Benjamin, who had been walking ahead, turned around with a puzzled look.
“It seems like nothing is wrong since there’s no contact from Mitchell.”
“Then, should we slow down a bit? It’s just the two of us, not like we’re with other people.”
They were supposed to be able to share sincere stories about each other. However, Benjamin chuckled and answered smoothly.
“Should we? Because it’s different when it’s bright daylight and when it’s dark.”
“Yes, being together but unable to see each other’s faces might make us more honest.”
“And we might be able to have other conversations without hesitation.”
“Yes? Other conversations?”
Although Yurisien asked, Benjamin did not respond. Yurisien, who was pondering deeply, suddenly widened her eyes. Her face turned bright red. It was fortunate that Benjamin was looking straight ahead.
‘He didn’t mean it in that way.’
Yurisien quietly fanned herself with a hand fan and followed Benjamin up the stairs.
But even Benjamin, who spoke about ‘other meanings,’ surely did not expect the current situation.
“Well, darn! I seem to like you without thinking deeply. No, I love you!”
Mitchell’s irritated voice was heard. Just as Benjamin and Yurisien reached the top of the stairs, they stopped and exchanged glances.
‘What on earth is going on?’
‘I don’t know either.’
Yurisien, who answered with a bewildered look, grinned next to Benjamin, peeking at where Mitchell and Ivan were.
“Are you satisfied now? Is it refreshing now? Asking me these… these kinds of things!”
Mitchell slapped Ivan’s chest painfully. However, Ivan, who was embracing the tearful Mitchell, laughed brightly as if he had everything in the world.
“Yeah! Now it’s refreshing! Wow, it feels great!”
He laughed heartily, leaning backward. Seeing the astonished expression on Yurisien’s face, Mitchell grabbed Ivan’s face as if offering it, then kissed him.
“Oh my!”
“Wow.”
Stunned Yurisien covered her mouth, and Benjamin quietly admired. Despite the suddenness of Mitchell’s kiss, Ivan, as if he had been waiting, embraced her more deeply and kissed her. They seemed to be oblivious to the sound of Benjamin and Yurisien climbing up. Benjamin whispered softly to the frozen Yurisien.
“If we leave them like this, we might experience firsthand the saying that even during a war, a child is born.”
Yurisien couldn’t say anything.
Greta received unexpected news from Dolores, who had just finished a ritual calling upon the ancestors of the Heaven Sect.
“What? Did it fail?”
Dolores nodded with a troubled expression. Greta made a strange expression. This was an unexpected turn of events.
‘Didn’t I prepare perfectly for this ritual?’
Greta not only provided direct assistance but also seemed to have clearly succeeded earlier. However, it didn’t appear that Dolores was lying, just like that. There was no reason for her to lie about such things in the first place.
“What exactly happened?”
When Greta asked, Dolores, who had been sighing deeply, looked at her niece with a faint smile.
“Even in the midst of your worries, you’re concerned about family matters? I’m truly grateful.”
Greta, who was trying to scrutinize Dolores’s inner thoughts, hesitated.
‘Family…’
For some reason, the word felt strangely poignant today, creating a lump in her chest. It was strange. Until a little while ago, she was convinced, ‘This is not the family I want.’ However, with Dolores’s grateful words, that certainty wavered again. She bit her tongue.
‘Family, yes. Family. Family is… family. My mother’s sister. So, blood-related, family.’
Whether it matched her desired form or not, Dolores and Greta were undoubtedly connected by blood. Whether it was Viscount Everium or Dolores, it didn’t matter. Greta wanted the acknowledgment of the family, no matter who.
Even though her mouth felt bitter as if she had swallowed poison, she ignored it and habitually smiled at Dolores, who had an embarrassed emotion hanging on her lips.
“If there’s anything I can help with, Aunt, I’ll do everything I can.”
Just as a man with a woman he loved went into bed to gain the recognition of Viscount Everium, just as he gave birth to a child and loved it for Heathcliff, Greta would do anything to ruin Windsor for the acknowledgment of her family. Therefore, there was nothing Greta wouldn’t do to gain the acknowledgment of the family. So, Greta said to Dolores, who knew everything about the deeds she had committed.
“What can I do for you, Aunt? I’ll do anything I can.”
Greta’s feelings of revulsion and emptiness, which had enveloped her, disappeared without a trace like cotton candy melting in water. Even the reflection that Solzerion and Gwisian were right and that the Heaven Sect had become corrupt vanished.
“You’re indeed a source of strength, Greta. You’re our family’s pride, my late-life fortune, and the honor of our family.”
Now, Greta and the Heaven Sect were inseparable until death.
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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