He stopped every passing servant to ask for Chloe’s whereabouts. Since he usually walked around alone without any servants, there was not a single person who knew the woman’s location.
He was able to recover his casually lost ambition when the blue sky was tinged with purple.
Upon hearing the news that Chloe had returned from her outing, Callis headed straight to her room.
“What’s the matter?”
At Callis’s appearance, she became thoughtful. Even such an expression was now interesting to him.
He waited for the moment when a face buried in nobility would be covered in despair.
“I have something to say to you.”
Callis made a slight attempt at seriousness.
“Let’s stop here.”
“Stop what?”
“Let’s settle our relationship.”
Then a faint color rose in Chloe’s face.
“That means… Your Highness, do you want a divorce?”
“Yes.”
As Callis answered, Chloe’s face brightened even more. He barely held back a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.
“Alright. Then let’s proceed with the process…”
“There’s something you need to do first.”
“Please, tell me.”
He took his time, checking the woman’s reaction.
The most prominent emotions were joy and anticipation. The emotions would soon be submerged by the words to follow.
“Please get the consent of His Majesty, the King.”
As Callis expected, Chloe’s face crumbled.
But she quickly found a way out with her extraordinary mind.
“If the couple agrees, I understand that the consent of the jurisdiction is not necessary.”
“It’s a separate matter.”
“Do you want to make it a bigger deal?”
“No, why would I? What I mean is…”
Even so, it was impossible to escape from Callis’s grasp.
He decided to present something irresistible that Chloe couldn’t touch. It was the contract between him and the King of Balront.
Callis’s longplanned scheme had paid off in such crucial moments as the expose and now.
“There’s a contract between His Majesty and me. To divorce you is, strictly speaking, to break that contract, and if His Majesty gets angry, what will you do?”
“I will explain it later.”
“That won’t work. No. What if you betray me?”
“When I leave here, I will have nothing to do with Your Highness. I can assure you that. So you don’t have to worry about anything else…”
The continuous excuses in defiance only irritated Callis. He lightly chuckled and cut her off.
“Why are you like this, Chloe? It’s just a matter of accepting my conditions. Why are you dragging on the simplest thing?”
“…”
“Ah, do you have an unavoidable reason?”
Waves surged in her eyes as blue as the sea. As her upright eyes wavered, Callis was inwardly pleased.
He took a step forward with determination. His swiftly separating legs quickly closed the distance between them.
“Such as, His Majesty the King not allowing our divorce?”
He leaned in to match her height. It was to whisper in Chloe’s ear.
Chloe shuddered at his cold voice.
“You…”
She seemed to have finally grasped the situation.
Callis withdrew his face with a smirk, wanting to gauge her raw reaction.
“What on earth…”
She wanted to continue, but her words trailed off, even her oncebold voice dwindled to a whisper.
Seizing the momentum, Callis took another step. As Chloe retreated from the closeness, he took another step in amusement.
Finally backed into a wall, she had nowhere else to go.
“Chloe!”
A fierce force struck the wall. The wall sent ripples through, pushing Chloe back.
“Did you find playing with me amusing?”
“…”
“Did you really think the royal family would allow a divorce? You, who know better than anyone what divorce means in the kingdom. For a royal princess to boldly ask for it… Have you gone mad?”
Now that he thought about it, there were more than a few strange things.
The woman who had gone in the royal carriage came back in a different one. Not shabby, but a carriage that was not worth seeing as the royal one.
Moreover, if the king had agreed to the divorce, she would not have returned to the mansion. She would have enjoyed a luxurious royal life and then sent a shocking sound like a bolt from the blue to the duke’s house.
“Found out you went to the temple, too? Why, since the king refused, you must have tried to beg the regent!”
Just then, the regent had also contacted Callis, saying that Chloe’s name was in the guest book. It was the moment when all the clues matched.
She had looked in every way possible, but it was the fate of that stupid woman to be defeated.
“You must be nagging. Chloe. Why are you silent? If you’re this dead just because one secret was revealed, I’ll be too pleased.”
Callis rubbed Chloe’s cheek with the back of his hand. Unnecessary contact started from the cheek and went down to the shoulder.
“Yeah. Let’s assume you’ve somehow divorced. I would hate to leave you, shameful as you are, in the royal palace. Who will take you? You, who has no value even for the first night.”
Callis added with a twisted tongue.
First night.
At that word, Chloe passed by the memory she had avoided living.
‘Sorry. Princess. Actually, I’m not ready yet.’
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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