Klaus buttoned his shirt with an expressionless face and put his arms into the jacket. The chamberlain gave his attire a final check.
“All set, Your Highness.”
“Yeah.”
Klaus came out of the bedroom and headed to his office. It was the beginning of just another day, at least on the surface.
“…….”
With each step closer to the office, his heart pounded. Klaus cursed inwardly. Please calm down, Colin.
Whether it was excitement or tension, an emotion indiscernible to Klaus gripped his entire body. Even breathing felt suffocatingly difficult.
Perhaps due to the rapid breaths, his head felt dizzy. Even though it was only morning.
Everything was a complete mess.
“Huu……”
Fortunately, he clearly knew the cause that brought him to this state.
The knight guarding the door saluted him and opened the door to the office.
And there appeared a person.
“Did you sleep well, Your Highness?”
“…Yeah. Good morning.”
The cause of this unusual situation was his beautiful aide, Muselle.
A few days ago, something happened in the office.
“Alright. What do you think about women in high society?”
In response to his question, Muselle quickly rolled her jewel-like turquoise eyes and answered.
“Elegant, striving to maintain dignity, adept at forming factions, and sometimes scheming conspiracies behind the scenes.”
It was truly a textbook answer. A response from someone who had learned about high society only from books, never experiencing it in practice.
In that moment, Klaus was captivated by a single thought.
I should teach her directly.
Honestly, he couldn’t remember what he said afterward.
The only thing that came to mind was the intensely shaking blue eyes and the flushed face.
All his consciousness was focused on just one thing. I have to steal those red lips.
After a fierce pursuit, he finally succeeded in the hunt.
He had never tasted anything so smooth and sweet in the world.
The fruit of his own efforts was truly an unparalleled delicacy.
It felt like all his senses were awakening at once.
The light tremor felt in the hand that held her, the scent mixed with her breath, everything was incredibly satisfying.
Klaus thought for a moment. Shouldn’t he indulge a bit more?
However.
“This, this, must be kept a secret…… Absolutely, keep it a secret…….”
The moment he looked at the trembling eyes and lips filled with fear, he snapped back to reality as if cold water had been poured over him.
What on earth had he done to this trembling woman who looked like she would cry if anyone found out?
Seeing her desperate expression, Klaus gently spoke to her in the softest voice he could muster.
“All of it, our little secret.”
Ironically, he felt pleased with the words he uttered. A secret between just the two of them.
However, when Muselle returned to her place, and Klaus was left alone, he felt a belated sense of self-disgust.
It was insane. Whether it was relieving desires or helping each other, he had openly revealed his vulgar intentions.
“Ha……”
He wrapped his head with his hands. There was an impulse to rip out his tongue with his own hands.
He seemed to have hurt Muselle.
She was his one and only precious aide.
His conscience urged him to apologize quickly.
But if asked honestly if he regretted it…
“……”
The answer was ‘no.’
He could apologize to Muselle for surprising her and causing her harm.
But even if he apologized a hundred times, he could still imagine himself doing it again.
No, next time, it might not end with just stealing a kiss.
“Darn it.”
Klaus banged his head on the desk.
He was truly crazy.
Despite making advances on women approaching him alone, he was feeling restless and anxious not because of Muselle, who had no romantic feelings for him.
Perhaps, this was his true nature.
A beast blind to desire, devoid of the dignity and coolness expected of a crown prince. The real Klaus, an embarrassment.
It was shameful and disheartening.
What would Muselle think of him?
Having disguised himself as a man and come to the palace to spread his wings, he must seem like a beast in princely clothing to her.
However, even thinking that way, despite intense self-loathing, if given another chance, Klaus would willingly possess her once again.
“Haa……”
Now, he had no choice but to trust the self-control he had honed over time.
Having shared a kiss with Muselle, could he endure it for some time?
While pondering on such thoughts, even his conscience pricked at him. So, when would he apologize to Muselle?
“……”
He knew in his head that he should apologize, but the words just wouldn’t come out.
No, to be more precise, he didn’t want to apologize. He feared that if he did, he wouldn’t be able to embrace her again.
Even though curses of madness lingered in his mind, that was Klaus’s honest sentiment.
“Huu……”
A fever surged through his body, and he felt a surge of energy. Klaus instinctively sensed a danger.
He could no longer endure it and stood up from his seat.
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.”
