“His Highness the Crown Prince must not know how cute Lady Lorencia has become these days, gaining weight well despite his busy schedule.”
“Duke Teishar, I’ve heard enough about Lady Lorencia’s boasts to make my ears go numb.”
Just as Adrian became a Charlot fool when it came to Charlotte, Teishar was also a Lorencia fool when it came to talking about her. No, he wasn’t a fool, he was an idiot.
“There’s never enough of Lady Lorencia’s boasts.”
Adrian’s lips curved up as he watched Teishar’s tireless Lorencia boasting.
No matter how much he thought about it, it was clear as day that Teishar liked Lorencia. No, he was in love with her.
“Saying it’s not enough means you’re troubled by it…”
“That’s right. It’s troubling.”
Teishar swallowed a small sigh.
“Every time I see Lady Lorencia, my heart feels fluffy like a cloud in the sky, and she’s getting cuter than Leo every second. These days, I’m troubled by how I should look at her if she becomes even cuter and more beautiful than now.”
“Duke Teishar, let’s stop talking about Lady Lorencia for now…”
At Adrian’s words, Teishar lifted his head. His crimson eyes, as if saying ‘What? Why?’, stared at him in discontent.
“I’m just kidding about stopping. I have a question for Duke Teishar, who knows Lady Lorencia well. Is Lady Lorencia’s increasing beauty really troubling you?”
“Yes. Even now, my heart strangely aches whenever I see her… And every time I see Lady Lorencia getting prettier every second, I also feel my heart aching more strangely.”
“Do you like Lady Lorencia?”
“I do.”
Teishar didn’t hesitate. As a snake, it was natural for him to like the child of Goddess Ella.
“What I meant by liking is asking if you like Lady Lorencia as a woman, Duke Teishar.”
At his question, Teishar’s face, which had been smiling like a blooming flower, instantly lost its expression. He just wanted to boast about Lorencia. He naturally answered yes to the question of whether he liked her.
“You mean as a woman?”
“Doesn’t your heart pound like arrhythmia, don’t you feel impatient for no reason, and can’t stop smiling whenever you see Lady Lorencia?”
“Yes, but that’s a natural feeling I have as a snake.”
“When you’re with her, you lose track of time, your heart aches just by looking at her, and you constantly want to embrace her.”
Teishar pondered over Adrian’s continuous questions and nodded his head. Adrian threw a few more questions, and the answer to each of them was nothing but ‘Yes’.
“Then it’s true that Duke Teishar likes Lady Lorencia as a woman.”
Teishar’s face instantly turned red.
“I just find Lady Lorencia cute… Is there anyone who dislikes cute and pretty things?”
“We commonly call that love.”
“To conclude that the desire to be with Lady Lorencia is love…”
“Duke Teishar doesn’t know much about love, but I know love very well. Because I love Charlotte a lot.”
Adrian smiled.
“You may not know the feeling of love well. But even though you don’t know the feeling well, it’s visible that Duke Teishar is giving a lot of affection to Lady Lorencia through his actions. That’s why I’m saying you’ve fallen in love.”
“But as a snake, I have to protect and take care of Lady Lorencia, so it may seem that way…”
“It seems Duke Teishar is currently going through a love denial phase.”
“What is a love denial phase?”
“It’s denying that it’s love, but it’s a symptom that will pass quickly, so you don’t need to worry.”
“I don’t love Lady Lorencia as a woman, I purely want to protect her.”
“That’s what we call the love denial phase.”
Teishar shook his head with a flustered expression.
“Anyway, once the love denial phase passes, you’ll accept love, and every night you’ll be suffering as if your heart, filled with love, will burst.”
“Are you cursing me?”
Adrian looked at Teishar’s anxious eyes with amusement and continued.
“Be careful, as you may go crazy missing her on late nights with a full moon. By the way, it’s better to end the love denial phase quickly. If you deny love for a very long time, it will be quite intense when you finally acknowledge it as love.”
Teishar didn’t say anything to Adrian’s teasing remark. No, he couldn’t. No matter how much he wracked his brain, he couldn’t come up with an answer to his question.
But one thing was certain.
“It’s absolutely not love. Your Highness, you’re mistaken.”
“Well, if she gets taken away by another man, you’ll deeply regret not listening to my words now.”
[This is the timeline separator]Teishar, who had been suffering all day by Adrian’s side planning to stop Ruans’ rebellion and dealing with various tasks, trudged towards the room where Lorencia was.
Adrian’s mischievous words that kept lingering in his mind came to mind. No matter how much he thought about it, it was definitely not love. He was just following his instincts as a snake. Just following them.
“Why does my heart feel so stuffy?”
