Before she had time to think about what was happening, Latil swiftly made her mother faint. As the body she was holding lost strength, Latil laid her mother on the bed.
Without needing to use a magic item, she gazed at a face that was strikingly similar to her own with a hint of sadness. Then, Latil reached out to grab the necklace her mother had taken off.
She then looked towards her mother…
“!”
Her mother had unexpectedly returned to having Latil’s face.
‘It wasn’t the necklace!’
Latil gritted her teeth. She wasn’t the only one who had a hidden trick up her sleeve. Her mother had done the same. Without a doubt, her mother had secretly replaced the real magical item with the necklace.
Then, someone knocked on the door.
“Your Majesty, I’m coming in.”
They said ‘I’m coming in,’ not ‘may I come in.’ It meant that they had been given a standing order to enter without asking for permission after a certain amount of time had passed. Latil let out a hollow laugh.
‘Just like mother.’
Even before she knew that the fake was her mother, she had found it odd how similar their thinking was.
Latil gritted her teeth. She had to find the magic item that her mother had used to imitate her face. But she didn’t have time.
She could be framed as the perpetrator who attacked the Emperor in a moment of crisis, or she could be caught by her mother and be sent to the temple without a chance to move.
In the end, without any hesitation, Latil opened the window and jumped out.
And just as Latil disappeared, Carlein alternated between looking at the fake emperor lying on the bed and the fake maid disappearing out the window, quickly thinking about how to handle this situation.
“Your Majesty?”
In the meantime, the guard knight had entered the room. The guard knight, who had been a bit tense since entering, furrowed his brows upon discovering that the Emperor’s concubine was standing by the window while the Emperor lay in bed without even pulling up the blanket.
“Your Majesty?”
Just as the suspicious guard knight was about to get closer to the fake emperor…
“I’m tired. I’ll rest, so you may leave.”
The fake emperor, who he thought was unconscious, commanded.
“Yes.”
As the guard knight left, relieved, Carlein, who had been preparing for an attack with his hand hidden behind him, looked at the fake emperor with a subtle glance.
“Are you awake?”
The fake emperor propped himself up on the bed. Carlein thought that the fake emperor would get angry or feel bitter that his daughter didn’t understand his feelings.
However, as soon as he saw Carlein, the fake emperor pointed towards the window and asked.
“What are you still doing here? Go after her quickly.”
Carlein frowned as he understood it to mean to pursue and capture her. However, what followed was unexpected.
“You’re the king of mercenaries. Use your influence to protect her. She has no forces to mobilize now.”
Carlein raised his eyebrows. This was unexpected.
“I thought you would ask me to capture her.”
The fake emperor gave a lonely command.
“That’s a job for others, don’t let her get hurt. Neither physically nor emotionally.”
“……”
Instead of responding, Carlein turned around. Just before he left through the window, the fake emperor added.
“If you protect her perfectly, once things are settled… I’ll support you when choosing the national letter.”
Carlein, being of common birth, would find it difficult to rise to the position of national letter, regardless of his reputation as the king of mercenaries.
However, if the Emperor’s biological mother and the former Empress were to strongly endorse him, that would change. The fake emperor was dangling this as bait.
At the unexpected proposal, Carlein smiled, his head turned away.
“I will protect her, even without such conditions.”
“Should I take back the condition then?”
“There’s no need to go that far.”
Carlein muttered and immediately jumped out of the window. The mercenary servant of Carlein who had been waiting followed without hesitation.
The fake emperor was left alone in the spacious room. The only sound in the quiet room was the ticking of the clock.
The fake emperor got up from the bed and walked to the window. She clutched the window frame and looked out over the dark clouds covering the expansive imperial palace with a heavy heart.
[This is the time separator]The dining scene of a pair of good friends sitting face to face was not as pleasant as one would expect. They weren’t quarrelling, but neither of them had the leisure to converse with a smile.
Only the sound of clattering plates and forks echoed in the room. Then Leanne asked,
“What will you do if Latil is indeed the Lord and refuses to be confined in the temple?”
Fake emperor, Shait, Latil’s mother, lifted her gaze while roughly cutting a chunk of meat. A flurry of emotions filled her eyes.
While sipping on wine, Leanne mused. She too felt saddened by the circumstances, but surely, her mother must be the most heartbroken.
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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