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Bruno was hiding and resting at a villa far away that took five days by carriage, as per Mercedes’ orders. Thanks to the ample supply of servants and money, he was able to take sufficient rest.

Sending Bruno away in advance like that could be said to be Mercedes’ foresight.

As expected.

The Count, who had attacked his own daughter to his heart’s content, was now telling the Empress Dowager about Bruno’s existence and saying that they should search through the knights the Emperor had like catching a fox.

If he could put the blame for the failure of the territory battle on Mercedes, couldn’t he also tie up the Emperor who excessively favored the Empress and secretly gave his knight behind her back, leading to shoddy results?

“Hmm.”

The Count was very materialistic. That aspect of him was good for the Empress Dowager to use.

Although he sometimes spoke impatiently and without refinement, she thought of him as a country bumpkin from a small country and let it slide.

In any case, she really liked the cards he held.

A daughter who had even taken out the Emperor’s insignia to deceive her father. Isn’t it a nice sight to behold?

In the end, even if they had to dethrone that wench due to public opinion, Carlos would not be able to freely take a woman he fancied as Empress or Imperial Consort in the future.

He would have to get approval from the Internal Affairs Department and the opinions of the nobility council to choose.

Up until now, the Emperor had been too perfect and had built up his power too solidly. The more that was the case, the easier it was for power to crumble with just one mistake.

What if the children the Empress Dowager had planted entered those Empress and Imperial Consort positions and were active?

‘That monster-like fellow could be killed… Or, an even bigger incident could be created.’

That’s what the Empress Dowager thought.

At first, she only thought of making a dent. She wanted to make the Emperor appear ridiculous.

While doing that, her goal was to sneakily bring her son back to the capital.

But the Empress was somehow not easy to deal with… and in the end, she called for the Count.

Come to think of it, it was rather a good thing.

Whether he had to give up the throne, or move the troops he had secretly raised with his son in the provinces while watching the sight of the Emperor being made a fool of to gain the throne.

Those thoughts were easily sorted out.

The troops she had raised were sufficiently numerous, but if the Emperor held out in the Imperial Palace and the number of his direct soldiers could not be reduced, it would be difficult to capture the ‘Blood Demon’ Emperor and rebel.

Instead, there were ‘mandatory’ nights that the Empress and Imperial Consort had to regularly attend. If she could obtain women who could stand in a man’s most intimate space like that, it would be better than tens of thousands of soldiers.

If the Empress was smoothly caught up in controversy and dethroned… The Empress Dowager planned to continuously bring them into the Imperial Palace to threaten Carlos, as many as needed.

If things went well, she might even be able to find out his weaknesses.

For that purpose, it was not difficult to play along with the Count’s pipe dream of making his daughter the Empress or whatnot.

No, rather, he seemed easy to use, so it seemed fine to even bring his daughter in as an Imperial Consort.

“I understand your claim that you need to find the knight. But Count. Not only I, but there is no one anywhere in the world who can investigate the current Emperor’s knights. First of all, there are too many of them, and if they are shadow knights, they will be really hard to catch. The Emperor’s knights are very skilled, you see.”

“…I see. In that case.”

The Count fidgeted impatiently, then nodded his head as if he had made up his mind.

“Since there is definite evidence, wouldn’t it be alright to expose it?”

He had an atrocious amount of faith in the insignia he had brought. The Empress Dowager was very pleased whenever the Count acted so hastily.

How convenient that he would jump into danger without being told.

“Yes. It would be best to expose it.”

“Anyone would see that it’s genuine.”

After returning from the conquest war, the Emperor had created a new pattern and specially awarded insignias to his knights. The Count had sufficiently taken in the metal insignias the knights had worn when the welcome event was held at the Imperial Palace.

No matter how you looked at it, it was genuine.

“The journalist you will meet this time has been properly selected. Believe that they will do well on their own. You haven’t forgotten, have you? Everything I promised you.”

“Yes, of course! Thank you!”

The Count bent his waist deeply while forcibly lowering the corners of his mouth that were creeping up. The Empress Dowager looked at his lack of refinement with somewhat contemptuous eyes and waved her hand. It meant for him to leave.

The Count’s footsteps as he left the room were very light.

‘Rather, it’s a good thing. What if Argos’ guard insists it’s not him? That person is too good at talking, so it could be disadvantageous. If I just submit the insignia, it’s my win.’

As soon as he left the Empress Dowager’s room, the Count boarded a carriage heading to the journalist.

Meanwhile, the Empress Dowager leaned her body back only after the Count had left and the door was closed and locked.

“The evidence could be fake…”

The Count was a card to be used and discarded anyway.

Once the mud fight starts with the insignia as the trigger and it’s revealed that it’s not genuine, the Count will have nothing left.

Still, even excluding the insignia, if the Count plays the pitiful act well, the label of ‘the Empress who betrayed the bond between parent and child’ would ultimately remain like a stigma.

That was enough for the Empress Dowager. If the insignia was genuine and the Emperor was made to look ridiculous, that would be good too.

Great expectations ruin people.

