Three years later, present time,
“It’s really troublesome.”
The sentiment uttered by Emperor Attila just after hearing the news that Admiral Cassard de Blahnath had captured Eben Bahur and made it a new stronghold.
O’Hard, who had gone from being the crown prince’s servant to the Emperor’s chief servant, tilted his head.
“Aren’t you pleased? Your friend is gaining victories.”
Attila signed the documents to support Eben Bahur with manpower and materials, and put down his fountain pen.
“Well, as an Emperor, I would say I’m pleased. But he’s so obsessed with gaining victories like a broken thing. He’s not the type to do so just for the title of Grand Duke… I’m worried he’s acting like an emotionless machine.”
O’Hard, who had watched Cassard for as long as Attila, tilted his head in thought.
“Wasn’t Duke Blahnath always like that? I don’t remember ever seeing him show emotion.”
“No, he wasn’t,” Attila responded with a laugh, but with a worried face, as he got up from his seat.
“By the way, I heard a request was made at ‘Le Domang’ again today.”
“Yes. It seems to be time.”
“Boring. They’re not even parrots.”
Grumbling, Attila left his office and entered the audience chamber with a perfect imperial smile.
During the reign of Emperor Pobwegen, the commoners who had bought titles with money were behaving quite nobly and politely.
Attila raised his hand in response to them, then sat down to survey those who had requested the audience. The group, ‘Le Domang,’ centered around the Bakra class active in the capital. It means ‘tomorrow.’
They claim to be a charity organization, but in reality, it’s an excellent means to strengthen their political influence and establish their position within the class.
As they praised Attila’s reign and discussed the victorious war fronts, they gradually got to the point.
“Your Majesty, is it true that an envoy was sent from the Tesia Empire?”
“What do you think about Admiral Cassard de Blahnath refusing the armistice…?”
“Isn’t it too obvious why the war continues even after the justification has disappeared?”
“The Blahnath family’s arms business is booming unprecedentedly. They’re the ones who benefit most from this war.”
“Eben Bahur has been captured? If the Blahnath family extends the railway to Eben Bahur, surpassing the imperial treasury might only be a matter of time.”
“Your Majesty, you must show the majesty of the imperial decree to the heedless heads of the Ten Houses.”
Attila nodded, smiling to the point that a twitch appeared at the corner of his mouth, and listened to their words.
He was occasionally exasperated by the need to maintain an image of mutual checks between the Ten Houses and the imperial family, and not reveal his personal friendship with Cassard, but he could see that turning them into enemies would cause a headache.
“You people…”
Sorry, but since the time I was a penniless crown prince, it was the Blahnath family that supported my political funds, you people.
“I see you already know everything? The news of the capture of Eben Bahur. I was thinking of making it a special issue, but it seems unnecessary.”
“Excuse me? Oh, that is…”
Why? Did the Tesia Empire press you to approach Emperor Attila to accept a truce?
He wanted to scold them but… He could see that making them enemies would cause quite a headache, so Attila smiled quietly.
“It’s good to have quick information, but you’d better learn when to reveal and when not to. I may bestow boundless mercy and love upon you, my fellow imperial citizens, but there are others who won’t, right?”
“Yes…?”
“If the cunning Admiral Blahnath finds out that news from the front is leaking, won’t he ‘rage’ and hunt down the traitors?”
Sorry, Cassard.
In an instant, Attila, who had turned his friend into a wicked person, secretly crossed his fingers. Still, his words seemed to have worked, as the members of Le Domang looked at each other with thoughtful expressions.
Yes, so you guys should also check each other, and hide some information.
“The former Emperor no longer cooperates with the Tesia Empire, a fact that both I and you know very well. But it’s also true that I entrusted the command of the imperial army to Admiral Blahnath two years ago at the outbreak of the Tesia War.”
After all, it was a war that arose when Ezra joined hands with the Tesia Empire.
The foolish First Prince had conspired with the enemy nation to reclaim his “stolen” imperial throne, and the war, led by the Blahnath division, was in Parsard’s favor from the beginning.
The Teshia Empire, that was thoroughly plundered by Parsard, soon abandoned Emperor Ezra. However, Cassard de Blahnath didn’t believe it, and had no intention of ending the war.
“Capture Ezra Lu Parsard alive and present him before Cassard de Blahnath.”
It was a clear demand, and the Teshia Empire pleaded, claiming that Ezra had already escaped and couldn’t be found.
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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