“Do not cry.”
Though the sudden crying could have surprised him, Gillian didn’t interrogate but tenderly stroked beneath her eyes to soothe her.
“You just fixed yourself up and got up, so you mustn’t overdo it.”
Oh, world.
He was so gentle that she couldn’t even believe the reason not to cry.
So if the tears didn’t stop, would he understand?
They should stop quickly, but once she realized she was crying, somehow, the tears flowed even more.
Bianca, as if broken, frantically wiped at her unceasing tears.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
She tried to gauge his mood, but his expression didn’t clearly show in her wavering vision, spread all in golden color.
“Why is this happening all of a sudden…”
‘It’s too crude to be for attracting attention.’
The etiquette teacher scorned Bianca’s tears as a means,
‘How dare you!’
The emperor and the crown prince were angry, saying it was not allowed.
So since she came of age, Bianca had never cried in front of others.
But now, she shed tears in front of Gillian.
She couldn’t stop!
When Bianca’s wiping didn’t clear away the tears, she quickly covered her face.
“Soon…”
It will stop soon.
Below her palm, gasps and whispers mingled into something like a moan.
What should she do about this?
Should she hold her mouth shut?
Or else…
Bianca fell into a panic.
Her thoughts became a mess, and then violently burst out, when then.
What calmed her was Gillian’s apology.
“I’m sorry. My lady.”
Bianca, taken by surprise by his words, removed her hands from her face and looked up at him.
Her face was soaking wet, and tears still flowed without stopping.
But Gillian, even seeing her tears, did not frown or scold her.
“I disturbed your feelings, didn’t I? I did wrong.”
Instead, he apologized, saying her crying was his fault.
She had not heard wrong.
Staring at Gillian in a daze at that moment,
“I…”
“I did wrong.”
Gillian, seeking permission like a slow reach, stroked Bianca’s temple.
What met her was not a hard face or cold gaze.
All that touched Bianca was a touch soft as a feather.
As she gazed as if enchanted, tears that had not yet flowed disappeared entirely into his hand.
“I did wrong, my lady.”
Her gasping and tears seemed to evaporate, flying away at his apology.
“I did wrong, my lady.”
Though faintly smiling, Gillian’s expression was utterly serious.
“Gillian…”
He was always like this.
Kind enough to make her forget her place, unbelievably friendly,
Unconditionally so, to an extent that it made no sense.
“Do not cry.”
But surely, it had never been like this.
Bianca sharply remembered how he had reacted when he first encountered her tears.
He might have been excited, and he had asked her to stop.
The smile he wore, lifting the corner of his mouth, revealed an attractive male face that was breathtaking.
Didn’t it make her flutter unknowingly?
Certainly, back then, he had been relaxed enough to act playfully.
But now, he was different.
Perhaps, he might have been alright, smiling craftily as he did when he left the imperial city.
His appearance, bowing without asking the reason, blaming only himself, even seemed desperate at a glance.
Why though…
“Do not cry. I’ll do better.”
But Bianca couldn’t ask ‘why?’ until the end.
It was because Gillian, apologizing for her sin, looked too painful even as he smiled.
‘I did wrong.’
At the sound of whispering like a spell, her eyes closed before she knew it.
Is it strange somehow…?”
At her master’s words, the hands of the bustling attendants stopped stiffly.
“What is it?”
“Terminate.”
Izar had a grim expression, resting his chin, but the attendants close to him knew that Izar was more on edge than ever before.
Slowly, every time he blinked, Yurik’s eyes, which were hidden between his long lashes, appeared and disappeared repeatedly.
“Though they are reckless, they are sharper than anyone when it comes to calculations.”
Ten chests of gold.
In the land of Izar, there were gold mines that never dried up.
Gold was nothing special to Izar, but it was not so for others.
Moreover, Izar’s gold had a high purity, which manifested a unique luster, making its value incomparable.
Therefore, a single chest of his gold was indeed tremendous.
Izar remembered the emperor of Termina, who acted as if he would send Bianca away to hear it from the ten chests of gold immediately.
The one who refused it was Izar Kartan.
That very person himself.
Lest Kartan’s integrity appear to have been sold for money.
Lest a flaw be found in the reputation of the golden Kartan.
Wishing more than anyone that the radiant Bianca becomes a complete Kartan.
That’s how he waited for one year.
He, the leader of the country, could not have been unaware of Bianca Termina’s situation.
A pitiable princess who devoured the empress upon birth and incurred the hatred of the crown prince.
Such a princess’s dowry was ten chests of Kartan’s gold.
No one would dare touch Bianca.
And that was not all.
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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