“Yes. If Prince Ruans were to find out that I am becoming the daughter of the Duke of D. Gloucester, he would not sit still. He will do everything he can to prevent me from revoking the surname of the Count Pol Heredian family. And he will not hesitate to do anything to take me away. That’s the kind of man he is.”
However, rather than the family name not being revoked, Lorencia saw a future in which Ruans would kill the current Emperor Adolf and Empress Ines to take her to the Isuter Empire, ascend to the throne as emperor, and then recklessly wage war against the Poloid Empire.
Ruans, who started the war, became extremely cruel. Not only did he show no mercy, but he also showed an obsession with her, along with the lie that he loved her. It was pure madness.
The war ends with the victory of the Poloid Empire, but many people die. Lorencia absolutely does not want that future. Just thinking about the future of the approaching war made her feel suffocated.
“All arrangements have been made for Lady Lorencia to do as she wishes.”
“Thank you. Sir Magus.”
“But… Teishar.”
“Yes. Father.”
“I couldn’t bring myself to tell the two of them that you and Lady Lorencia are lovers. I didn’t want to make the moment they meet their granddaughter after 20 years a concern.”
Welson and Abrelina, who were becoming doting grandparents, couldn’t bring themselves to say, “My son and your granddaughter are dating.”
“Then I will slowly tell them about us being lovers.”
“So, Sir Magus. When will my grandfather and grandmother arrive?”
Lorencia asked with a beaming smile.
“As a matter of fact, they have been staying at the ducal residence since yesterday.”
“What? They are here now?”
Lorencia’s heart pounded at Magus’s words.
[This is the timeline separator]Abrelina got dressed up early in the morning.
Abrelina and Welson couldn’t sleep a wink. It was partly due to the pillar of light that stretched out until dawn, but they couldn’t sleep because their hearts were pounding from meeting Lorencia.
They couldn’t even have a proper breakfast. What expression should they make? Should they smile? Should they hug her?
What should they say and how should they say it? Would she avoid them because they are strangers?
And when the maid said that Teishar and Lorencia had arrived at the mansion, they could hardly sit still. They paced back and forth, tightly clutching a handkerchief.
“Ab. Calm down.”
“But, dear… My heart just won’t calm down.”
“Come sit next to me.”
Welson lightly massaged the back of Abrelina’s hand to ease her tension.
And when the door opened with a knock, Abrelina and Welson stood up from their seats. The reddish hair and violet eyes that entered through the open door.
Lorencia, whom Magus had been constantly telling them about. Their granddaughter’s appearance. No, even without Magus’s explanation, they could tell at a glance that she was their granddaughter. There was no way she couldn’t be their granddaughter.
Abrelina quickly approached Lorencia, who had opened the door and entered. The moment she walked. With each step of her foot, tears began to well up and flow from the corners of her eyes.
“Ah…”
A face that looked just like Kain’s. At a glance, Musila’s face was also visible. She had thought a lot about what to say when she met Lorencia. However, despite all those worries, only one thing came to mind, making them seem trivial.
“Welcome.”
Lorencia’s violet eyes gradually widened and then moistened.
“I really missed you so much.”
“Me too… I wanted to meet my family.”
Tears began to flow down Lorencia’s cheeks. Welson, who had approached at some point, patted Abrelina’s shoulder.
Through Lorencia, Abrelina and Welson saw Kain. Lorencia also saw her father Kain, whom she had never met before, in the faces of the two.
“May I hug you?”
Abrelina asked Lorencia, opening her arms.
“Yes…”
Abrelina hugged Lorencia tightly just like that. Her chest became wet with Lorencia’s tears. For a while, the sound of two people crying could be heard in the room. Teishar, who was outside the room, closed his eyes painfully at the sound of crying coming from inside.
Abrelina kept stroking Lorencia’s hair, forehead, and cheeks.
“If I could, I would like to take you to the Duchy of D. Gloucester.”
Lorencia looked at Abrilena and Welson. Her heart was heavy. She couldn’t not know about the Duchy of D. Gloucester in the Poloid Empire. Because in the previous future, the people of the D. Gloucester family survived to the end of the war and fought against Ruans, and the person who helped capture those who fought was none other than herself.
Even if she didn’t know, Lorencia herself had killed her real family with her own hands. So she was afraid and scared to meet her real family. In fact, she didn’t want to meet them.
Even if it’s a secret that only she knows, a secret doesn’t hide everything or conceal all the sins committed. Rather, secrets only make all the sins committed reveal themselves.
