Terun watched the back of Grace as she left with harsh words. Soon after, Luke burst into a cynical laugh and said to Terun, “It seems Miss Grace has changed her strategy.”
Despite her efforts to win the Duke’s heart, his lack of response might have driven her to adopt a more aggressive approach.
“No,” Terun disagreed immediately.
“Excuse me?”
Luke was surprised by Terun’s abrupt denial, as it was the first time he had so firmly contradicted him.
Initially, Terun too had thought the same. But the Grace he had just seen seemed like a completely different person.
“Please be a bit kinder to her, Your Grace,” urged Luke, feeling sorry for the changed Grace.
Terun, who had not always been as cold and indifferent, changed after bearing the weight of his family’s legacy at a young age and the seven-year war with Wales.
He became pessimistic, strictly controlling his emotions, and prevented anyone from intruding into his world.
‘That Grace speaks Landese?’
Terun was not only surprised that she spoke a foreign language but also felt that she was not the person he knew from her tone, actions, and even her gaze.
‘Could that be about me?’
Terun smirked to himself.
“Your Grace, don’t you find it strange? Miss Grace read the newspaper, ran out in the rain, cried out in a foreign language, and went in alone?”
Luke couldn’t comprehend any of Grace’s actions today, except for her running out in the rain.
Her manner of speaking was also different.
[“Luke, when will Terun come back? Grace, it’s so lonely.”]Grace used to speak in a cute and friendly tone, but she had been harsh and rigid just before.
Luke then thought of a woman even more pitiable than Grace.
“Your Grace, what should we do with Leah Hamilton’s body? Should we hand it over to her fiancé in Galendesia?”
Terun had recently witnessed Leah Hamilton’s accident during a hunting trip and had personally retrieved her body from the cliff, as it occurred on his estate.
“Where is the body now?”
“It’s in the church. We’ve already taken care of the embalming.”
“We must give her a funeral. It’s the least we can do for a human being,” Terun said.
He didn’t believe the newspaper articles about Richard Hamilton smuggling poppy flowers. The Hamilton Trading Company was renowned and well-respected.
One opera night, Terun remembered, Richard was the only one who bought items from the children selling flowers, matches, and cigarettes, unlike others who ignored them.
“It doesn’t seem like him; it feels too forced.”
After bathing with Polin’s help, Leah lay in bed, deep in thought.
‘Accept the reality.’
Though it was difficult, her soul inhabiting another’s body might have been a divine arrangement. After all, the blood of a cold-blooded merchant ran in her original body.
Perhaps because of this, even after becoming Grace, Leah had no intention of going to Allen to cry and beg about how love changes.
Instead, her mind became clearer, and reality started to come into focus.
‘I have to live as Grace Visak now.’
Rationally thinking, it would be difficult to survive in Galendesia with the name of Hamilton. She needed to become someone else to expose Allen’s vile scheme.
‘The chief of the police must be in on it too.’
Hunters wait a very long time and put in a lot of effort to catch a beast. Allen must have done the same, gathering information on Hamilton through her and enlisting accomplices to assist him.
‘I had no idea such ambition was boiling behind that gentle face.’
Being Hamilton’s son-in-law wouldn’t have been enough for him. His ultimate goal must be something greater.
‘To gain immense wealth, and now he must desire honor and power. He wants to rise higher than he is now.’
To confront Allen, she absolutely needed the identity of Lady Grace Visak.
Leah got out of bed and went to the dressing table. She looked into the mirror and stared at the stunning beauty reflected there.
‘I don’t know how I ended up in your body, but once my work is done, I will return it to you.’
She wasn’t sure if it was possible, but she wanted to keep that promise. She also vowed not to tarnish Grace’s honor.
Even though it was a life she hadn’t chosen, Leah wanted to live it properly while she could.
Just then, Polin returned with a dry towel.
“Miss, I have some news about the Duke’s schedule.”
Polin’s excitement indicated she probably always reported Terun’s every move to Grace.
‘I’m not really interested.’
Leah’s indifferent expression made Polin look even more serious.
“There’s a body of a woman who fell off a cliff recently.”
Leah turned around in shock.
“A body?”
“I overheard that the woman was the only daughter of a large trading house in Galendesia.”
“Where is the body?”
“It’s at the church. And the Duke said he’s going to give her a funeral and bury her in the church cemetery.”
“When is that?”
“In three days. And they’re going to contact her fiancé in Galendesia.”
Leah’s heart raced. That meant the man she saw when her body was dying was Terun. He must have retrieved the body then.
Suddenly, Leah remembered something important.
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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