Crash.
A glass vase thrown onto the splendid carpet shattered mercilessly.
“Another failure?”
“…I apologize, Your Majesty the Empress.”
The man, whose face was scratched by the broken glass shards, bowed deeply while keeping his head down. Empress Eugenie, her shoulders tense as if in anger, let out a harsh breath to suppress her rage.
How many times had the Duke’s assassination attempts failed?
‘Tenacious.’
They thought he would die if sent to the battlefield. Not to mention proclaiming victory; every assassination attempt ended in failure.
It was certain to succeed this time. Since the incident where the Duke’s condition had changed after becoming unable to ascertain the life and death of that woman.
So, he believed that he could finally end the lineage of the Fermanns.
“Sigh.”
As if calming down a bit, the Empress sat down and massaged her temples.
“Alright, give me some excuses. Didn’t you clearly say with your own mouth that the Duke’s condition had changed and that he would succeed? But how on earth did this happen?”
“That……. According to the individuals who carried out the mission, suddenly a bright light burst forth, and after that, the Duke lost consciousness as it was.”
“Light? Have you figured out what that is?”
“…I apologize.”
The man bowed deeper as if admitting his disgrace.
Tsk.
The Empress, who briefly clicked her tongue, gestured for the man to leave, as if she couldn’t bear to look at him any longer.
However.
“Uh, but……”
“What is it?”
“The missing fiancée of the Duke has returned alive.”
“What? But didn’t they say that the girl fell off a cliff, and since then, they couldn’t even find the body?”
The Duke’s fiancée fell from a cliff at a height where no one could survive. So, even though she was declared missing, it was practically the same as searching for a corpse.
“Tell me in detail.”
“After the attack, the Duke, who disappeared, returned to the inn with his fiancée.”
“How did they look?”
“That……. They seemed perfectly fine. Not a single scratch….”
“Not a single scratch.”
Is that really possible? Even if they were fortunate enough to survive falling from such a height, they should still be in bed.
The Duke, who was saved, and his fiancée who returned unharmed. There was something unsettling in her nerves.
“It seems strange.”
Her long-standing intuition was speaking. There was an enormous secret about the Duke’s fiancée.
“Raphael.”
Eugenie, who seemed deep in thought, stopped tapping the armrest of her chair and clasped her hands together.
“You will now investigate the Duke’s fiancée. Find out where she was born, who her parents are, how she came to work under the Duke. Report everything to me without missing any details.”
“Yes, I understand.”
“Oh, and.”
As the man was about to bow and leave the room, the Empress’s murmur made him pause.
“Make sure to monitor their mouths so they can’t gossip recklessly. For instance, make it so they can never speak again.”
She was ordering those who had acted for them to be killed. However, Raphael nodded as if familiar with such commands and left the room.
“We should probably prepare to welcome an important guest soon.”
The Empress’s voice, playing with a teacup absentmindedly, rang coldly in the air.
Lina and Velige entrusted their bodies to the carriage heading to the temple located on the outskirts of the capital.
After joining forces with the troops stationed in Scotus to find herself, they planned to depart for the empire.
‘Mei will probably be very surprised. Others will surely be surprised too.’
Beyond being surprised, they might even begin to suspect her true identity. Lina looked at Velige, who was sitting in front of her.
‘The Duke said he’s okay.’
One word from that man had such great power. If the Duke was okay, everything seemed to be okay.
Lina smiled quietly at her own simplicity.
“If, by any chance, the princess ignores you even a little, tell me.”
“Yes?”
He seemed to be worrying so much about it. Worried that she might be ignored by the princess.
Pfft.
After saying those words with a serious face, it was so cute that laughter burst out involuntarily.
Thinking about the meeting with the princess, Lina replied, “Don’t worry. The princess wouldn’t do that.”
Although she couldn’t make a firm judgment without seeing her a few times, the princess was undoubtedly a good person. If she had discriminated against people based on their status in the first place, she wouldn’t have helped her.
Then, Velige, wearing a puzzled expression, asked, “How do you know that?”
“Well…….,”
Lina, who was about to answer, stopped and closed her mouth.
‘Come to think of it, the Duke doesn’t know that the princess is the one who healed him!’
Moreover, she didn’t even know that she, who worked as a servant in the inn, was ‘Theo.’ Lina, realizing her foolish mistake, bit her lip and hurriedly made an excuse.
“You’re a saint.”
“What?”
“As a saint, you must be a good person, right…? Haha.”
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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