The awkwardness that couldn’t be swallowed or spit out like a fish bone stuck deep in the throat continued to dominate her heart. And actually meeting them made her more anxious. What if they resent me later for causing my father Kain’s death?
What should I do if they look at me with eyes full of resentment and curses after looking at me warmly like now? If they say that, how should I answer?
“Do you not dislike me?”
“Why do you think we would hate our granddaughter?”
Abrelina kindly asked in a warm voice.
“Because of my existence, my father and mother suffered terrible things. If I were in your place, I would resent myself for being born.”
“That’s not true, Lorencia. You’re thinking wrongly.”
Abrelina, tightly holding Lorencia’s white hand, gave a gentle smile.
“Parents are like a remote island in the sea. A remote island in the sea that gives everything for the birds that come to visit.”
“A remote island?”
“Even if the bird born on the remote island grows up and flies far away out of sight. Even if the bird that flew away doesn’t come back. Even if the bird goes and lives on another island. Someday, while flying around, it will look down at the remote island that is its parent at least once, right? That’s the mindset of the remote island waiting.”
Lorencia looked down at Abrelina’s wrinkled hand tightly holding her own.
“But sometimes, there are times when even the remote island can’t handle the huge storms that blow in the sea, swallowing everything. No one knows when, where, or why those storms occur. So you can’t even prepare for them.”
A teardrop formed in Lorencia’s eyes and soon flowed down.
“What my son and daughter-in-law went through was a huge storm that couldn’t be prepared for. A disaster that even the remote island couldn’t handle.”
“But.”
“After the big storm passed, the remote island waited for the bird, but even after a long time, the bird didn’t come. But one day. A small bird that looked just like the bird it had been waiting for came to the remote island. Was the remote island happy? Or did it resent the small bird that came?”
“I think it would have been happy and glad.”
Abrelina’s hand stroked Lorencia’s reddened cheek.
“My little bird. Were you worried? That you would be resented? That we would hate you? Your existence is like a welcome spring breeze to a remote island that has been lonely for a long time.”
Lorencia lifted her bowed head. Tears kept flowing without stopping.
“Even considering the parent birds who sacrificed themselves to save their baby bird. From now on, no matter what kind of storm hits, the remote island has dug deep holes in the ground and built a fortress that can protect the baby bird.”
She asked if they resented her, feeling like she was naked in the harsh weather with a biting wind. She was prepared to hear anything from Abrelina.
But with each word she said. With each word, warm clothes were put on her in the harsh weather.
“How could I hate the baby bird that my own baby preciously protected? How could I resent it? So let me make this one thing clear.”
Abrelina’s lips and chin trembled. To stop her trembling lips, she bit her lower lip hard enough to draw blood and then released it.
“For me and Welson, the one we should hate and resent is absolutely not you, Lorencia. The ones we should hate and resent are those who made my baby, my daughter-in-law. My little bird like this.”
Lorencia nodded. It felt like a heavy, solid, huge rock in her heart shattered and disappeared. And she was sincerely happy to finally meet her family.
“Lorencia.”
“Yes.”
“Do you resent your grandmother and grandfather who couldn’t protect my son and daughter-in-law?”
“No. Absolutely not…”
I don’t resent you.
“That feeling you have is our feeling. We had something precious stolen from us, and the ones who stole it, in the way of the D. Gloucester family…”
Abrelina swallowed the rest of her words with resentment. She didn’t want to show her anger to Lorencia yet. Fortunately, Welson intervened in the middle of the conversation.
“Wait. Let me see our granddaughter’s face. Oh my, your eyes are so swollen from crying. But even swollen, you’re pretty. Hohoho. As expected of my granddaughter. Pretty like me.”
As soon as Welson checked Lorencia’s face, he took out a scroll from his inner pocket.
“Our pretty bird. This isn’t anything strange. It’s a scroll with a healing spell.”
Smiling kindly, Welson vertically tore the scroll with the healing spell over Lorencia’s face. The redness and swelling around Lorencia’s eyes subsided in an instant.
“Thank you. Grandfather.”
Lorencia showed a bright smile to Abrelina and Welson, revealing her flushed cheeks.
“Yes. I am your grandfather. Oh, how pretty.”
At the word grandfather, the wrinkled corners of Welson’s mouth rose up. Tears slightly welled up in the corners of his wrinkled eyes.
Until dinner time, Welson and Abrelina embraced Lorencia and rejoiced in their reunion.
And as the deep conversation between the three went back and forth, Teishar kept looking at the clock in a restless state. And eventually, it reached the point where he couldn’t stand it anymore.
“I can’t stand it any longer.”
“Master.”
Holio tried to stop Teishar, but no one could stop him.
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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