Two hours ago, the basement dungeon was filled with rats sniffing around on the floor, and the walls were crawling with cockroaches and centipedes.
“Gurgle, Haah…… Gurgle.”
A woman spat out a bloodmixed cough. Her hands, bound with chains and fixed above her head, left her unable to fall or stand; she simply hung there helplessly. This woman was none other than Kendali.
It was Kendali Windsor, who, just a few days ago, had everything in Windsor and acted as she pleased.
The lustrous red hair that Yuri Hsien used to inflate luxuriantly had now become dry and worthless. Her heavily madeup face was smeared with tears, snot, and saliva.
There was no need to say that Kendali’s face, which had always been swollen from being slapped, was even more wretched than Yuri Hsien’s, and the triumphant expression she wore when she shattered all of Lilian’s possessions was nowhere to be found.
The dress she bought by selling Yuri Hsien’s dress and jewelry, despite having plenty of Windsor’s money, was like rags.
In a word, it was astonishing how a person could fall apart so much in just a few days.
“Cough…….”
Her breathing was rough as if there were holes in her lungs. Now, she could neither feel pain, hunger, nor thirst. She felt so tormented that she felt like death was near. Kendali blinked her clouded eyes blankly.
From the moment Calie had dragged her here, there had been only one thought in her mind.
‘Why do I have to go through this?’
No matter how she thought about it, she couldn’t understand why she had to be here.
‘I’m a Windsor…… I’m a Windsor.’
So why wasn’t she in the luxurious duchess’s room filled with gold and silver, but in this underground dungeon? Why had she left behind a paradise decorated to her taste after erasing all traces of the frugal Lilian?
‘What…… is the problem?’
Where had things gone wrong?
She slowly reviewed her past.
Kendali just wanted to live in this world with her daughter.
‘Even in a life where I was battered here and there as an orphan, love came to me.’
Kendali, who had promised marriage and relished the happiness she had dreamt of with tears, lost her beloved on the scaffold. She never dreamed that he would kidnap a child and demand money to marry Kendali.
In the conservative Soljerleon Empire, the name ‘unmarried mother’ was nothing but a disgraceful stigma. Being a widow was better, so she called herself one. That’s when she met a woman.
Wearing a deep dark blue hood, the woman gave a bottle to Kendali, who was being ridiculed by drunks.
[Noble one. You are not meant to live like this, but alas, you are still trapped in darkness.]Usually, she would have turned her head, thinking she had seen all the crazies. But strangely, Kendali couldn’t move as if she was trapped by a snake’s tail.
[This medicine will grant your wish.]The woman said so and vanished. If it weren’t for a strand of silver hair that fell in front of Kendali and the bottle in her hand, she would have dismissed it as a daydream.
At the time, Kendali did not heed the woman’s words.
‘A wishgranting medicine.’
There’s no such thing in the world. Even if there were, how could that woman have it, and why did she give it to me? Besides, the smell was so sharp it stung her nose.
‘Is it poison……?’
Although not sure, the poison seemed more credible than a wishgranting medicine.
But the bottle looked too precious to throw away easily. No, she felt she shouldn’t throw it away. Kendali put the bottle in her bosom, recalling the strange woman’s voice.
Afterwards, Kendali forgot about that day’s event as if it were a dream. Then, when she couldn’t find any more hope in her life of mere endurance, Kendali had a wish. It was to die. And that wish seemed attainable with the bottle that the silverhaired woman had given her.
Kendali did something she shouldn’t have. She deceived Lapine, who was crying in her arms, into taking a sip of the “medicine,” and then she drank it herself. Kendali hugged Lapine and waited for death.
However, even if the sky falls, there will be a hole to rise through, they say.
The potion was not poison, contrary to Kendali’s expectation. It was indeed a mysterious potion that granted her wish.
‘Because I could use magic after drinking the potion.’
With this power of magic, there was nothing she could not accomplish. Even if it meant deceiving the great Windsor, who stood shoulder to shoulder with the royal family in this Solzerleon Empire.
‘It felt like becoming a god.’
No, perhaps Kendali was truly a god at that moment.
But how did she end up like this?
‘Why am I here?’
Everything was going well.
She had handled Wlergen by staging a carriage accident, and Yuri Hsien, who strangely wasn’t brainwashed, was quite a problem, but she was soon to be sold to a man nearing fifty.
‘Then, this Windsor will be mine.’
Lapine’s real father had lost his life to the sword of Windsor’s knight.
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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