“I got this! With this, we can get in!”
Seeing Evelia, who admired the golden badge and bit it with her tiny teeth leaving teeth marks saying ‘Wow real gold!’, Agares let out a gentle laugh.
‘I’ve taught the kid everything, crazy knight.’
“I’ll bring the rabbit in especially for you. It’s probably a beautiful place like the first time you met the rabbit in the forest.”
It took Evelia a full 30 minutes to walk to the garden, a mere 10minute walk away.
In one hand she tightly held the golden pass, and with the other hand, she touched everything in the palace, straying off the path here and there with the wind.
“Wow look at that!”
“It’s pretty, but the garden we’re going to is over there.”
Agares felt like a shepherd herding a young lamb into a pen.
When Evelia’s small steps reached the entrance of the garden, the gatekeepers who were guarding the garden checked the golden pass and withdrew the spear that had been blocking the way.
Apparently, it wasn’t a door you could push open with your hands. When the gatekeepers inserted the deershaped badge into the center of a large tree, the tree quickly retracted its vines, revealing the entrance to the garden.
“A mountain…?”
Inside the narrow entrance was a rather vast mountain.
Literally a mountain.
In other words, a mountain that seemed untouched by human hands.
The emperor of Harventa preferred trees over flowers, and liked the natural mountain range where birds sang, deer came down, and snakes often appeared, more than a quiet and secluded garden.
The garden, which reflected the emperor’s taste, was attractive with its lush trees that seemed to be dozens of times the height of Evelia and its unrefined dirt road.
“A whole mountain as a garden! I want to have a garden like this someday!”
When Evelia, who had quickly taken off her shoes and was stepping on the dirt road, burst out in a cheer, Agares smiled in a perplexed manner.
“A garden full of only flowers is boring. I like this place much more!”
If you want it, I’d move a mountain for you, but it’d be troublesome if you took after that whimsical emperor.
“This place is like our secret base, right?”
Agares’s face, who had been worried that his little friend would emulate the capricious emperor, softened in an instant.
‘Ours.’
The word from his friend’s mouth was sweet.
The security provided by the border, which had never been tied, was never tiring, no matter how much he felt it.
“Yeah, it’s like ‘our’ secret base.”
Even when he tried to say it out loud, it was still sweet, so Agares licked his red lips with his tongue.
That’s when Evelia and Enril were enjoying the dirt road to their heart’s content, and Agares was slowly following behind.
Rustle.
The sound of rustling came from behind the grass.
Soon after, there seemed to be someone whispering in a low voice.
‘Sis, you go out. Quickly.’
‘Ahem. Ahem. Wait. I need to adjust my voice.’
“…?”
At the low coughing sound coming with the breeze, Evelia perked up her ears and turned around.
Enril, remembering Hugo’s admonition to bite hard if a suspicious person bothered his sister, bared his small fangs and growled.
A moment later, the child who came out through the grass was a young girl who looked about Evelia’s age.
Watching the long red hair that embroidered the air with her movements, Evelia thought it looked like the willo’thewisp she’d seen in storybooks.
“Ahem ptui, ptui!”
The girl, who had hidden in the grass, spit out the small leaf that had gotten in her mouth and raised her head to speak.
“This place is a garden where only the royal family can enter! Even if you’re an emissary from the Arcadia Empire, your audacity reaches the sky!”
The girl, who felt more like a leopard cub than a cat, crossed her arms, lifted her chin high, and reprimanded them sternly.
The boy who walked out of the grass following the girl also looked about Evelia’s age.
A leaf that had not yet been shaken off was sticking to her red hair, and it seemed somewhat shy to be tapping the girl’s sleeves.
“Sister, the golden feather in your hand…”
“What?! A golden feather?!”
The girl seemed to have quite a sanguine personality.
“It must be something you received from His Majesty. I must have been rude earlier. I apologize.”
The apology was swift.
Despite appearing like a peacock spreading its glamorous feathers in full majesty, upon closer inspection, it seemed rather shabby, like there were holes here and there in the feathers. Just like its age.
The girl hmmed, clearing her throat, then raised her chin arrogantly.
“I am Ishat Lu Harubenta, the imperial princess of the Harubenta Empire.”
The girl, who seemed shabby yet not to be trifled with, reached out her hand with a cheeky smile.
Agares sighed softly and shook his head.
‘When she grows up, she will just be like the current emperor.’
Whether it’s this empire or that one, there’s no decent human among the next emperors.
‘Maybe we should overthrow them all and make our little one the emperor.’
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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