Teishar placed his hand on the left side of his chest. His heart was beating regularly and well. But as soon as he thought of Lorencia’s face, it started pounding like crazy, like a patient with arrhythmia.
Teishar sighed deeply. The pounding of his heart did not subside. He was worried if it would become difficult to breathe at this rate.
He stopped walking, crossed his arms, and pondered deeply.
“That can’t be. For me to dare love Lady Lorencia…”
Teishar questioned himself with his pounding heart. When he felt like asking, ‘What if it’s love?’, he swallowed his breath in embarrassment. His current state was all because of Adrian’s strange words.
No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t acknowledge his feelings of liking Lorencia. His position was to take care of and protect Lorencia. He had never thought of that as love. Taking good care of someone can’t be love. It was confusing.
Teishar suppressed his fluttering heart and stood in front of Lorencia’s room.
He would usually knock and enter, but he couldn’t bring himself to grab and turn the doorknob. A strange tension kept circulating from his heart to his fingertips.
Teishar opened his hands and lightly hit his own cheeks a few times.
“Is this feeling really love? No way. Get a grip, Teishar Spencer.”
Teishar washed his face with his hands. He bit his lip and quietly sighed. Just as he thought that the desire to treat her well couldn’t possibly be love.
The door swung open.
“Duke Spencer. What are you doing in front of the door?”
Teishar was startled like someone caught doing something wrong.
“Lady Lorencia.”
Through the open door, Lorencia looked at Teishar while holding Leo in her arms.
“How did you know I was here and opened the door…”
“Leo was scratching the door. When I came to check, I heard your voice outside, so I opened the door.”
In response to his question, Lorencia showed Leo in her arms. Leo seemed to have grown a lot since the first time he saw him, probably because he ate and slept well.
−Meow.
Lorencia approached and picked up Leo when he was raising his claws and scratching the door. And then she heard Teishar’s voice outside. So Lorencia opened the door.
“But is something wrong, Duke Spencer?”
“It’s nothing.”
“Duke Spencer, your face is so red. Did you run here?”
When Lorencia spoke with a smile, Teishar stared at that smile as if enchanted and closed his mouth.
With her transparent and white skin, and her large violet eyes filled with moisture, he couldn’t take his eyes off her whenever her small lips moved towards him. The urge to reach out and caress her apple-red tinted cheeks welled up inside him.
“If not, you haven’t caught a cold, have you? Duke Spencer.”
As a snake, it was a joy to take care of her. He thought that by helping and protecting her, his existence had value. But more than that, he selfishly wished for Lorencia to need him. It was a feeling that kept arising these days.
“No, my face might have turned a bit red from running to Lady Lorencia’s room.”
Teishar couldn’t calm his pounding heart as he entered the room.
“Did you miss me that much?”
As Lorencia’s voice reached his ears, he felt like melting. How nice would it be if Lorencia liked him? Something gently seeped into his heart. Teishar’s eyes began to soften a little.
“I didn’t just miss you, I missed Lady Lorencia a lot.”
Teishar answered in a gentle voice. The stuffy feeling and anxious thoughts all melted away like sugar in fire as soon as he saw Lorencia.
There were many things he wanted to say to Lorencia, but there was only one thing lingering in Teishar’s mind and heart. It was something he thought of when he opened his eyes and before falling asleep.
“I missed you all day.”
[This is the timeline separator]“Leo.”
−Meow.
Lorencia, who was lying on the bed to sleep, stroked Leo, who was lying next to her, with the back of her hand. A smile naturally formed at the purring sound Leo made as if he was feeling good.
“Don’t you think Duke Spencer was strange today, no matter how you look at it?”
Lorencia tilted her head as she recalled him today. No matter how much she thought about it, Teishar was a bit, no, very strange today.
“He kept stammering, repeating the same words, and constantly…”
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Men In The Royal Harem All Yearn For Her (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The men (young empress, young empress dowager, crown prince) in the harem all yearn to become her consort.
Synopsis:
The female protagonist is a wildly popular heartthrob with a natural halo.
The male protagonist is a crazily obsessed and self-abasing loyal dog.
Qiu Shu, the top scholar’s daughter, is pure, elegant and incomparably enchanting, captivating countless admirers.
Being favored by the eldest prince, the most handsome man in the capital, and becoming his wife in a single move is truly the pride of a poor student.
However, what they don’t know is that the seemingly bright and splendid female protagonist lives in a battlefield of jealousy every day.
The cute and adorable young empress is unusually attached to her.
The gentlemanly and upright young empress dowager has an ambiguous relationship with her.
Even her aloof and proud eldest prince is actually a gloomy and petty jealous husband.
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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