With a click, the door opened. Edith looked around carefully.
Whether she hadn’t expected herself to pick the lock and escape, or whether it was just Sofia’s negligence, there was no one watching nearby.
“It doesn’t seem like someone who planned to monopolize the property using me would be this careless.”
Though she had reasonable doubts, she had no intention of choosing to remain docilely imprisoned.
Edith ran quickly, holding her breath.
The mansion, built during the heyday of the Portrion author, encompassed a damn large garden and forest.
She moved her legs frantically toward the mansion’s fence that would appear someday. The dew on the bushes dampened the hem of her dress. Whenever a wildly grown branch scratched her cheek, a faint mark was left.
Still, Edith did her best to escape, not to plunge her life into the abyss.
When she finally reached the wall, she reached out at once to climb over it.
“……!”
But something invisible blocked her. She stopped abruptly and felt around for something transparent and solid.
Every touch felt like an electric shock throughout her body.
Only then did Edith realize why the surveillance had been lax.
“You must be conscious by now, Lady Sofia. The item you ordered has been used well.”
In the capital, one could often find such magic. Edith, who recalled the words of the mercenaries who had stopped by the village, felt desolate.
‘So they didn’t need to watch me because they had set up confinement magic.’
Even if she struck the transparent wall hard, she could only hurt herself, and there was no sign of being able to get outside.
A mocking voice reached her despairing ears. Sofia had appeared with robust servants as if she had expected this to happen.
“It seems you don’t intend to cooperate obediently.”
“……Sofia.”
“Take her away.”
In the end, with Sofia smiling and watching, Edith was grabbed by the men and led away somewhere.
(This is a time separator.)
“There will be a woman inside. You can do as you please with her, just don’t impregnate…….”
This time, Edith, who was confined in a brick building instead of a plausible room, bit her lip, hearing the terrible voice from beyond the wall.
Sofia and her minions were incredibly fast at handling things. There was no heir to the lord, so they seemed desperate.
‘Are they going so far as to make sure I bear a child?’
The lord was a madman, but Sofia’s madness was no less. She planned to push several men in, not even an hour later. It was a thought only a beast would have.
She had to prevent the men from laying hands on her somehow.
As Edith was striving with all her might to escape, picking up a sharp piece of brick, the sound of the men’s snickering grew closer, and soon the door opened.
Four men who appeared to take on odd jobs in the castle.
Four pairs of eyes sparkling with lust scanned Edith’s face and body in turn and settled on her face.
“Wow…… a real beauty, isn’t she?”
“Are we really allowed to do as we please?”
Three of the men approached Edith like lions who had found a piece of meat. Another man scolded them.
“If you don’t want to die, stop it, right? Walter said not to touch this woman.”
Walter. At those two words, the men hesitated.
“Well……. ”
“Ha, but Walter will think the same as us when he sees this woman, right?”
“Walter’s the same stable keeper as us, so what!”
The man who shouted arrogantly reached out to touch Edith’s legs as she lay sprawled on the floor.
“Haven’t I politely asked you not to touch this woman?”
“Ugh!”
With a soft voice and a snap, the man’s hand was trampled on the floor.
‘Who is that?’
Edith was planning to cut the hand of the approaching man with the sharp stone hidden in her embrace.
But the latecomer man was crushing the man’s hand as if snuffing out a spark.
“Ba, Walter, please…… ugh!”
“Hans. Wasn’t it just a few minutes ago that you answered ‘yes’ to my words not to touch this woman?”
Walter, the man, did not stop trampling despite Hans’s painful moan. It was a relentless punishment, as if killing an insect that had sucked his blood.
Who on earth could be acting like this?
Edith’s gaze, which had been fixed on Hans’s crumpled hand, gradually moved upward.
What first captured her gaze was the thick muscles that covered the strong body and rigid skeleton, incomparable to the four men who had come in earlier.
Neither the knights nor mercenaries whom she had treated had such a stature. But for a knight employed by the Fortrion family, his attire was shabby.
Curiosity prompted Edith to look at his face, and her eyes widened to their limits.
Dark black hair, a straight nose, and coolly open eyes. The familiar jawline and shape of the lips.
Because his features were not unfamiliar, she involuntarily let out a voice.
“……Isaac?”
Isaac was a secretive boy who had stayed at her house when Edith was eleven.
“We’ve decided to take a guest for a while to cover the insufficient living expenses. The lady needs a place to recuperate, and it’s good for everyone that you have a friend of your age.”
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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