‘I don’t think that’s true…’
“What are you looking at?”
Our eyes met, and Shankez raised an eyebrow, glaring at me irritably. I frowned.
He was worlds apart from the image I had seen in the original.
‘People can change as they grow up.’
As I was trying to adapt to the reality, Shankez approached me with a determined look and whispered,
“We’ll handle the big guy.”
“…What?”
“Salmon and I will take care of the big guy, you take the others and run. The guy up front looks feeble, so it shouldn’t be hard.”
I was taken aback and had no choice but to look back. With that size, it was impossible to take him down, even if several people attacked him.
Even if Shankez took that big guy down, whether the remaining kids could escape from the employee up front was also a question.
There were many kids still sobbing quietly, and I was just four years old myself.
“It’s too dangerous.”
“No, we can do it. If I aim for the vital spots first, then Salmon can knock him over…”
Shankez explained a plan with a very low chance of success. Just as I was wondering how to convince this young, overeager bandit, a loud thud! sound echoed from behind.
Thump!
Something heavy seemed to fall back. All the kids stopped and looked back.
The big guy, no, the big employee who had been standing there was gone.
He lay on the ground, unconscious, eyes wide open.
I looked at Shankez with a puzzled face.
Though I didn’t ask out loud, Shankez looked embarrassed and hung his head low.
His expression seemed to scream, ‘It wasn’t me!’
I carefully examined the big employee again. I noticed something embedded in his forehead.
‘Is that a stone?’
“WhWhat’s happening!”
The employee standing in front hurriedly ran back to assess the situation.
He scanned the surroundings with trembling eyes, pointing fingers at us one by one.
“Who is it, who dared to do such a terrible thing to an adult!”
The words and attitude were fierce. Yet, I saw his hand trembling slightly.
‘He’s scared.’
The employee behind him knew it too. If all these kids attacked at once, he would be at a disadvantage.
“Ah shit, I don’t know either!”
Suddenly, Shankez picked up a branch that was lying on the ground and yelled.
“Everyone, get up! Attack!”
As Shankez shouted, the other kids ran forward.
“The opponent is just one! We will win! We will triumph!”
“Are these kids collectively insane! You can’t go there!”
At first, only kids similar in age to Shankez charged at the employee.
However, as the employee couldn’t withstand the weight of the children and wobbled, the young ones, mustering their courage, all charged.
“Ahh!”
“Take me to my mom!”
“You bastard!”
Penny, having learned such curses from somewhere, also yelled as she spat. Amidst the chaos, my bag twitched.
‘Could it be!’
I quickly opened my bag. A silver snake coiled inside was visible. The snake’s head moved slightly.
“Silver snake, are you awake?”
[Ugh…….]The silver snake let out a soft groan. I tapped the snake’s head with my index finger.
“Silver snake, wake up! You were almost made into snake soup!”
[This is outrageous……, a disgusting voice…….]The silver snake wriggled but could not easily open its eyes. It looked as if it was waking up from a very deep sleep.
‘Was it kidnapped while it was asleep?’
Do divine beasts even sleep?
‘I haven’t heard of divine beasts sleeping in the original work.’
As I tried to shake the divine beast awake again, someone grabbed the collar of my clothes from behind.
I was pulled back, flailing my feet.
“Ahh!”
Due to the chaos around, my scream wasn’t heard. In the midst of it all, I even lost the bag containing the silver snake.
“Let go of this!”
Was it the burly employee waking up? Was he pulling me to take me hostage?
‘I won’t just stand still.’
He was as big as Bart, both in size and strength. That didn’t mean there was absolutely no way to beat him.
I clenched a handful of soil under my feet. Just then, the person holding my collar stopped abruptly.
As soon as I balanced on my two feet, I turned to look back.
The first thing I saw was a slender wrist.
Seeing that, my breath quickened, and my entire body stiffened from the tips of my toes.
The person dragging me wasn’t burly. The physique was too slender and frail to even be called burly.
Long, yellowish hair was draped all the way down to her waist. The sand I had clenched in my hand trickled through my fingers.
“My Lill.”
The woman’s head tilted slightly to the side. I smelled a deep, sweet fragrance that I hadn’t been able to smell all this while.
A scent I smelled every night. A fragrance that filled my nostrils every night.
Our eyes met, and Rebecca’s lips curved beautifully.
“My daughter, I’ve missed you.”
‘……Mom.’
At that moment, all the light in the world disappeared.
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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