his mouth.
When Ileon said his throat was dry, he poured water into a small teapot that his mouth makes, and he held it to his lips so he could sip a little. It was an impulsive act, certain that Lona wouldn’t ask the butler, ‘Did you also give Ileon water with your mouth?’
He wished that Lona wouldn’t easily leave him, who was pitiful and poor. He wanted to keep her from thinking about moving her workplace with a considerably high salary. He wanted to take up a lot of Lona’s time and wanted to take up her heart as well.
Ileon thought that this much selfishness should be allowed by God. He lost all his brilliant honor, a brilliant future. He had just one comfort in life from escaping from a swamplike despair, and if he couldn’t be greedy for that one, he wanted to take his own life.
If it was to keep Lona by his side, he could act as disgusting as possible. So that she sympathizes with him more, so that she feels more pitiful.
“Good night. Lona.”
Ileon closed his eyes comfortably.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Carina bit her nails. Her nails, which she had been doing for a while, looked ragged. But she continued to torment the end of her nails that had nothing else to bite.
Knock, knock.
When the door opened, a maid serving Carina came in.
“Did you find out? Did you check?”
The maid nodded her head with a troubled face.
“His Highness the Crown Prince says it’s hard to make time because he’s busy.”
“Did he say anything else?”
As she nodded, Carina’s face distorted.
“It doesn’t make sense.”
Saviel’s attitude changed like flipping the palm of his hand, clearly after that day.
The day Carina boldly allowed him and did not return from the palace.
Saviel did not separate from her all night that day. It was a dreamy and fantastic night. As the Crown Prince, the top man in the empire, constantly poured praises about her into her ear, Carina felt proud.
The next day, when Carina got up to return to the Count’s house, his hands clung to her to the end with regret.
“I have to go, Saviel.”
His name flowed naturally from her mouth after they shared a deep affection.
“Ha, do we really have to?”
“I’m not officially married yet. This is a blemish for me and for your highness.”
When she drew a line anew, Saviel clung to Carina as if impatient.
“The emperor should approve our marriage as soon as possible. I think I won’t be able to sleep without you now.”
On their way back, the Crown Prince had filled her carriage with yellow roses. On returning to the Count’s mansion, the Countess of Harrington, seeing the lovely flowers, exclaimed.
The meaning of yellow roses was ‘eternal love’.
For the first time, Carina realized this. The words contained in flowers, the meaning hidden in flowers, were this romantic and sweet.
But that was the end of it. After that, the Crown Prince did not send a carriage to summon her to the palace. Even when Carina sent a messenger subtly suggesting she should come to the palace, Saviel did not seek her out, claiming he was busy.
Three days after that night. Carina could not see the Crown Prince at all.
“How could he do this to me.”
Carina was outraged.
The maid who was watching such Carina was uncomfortable.
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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