He said it all.
Between regret and relief, Dian let out a stifled breath. Hot breath crashed against the palm covering his face.
Red hair with green eyes.
“It could have been anyone but you!”
Dian’s oldest memory always started with those words. His mother’s sharp screams and violent anger, followed by his sister’s care.
“It’s okay, Dian. It’s okay.”
Each time he heard his sister’s reassurance, only two years older than him, Dian felt comforted but curious. Why did his mother hate only him, and why were his eyes green, unlike his mother’s and sister’s?
All the questions were answered when he turned six. The moment he left the house, a cold voice pierced Dian like a dagger.
“Tsk, tsk, because of that boy, Natalie was abandoned by her husband.”
“Indeed. The lord, Natalie, Daisy, all have brown eyes. How could he have such lowly green eyes?”
His sister always said his eyes were beautiful, but the world didn’t agree. At some point, his mother never returned, and the greeneyed child without an adult to care for him became a perfect target for torment.
Dian was still lucky, though.
“…Take that child.”
He had been beaten as usual that day.
When he came to his senses, he was in an unfamiliar place. His sister said it was Vicander territory. The Duke had saved him, she said.
To repay the favor, Dian became a knight. He vowed to stand tall, even if someone hated him.
But Vicander territory was a strange place. People didn’t avoid him for his green eyes. Gradually, the streets of Yeniv were filled with people who had eyes similar to his.
Nevertheless, Dian hid his eyes with lenses. Erasing the scars of childhood wasn’t easy, but he didn’t want to cast a permanent spell either.
Someday, he might be able to take off the lenses comfortably. He harbored a tiny hope.
Well, that hope disappeared with Olivia Madelleine’s wickedness too.
“…Sir Knight.”
A frail voice interrupted his thoughts. Dian lowered his hand and looked at Olivia.
“You really think I was under the protection of the Madelleine?”
“You wouldn’t have been able to walk around so nonchalantly with green eyes otherwise.”
“Is that so?”
Dian’s face twisted at the casual voice.
But before he could glare at Olivia, a faint voice continued.
“A halfbreed, the lowly daughter of a dancer, a bastard, a woman lucky enough to be the crown prince’s fiancée, arrogant and shameless, coveting others’ things.”
Dian’s eyes widened at the offensive words that poured out without restraint.
The vile rumors about Olivia that he never dared say himself.
Olivia smiled faintly, as if it was nothing.
“I know my rumors as well as you do, Sir. I heard them plenty, right to my face.”
Right in front of her? That’s impossible. How could anyone say such things in front of a highborn lady like her…
Dian reflexively denied it but hesitated. Something was strange.
“Didn’t you ever think it was strange?”
When Olivia spoke in a solemn voice, a strange sensation touched Dian.
He couldn’t even guess what she meant, but somehow, after hearing this, he felt as if everything he believed might waver.
“The crown prince’s fiancée, the daughter of the head of the imperial family, the Madelleine Duke, and a noble lady who walks around with green eyes proudly, loved by all.”
The thought made him shudder.
Olivia, who had been listing the facts known to both of them, looked up to meet Dian’s eyes. His gaze faltered under her piercing, straight eyes.
“To such a beloved and noble lady.”
The night wind rustled the grass.
“That such vulgar rumors are attached to her. Did you ever really…”
Her sweet voice continued.
“Think it was strange?”
He had never thought about it.
The noble lady I so despised, who was loved.
The noble lady who walked around with green eyes, proudly.
For me, Olivia Madelleine had changed from a hope that could change the perception of green eyes to merely a princess of the Imperial Faction who trusted in the love and protection of the ducal family.
But.
Was Olivia ‘Madelleine’ really a beloved, precious princess?
When facing a fact that he had never doubted before, Dian felt suffocated as if stuck in the water, and a gentle voice reached his choked ears.
“I’ll ask you again, Sir Stellin.”
Dian raised his head as if enchanted.
At that moment, Olivia laughed as if she was telling the world’s most interesting joke.
“Do you really think I’ve been under Madelleine’s protection?”
(This is a time separator.)
Above Dian’s eyes, a clearly confused emotion was revealed. As he looked at her trembling lips, as if struggling to answer, Olivia spoke softly.
“According to Sir Stellin, I walked proudly with green eyes. It didn’t fit, like the children of Yenive.”
“…….”
“But unfortunately, it seems I was not a precious princess loved enough to change the perception of green eyes.”
“Ah…….”
Dian said nothing.
Above that, Olivia thought of the people who always antagonized me. My appearance was always pushed away as I pushed it away.
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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