Long Live the Emperor, Minus Me (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 48
Even I myself find it absurd—how much more so must my aide feel, listening to all this inner turmoil.
But I was sincere. Melchizedek, though displeased with Blanche’s actions, kept wanting to see how she would react.
What reaction would she show this time? This time? Would she finally give a different response? Perhaps I could even change this child—that’s what he thought.
“After all, a six-year-old can’t possibly choose the right answer a hundred times in a row.”
Even though Blanche gave him the answer he wanted, Melchizedek still felt frustrated because, in truth, he was projecting someone else onto her.
Someone who had never truly trusted him. Someone he had never managed to make happy.
But that person—who had always chosen the right answer, time after time, a hundred or even a thousand times—was not the same as Blanche. A six-year-old girl, taken hostage to the Empire at age three and raised without any political education, could never be like that person.
Someday, Blanche would choose the wrong answer. And when that day came, Melchizedek would finally stop superimposing that other person’s phantom onto her.
“Therefore, keep silent about this matter. I wish to avoid unnecessary speculation spreading again, as it did before.”
“Understood, Your Grace.”
His aide probably wouldn’t understand his behavior, but that didn’t matter.
What mattered was that someday, he would be able to free himself from this phantom that kept holding him back.
*
When Paniya returned home, she was absolutely furious.
“I’m really disappointed in His Grace the Grand Duke!”
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After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
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