She decided to wait for the Empress to be dethroned without caring about what happens to the Count.

* * *

As expected, the headlines of all the newspapers were as Mercedes thought.

‘No, is it worse?’

She thought as she gathered the newspapers with sensational titles like [Betrayal of Familial Ties, Murder was the Truth], [Abandoned Father, Where is the Humanity of This Era Headed?] to one side.

‘Hmm, I think it’s worse.’

It was something she had experienced once in Sheim.

Back then, she had just endured and suppressed it.

Now she could deal with these things.

She had a bit of anticipation, thinking of the near future. These criticisms didn’t even hurt. The truth of the incident and detailed stories were mixed in little by little, but that was the truth as seen through the Count’s eyes.

It was different from the truth Mercedes held.

‘This matter needs to spread greatly. More.’

Previously, it was just gossip that had made her a little suspicious to the people in high society.

Even though it was leaked to the newspapers, the general people of the empire had regarded it as just another insignificant high society fight.

But the man who received the Empress Dowager’s instigation endlessly enlarged the matter.

Anyway, as the degree became severe, the entire capital was abuzz with talk about Mercedes.

It was more intense attention than right after coming to the room. It felt like she was receiving all the attention one could receive in life.

“Hmm. It’s written here that you betrayed familial ties and even tried to murder your father, that you’re a murderer.”

Carlos said in a calm voice as he closed the newspaper.

“Did you read through all of it?”

“Yes. Your reading speed is getting faster by the day.”

“Even though the person who started reading when I was about halfway through finished at the same time as me…”

“I have been a speed reader praised since childhood. You are the remarkable one.”

Carlos and Mercedes were maintaining a bizarre conversation that was businesslike yet also everyday.

There were no smiles.

Carlos tossed the last newspaper on top of the pile of newspapers Mercedes had gathered and organized.

“Now all that’s left is for it to spread. From the provinces to foreign countries.”

“The rumors will have departed for the provinces… The gossip magazines being carried to foreign countries probably haven’t been loaded on ships yet.”

“The sooner the better.”

Mercedes said with a composed face.

“As it gradually gets worse like that… they’ll say to dethrone me, right? That they can’t stand by and watch such a woman be the Empress. I am the Empress, but I haven’t been cleared of the false charge of being a murderer.”

Mercedes looked too calm.

So Carlos really wanted to ask. If she was alright. Just like how he had unintentionally asked on the night she returned from walking with the Count.

Her composure worried him. No matter how much she had a plan and was preparing.

Would she really be unaffected?

He knew that even when she was the Crown Princess in Sheim, she had been in the newspapers like this.

And above all, she was directly clashing with the Count while not having completely overcome her trauma.

She had returned from talking with the Count and calmly disclosed everything, but she was trembling ever so slightly.

Now he regretted not asking her about her past in detail after bringing her to the room. If he knew a bit more, he could have at least taken care of what she needed.

Carlos continued to gaze at her.

It was an expression full of worry.

Mercedes accepted that gaze. She thought he was doing it on purpose, but looking closely, it seemed he couldn’t control his emotions.

Then once again, the question about the past days surged up.

These days, the two of them were running towards their goal while ignoring their emotions.

Especially Mercedes was focusing on revenge and devoting her mind only to calculating the future.

Amidst that, when she met the eyes of that man who seemed to be worrying only about her, unlike herself.

“Why do you keep looking at me?”

In the end, she couldn’t endure it once and asked.

Carlos turned his head as if startled by her question.

“…I’m sorry.”

“You’re sorry?”

Being sorry for looking meant that there was meaning behind the gaze. Mercedes was not foolish enough to not know that.

Carlos closed his mouth.

Mercedes tried her best to be calm as she asked.

“If you want to look… then look. I don’t know why that has to be something to be sorry about. There’s nothing Your Majesty can’t see of me.”

Mercedes tried not to be consumed by his eyes and voice that seemed to pierce more painfully than the years of abuse.

Trying, and trying…

While trying.

That person was really too much. Why was apologizing so easy for him? And why did this have to be something to apologize for in the first place?

“Are you sorry for looking at me?”

“For worrying about you.”

Carlos answered composedly. Mercedes slightly pursed her lips. Her mouth was dry, either from tension or from a strange anger.

“Ah… Worry. Why does that become something to apologize for?”

Carlos also knew. This was not something to apologize for, nor something to call a mistake.

Nevertheless, he could only say that. He didn’t want to burden her with anything more. Then the only words he could give were an apology. Wasn’t that it?

As Carlos closed his mouth, Mercedes finally asked impulsively. Her voice trembled.

“Could it be that Your Majesty is apologizing for the mistake of being caught trying to kill me right now?”

At that question, Carlos’ eyes shook roughly.

“…Whenever you look at me with those eyes, no, with worried eyes, I don’t know. Just…”

She had tried to endure it, tried not to ask if the ending was already set.

“Just why you tried to kill me.”

She ended up saying it.

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Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she

really disliked him

Short intro:

What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.

Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.

Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!

She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.

*

At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.

This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!

***

Synopsis:

Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…

A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead

vs.

An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead

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